2. It is very hard for manufacturers to later bring the price back up. The expectation from retailers (and end-consumers) is that the sale price is the "proper" price. Whereas a rebate is not as strongly associated with permanent price changes.
Then why don't electronics manufactures do stuff like food manufacturers and give out coupons. They work exactly like rebates except they don't get the opurtunity to screw you over.
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2. It is very hard for manufacturers to later bring the price back up. The expectation from retailers (and end-consumers) is that the sale price is the "proper" price. Whereas a rebate is not as strongly associated with permanent price changes.
Then why don't electronics manufactures do stuff like food manufacturers and give out coupons. They work exactly like rebates except they don't get the opurtunity to screw you over.
The Ohio Supercomputer center is working on promotting FPGA applications. http://www.openfpga.org/