$15 - 500va APC UPS @ OD AR&PM

[Medunaweb]

Go into OD buy it for $60 - $20rebate -$10rebate = $30 as advertised. Copy the receipt and send in the rebates then go back to OD and price match the $60 ticket with OM that has it for $44.99.
Total price = $15.

Found this last sunday but thought you guys would have posted it already sry.

 

[GotIssues]

Originally posted by: Medunaweb
Go into OD buy it for $60 - $20rebate -$10rebate = $30 as advertised. Copy the receipt and send in the rebates then go back to OD and price match the $60 ticket with OM that has it for $44.99.
Total price = $15.

Found this last sunday but thought you guys would have posted it already sry.

Thats a little bit of mail fraud, no thanks.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

How is that fraud?

 

[usernamemax20charact]

Originally posted by: GotIssues

Originally posted by: Medunaweb
Go into OD buy it for $60 - $20rebate -$10rebate = $30 as advertised. Copy the receipt and send in the rebates then go back to OD and price match the $60 ticket with OM that has it for $44.99.
Total price = $15.

Found this last sunday but thought you guys would have posted it already sry.

Thats a little bit of mail fraud, no thanks.

How is this a little bit of mail fraud? All you'd be doing is going in to OD for a price match. Unless the OD rebates state that the rebates are invalid (like BestBuy) if there's a price match, which I'm not aware of any.

 

[Scratchy]

How do you pricematch this??? Do you go in the store with a print out from OM???


Scratchy

 

[Medunaweb]

this is not mail fraud. It is very easy to price match. All you do is show them the flier from OM and they look at the product part number :BE500U and as long as it is with in 7 days of your purchase they will price match it. It is very simple.

 

[ballyn]

Plz change topic to AR/PM YMMV...

 

[GotIssues]

What you are doing is copying the reciept and sending in the rebates that you shouldn't be getting. Because it goes through the mail, its mail fraud.

 

[jTek]

What you are doing is copying the reciept and sending in the rebates that you shouldn't be getting. Because it goes through the mail, its mail fraud.

You've "gotissues" man...

And why shouldn't you get the rebates?

Most large electronics / office supply stores have price match policies. You are allowed to price match for 7, 14 or 30 days. You buy and item, later you find a lower price, you go back and ask for the difference back. You use your receipt to do that. Are you saying if I find a lower price (which I have done many, many times), and I have already sent in the rebates, I am all of a sudden a criminal? I cannot imagine 20 days later finding a lower price (after sending in the rebates) and saying to myself "I better not go to OD and get my pricematch, I'll be committing mail fraud!"

What if you pricematch up front when it is purchased then send in the rebates? Is that mail fraud? What is the difference in your scenario?

As someone has already mentioned, unless the rebate forms terms specifically prohibit receiving the rebate if a product is pricematched, then there is absolutely nothing wrong with it - OD's forms do not. Even if it did have the BB statement "you are not eligible for this rebate if you pricematch" just sending in the form would not constitute mail fraud, only a rebate denial.