yes, I was skeptical about the rebate also, hence my previous post requesting info from others who had supposedly got the rebate from the register. Question was, when does the rebate expire, cause the one that shows up online says it expired on the 18th. That's unacceptable for me. I need a REALLY hot deal to justify to MY WIFE. LOL. Sooooo........ after going to two different BB's on Wed. & Thurs. nite and unsuccessfully finding any Z560's IN STOCK( thier computers showed at least two) I was finally able to get a raincheck at one store. In my haste to get it , I noticed after we had left, and the store had closed, that the price on the raincheck was $199.99. I really wanted one that said $149.99. I had already explained the PM situation (CompUsa.) My wonderful wife had gone Friday & found 1 Z560 box on the shelf at a 3rd store, paid the $199.99, got the PM at customer service immediately after, and got the $10 gift card at checkout. Saved me headache & heartache after work, oh yea! We, pm'd to Compusa's $149.99 and a $50 MIR prints out at the register. The MIR expires 01-25-03. Must be mailed off by 02-25-03. Comes out to $94.99 plus we got $10 gift card coupon that can be found in "Family Fun" Feb issue page 34. The coupon is good till end of March 03-30-03. Good luck to all w/ the coupons etc. BTW, it seems like of the 4 stores we went to, only the first early on in the week, still had the shelf tag up. It looked like they were hiding these, pulled the shelf tags, and/or didn't have them in stock. We were told early on, "we get a load in tomorrow", when their loads actually came in Friday. Kinda like the hot deals on some of the hard drives. Sometimes they showed up, other times they didn't. Wierd.
