Rebates always have been the shadier side of hot deals. If you're going to deal with rebates, have enough sense to READ the rebate BEFORE buying the product(s). You don't drive off a dealer's lot with a new car and not read the contract that you signed until you get home do you? (obviously this is a much larger purchase, but the principle is still the same.)
He would have read the rebate first if he had one to read.
Apparently the rebate was printed up after the sale.
Rebates should be made available before sale is complete.
If not available then advertisement should state restrictions.
BEST BUY was NOT up front about this rebated sale.
The OP has a legitament b*tch.
Apparently the rebate was printed up after the sale.
Rebates should be made available before sale is complete.
If not available then advertisement should state restrictions.
BEST BUY was NOT up front about this rebated sale.
The OP has a legitament b*tch.
I hate rebates..avoid it like plague
Nothing but trouble..I hear postage is going up to 41 cents next year
They should put an end to this scam..Oh God!
Nothing but trouble..I hear postage is going up to 41 cents next year
They should put an end to this scam..Oh God!
Last time I asked a cashier to see the rebate for a hard drive at Best Buy, they had absolutely no problem showing it to me. Somehow I doubt the OP asked anything.
Seriously now, the people with no friends or family and no job are the ones that need to buy multiples to support themselves on ebay. Why should only large families and people who have lots of friends and multiple jobs be able to get greedy and buy several rebated items, by the way, how much can you get for these on ebay?
My highly subjective view on this:
If you were able to find out about the $199 deal, actually brought your wife to help you get two of the item and were able to leave dozens of other average Joes out there in the dust, then you are not an average consumer. Obviously you know how to get to this Hot Deals forum, so you have resourses to find out about common rebate practices and issues.
More or less objective view:
The bottom line is, a clerk in the store, and some people here suggested using alternative addresses for the second rebate. Surely, you must have some kin/friends/coworkers who will be willing to help you out if you do not want to spoil the surprise for the sis-in-law by using her address. Definitely, there is a way out and not an end of the world. No reason to get frustrated: You did well and got two of the item when most people (maybe even the next person in line) got none.
Evadman
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The limitation is on the rebate, as it should be. It would be impossible to print all the legaleze in an advertizement, that is why it is on the rebate. If it was in the ad, each item that had a rebate would require an entire page just for the legaleze. The leagal requirement must be on the rebate, which should have been read before you bought the item, expecialy if you had never done a rebate before.
Do not blame Best Buy because you did not read what you should have. If it is such a big deal, then bring the monitor back. You are still within the return period. Chalk it up to experence and move on. There is exactly zero ways to pin this on Best Buy. The only one who made a mistake was yourself.
Do not blame Best Buy because you did not read what you should have. If it is such a big deal, then bring the monitor back. You are still within the return period. Chalk it up to experence and move on. There is exactly zero ways to pin this on Best Buy. The only one who made a mistake was yourself.
What'd you expect? I thought this was going to be something about Bestbuy giving people first pick on stuff if they got a service plan with it.
Yeah, lets go back to the old process of having to dig through the rebate forms stuck to the walls like BestBuy used to do :roll:
Personally, I prefer the newer way of the rebates printing out at the register. Honestly, I have never seen a rebate that allowed more than 1 per household. Anytime I buy something that has a rebate, I never pick up more than one because of this.
hmm maybe they should because most are suckers... I meant don't limit the number of rebate per household then only send one back or not at all *chuckle*
A chuckle, oops I mean a sucker is born every min. or is it every other sec?
Ya know whats funny? You can ask any cashier at any best buy to print out the COMPLETE rebate form for an item (even past rebate forms), and guess what, they WILL DO IT. And it is common knowledge, or you would not have even been able to purchase your stuff as the guy in front of you would have bought it all....lol
Some guy had 3 of those Epson CX5400 Printer and 3 of those 160gb hds in his cart. OMG what @sshole! Yea it does happen, but hey.
O yea and you get those ocassional shoppers who think noone should be pushing or shoving...
"O my shoppers are really rowdy today." Well durh! It is BF day and there are a hundreds of people in one store! Hello??!?!
(Mostly a pointly post.)
O yea and you get those ocassional shoppers who think noone should be pushing or shoving...
"O my shoppers are really rowdy today." Well durh! It is BF day and there are a hundreds of people in one store! Hello??!?!
(Mostly a pointly post.)
Yep, this is pretty standard. Sometimes when I see customers picking up several $17 DVD Players, I'm wondering, "Don't they know that rebates are usually one per customer?"
One of the reasons why they do this is to allow as many customers as possible to take advantage of the pricing. If they allowed as many rebates as possible per customer, what's to stop one customer from hording all the items for himself?
Im sorry if your too stupid to know this: But NOTHING says they must state the rebate terms on an advertisment.
all I have to say is that you are a dumbass if you haven't done a rebate before or saw the rebate terms on another rebate where it says one/household.
I don't still have the BB ad from Black Friday to verify if the text is there, but most retailers usually state "Limit 1 Offer per Household" in the small print on the bottom of one of the pages of the ads (usually on the first or last page), so they have the legal right to prevent you from buying more than one of the non-rebate items if they wanted to.
Rebate terms and conditions are always learned after the sale, and they are generally the same....one per household. Not knowing this is like playing half life 2 and saying 'i didnt know the cd key was only for one license'. Its not required to put the terms and conditions of any mail in rebates anywhere EXCEPT on the rebate form, which yes, you can print out from any Best Buy register..... F2, scan product, F12.... Which can be done before or after a sale on any rebate within the last year or so.
I guess the OP has NEVER filled out a rebate form.....any retard knows its one per household. Worst case, common sense should tell you that.
virtuamike
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You've just experienced the stupidity tax. Next time get off your lazy ass and ask all the damn questions you have before you buy the damn thing. No one here expects Best Buy to hold your hand and guide you through the fine print of a rebate. If you don't like it then return your PC and never shop at Best Buy again, but for the sake of all that's holy please stfu before you infect more people with your idiocy.
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