FREE Wireless headphone system (MIR)

[KamaKrAzY]

These look cool, and who am i to complain if they want to give it to me free??
Anyways, would be cool to get one of these, so i'm going ahead and placing an order and hoping for the best. To get this for free though, you need to send in the Mail in Rebate. FREE IS GOOD!!

BTW, anyone shop from this site b4?? would like a little feedback b4 trusting this place PLZ

LINK

NOTE: There are also several other usefull (or useless) items that are FREE after rebate on this site also

 

[AgGolfer]

I heard they take forever getting the rebates back.

 

[Souka]

KamaKrAzY,

Cyberrebate's stuff has tons of "free" stuff. I'd rather not start another "cyberreabte good?" thread...do a look...there's plenty.

I don't think any of it is usually posted here due to the lengthy return time on products...4+ months.


But a wireless headset is kinda neat for us geeks.


My Two Peso's....

 

[Ranger X]

Cyberrebate is no news to us. It's simple how they do business. They overcharge for the item(s) you are purchasing, they keep your money for 3-4 months to build interest off of your money, and then they send you your rebate check. Most of the items are cheap (quality-wise) and now they jacked up prices even more. I would be careful.

 

[Tacoma99]

Yeah it's good old Cyberrebates. If you don't mind giving them a loan ( at least four times what the item would cost anywhere else ) for four months I guess it's a good deal. At least you probably will get your money back and the shipping is free. Could this be the greater fool theory where as long as the money keeps coming in they can afford to pay the previous buyers with the newest money that just came in? Last person in watch out.
$100.00 for a standard keyboard? What's up with that?

 

[mchurchm]

$100 for Emerson POS Headphones? Who knows when you'll get your $$$ back.

 

[msh111]

I'd be REAL careful before doing this now, I used to get stuff from them a year ago, but with all the dotcoms going under these days, good possibility your rebate checks may never come.

 

[buffboy]

yeah the rebates take FOREVER and then they send u defective items which is crap so basicly u just had them hold ur money for u for 4+ months, lol

 

[mcdull]

I'm not sure how many of you who said "FOREVER" did purchase anything from cyberrebate.com. So far, all rebates received within 4 months, and the online rebate status shown on the website is very accurate.

Besides, none of products I received were defective, though some of them were of bad quality (but they're still not defective)

 

[JeremyJoe]

i hate rebates...they make them for you to forget about them 10 months later so they dont send them to you or they never do until you complian or hassle them

 

[rahvin]

They don't make significant money on the interest. Stop spreading that rumor, any moron that can do math can easily see the interest wouldn't be worth more than $5, it might pay for the cost to cut the check. They make money on the people that don't send in rebates, just like any other rebate. The redemption rates of rebates in a normal commercial setting is ~30%, given their inflated prices of 10x market value I would guess they have a failure to send in the rebate at about 1 in 10. Just look at the friggen terms, you must send in the rebate within 30 days of them shipping the product.

 

[Seattle]

I just got back today $900.00 worth of checks for stuff I ordered on 9-6-00, so it was about three months. The shipping is free.

You can really make out on these guys if you play it right. Just get stuff that is free after the rebate. First go through ebates and they will pay you 5% of everything you charge. Then use a card like CitiClick that pays 2% of all you charge or a card that gives you air miles. That way, you make 7% on your money in three months and you get a bunch of stuff, though some of it is junk, and all is overpriced. But getting 7% on your money alone is worth the deal, that's 28% a year, and I can't think of anything legal that doesn't have high risk where you can make that kind of money.

 

[emaij]

Has anyone purchased anything from cyberrebate that is of any quality?

 

[Mysterie]

rahvin, I think you are wrong. The "interest" rebate companies make are not the same type of interest we nomally make. Their "interest" comes from investment and lending, much the same way your bank does with your money (and they pay you your miniscule 1% while they take the other 17% interest for a 18% loan, AHAH! Capitalism!). I believe there was an interesting story somewhere about this before, I can't seem to recall, but it was interesting to see how they can take your money and in two months pay you off and still make tons of money.

*edit* BTW some companies count rebates as tax write offs, they make money back but report that they loss money, nice trick, eh?

 

[rahvin]

<<rahvin, I think you are wrong. The &quot;interest&quot; rebate companies make are not the same type of interest we nomally make. Their &quot;interest&quot; comes from investment and lending, much the same way your bank does with your money (and they pay you your miniscule 1% while they take the other 17% interest for a 18% loan, AHAH! Capitalism!). I believe there was an interesting story somewhere about this before, I can't seem to recall, but it was interesting to see how they can take your money and in two months pay you off and still make tons of money.>>

BULLSH!T. You don't know a damn thing about economics do you? Cyberrebate is NOT a lending institution, short term interest returns will be from federaly secured accounts. You DO NOT risk working capital in risky investments, this will limit them to interest rates less than 8% (probably much closer to 4-6%, but I will give the high limit). But for example lets ASSume that they infact do manage some amazing return of 18%. Lets say you purchase a $200 item that is free after rebate. Further, to simplify my math I will assume the 18% interest rate is the effective interest rate INSTEAD of the nominal interest rate that it is. I will also assume a monthly compounding (very standard).

P = 200
i = 18%/12 = 1.5%
n = 4

Total Return = $12.27

Now if you are MORONIC enough to believe that $12.27 can pay for them to buy a product, ship you a product, cut you a check and run a website and distribution center I have a bridge in brooklyn to sell you. And this ASSumes an completely unrealistic return of 18%

 

[loup garou]

LOL @ Rahvin. Must be an accountant or something, eh? You're so passionate about Cyberrebate's economic model.

 

[rahvin]

<<LOL @ Rahvin. Must be an accountant or something, eh?>>

No, but I do know how to do math. Unlike some of the people around here apparently.

 

[cbass98]

Crude as Rahvin may have been, he is right. Cyberrebate is NOT a lending institution and thus can't make 18% off our money. I'm sure they make little profit from investing our money, but a majority of their profit come from lazy forgetful people who don't send in their rebates for that $100 Chia pet.

 

[858diver]

Isn't there SOMEONE here who lives near their Long Island offices or Ohio Warehouse who can do a little detective work and once and for all, end all of the speculation and find out the REAL story.

I took a change in September and placed about $300 worth of free after rebate orders, through ebates. received my 5% check in October and my rebates yesterday - 12.5 weeks after submitting the rebate.

While it would be interesting to know their business model, I am more interested in their financial viability. As a private, self-funded company, they shouldn't be vulnerable to the burst of the dot-com bubble.

Like someone said earlier, I too am tired of the speculation and hope we see some REAL FACTS about this place SOON.

 

[nealr]

If you do buy from them, be sure to do the rebate EXACTLY as they say, and be prepared to WAIT. They are legit, and make their money off people who forget to send in the rebate forms, or lose the upc's. Some of their stuff is good, but check it out elsewhere first. Before ordering anything, see if you can find it elsewhere and see what kind of deal you're getting.

 

[Mysterie]

rahvin, gee didn't mean to get you that riled up. I didn't specifically mean cyberrebate does this I meant rebate companies. Consider that most rebate chearinghouse do it for tons of companies and probably deal with tons of money, thus different circumstances. As for cyberrebate I do believe they do what Tacoma99 mentions that they take new money to pay off old rebates, kinda like a pyramid scheme.

 

[KevinF]

It's also good to buy stuff from them via Qool or MyPoints so you can get more free stuff.