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Poll: Do you wait till the "must be postmarked by date" to mail in your rebates?

Zim Hosein

Zim Hosein

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For some strange reason, I always do! 😱 Now I have to go to my local post office in the morning to be 100% certain that my rebate is postmarked by the required date! 🙁
 
It usually runs close. I hate to have something break within the 30 day return period of the item back to the store, and have to explain to the store why there is no UPC on the box.
 
I'm sometimes part of the reason that companies can afford rebate deals - by forgetting to mail it in at all.
 
i have a month to send mine in, i already mailed those out a week ago. kinda risky though, the parts are still in their box . . . my finals dont get out till two weeks from now so i pray the parts i bought work.
 
Sometimes.

Of course my original intention is to send the rebate right away, but it rarely works that way.
 
My last rebating attempt around xmas for mostly buy.com stuff (remember the great google deal?) was not a very successful venture. Out of about 15 rebates I had 6 of them messed around for various reasons and one I forgot to sign. 2 of those were supposedly post marked on the wrong dates. When I called about those, and they told me the postmark dates on the phone, I was happy to point out to them they were postmarked within their time frame. But one was supposeldy post marked like 3 weeks after I mailed it, LOL, which is impossible since I took those same rebates to the post office myself, all at the same time. Another was denied because it didnt fall with in the program dates (it did, and I had to point it out on the phone to get it). And another for $100 from Office Depot said in process for 6 months before they finally sent it to me after numerous calls (dont know what that problem was). Another was rejected because the UPC supposedly didnt match the one they wanted sent in (it did, but they decided they wanted a different UPC on the package after FRYs sneakily added their OWN UPC to the box elsewhere). All these problems had to be fixed with phone support, except the one I forgot to sign, I was able to resubmit that one. I finally got all those rebates, and I cant say I am eager to try that many again close together in the near future.

But to answer the question, usually I postmark them about in the middle of their due period. One thing to watch out for, though, is when they list an expiration date for the offer AND list something that says must be postmarked x days after purchase. So you may have 7-14 days to postmark it after purchase but the offer is good for a month or more. VERY SNEAKY.
 
Within a few days, that's for sure. I also miss out on a lot because I don't want to bother with them.

One day I'm going to write a book on procrastination.

 
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