Companies that didnt send you back the rebate?

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Mangudai

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Has anyone here ever had issues with a company not sending them back their rebate? Are there certain companies known for this?
 
Most of the time, we forget, lol...


however, so far, I recall...

Corsair (good)
Gigabyte (good)
Logitech (good)

and that's all I can call off the top of my head.
 
Chaintech via Tiger Direct. $70 rebate on a motherboard...nothing. The only rebate I never got back.
 
I've been good on just about everything, but Logitech did reject my rebate on a Harmony remote several years ago.
 
So many that it made me stop even using MIR. I always had the rebate expected date on my calendar, so I didn't miss any from my end. I am anal-retentive on getting every dot in place and crossing all t's, but I still received denials on my rebates. I also copy everything that I send them, so I have proof of what they received. Still no rebate. Their loss, not mine.
 
MajorDomo said:
So many that it made me stop even using MIR. I always had the rebate expected date on my calendar, so I didn't miss any from my end. I am anal-retentive on getting every dot in place and crossing all t's, but I still received denials on my rebates. I also copy everything that I send them, so I have proof of what they received. Still no rebate. Their loss, not mine.
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Rebates don't exist to me, either.
 
I have received rebates back from Azza, PNY, and Intel. I recently put in two for Biostar still waiting to hear from them, the 6-10 week process time doesn't help at all -.-
 
ive only ever NOT gotten my rebate once. and that was well over 10-15 years ago. that was mostly due to the company fulfilling the rebate (i think at the time it was the manufacturer of the midi keyboard itself) filing for Chapter 11 Bankrupcy
 
Dlink - they are actually need to be reported. I've bought 6 or 7 items from them in the last couple of years (switched, routers) and every time they reply that I'm some missing information. Last one was actually crazy because they send me back card indicating that I didn't provide return address (how they can send card back to me without knowing my return address).
Crooks but I still like their products.
 
Logitech - rejected never bothered to figure out why. If I have to work that hard to get the rebate I will just buy from someone else.

That being said I have submitted many if someone did not send me one I may not have realized it.
 
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Gigabyte: still waiting on that from early December.

Corsair: They reckon it never arrived to be processed.

EVGA: Quick if the previous two are anything to go by, got the rebate a month ago.

Update: Corsair check arrived today, that was sudden, a few weeks back it wasn't even there.
 
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Logitech was good to me, a month after they received my rebate they mailed the check. This was in January-February this year.
 
D-Link is the only one I've had a problem with. Every time they claim I didn't send in the UPC.

I also had a XFX check bounce. Oh well, there went my $15, no big deal. I did just purchase a PowerColor 6950, broke my tradition of XFX cards. Hopefully the PowerColor $30 rebate arrives...
 
XFX: BAD, purchased a video card on 4/2/2010, which had a rebate valid between 4/1/2010 to 5/1/2010. they denied it because it was "not purchased within the valid rebate time period". no appeal available. im shit out of luck even with a copy of all necessary info.

OCZ: good, recieved 2 rebates, no problems.
ASUS: good, recieved 1 rebate, no problems.
Corsair: good, recieved 1 rebate, no problems.
 
Sega - after i bought my saturn. I don't remember how much the rebate was SUPPOSED to be for...but they just kept sendnig me demo discs instead. I haven't bothered with a "rebate" deal since.
 
I've always had bad luck with rebates.

I recently got the Kingston SSD with 75$ rebate though from buy.com. If they dont send me my 75$ I'm going to do a charge back on my CC. Not going to mess around with them.
 
I got every rebate i turned in including Office depot, staples, Bestbuy, sears, asus. petriot,

i turned in four OCZ rebate i only got one back, i will never buy OCZ as the three i didn't get were PSU and now they are dead and can't take care of warranty (yes i show the newegg bills but they still rejected) i also hate them as being only hard headed to have 21 day rebate period instead of 30 day others usually have.

never recieved rebate from ultra (sell PSU and case on tigerdirect/global computers), also had only one rebate from logitech which i didn't get as i forgot to read one option of have to have two things i bought in one recipt.
 
The only one I never got was Sunbeam Tech... which sucked cause it was a $25 rebate on a $35 item...

I've gotten them from a bunch of other companies though, Corsair, OCZ, Asus, XFX, EVGA... Sapphire maybe? I dunno I used to always buy the good deals with rebates.
 
Mine all works so far..

But I still don't consider MIR to be money saver at all, since you don't know when they will give your money back..
 
Just in the last few years that I can remember -
Corsair - 3, all received
OCZ - multiple good, 1 failed due to mailing it late, but this one really could have been my fault
Powercolor - 1, received
MSI - pending, haven't send yet, I actually did the preregistration form wrong, e-mailed them and got a response back promptly with how to fix it

Honestly with some of the things I read about XFX, even though on paper they have the great warranty, I'm wonder if that is really all worth it.
 
Samsung - tried to get a $50 MIR from a new phone in 2006, never received
Iomega - tried to get $70 MIR back on a CD-Burner back in 2002, never received

...since then, if a deal says after MIR, I don't pay attention to it.
 
You guys that don't get your MIR back... you do read and follow the instructions right? You guys must be doing something wrong.
 
Ah! I forgot about OCZ. They never sent mine, even after I followed up with copies of everything I sent in!
 
DirtyB said:
You guys that don't get your MIR back... you do read and follow the instructions right? You guys must be doing something wrong.
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Rebates are often outsourced to a different company there was an article that some tech company outsourced their rebates and a dude found a dumpster full of unopened rebates. Often it is the rebate house doing something shady.

I have gotten all my rebates except $5 from linksys, and I have a mushkin rebate that has been processing for 2 months now.

I think this was the story not too sure.
 
Corsair - I got a $20 Credit Card in the mail and it wouldn't activate$!@#$!@#$!@#%#!$#@%@$#

I still might have that card somewhere.
 
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Corsair - I got a $20 Credit Card in the mail and it wouldn't activate$!@#$!@#$!@#%#!$#@%@$#

I still might have that card somewhere.
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You shouldn't have to activate it, at least none of the cards I have gotten needed to be activated. Did you call the number on the back of the card to talk to someone?
 
ZipZoomFly straight up said they never offered a rebate ($10) on a product that I had already pre-registered online and mailed out. They took the website down after I mailed the thing in and keep saying that they never offered a rebate on the product that I ordered. I won't be buying anything from them again.
 
EVGa once scammed me $40. Rebate clearly said that Frys was accepted as a place of purchase, but EVGA gave me some BS in an email that FRYs was not accepted. WTF? I contacted Frys and they told me they'd make it right and email me back . . . yeah right. I never bothered following up, so I guess it's my own fault.

Newcastle ripped me off a free beer glass. The promotion was to send in six beer caps along with rebate form. I got hosed.

I've done multiple rebates with Corsair, ABIT, XFX, and probably some others I can't think of. Apple has always sent me money back promptly. XFX is probably my favorite. The only two rebates I've ever had rejected are the two listed above.
 
OCZ (x2), Antec, Gigabyte, PNY, and HIS (x2) all good.

One from MSI took an extraordinary amount of time to process and mail, but eventually I got it without formally complaining about it.
 
Corsair, Kingston, and Creative had some pretty speedy rebates in my experience.

I've gotten 4 of 4 MSI rebates, but good lord they took over 8 months.

Tried a Biostar rebate and never got one. I was expecting them to run off w/ the money since the process was way more complicated than any other rebate I've ever seen. I was sure I followed all the instructions correctly too, just can't prove it lol.
 
Yeah I don't bother with rebates anymore unless the price before rebate is attractive enough to buy.

Ones that worked for me: EVGA, MSI, Corsair, Emachines

Ones that never arrived: Coolermaster, Powercolor
 
OCZ, Corsair, and a bunch of others.
Some of them are older when the co's went thru a place that denied even valid rebates hoping that you would not fight for it.
TYPICAL FOR US COMPANIES F everyone and get it now.

ps---I hate the damn companies that spend 3 months doing the rebate and you get a check that expires in 10 days. AGAIN F THEM
 
never had an issue, always scanned in everything and saved images to the computer as backups, always mailed them out on time.

only problem i have ever had was with tiger direct & galaxy. they had a typo with time constraints with a MIR. it took a few weeks and a phone call but it was pushed and I got it.

most people forget about them or actually do them wrong. I dont mind doing them personally.
 
eVGA is the only recent company I had a bad experience with (~2 years ago). The claimed I submitted the rebate without a UPC (complete lie).

Good Experiences:
-Corsair (I've done about 5-6 rebates through them and received all back within 3 months)
-Patriot (2 rebates and received them right around 1 month after submitting)
-Logitech (2 rebates - took OVER 6 months, but I received them)
 
Since the middle of '09 when I started using Ultimate Rebate Tracker, I've received 13 rebates. I have one that's currently in process with Zalman and another (for wiper blades) that's late which I need to call on. The ones I received were from Asus x2, WD, OCZ x2, Whirlpool, Intel x3, AT&T, Antec, MSI, and EVGA. The amounts ranged from $10 to $50, totalling $315. My Harmony 1100 (Fry's Black Friday price screwup) will be arriving shortly so I'll soon be sending in the $80 rebate for that.

I can remember two problem incidents. '03ish I had one rejected due to "missing UPC", but it was such a small amount I didn't bother with it. I got a bad rebate check from Asus for a router, probably '08ish. Prepaid cards FTW.

I'm not sure why some people have so many problems with rebates. I just follow their instructions and make a copy of everything before I mail it in. That seems to work out ok for me. I have no problem letting lazy / incompetent / forgetful people foot the bill for my good deals. Half the people pay $200, half the people pay $100, and the company still averages $150 while advertising it for $100. Rebates can be so high simply because a good portion of the people don't (properly) submit them. Without all the people failing to get their rebates, I wouldn't get as many good deals.
 
Yeah I wont buy anything just cause of a rebate "deal" I never get mine back, And I follow the instructions to a "T". Its bullshit, I wont buy into it anymore. Give the reseller a decent price on hardware to begin with and then you dont have rebate BS.
 
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