Do You Trust Rebates?

I never trusted rebates. I remember a lot of controversy around them and people getting scammed. However when I bought my last AT&T cell phone, it came with a good rebate. I was expecting not to get it but I did. It required some paperwork but I got a very good rebate in timely fashion. That was my one and only experience with rebates. I still am wary of them and would only buy a product coming with a rebate if I had to or wanted the product rebate or no rebate.

I have had no problems with rebates. I got a good one on a printer I bought recently, and on my first cellphone, and a few more I can't remember. They all came through just fine.

I don't know of anyone that has problems with rebates back in the day. I know for sure that I haven't has any problems with any of the rebates that I have had from computers to anti-freeze for my car. That is something really good though; most companies can do more of the rebates if they want to cause they will always make there money for what ever the have rebated. I have been trying to get in the work from home as a rebate processor but i have not found one that is legit yet. Most of them have been scams and that is something that I have been trying to stay way from when it comes to rebates. If you happen to know of any companies that are looking for rebate processors I would be greatful for the link.

It depends on what company and or store I'm dealing with if I trust it. I know I sent a rebate in at an Office Max and I didn't get my rebate. I called and was told it was not recieved, I had no copy of the form and upc to even try to resend it in. I was not happy with that one. And when Walgreens sent out those checks well, I never got mine. Even sent them to my IL's home so that I'd get it and nothing... but the checks used to say "your name or bearer of ....." which ment anyone could cash the lil rebate check. So you do the math why no matter where I sent it we never got it. And I haven't used their lil rebates since though I know it's changed a bit since then.

I personally don't trust rebates I will never ty and get a rebate. But I worked at a phone business for about a year and the customers would get rebates on the phones. I think its just about filling out the form correctly and following the agreement that you had to pay your first phone bill on time if you paid it late you wouldnt get the rebate.

Hi moonlit:I do recieve a rebates for my merchants which I bought from Monbasa.However,I clearly know that rebate is just a way of sales promotion for companies.There is no doubt that a lot of consmers prefer to buy products with rebates because most of time they make a big fortune without much money. Anyhow,we should adopt a rational view of consumption when we are doing shopping or buying some so-called "spike" merchants online.

I have done rebates for years and never had a problem....just lately I got a new furnace and thermostat etc and the rebates took a while but they came in and they were not small! So yes...I trust them and haven't had a problem with them at all.

Never had a problem and I have been rebating for 30 years. But what I don't like is..they used to be good rebates. Buy a few things, send in box tops etc. I got so much stuff for my little girl in the late 70's just with rebates...either you got cash/check or you got items. I remember I got a huge heavy cardboard playhouse for her through a rebate offer...put it up in her room and she loved it! But then they started to trickle down to not to many. Then they come back but you have to have cash register receipt.....then a receipt dated within a certain time only. Then they just started not being worth the trouble...either the cash/check amount wasn't worth it (you had to mail them in and with postage going up...spending 42 cents to get a dollar rebate..just not worth it as you only net about 60 cents...not to mention the cost of the envelope!) or you had to buy a large amount of items, watch the "good for" dates and still register receipts. It has just gotten to much work for to little pay! But I will say.. I am on the Olay Club (the beauty product) and they have great rebates. For the past 2 years now, they have had periodically during the year a rebate of "buy $50, get $20 back". So for $30 you get $50 worth of their product. Yes, they ask for a receipt and the PKU codes, but still... I buy it anyway, and always went to a store called Ulta that had a coupon for "$3.50 off any $10 purchase" and then wait till the Olay itself went on sale...so I was in reality and regular price...getting about $70 worth of Olay product for $30. That is the only one I really watch anymore. Then again, I don't see to many rebates these days either. Last recession the freebies and samples were fantastic and abundant, now...this current recession...prices don't seem to be coming down at all! So neither are the coupons, rebates of freebies!

I find that they always end up being so close to being cut off by the time they get them i never get my money back anyways.If i do its a bonus not counted on.