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What's the deal with rebates?
09/12/07
We know that everyone hates them, but have you also considered that they waste resources by unnecessarily using:
1. Paper for the envelope, stamps, to produce the extra copies, and for the check itself.
2. Gasoline to transport both the rebate and the check.
3. The time I spend filling out the infernal things.
Not only that, the company has to purchase extra P.O. boxes, hire staff just to sort out and open the envelopes and handle the payment. It also probably loses a few customers by angering them both during the process and after some inevitably don't receive their rebate. Don't their workers have anything better to do than listen to rebate complaints (more wasted time and money)? Are they counting on people forgetting to send the rebates? Am I missing something? Does this make sense to you?
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