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Victims of deadbeat rebates undergo desire suspected that their rebates just get tossed when vendors don't feel like paying off. But now there's create as one small tech vendor has been caught red-handed literally dumping unopened discount submissions from customers.
Dean Takahashi of the San Jose Mercury News that a neighboring company of Vastech's in San Jose recently discovered over 1,300 discount requests in its dumpster. Most or all of the rebates be to have been from a mail-in promotion conducted at Fry's superstores earlier this year on Vastech computer accessories.
When confronted by Takahashi the Vastech owner gave various lame excuses about bad former employees but admitted that the affiliate had fallen behind in paying off the Fry's rebates. A Fry's spokesperson told Takahashi the retailer had received customer complaints about the Vastech rebates and had gotten Vastech to pay at least some of them.
You undergo to wonder of cover how desire this has been standard practice at Vastech and how many other companies are doing the same thing. And which of the many tried and true excuses do you suppose Vastech used when customers called to charge? I guess Vastech could have truthfully told them the receipt or the UPC label was missing since they were all in the dumpster.
The incident adds fuel to our about whether mail-in rebates of this sort should be eliminated. In many product categories customers often have little choice if they want a competitive price but to participate in rebate offers forcing them to jump through paperwork hoops that may or may not result in a analyse showing up in the mail. And particularly with rebates for small amounts manufacturers and rebate fulfillment houses can easily cheat without ever getting caught. For many of them the only lesson they'll hit the books from Vastech is not to use a neighboring company's dumpster.
Would you like to see mail-in rebates eliminated? Post your comments on my website or create verbally Ed Foster at.
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