Again... the hate for CompUSA

BeerCheeze · Posted: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:07:36 Post Subject: Again... the hate for CompUSA

OK... so again I have the hate of CompUseless! I got an e-mail about a special pre-view of a sale this Friday. It's one of those midnight madness sales. Great... except it's not really a sale as it is a limited time to get a mail in rebate form.

The dirty bastards have all these items "on sale" for only not only a certain day, and after 6 PM, but they they have items only avaliable during certain hours.

So let me get this right... I have to wait until 11 pm to buy something that isn't really on sale, but has $70 in mail in rebates?? For example at 6pm you can buy a Compaq laptop for $599.99 Well.... not really you buy it for $1029.99 and then have $430 in MIR's. Which at least the one from CompUSA (The store where you are buying it from) will take 10 - 12 weeks before they will even mail you a check after you file your claim.

Confused

Reasons for the MIR hell we go through?

1) Between 60% - 95% (depending on which source the info comes from) of consumers don't even try to file the rebate.
2) About 1/2 of those that either have problems, or just don't ever get their check back. (Do that math, that means that they only have to pay the rebate between 2.5% to 20% of the time)
3) For between 6 - 12 weeks, plus processing time, they get to keep your money and invest/use as they choose.

I F'ing hate Mail in Rebates.

**Modulok** · Posted: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:35:19 Post Subject:

I agree...MIR suck...took me till this Monday to FINALLY get $25 from evga...I got the card first week of November. I got the evga bucks in December.

Had alot of tigerdirect rebates due to me...got maybe half of them... Mad

T-shirt · Posted: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:45:26 Post Subject:

I've never been screwed on a rebate including dozens from both tiger and CompUSA.
HOWEVER, they aren't free, the do take time and effort to read and carefully follow all the instructions, keep copies of everything, track it, and to occasionally have to complain loudly.
So the price after rebate has to be very cheap to pay for your time and aggrevition.
As EC said the midnight madness sales are non-events rarely providing any sort of real deals.
The saturday door busters at CompUSA and the end of the month clearance at tiger are the best bets for those 2.
Buy.com and a couple others can usually match the closeout prices within a week or 2 and seem to pay their rebates (if any) faster than expected.

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

woot.com pwns you

BeerCheeze · Posted: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:59:07 Post Subject:

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

never had troubles with rebates
i keep an excel sheet of all the rebates i send out and it approximates the date i should receive the rebate check based on the date i mail.... im just anal like that

Big B · Rated NC-17 Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 194

I have to agree they make mail in rebates so hard to get. If its not 50.00 bucks or more i just dont even try to send it in. Once for a printer there was a $15.00 rebate and it took me 4 months or so to get it, and when i did get the rebate it was only $10.00 and it said $15. it turned out to be in the fine print that i had the wrong model and i had the model which had a 10.00 rebate instead of the 15.00.So from now on if it not 50.00 or more i just dont worry about it. to much of a hassle well for me anyway. Bang Head

mrweasel · Posted: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:33:50 Post Subject:

I got that same flyer and was like WTF?

On the other hand, BB did have 74GB Raptor for $129 OTD.... NE had them for $129+shipping after rebate. There's a first time for everything I guess

edvallie · Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:34:03 Post Subject:

</3 them as well. The only time I've gone there recently was to use a gift card somebody got me. I like the best buy gift cards more.