Subj : a $25.00 rebate To : AUGUST ABOLINS From : JAY EMRIE Date : Fri Dec 03 2004 09:36 pm AA>.PID: SemPoint 2.26 AA>.REPLY: 1:123/140 6a802b13 AA>.MSGID: 1:229/390 00418d3e AA>Hi JAY (of 1:123/140), AA>On , in a message to All you wrote: AA> JE> I just got a new router - D-LInk DI-624. Four ports plus wireless. AA> JE> detects and sets up for either.Was $78.00 at Page Computers and I get AA> JE> a $25.00 rebate (hopefully). Mailed the papers today. AA>I have had really poor experience with mail-in rebates. They seem to take so AA>l-o-n-g to arrive. Plus you pay full taxes on the pre-discounted price! So.. AA>if a product claims to cost only $50 after a $100 rebate, you still end up AA>paying taxes on the full $150, not just the $50. That kind of taxing should AA>not be allowed, imho. Well, without the possible rebate you pay the taxes anyhow. Better to get your rebate in weeks as to not even have a chance at a rebate. Check this url out for tracking your rebates: http://www.rebate-tracker.com/Default.aspx Jay AA>I was lucky with a Viewsonic monitor.. When I got home with it, I noticed that AA>they packed the monitor in the WRONG BOX! (It was the last one in the store as AA>a demo model). I could only use the UPC code from this WRONG box for the AA>rebate. Fortunately, the product serial number was printed on the box too. AA>After a l-o-n-g agonizing 3-month wait, the rebate came through, just the same. AA> But they think I have a DIFFERENT monitor. :( --- þ OLXWin 1.00a þ Experience is waht you get just after you need it. * Origin: Try Our Web Based QWK: DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:123/140) .