Tom Walker wrote in a message to Jay Emrie:

-> RJT>That's not bad,  though I'm rather reluctant to play the rebate 
-> RJT>game.  The last time I did I got jerked around with stores not 
-> RJT>having what they were advertising (they'd "sold
out".  Right.),  
-> RJT>and did the mail-in rebate, and it took *way* longer than it 
-> RJT>should have to get here.  One of them,  anyhow, for the other 
-> RJT>one I'm still waiting...

And that's since winter!

-> i've had excellent results with the rebate offers - from CompUSA, Best
-> Buy, Office Depot, and Office Max. Every once in a while I procrastinate
-> and get there too late - sold out, but that's my fault.

TW>  I have had good luck with their Rebate Offers also. But they can
TW> take a long time to be processed for some reason..
TW> I suspect they drag their Feet becasue they are holding and Working
TW> YOUR Money. While 30 day interest on $30 dosne't seem like much
TW> when you Multipuly that tens of thousands of times it adds up.

Exactly.  It's a game they play,  where they're in effect using YOU to loan
them money to work with.  And I'm just not in that business...

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