We all have had both Bad and Good experiences with various businesses. I decided to put the ones that have shafted me in a web page. I also have a page for companies I have had good experiences with.

Your input, about companies, will help to make this more interesting.
• It seems "Mail in Rebates" are just a sleazy way for businesses and companies to advertise a lower price. Then they hire other companies whose service is nothing more than sending out cards denying the rebates for a variety of reasons.
  They make money by hassling customers into the ground about rebates.
  Here are some companies I have never got the rebate from:
  1. Fry's Electronics, is happy to advertise and post "Rebate Prices" but I get no help when I go in and complain. They simply give me a printed form to "Write to Randy Fry".
     You might as well spit in the air and duck out from under it.

  2. I bought an APC Uninterruptible Power supply from Fry's.

     Some company in Texas sent me two reject cards for two different WRONG reasons why they couldn't pay the rebate.

  3. I bought a Maxtor USB connected 120 Gig Hard drive from Fry's

     I got a reject card from the same Texas place that sent out the cards for the APC Uninterruptible Poser supplies! This is the one I went back to Fry's about, and they made copies of my papers and promised to email me a reply. This is over a year ago and I have never heard from them.

  4. August 22, 2003, I bought a Fujitsu LifeBook C Series laptop computer, again from Fry's. I paid $1,399 plus tax and was supposed to get a $100 Mail in Rebate.

     When I got home in the fine print it says they would not send rebates to a P.O. Box, so I emailed Fujitsu, and got a response August 30, 2003 saying "problem with your rebate offer can be easily solved. Simply call our sales department at 1-877-372-3473 on Tuesday". I called and Nicole and she said she would send in a request to send the rebate to my P.O. Box. Mistakenly, I believed her!

     Mid December I received the post card, it says: "We cannot honor your request without your street address." After many calls on December 19, 2003 to Fujitsu I have been essentially told to "go to hell".

     The unfortunate thing is: I quite like the engineering and design of the Fujitsu laptop, although it did come with a virus installed on the hard drive. But, I will never buy another Fujitsu product. And if at all possible I will avoid Fry's Electronics.

     Here is a link for the latest details as of: Thu 2004-02-05 about my Fujitsu Rebate rejection.