After literally hours and hours of online time, copying and recording numbers, sending e-mail, mailing in rebate forms, responding to e-mail and other requirements related to obtaining three simple rebates, I can say with confidence:
TigerDirect and OnRebate Inc. Use a deliberately contrived and confusing system to discourage the redemption of rebates.in addition, even when rebates are approved, the time period for receiving them gives the companies the benefit of holding the funds for 8 to 10 weeks. For a $100 rebate being used by thousands of customers, that can mean hundreds or thousands of extra dollars in interest income for the companies. A genuine ripoff and one which the companies cannot fail to be aware of.
Perhaps the companies cover their asses with obfuscating legalese in their "service agreements", but that does not excuse their deliberate action to discourage the redemption of rebates.
I'm willing to join in any legal action to stop this deceptive practice, of which I've only become aware in the recent purchase of a 19-inch Hann-G LCD Monitor for which TigerDirect charged me $268.45, including $63.71 for included software in which I was not interested, with the promise of $70 rebate on the monitor and rebates of $20 and $30 on the Computer Associates Internet Security Suite, for which I have no use.
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