MyRebateOnline…Rave? Yes, It’s True!
Stupid humidity. Mid-90s with over 40% humidity in the past few days.
Grrrr…
Today’s blog will be a single-topic blog. On with it!
Quick-hitters:
- I’ve got two major blog topics I have been planning on writing for a while now: Michael Phelps…Greatest Athlete Ever?, and Usage of the Word “No” (A Mega Rant).
ETA of both? 2009 
- It’s been a bad last few days in the UngsungBlog household. First of all, my awesome next door neighbor moved out! Worse, she didn’t even say goodbye to us!
Also, I just found out today that Amazon will no longer be accepting checks/money orders as a valid form of payment for a purchase! I’ve never actually used a check or money order to make a purchase at Amazon, but note the second post from the thread linked above. This “loophole” will be sorely missed.
- You might remember how close I came to missing out on a huge rebate.
(This rebate was validated today, for the record. Yay!)
Anyway, it appears that I stupidly allowed a rebate check (no, not a submission…a check itself!) to go past 90 days before cashing! Unfreakingbelievable!
It was only a $13.xx check, but still!
- One week before the NFL season starts, and I still have yet to participate in a Fantasy NFL draft!
What the hell am I waiting for???
- To call this blog slightly negative would be the understatement of the century. However, I should point out that MyRebateOnline.com does deserve a slight amount of praise for their seemingly-improved customer service.
(Just wait a week from now, when I’m pretty sure I’ll have another rant against these guys.)
Anyway, I—more precisely, a friend and I—had two rebate concerns with this company. One rebate was mailed in on 7/4, and never did show up on my friend’s account. I fired off a quick email via MyRebateOnline.com’s Contact Us link, and their CS immediately replied, saying that the rebate was valid, but listed under a different email address; apparently, the person that entered the rebate added a “1″ at the end of the email address. Simple enough.
The second rebate issue I had involved a rebate that was supposedly missing a proof of upgrade. Fearing that I would get yelled at by a MyRebateOnline.com rep (remember this?), I reluctantly called their rebate hotline.
A very happy-sounding girl answered the phone, and when I inquired about my rejected rebate, the woman immediately explained that no one had uploaded a scan of my submission onto my record, and thus, she could not verify that my submission did indeed contain a proof of upgrade. She said that she would forward the issue to her supervisor, and I would get an update on my rebate status within 48 hours.
The next day, my rebate was validated. Yeah, I’d rather not have to contact MyRebateOnline to fix two rebates that shouldn’t have required contact in the first place, but it’s a hell of a lot better than what I went through last time!
a rave? I’m shocked, just watch out for the eXstasy it’s dangerous!