WorldwideRebates.com Rebate Resolution? (Thanks Fry’s!), And My Week Ten (Fantasy) Football Thoughts
My poor blog, how I’ve ignored you over the past few days!
(What can I say? I haven’t had much to talk about lately!)
Quick-hitters:
- It’s been sunny and COLD the last few days.
I miss the heat. I also miss sunlight at 6PM.
And if it’s so cold, why the heck do I really really want some ice cream?
- Small Shot-Online update: I’m still stuck on level 52 (haven’t played much lately), and, due to a bout of complete idiocy, I blew a chance at an easy ONE HUNDRED MILLION NG profit!!!
I don’t wanna talk about it.
One of these days, I will venture onto Cads. One of these days.
- Current rebate-o-meter: $1,500 or so, but I’m sure that the total is closer to $2,000 than $1,500.
That’s what I get for keeping such poor rebate records 
- For the first time ever, here’s a tangent to a previous topic topic that deserves its own section!
Tangent: Fry’s/WorldwideRebates.com update: Fry’s customer service sent me this email regarding my “lost” $20 rebate:
Hello Peter, in regards to your Trand Micro rebate in the amount of
$20.00. We have since gotten in contact with the rebate manufacturer in
regards to your denial. Unfortunately after talking with them it seems
as though they are unwilling to help there customers. What we are going
to do for you in this matter is go ahead and give all of your rebate
submission to our home office. They will be issuing you a check shortly.
Please note that this may take up to 2 months. Please feel free to get
back with us in regards to this status. Thank you.
I boldfaced the line above because I thought it looked awfully familiar to me, especially the misuse of the word “there.” Does Fry’s use a form email to respond to rebate complaints? Well, remember my American Telecom rebate rant?
Hello Peter, in regards to your Pay N Talk rebate in the amount of
$25.00. We have since gotten in contact with the rebate manufacturer in
regards to your denial. Unfortunately after talking with them it seems
as though they are unwilling to help there customers. What we are going
to do for you in this matter is go ahead and give all of your rebate
submission to our home office. They will be issuing you a check shortly.
Please note that this may take up to 2 months. Please feel free to get
back with us in regards to this status. Thank you.
That was from an email response sent to me from February 1, 2008! Notice the emphasis in the blog entry linked above!
Once again, kudos to Fry’s!
(EDIT: Just as I finished typing this, I got an email from WorldWideRebates…it appears that they finally got my rebate submission! Should they successfully process my rebate claim, I will contact Fry’s and see if I can get them to not issue me a check. If not, I’ll just destroy it.)
- Fantasy football updates:
I’m riding a three-game winning streak in one league, the third win coming via a 132-88 beatdown of my opponent. It helps that my two RBs, Thomas Jones and Maurice Jones-Drew, combined to score 59 points by themselves. I am now 5-5 in this league, tied for fifth overall, and still a game out of a playoff spot (though I’m trailing badly in the tiebreaker, which is points scored overall.)
In my other league, I won for the sixth straight week. I’m not going to take too much pride in this win, though, as my opponent played three guys on their bye week, and one was on IR. I’m now in first place in this league, and I face the team that I leapfrogged in Week 11. The receivers on this team are really killing me, save for Andre Johnson.
Non-fantasy football thoughts:
- Ask and ye shall receive. Thank you, T.O., for giving me my lead story of Week 10! I need not even comment on this (though I will):
“We have to go back to the drawing table and look at the things that made us successful last year, moving me around a little bit, really just making an effort to get the ball in my hands on certain routes,” Owens said Tuesday, during a signing for his new book in Manhattan.
Well, at least he was smart enough to say the word “certain.” You know, he wouldn’t want to appear to be demanding the ball, or anything like that…
I cannot wait for the upcoming Cowboys-Redskins game. What will spew out of T.O.’s mouth if the Cowboys happen to lose THAT game???
- As soon as I found out that the Monday Night game was San Francisco at Arizona, I decided that I wasn’t going to watch it.
Boy did I miss out! What a crazy goal-line “stand” by Arizona! Of course, I say “stand” because Arizona’s field turf played a huge role on that series, tackling 49ers’ RB Frank Gore on 2nd and goal. Why was Frank Gore not on the field on the final play of the game? And why didn’t the 49ers spike the ball on the final play, since it was only 3rd down?
By the way, if Kurt Warner wins his third MVP this season—and personally, I think he’s the front-runner—tying himself with that guy currently on the Jets, that has to be enough to get him in the Hall of Fame, right? Maybe he doesn’t get in on the first ballot, but he’s gotta get in, right?
- Speaking of the Jets, did you see them running up the score against my hapless Rams? How sickening!
OK, fine, my Rams horribly stink, and the Jets did not run the score up on them. However, can we stop giving Favre all the credit for the Jets’ “resurgence,” a 6-3 record against a cupcake schedule, including a LOSS to the RAIDERS?
Kris Jenkins? Alan Faneca? Thomas Jones? Leon Washington? Eh, forget it; let’s give all the credit to Diva Favre.
(And please stop with the “Oh, if Favre were still a Packer, they wouldn’t be 4-5! It is not completely Aaron Rodgers’ fault that the Packers are struggling. That defense of theirs is terrible, and it only got worse with the loss of LB Nick Barnett for the season.)
- Colts fans, begin to send your hate mail!
Is it just me, or are the Colts quickly rounding into that struggling team that, all of a sudden, gets white-hot, and earns the “We don’t want to play THEM!” label? After back-to-back victories over New England and Pittsburgh (did the Colts really keep the Steelers out of the end zone when Pittsburgh was on the Colts’ 1???), the could-have-been 1-8 Colts could very well be 10-4 going into the final two games of the season.
Of course, they could also get upset by Houston, lose @SD, and then lose one of @CLE, CIN, or DET (shudder…), and miss the playoffs.
- And finally, thank goodness that Jacksonville remembered who they were…as did Detroit.
By the way, would you bet on Detroit going 0-16, or Tennessee going 16-0? You’d have to be on the latter being more likely, wouldn’t you?
I would…but just barely.
Until next time!