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How Dissatisfied Do You Need to Be to Use a Satisfaction-Guaranteed Rebate?

Posted June 20, 2009 - 18:55 by Linsey Knerl

Personal Finance, Consumer Affairs

Many brands offer them: satisfaction-guaranteed rebates. While this helps to build reputation in the industry and gives genuinely disgruntled consumers an easy fix for their problems, is there a possibility that it’s too easy to get money back on the products you buy? We look at both sides of the issue to help decide when “attainable” may not always be “ethical.”

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Track Your Refunds or Get Ripped Off

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Shopping

“Refunds” are supposedly different from “rebates”, although honestly, you might never know it, since both are difficult to obtain. I find that lately, I’ve had to harass the heck out of companies, particularly companies that primarily do business via mail order or on the internet, to get my money back even after returning a product.

In the past, when I treated money with a devil-may-care attitude, I’m sure I let dozens of potential refunds slip right by. I don’t believe that all retailers really want to rip off customers, but I don’t see refunds as a really high priority of theirs, either.

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