Best Buy rebate forms disallowing price match

allisolm

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Just a heads-up:

Best Buy seems to have gone to a policy that says you can't price match AND use a rebate. The online Best Buy (not mfr) rebate forms that I can find for after Jun 1 say the following:

Limit of one rebate per household or address. Make a photocopy of all materials submitted for your records. Receipts may not be duplicated in an attempt to obtain additional rebates. Any attempt to do so is considered a fraudulent claim. In-store rebates are valid on in-store purchases only. BestBuy.com rebates are valid with online purchases only. All eligible products must be purchased during the promotion period (as stated above) and must be identified on one receipt. Multiple receipts are not acceptable as proof of purchase. All rebates must be mailed in separate envelopes with the appropriate materials to the address listed on the Rebate Form. Gift Receipts are not accepted as proof of purchase. Requests from Best Buy employees will not be honored or acknowledged. Offer void where prohibited by law. Rebate checks are paid in U.S. funds. Product may not be returned for full purchase price once the rebate has been fulfilled. All rebate submissions are subject to purchase validation, returned products will no longer be eligible for rebate payment. Items which have been competitive price matched, price adjusted, will no longer be eligible for this rebate. Best Buy and their fulfillment companies are not responsible for late, lost, mutilated, misdirected or postage-due requests. Use of fictitious names or addresses could result in federal prosecution for U.S. Mail Fraud. Best Buy reserves the right to deny rebate claims if deemed to be fraudulent. Fraudulent claims will not be honored or acknowledged. By submitting this form, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of the information contained in it, together with any information you may subsequently provide to us, to any person or entity for the purposes of processing this form, responding to your requests and Best Buy promotional activities.



 

DaiShan

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I've never really price matched at best buy any ways, the only real time I shop there is black friday heh. However, it seems they have been hit too many times by the AT/FW effect. Thanks for the update allisolm
 

kenkobra63

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The way around that is you just buy it at full price and get the rebate slip and MIR form. Then go right over the to CS desk and have them pricematch. All done!
 

DaiShan

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Originally posted by: kenkobra63
The way around that is you just buy it at full price and get the rebate slip and MIR form. Then go right over the to CS desk and have them pricematch. All done!

You are missing the point, if you pricematch and you send in a pricematched receipt you will not receive the rebate, it isn't like they won't print out the rebate for you, I mean you could still get it online probably anyways, but if they see a pricematch on the receipt you are SOL.
 

GtPrOjEcTX

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Originally posted by: DaiShan
Originally posted by: kenkobra63
The way around that is you just buy it at full price and get the rebate slip and MIR form. Then go right over the to CS desk and have them pricematch. All done!

You are missing the point, if you pricematch and you send in a pricematched receipt you will not receive the rebate, it isn't like they won't print out the rebate for you, I mean you could still get it online probably anyways, but if they see a pricematch on the receipt you are SOL.
I think he's stating that you'll have the original receipt with the nonpricematched price on it and can send that in. However this won't work as the transaction numbers will be different and when they check to see if you still have the item (e.g. didn't return it, and try to get the rebate anyways) they will DENY it.
 

HKSturboKID

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But when you send in the rebate, you have to most likely send in the Original UPC with it. Right??
 

VirtualLarry

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Originally posted by: allisolm
Just a heads-up:

Best Buy seems to have gone to a policy that says you can't price match AND use a rebate.

That sounds pretty bogus. Chalk up another Worst Buy policy change.

Does this apply *only* to BestBuy's own rebates, or all rebates on products purchased at BestBuy?

For example, I got in on a WD 80GB JB drive for $100+tax, with a $30 WD rebate (only valid for purchases at BB), along with a $10 BB rebate. I noticed that the terms+cond. on the rebates that printed out at the register were different, but neither had the wording that you mentioned in your post. (I assume that they just instituted this policy, right?)

Basically, I'm curious if this would apply in the case of competitively price-matching BestBuy to CompUSA on a HD, and then sending in a WD mfg rebate, but only valid for purchases at BB. Would the rebate clearinghouse deny it then?
 

uvgurer

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I wonder how this will work in the cases where Bestbuy has lowered the price on an item (unadvertised) for a limited time because another store in the area is having an advertised special on that item. Will they consider that pricematching?
 

rasputinj

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Just another reason why I do not like Best Buy, I always have a hassle trying a PM, I walk over to CC or OD and they are always happy to do a PM, maybe it is just the store in my neck of the woods.
 

elkinm

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So what about the case where there are multiple rebates for one item and most especialy the manufacturer rebates which require the original UPC from the box and an original reciept.

So would that mean that if Best Buy list multiple rebates, under the new policy they must apply it as an instant rebate as only one rebate can get the original UPC?
 

c627627

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It's very simple: This is their weapon to implement if they choose to prevent the final amount of $ coming out of your pocket being lower than if you bought the item at the other store. Everything else is technicalities. They will not implement this rule to deny you the lowest final price either way.

I am grateful to best Buy for dozens of pricematch deals. We go in not expecting to get both PM & rebate, we got both 90% of the time.

It's still there for us to try but what is this? You're not complaning for not being able to get the lowest price at BB, you all crap all over Best Buy for what? For not being able to officially get $80 items for $5 out of pocket? Come on...

Thank you Best Buy for no interest financing and for allowing both PM & rebate to go through 90% of the time in the last three years.



 

Lanyap

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I can understand why BB is changing their policy on this issue because they have been burned by deals like the Logitech cordless duo. But, they did it to themselves by being greedy and playing the rebate game. Instead of just dropping their price to match the other store they used a rebate knowing that some percentage of the rebates would not be paid for whatever reason. They figured that they would come out better with the rebate to pricematch. Obviously, they were wrong.

They are adding more and more rules to their rebates these days. The rebate forms printed at the register for BB paid rebates (Calais, ME) are very long now and getting longer with all of their rules.
 

Fritzo

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I've always kept the original rebate receipt and just did the pricematch with the store receipt. How can they tell?
 

RaGe420

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Originally posted by: Lanyap
I can understand why BB is changing their policy on this issue because they have been burned by deals like the Logitech cordless duo. But, they did it to themselves by being greedy and playing the rebate game. Instead of just dropping their price to match the other store they used a rebate knowing that some percentage of the rebates would not be paid for whatever reason. They figured that they would come out better with the rebate to pricematch. Obviously, they were wrong.

They are adding more and more rules to their rebates these days. The rebate forms printed at the register for BB paid rebates (Calais, ME) are very long now and getting longer with all of their rules.

hehehe
I made 15 bucks on that deal

I think you are right though that they should lower there prices instead of the rebates(which half the time do not come)
 

MJGunn

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Oh my god! You mean they don't want to help us screw them out of stuff and get it for free/cheaper than they pay for it?!? I'm shocked!!!

I have in the past, and will in the future pricematch and then used rebates to get stuff cheap/free, but really, can anyone actually say that they're SURPRISED that they're going to start doing this? The only thing that surprises me is that it took them this long to do it.
 

Wag

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Price matching is not screwing a store out of money. It's rebates that are the scam- not pricematching. They're betting that you won't submit the rebate- especially the store based rebates which make no sense at all- they should just give you the item at the cheaper price. With this new policy there are even less deals to be had at Best Buy, since so many of them were based around rebates.
 
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I knew they were going to do this. This goes down with BVG and staples B&M no longer doing internet PM's. Sucks even more since BB have been reliable with rebates. Circuit City is going to be next.
 

ak3883

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Is Best Buy really going to spend the time tracing transaction numbers for every single rebate to make sure that you haven't gotten a pricematch? Seems like a lot of work... I won't be convinced till I hear of peoples rebates being denied or have one of my own denied after a pricematch... They always state things like that in fine print...
 

DSE

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Originally posted by: ak3883
Is Best Buy really going to spend the time tracing transaction numbers for every single rebate to make sure that you haven't gotten a pricematch? Seems like a lot of work... I won't be convinced till I hear of peoples rebates being denied or have one of my own denied after a pricematch... They always state things like that in fine print...

They already spend the time to check the transaction number to make sure you haven't returned the item, this will just be one more thing to check while they have your transaction up on a screen.
 

katka

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Price matching is not screwing a store out of money. It's rebates that are the scam- not pricematching. They're betting that you won't submit the rebate- especially the store based rebates which make no sense at all- they should just give you the item at the cheaper price. With this new policy there are even less deals to be had at Best Buy, since so many of them were based around rebates. [/Q[

This is exactly right. Most consumers DON'T send in their rebates! What if the item just goes lower in the 30 days after the sale? This means that the "Best Buy" will not be found at Best Buy so just don't shop there. Their profits will get lower, etc., etc.....
 

jrichrds

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Best Buy rebates always ask for just a copy of the UPC even when there's no accompanying manuf. rebate that needs original UPC because they get all the info they need from the transaction number. It's going to be hard to fool them.
 

OrlandoTiger

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Originally posted by: Wag
Price matching is not screwing a store out of money. It's rebates that are the scam- not pricematching. They're betting that you won't submit the rebate- especially the store based rebates which make no sense at all- they should just give you the item at the cheaper price. With this new policy there are even less deals to be had at Best Buy, since so many of them were based around rebates.
Agreed.On the few deals where they have lost any money due to the policy it must have been devistating to lose a few thousand against the millions in profit they making.
:disgust:
 

gwlam12

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Originally posted by: OrlandoTiger
Originally posted by: Wag
Price matching is not screwing a store out of money. It's rebates that are the scam- not pricematching. They're betting that you won't submit the rebate- especially the store based rebates which make no sense at all- they should just give you the item at the cheaper price. With this new policy there are even less deals to be had at Best Buy, since so many of them were based around rebates.
Agreed.On the few deals where they have lost any money due to the policy it must have been devistating to lose a few thousand against the millions in profit they making.
:disgust:

that's only speculation. maybe they really are losing a lot of money.
 
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