Let the troubles being for getting the rebate. Despite the date this printed on the rebate form, Worlwide Rebates shows the valid dates for this promotion as Nov 1st - Nov 4th. You have to register for the rebate online and if your rebate is outside of these dates then you can not register unless you purposely put down the wrong date (which will probably get you nowhwere).
Here is an email that I sent off to Newegg:
My original message:
When I purchased this item there was a $40 mail in rebate advertised. Once I received the vide card I went to the website to ge the rebate and it appears that the form does not exist. Can you please either locate the rebate form for me or credit me back $40. Thanks J
Their reply:
Dear James,
Thank you for contacting Newegg.
We sincerely apologize for your inconvenience. According to our Rebate Center , there is only one rebate form available for the item # 14-130-370 now, the amount of which is $40 mail-in-rebate. Please kindly note that the valid order date frame for the rebate is between 10/01/2008 and 10/31/2008, which is not eligible for your order that is placed on 11/20/2008. You can check this information on the following link:
http://images10.newegg.com/Upl...0Oct1Oct3108jh28us.pdf
We deeply apologize for this unfavorable situation. Please kindly note that the rebates are savings offered directly through the product manufacturer. In order to receive the rebate savings, you must have their product shipped and invoiced between the advertised dates. Newegg just posts the rebate information on our site for customers' convenience. However, since you are our valued customer, I will go ahead and make a one time exception for you and issue you a discount of $10 towards your next new order as a courtesy. Please reply to this email with your new order number once the package with the new order has been delivered so that I can apply the available discount.
If you have any further questions or concerns, please visit our FAQs page. If you still need assistance, please feel free to email me directly and I will be happy to assist you.
Thank you,
Name Withheld
My reply back to them
Thanks for the offer on crediting back $10 but please hold on before doing that because I can now offer additional information. After I sent the original email I was looking around the web and found a link to the rebate on your site and the PDF file is still there. See this link:
http://images10.newegg.com/Upl...Nov01Nov3008ez21us.pdf The offer shows as being valid for the whole month of November.
The only obstacle to taking advantage of this offer is that the Worlwide Rebates website says that the offer is only good from Nov 1 - Nov. 4. You can go to their website here:
http://www.worldwiderebates.com/customer/default.aspx and then over on the left hand side enter in the promotion code which is ega-6163
It's impossible to register for the rebate if your purchase date is outside of Nov 1 - Nov 4th.
Someone at Newegg needs to either credit me $40 for the rebate or contact Worldwide Rebates and straighten out the issue with valid dates for the rebate.
Thanks