{"id":146,"date":"2008-05-06T22:05:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T05:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=146"},"modified":"2008-05-06T22:05:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T05:05:29","slug":"rebates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/05\/rebates\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read Reid&#8217;s post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reidyokoyama.com\/2008\/05\/mail-in-rebates-are-stupid\">mail-in rebates<\/a>, and I couldn&#8217;t agree more. They are stupid. I have been offered that same contact lens rebate for two years in a row and never bothered to fill it out. I think he&#8217;s right about the motive \u2014 the companies are hoping you won&#8217;t go through the inconvenience of jumping through all the hoops they set up. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebate_(marketing)\">According to Wikipedia<\/a>, it offers the company some other advantages such as earning interest on the additional money until the rebate is processed.<\/p>\n<p>As for how much money they spend on processing? Probably not much. Many of those work-from-home ads you see online, with vague promises of &#8220;being your own boss&#8221; and pictures of big houses and wads of cash are for gigs processing rebate requests. My guess is they don&#8217;t pay very well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read Reid&#8217;s post on mail-in rebates, and I couldn&#8217;t agree more. They are stupid. I have been offered that same contact lens rebate for two years in a row and never bothered to fill it out. I think he&#8217;s right about the motive \u2014 the companies are hoping you won&#8217;t go through the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/05\/rebates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rebates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoying-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}