Originally Posted by Stompy

Haha, yes, they are very dumb. Trust me, they'll let you fax in your rebate, I've done it before

One time I misread the receipt and it said "rebates must be sent in within 7 days of purchase" even though the rebate offer expired 6 months down the line. So I called them to inquire about the rebate I never sent in. Naturally they reply with, "Sorry, we can't find you in the system." So I put on a fake, "Goddamn it.. I sent it in. I have a copy of everything I sent in, is it okay if I fax it to you?" They said yes.

It works pretty much with anything - I honestly haven't heard of it failing yet.

The funny thing is, there's no way they can actually determine whether or not you really did buy the item unless they put in some kind of order # tracking system (which they don't have).

I did it just a few times to see if it'd work, it's not like I base my life off of scamming rebate offers or anything.

Not only that, but the people at the registers are dumb too. You can buy a new wireless G router and place a wireless B router in it's place and return it. They don't even check it. Of course, buy it with cash so they can't really do anything IF they found out - but they ARE that dumb.

Anyway, I think those are flatout fraud

But what Best Buy is talking about is what the poster above me described - except there's nothing wrong with that. Buy low, sell high. It's called smart shopping

It's all legal, you're just taking advantage of the loopholes... as if Best Buy (as a corporation) doesn't take advantage of any loopholes in other systems (tax?).