Filed under: Products and services, Consumer experience, Best Buy (BBY)I have to give consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) credit on this one -- it will be completely doing away with rebates in its Canadian stores by throwing away it's mail-in rebate program.Are you tired of the hoops that you have to jump through to get that precious rebate on items like new inkjet printers, digital cameras and even flat-panel TVs? Retail rebates are the scorn of consumers, as I wrote recently, and some retailers have sensed that and have changed rebate programs into "instant rebates" or have even done away with rebate programs completely.Rebates allow retailers to advertise much lower prices than actual sell prices are set up just to get you in the door, ...
Filed under: Products and services, Consumer experience, Best Buy (BBY)I have to give consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) credit on this one -- it will be completely doing away with rebates in its Canadian stores by throwing away it's mail-in rebate program.Are you tired of the hoops that you have to jump through to get that precious rebate on items like new inkjet printers, digital cameras and even flat-panel TVs? Retail rebates are the scorn of consumers, as I wrote recently, and some retailers have sensed that and have changed rebate programs into "instant rebates" or have even done away with rebate programs completely.Rebates allow retailers to advertise much lower prices than actual sell prices are set up just to get you in the door, ...
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