While the above articles provide techniques for arguably legitimate ways to increase breakage, there's a less legitimate technique: just make up some excuse for rejecting the rebate.
When will companies resort to this? When the rebate promoter has told their clients that the redemption rate will not exceed a certain percentage, and it does. Then they just start rejecting rebate requests, without bothering to notify the consumer.
As an individual consumer, I can't distinguish between honest errors and systematic rejections. Here are some rejections wI have received:
| date | retailer/ manufacturer | fulfillment house | product/ excuse | comments |
| 5/2010 | Fry's APC | Parago http://parago.com | APC Back-UPS XS 1500VA LCD received email notice claiming UPC was invalid, even though it was for the right product. | When I called their phone number, the automated system failed to recognize the tracking number. This was no typo, it verified the tracking number by reading it back to me. The same thing happened with my phone number. When I spoke to the CSR, he found the rebate in the system with no problem, and then updated the rebate to be valid. |
| 3/2004 | Fry's Eisenworld | Continental Promotion Group http://cpginc.com/ | Aloha Bob PC Relocator wrong product purchased | filed for bankruptcy 11/2008 see http://promomagazine.com/news/continental-promotion-bankruptcy-1124/ |
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