Things that caught my eye:
Admittedly, some of Menard's offerings require a mail-in rebate.
That's happened to me, too. I keep a photocopy of everything I mailed off. If I don't get what's due in a timely fashion, I raise a stink.
Here's a trick the rebate people use:
They mail you a check in an envelope with some bizarro return address and an obvious "Bulk Rate" imprint. You, thinking it's some kind of pesky advertisement, throw it away!
They are wasting my time and their money when a place advertises an item with a rebate. I could buy a sack of groceries with the rebates I never got, maybe two sacks of groceries. Tiger Direct especially comes to mind... Nothing but a hassle, wasted time and wasted stamps. You must send in the original bar code, two months no rebate, they ask for a copy, the copy isn't the original bar code. Rebated denied. I never got the last rebate from Staples either but it hasn't been two years yet, maybe it will be in tomorrow's mail. Occupy Wall Street needs to put rebates on their list of thing to change.
In general, I don't like rebates but I don't remember one I didn't receive. I've always followed the instructions to the 'T', though. Sometimes it takes three months, but they come. It's not worth the hassle for a couple of bucks but I got a rebate from HP for $150 (printer), which made a squatting on their site a little more interesting.
Never trusted them PERIOD.
I have been using Menarards and their rebates for at least 15 years, probably more than 20, never had a single problem.
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