The Rebate Center (Mesa, AZ)'s website appears to be http://www.web-rebates.com But there are no clickable links on the page...

E.g. For linksys rebates, the URL is http://www.web-rebates.com/linksys

re: TCA article

] TCA is paid for every piece of mail it handles
]
] TCA gets paid again for handling the follow-up mailing.

What a racket!!

I'd like to know how a client audits the initial mail total. TCA could make up numbers for the "rejected" batch. I guess they have to keep the totals & percentages constant...

At least now we know why follow-ups have increased steadily. Again, just make something up and you get paid...


I'll give credit to WheresMyRebate. They supposedly never received a rebate I submitted. I re-submitted and it's scheduled for mailing. But of course that will be over 5 months after the initial postmark...

More contact info for Continental Promotions - www.rebatestatus.com

Pamela Newman, Senior Manager, Customer Contact Center
(602) 264-1721, fax (602) 263-0997
also try
(480) 606-9300
(800) 554-9838
fax (480) 606-4330

Continental Promotions Group / CPG
Phoenix, AZ & Scottsdale, AZ
www.rebatestatus.com
800-554-9838 ext. 6100
888-314-9908
888-314-9903

mods may remove this post, but just sharing my experiencing: this rebate processing company is horrible in my opinion. They have never processed any rebate in time (5 months and over is common), and on more than one occasion, they have mailed a check that was VOID (expired) after reaching me. I would avoid them at all costs in the future.

edit: I got another "EXPIRED" check today; obviously they mailed it months after the "ISSUE" date on purpose so it would be expired when I got it.

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re: Circuit City (circuitcityrebates.com)

When checking status, you do not have to fill in the 'first initial/name'. The other 3 blanks are sufficient.

They mis-spelled my first name on a rebate so it wasn't showing up in my normal search. Of course you don't find this out until the check arrives...

I am wondering if anyone knows the phone number for following up KBGear JamCam rebate

thanks

find recent rebate forms here

neff,

USPS POBox zips end with the number one.

Your example:
78502 area zip
78501 pobox zip

And, as everyone guesses, the box is usually the 'plus 4' number.
e.g.
pob 1234
78501-1234


A post office I go to is in the 77270 zip.
Boxes are pob 71####, 77271-####.

neff - I really would not be concerned about the zip code being wrong. There are so many thousands of these going to any address put on a form, that even if they were wrong the company that printed the form would be able to alert the post office and have them handle the misdirected mail. I remember a free memory deal with CompUSA last year, everyone was convinced that they had printed the wrong address/zip on the form because it was different from normal CompUSA/ New Rochelle rebates. Well it turns out that not only was it correct, but I think that rebate got paid faster than any other CompUSA rebate in recent memory. Bottom line: do not assume that you know better, just put what they ask for on the form. I guess that zip+4 might help but I have a feeling that the post offices that handle these things have a way to expedite sorting without the +4 info.

kwg - your info on zip codes is not completely correct. If you look at the New Rochelle addresses, their post office box zip code ends up 2 (10802) while the normal post office zip ends with 1, and in fact that is what I believe is pretty standard.

Bill