yesidonoitall said:BigDave said:LetsGoMets1 said:I hust tried to submit the rebate on-line for the Hammermill paper and it says the rebate offer ( 09-86161 ) is invalid. Is anybody having this issue?

Yup. It's showing up as a mail-in rebate.

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How do we know it is not to be a mail in only ?

It does say Er, so Im assuming that means easy rebate

SegaRob said:It usually takes a few days for Staples to put up new rebates. I would wait. They're advertised as SER so it should not be a problem.

Well, the intent is to have them on the day they are supposed to, it is rare they do not.
My Staples this m had an irate man also over rebates, some sort of paper and software.
He returned all and will come back in 2 days, store said they will hold the items for him.

I purchased a coupon on eBay from seller simongodman. $1 buy it now + 2.69 "shipping." I had a pdf by email in less than 2 hours. I used it at Staples for this deal with no problems. All three rebate forms printed out at the register. (of course not the upgrade one) The rebate prices were clearly marked on the shelves.

I went to the Briar Creek, NC Staples.

The seller emailed me to contact him directly for any more coupons. If anyone wants his email, PM me. I guess it might be cheaper that way since there will be no eBay fees?

SegaRob said:If you want to pay extra for the security of eBay that's one thing. If you want to buy directly from a seller, there are already sellers on the web for $1.50.

But the legitimacy of the coupons emanating from those "web sellers" is sometimes questionable at best (the reason Staples recently added CAPTCHA for online coupon entry). If you've got a private connection for cheap PDF'ed (legitimate and scanned) coupons, it may be a more favorable option at the same or slightly higher price...

SegaRob said:Just because it's a PDF doesn't make it any more legitimate. Anything can be made to a PDF. My hunch is all the web sellers are the same.

Yup. The capcha itself is only to slow down/thwart the bots/scripts from figuring out the alogortythms which they then make coupons from.
I just used a couple 30 off 150 coupons in B&M that I bought on ejunk and the coop came up as ONLINE coupon, but it did scan ok. Im wondering if my email coops I get can be used in B&M if I can get it into a bar code style.

The seller I buy from gives a direct Staples URL. I don't know what could be better than that.

The problem seems to be fixed and you can now enter your paper rebate online.

SegaRob said:The seller I buy from gives a direct Staples URL. I don't know what could be better than that.

Is it Staples.com ?
or a hosting service with Staples at the end of the url

SegaRob said:The URL starts with http://reg.e.Staples.ccccpn.com/because of that non Staples.com in the URL, after printing I cut all off but the coupon itself and my Staples store register accepted just fine with no question asked & no beep heard.

SegaRob said:Shrug, I've always printed it out with the URL. I didn't notice the spoofed URL until now and the Staples cashiers look at the coupons at lot less closely than I do.

It is not a spoofed url.
It is where cccpn has it hosted so they do not have to sit there all day waiting for a sale and then to send it on to you.
It is a way for you to get it instantly.