{"id":1989,"date":"2010-02-18T22:50:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T06:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2010-02-18T22:50:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T06:50:15","slug":"paying-for-faster-rebates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/paying-for-faster-rebates\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying For Faster Rebates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well this is something new.  I recently bought an item that qualified for a $15 mail in rebate.  Of course, I was fully aware that these things can take forever to arrive.  Upon going to the manufacturer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s site it appeared that they offered their rebates in the form of a credit\/debit card of sort as you can see here:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.al6400.com\/bpic\/rebatedebit.jpg \" \/><\/p>\n<p>The surprising thing though is that they offer an option of express processing your mail in rebate for a $2 fee.  In this case, they say that they will send it within 5-7 business days as opposed to a 6 to 8 weeks timeframe.  Would you be inclined to pay in order to get your rebate faster?  Kind of makes you wonder why a 5-7 business day timeframe isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the regular timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, it was kind of funny that the literature indicates that this is a pre-paid Mastercard yet they use a credit card with a Visa logo as the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this is something new. I recently bought an item that qualified for a $15 mail in rebate. Of course, I was fully aware that these things can take forever to arrive. Upon going to the manufacturer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s site it appeared that they offered their rebates in the form of a credit\/debit card of sort as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[2430,199,2429,1163,2325],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-cash-card","tag-credit-card","tag-faster-rebates","tag-fees","tag-rebates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMAG1042.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-w5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}