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Ken Davey wrote:

This has been a huge thread and I haven't read all of it but...
Personally a mail-in rebate is a dealbreaker - period!
They are a bloody scam.

The last one I used was for 4 12-packs of Diet Coke for $10 with
a $10 rebate. That's one of the few I've gone for since the
4 for 10 was a good price all by itself.