
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 08:09:28PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
The only caveat would be that if there's a cash-back on a purchase, then activating that seems a little complicated to me.
i despise cashback offers. they're a scam, a pseudo-discount offered in the certain knowledge that most purchasers won't bother to claim it, or will be prevented from doing so by the annoying hoops they have to jump through. and that's assuming there's actually a genuine intention to honour the claim at all...quite often there isn't. in some cases they constitute, IMO, illegal kickbacks or bribery as they can often be redeemed by an employee who purchaed them with their employer's money. IMO, cashback offers should either be banned outright as a scam or be required to be honoured on the spot by the retailer (who then has all the hassle of dealing with the supplier to get the discount as either cash or a credit note). i.e. handled similarly to Australian Trade Practices law which prevent retailers from avoiding their statutory warranty obligations by attempting to pass the buck to their suppliers. overall, seeing a cashback offer (or a "get something extra for free by redemption" offer) makes me MUCH LESS likely to buy the product. even if the cash price before the cashback is lower than the price of a similarly-specced alternative. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #423: It's not RFC-822 compliant.