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MONEY: Negotiate rebate up front!
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Redeeming rebates for hardware and software is a pitfall-filled process, as contributing editor Scott Dunn’s Jan. 7 Top Story pointed out. But reader Walter Donavan says he’s found another way to play the rebate game:
“Scott omitted one possible method of dealing with rebates that is 100% certain — if you can negotiate it. Simply tell the vendor by phone or e-mail that you want the product and will buy it, but only with the rebate already included in the price. For example, ‘$50 after mail-in rebate of $100’ becomes ‘$50 price now.’ Never mind the risky $150 price before rebate.
“I will no longer buy a product that depends on a mail-in rebate. If the vendor won’t give me the post-rebate price up front, I hang up. It’s very satisfying.”
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Sounds like a good policy for everyone all the time.
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RANT: The car dealers got screwed; us too. Enjoy it?
Friday, January 22, 2010http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100122/D9DCJHOG1.html
About 600 car dealers try to get businesses back
Jan 22, 12:34 AM (ET)
By TOM KRISHER
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India Johnson, an arbitration association senior vice president who is in charge of the hearings, said she expects 700 to 800 dealers to seek binding arbitration before the deadline. Not all will get hearings, she said. Some filed paperwork to preserve their appeal but may not proceed, while others may settle with the automakers before hearings, she said. The hearings, which must be held in the dealership’s home state, are likely to cost both sides a lot of money. Some dealers may lack cash to pursue them because they’ve closed their businesses or aren’t making as much as they once did. Wolf said dealers who appeal are gambling the legal fees in an effort to keep franchise agreements that alone are worth $500,000 to more than $2 million. The nonprofit arbitration association will do all it can to keep costs down, Johnson said. In some cases, dealers may represent themselves without an attorney, and arbitrators in some cases may cut their hourly rates, she said.
Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has said the automaker may challenge the constitutionality of the arbitration law in federal court, but spokeswoman Kathy Graham said Thursday that no decision has been made.
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Disclaimer: Frau lost 5k in GM bonds while America lost its liberty!
Clearly, the “auto company bailout” was:
- Mis-named. It was, in fact, a bail out of the UAW.
- Unconstitutional seizure of the bondholder’s property.
- A violation of the rule of law. What happened to the bankruptcy code?
- Socializing the losses while allowing the fat cats in “management” and labor to escape with the profits.
- A Nazi-style nationalization of the car companies; just like the banks.
Obama, in the style of FDR, seized the economy. And, like fascists and socialists have always found out, it doesn’t work. The economy is in the toilet. In a large part, due to the uncertainty that the Obama administration has introduced. Tax your bonus, windfall profits tax, taxes upon taxes, cap ‘n’ tax, healthcare taxes — all scare private investment to the side lines.
Argh!
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QUOTE: Hitler’s a footnote
Friday, January 22, 2010“If every Jewish and anti-nazi family in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle and twenty rounds of ammunition and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a little-known footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic.”
– – – – Aaron Zelman, co-founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
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Reinke Faces Life 