Rebate update

Wow, its been over three years since I penned my September 2006 Observations, "The Tipping Point -- The End of Rebates". With the promise to "check back" on the situation, Rick Broidas "Cheapskate Blog" and todays post, "The state of rebates: Has reliability improved?", prompted be to go back and look. (BTW check back on that blog as the comments mount up.)

While in 2006 I was speculating on the potential demise of the Mail-in Rebate (MIR) at least for the printer industry, a quick survey indicates they are indeed seriously on the wane. A look at techbargains.com and their ten most recent printer "deals" shows a MIR required for only two of them, veritable "Outliers" these day!

Heres the data from my unscientific but interesting study:

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