Rebates are a bad joke

On 18 Oct 2011, Davej wrote in
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:

Oddly enough I received the rejection postcard several days before
this post, but now five days later I have received a rebate for
one of the two units and the rebate form did seem to have a stated
limit of one unit. Why send both a vague rejection postcard and a
rebate postcard?

Makes sense to me. They rejected the duplicate and fullfilled the
allowed one.

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:37:51 -0700 (PDT), Davej
wrote:

On Oct 12, 7:26*pm, Davej wrote:
Just got a card from Patriot Memory about a couple USB thumbdrives I
had bought from NewEgg a few months ago. Apparently the rebate was
only good for a limit of one unit, even though that was not clearly
stated on the rebate form, so they sent me a postcard saying that my
rebate request was invalid because it was a "duplicate" (I guess this
means because it mentioned two units and included two UPCs).

Oddly enough I received the rejection postcard several days before
this post, but now five days later I have received a rebate for one of
the two units and the rebate form did seem to have a stated limit of
one unit. Why send both a vague rejection postcard and a rebate
postcard?

They rejected one and approved one.