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Journal The I Shing's Journal: OfficeMax has new rebate program

I had previously written about being jacked up by OfficeMax, but now they have a new rebate system that prints the form for each item onto a rebate receipt, eliminating the need for sending in more than just one sheet of paper and the UPC.

I just bought a hundred bucks' worth of stuff yesterday, and eighty bucks' worth is coming back as rebates, or so they say. Filling out the forms is a bit of a headache, and sending them in is annoying, since all the rebates go to one or two locations, but have to have different promotional codes written on the envelopes. Is it worth it to spend two minutes filling out a form and 37 on a stamp to get $2.39 back on a roll of packing tape? I guess it is if my time isn't all that valuable.

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