I'm not the kind to do rebates by choice (I would avoid them, just because I hate the time wasted), but if they're part of the deal, I do them. That has been at Best Buy and Costco only. Always simple, always fast, in my six or seven experiences over the past three years or so. With Costco, you don't even need to mail anything at all - Just go online and click a couple of buttons.

If either of those two big companies made a habit of screwing with rebates, they'd be sued in a New York minute.