In Canada, Best Buy and Future Shop are owned by the same crew. I bought a hard drive from Future Shop a couple years ago that had a mail-in rebate. I know, I should have known better. There was even a sign on the counter that absolves FS of any problems with the rebate. Of course, after dutifully filling out the forms and mailing them in,I have yet to see the rebate. Because of my stellar organizational skills, I cannot find the copies of the receipts, etc. I need to support a complaint to either FS or the makers of the hard drive, who I am sure are in collusion in this practice.
Lessons learned: 1. I will never, ever purchase something because it offers a mail-in rebate. If a store has a product they are trying to entice me to buy with a rebate, they can bloody well sell it to me off the floor at that price.
2. I will never, ever again shop at Future Shop. If I found myself chased, wounded and exhausted, to the door of a Future Shop by a pack of rabid weasels, I would not enter the store even if I knew it contained the last available can of weasel repellent.