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From: al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.flame,net.misc
Subject: Coupons and Rebates-- Flame
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 18:32:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 18:32:17 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Sep-85 01:14:25 EDT
Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Phoenix AZ
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Can anyone explain to me the marketing purpose behind coupons and
rebates? Why do manufacturers want people to do the idiot-level
work of cutting out and organizing coupons, or, worse yet, filling
out rebate applications and sending them in in return for little
checks in the mail?  WHY DON'T THEY JUST LOWER THE %&##@! PRICES?
How stupid and idle do they think people are?  How much time is spent
in this country in the utterly non-productive non-creative activities 
of clipping, handling, processing, mailing, etc. these stupid pieces of paper?

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Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A
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