Since work is a little slow today I decided today would be “follow up on crap that hasn’t come in yet” day.

To organize my rebates I scan or save as a PDF all forms, UPCs, and receipts associated with a particular rebate. I then have a folder in My Documents named “Rebates” in which I create a subfolder in the format “YYYY-MM-DD Description” which I place all the scanned documents. So if I submitted a rebate for a Seagate hard drive today it would be “2006-09-20 Seagate Hard Drive”. Then when I receive the rebate I move it to another subfolder named “Received”. This makes it easy to track what is still outstanding and how long it has been.

I was using Rebates Helper for a while but found myself not keeping up with it. I guess I just prefer manually looking everything up.

Here is what I have to deal with today.

OnRebate: $60 MIR supposed to be paid via PayPal within 8-10 weeks. Has been a little over 11 weeks now with no payment. Sent an email to them asking why I haven’t been paid and am awaiting a response.

Rebate Zone: $20 MIR to be paid within 8-12 weeks. Hasn’t been quite 12 weeks yet but I checked their online system and my rebate is showing as not found. Called them and they said they have received it and are researching why it is not in the online tracking system.

CompUSA: $35 MIR to be paid 6-8 weeks. Has not been 8 weeks, online system says it was mailed this week. We shall see. s not been 8 weeks, online system says it was mailed this week. We shall see.