I routinely buy rebated consumer electronics items, and file the rebates pretty quickly (usually within a week). I keep a folder of pending rebate claims that I'm awaiting payment on. Right now, all that's in there are rebate forms for two TiVo units (one of which is a $220 rebate on a $219.99 purchase) and a Verizon Treo 700p that I bought in early December, all submitted on 12/12/06. So, I have a 100% success rate in claiming rebates over the past several years. Per my records in Quicken, in the past couple of years, I've claimed about $600 worth of revates on TiVo units, disk drives, software, LCD displays, and memory cards.

So, rebates work for me.