Rebate processing

For months, I have received junk email regarding rebate processing at home. Does anyone have experience or comments? Is it legit?

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There was one gal from here who was going to try it. At the time a search of the internet showed a fair amount of issues with it. It appeared that the emails led to a suggestion you 'buy a list' of places you could apply to. Some of them had several layers of purchases if I recall correctly. Do Google it, especially by purveyor name, before you open your wallet.

There were, indeed, a bunch of mortgage lenders who required borrowers to continue to pay mortgage insurance even once their equity was above a required minimum. There were court cases about that 5-7 years ago if I recall correctly, and banks were required to return the excess 'promptly'. I suspect that led to a possibility of home rebate processors, but those days would be long over. I do a lot of rebates of both an on-line and mail in basis and the processing comes out of Young America, MN, Miami, FL and San Antonio, TX. I seriously doubt that my paperwork or computer input is shipped off to home processors and then back to a central location to print and mail the checks. And when my rebate is 79 cents, just how much would a processor be making? Yes, of course, there are rebates that are a lot larger, but I can't imagine it is feasible to check the stuff, ship it out for 'processing', ship it back, review it to make sure the processor did it right and then cut the check for mailing. Far more efficient to have one employee open the envelope and check the stuff, one double check and process and then queue it to have the check cut.
Does Flash care to name a company in Norwood-Young America?

I saw a posting in the newspaper a few months ago for doing the rebates, but I can't think of the "large" company down there... From what I read, they wanted me to drive twice a week to pick the mail up, which isn't too far from me.
Realize that I am NOT doing 'rebate processing' but rather mailing in rebate paperwork for items I have purchased. I know that most of my office supply rebate checks come out of the Miami area. My food purchase rebate checks come out of Young America, MN and I think it is the hardware stuff that comes out of San Antonio.

A newspaper ad by the COMPANY that is offering the consumer the rebate deal could be legitimate. I have never seen such. And the expenditure of your time and energy to go and pick up (and obviously return) the mail and processed paperwork would be a reasonable indicator that this isn't a 'get rich scheme'. My concern is rather the folks who sit out there on the internet using spam to find suckers willing to pay them for lists of "prospect" companies of little or no merit at all.
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