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What's not to love about a Snuggie? Sure it's no Slanket, but it keeps you warm at home, at sporting events and even makes it easy to identify the members of your cult, erm...family, when you're out at the mall. But a company is using the warm and cozy covering to try and extract $150 from your...

Many users awoke yesterday morning to a joyous chorus of "cha-ching" as money from Microsoft's Cashback program began hitting PayPal accounts nationwide. Shortly after we first covered the issue of delayed payments to individuals who participated in their Cashback program before the holidays...

Didn't get a stimulus check? Think you deserve more than you got? Got one but think it's taxable? Or do you have a very limited memory and have no earthly clue what a "recovery rebate credit" might be? (A credit for people who discovered their 2007 rebate checks in the bottom of their recycling...

With Christmas upon us, it's the perfect time to get a battery recharger for all of the new toys taking over your house. And a free charger makes it a better time to get one. Walgreens is offering a $5 store rebate when you buy an Energizer Rechargeable charger, and the manufacturer is offering a...

As if you needed another reason to be wary of rebates, one of the largest rebate processing companies, Continental Promotion Group, just filed for bankruptcy. CPG, more widely known as RebateStatus.com, no longer has enough money to cover the rebate checks it has been processing. This means if you...

It's only September and already the excitement over Black Friday is growing, especially after we covered Dealnews.com's predictions for Black Friday. It turns out those predictions weren't the first bits of information to trickle out! Ace Hardware's Black Friday ad began making the rounds on deal...

Lately the water-cooler discussion at work has been surrounding who the ultimate beneficiary of my rebate check will be. Knowing I am obsessed with technology, most of my co-workers assumed that I would take my $1,200 and head straight to Best Buy in search of a bigger TV. Others assumed I might...

Did you receive your economic stimulus check yet? These companies are offering you something extra if you will spend those bonuses with them. SUPERVALU, nationwide chain of 2,500 grocery stores.The deal: For every $300 gift card purchase purchased with a stimulus check, Supervalu will add an...

Anytime you go car shopping you get slapped in the face with dealer incentives swathed in bright colors and exclamation points. While many people filter out similarly structured sales pitches online, for some reason car dealers are given a pass on the use of ALL CAPS and big promises. Take for...

The USA Today reports that, for some reason that is totally beyond me, the IRS has decided that wasting $42 million to mail everyone letters saying they didn't need to do anything special to receive their "economic stiumlus" payment wasn't enough.No, apparently we need to be subjected to YouTube...