why do companies use rebates to sell products?
445205
because they never send you the rebate anyway..so they can just act like they are giving you less... True Story.. :)
260792
they make purchases of products on behalf of the company employer for either use internally or re-sale to consumers.\n\ne.g....the Intel example (buyer sources raw materials to be used internally for the manufacture of end-products used by the consumer).... OR....buyer for Neiman Marcus would make purchase of end-products (buy directly from designers and so forth) for re-sale to the consumer. In the retail industry/merchandising, Buyers are very important and often very well paid.
458127
The idea behind cash-back or mail in rebates is that the companies participating in these deals are banking off of people who purchase items with cash-back or mail in rebates but do not send them in. In other words, for every person that calculates the price of a product including the cash back but never gets around to sending it in, the company selling the product makes a small profit.
584974
All companies are out to make money.  In a nut shell, the less money spent to make a product and the more it sells the larger the margin/profit is.   If a specialist can undertake it more effectively it means that the company might not be as efficient as it could be.  Therefore it costs are higher for the product to be produced when they can be more efficient and be produced for less.  It can also mean that the company might be buying the raw materials at a higher price and this causes the product to sell higher but necessarily with a higher margin/profit for the company that manufactures it.  Any company that manufactures a product or renders a service is vulnerable when there's room for improvement (effiency); in the buying, in the manufacturing process, the marketing or selling.  This simply means that someone else can make and sell the product or service to your customer at a cheaper price.  A dollar is a dollar and pennies are millions that can make or brake a deal thus making any company vulnerable when not producing a product at the lowest possible cost to the customer with the highest margin for themselves.   \nGood Luck and God Bless
590654
Often times, the company's product isn't exactly up to par or the competition is catching up.  So, the people will lie to close the deal and hope that the company can exceed expectations later on and come up with the a good product.  It doesn't always happen.\n\nIt's generally how sales goes.  They don't usually lie outright but might fiddle with the "truth" a bit and exaggerate.
931117
What you are trying to do is enjoy the financial benefits of your product's sales without being willing to assume the risk (or transfer the risk to an insurer) of liability should something go wrong.\n\nThe annuals of business history are littered with many products engineers "thought" were safe only to find out later....they weren't.\n\nIf you really want to sell a product, then you should be willing to test it to make sure.\n\nYou owe that -- at a minimum -- to your customers.\n\nIf you are not willing to be absolutely certain you have a safe product, then you shouldn't be in business.
935374
It is all about the bottom line.\nThe store that does the best sales gets incentives from corporate. It only affects the bonuses that the top managers get.\nBesides that they are looking to get promoted as well.
174438
I believe that the items in question- discounts/rebates-are the items that were either, overly stocked items, or the Supermarket is just simply trying to sell the product faster than they anticipated haveing around, because it has to go, so that they can start putting up the new items that are comeing in up on the shelves. I also think that it's because the items date time for freshness is running-out.
1163691
because they want to make a lot of money off of consumers... it is all about their wallets...
483314
Rebate forms from Dell can be found at the link below.
484665
when a company advertises (markets) its product, it helps if that product is in stock/available immediately. Therefore, a good supply chain will make it easier for them to live up to their promises (in the marketing).
94962
For one, you are selling at a discount, two, people may only buy your product because it is a low cost solution, which does not help your brand unless your product position is already low price, then it can only help, but you should not constantly offer coupons or people will refrane from buying when they don't have a coupon handy, since the value is perceived at a lower price.
779621
The rebate you get is the surcharge otherwise would have been charged. These links will help you to know the matters better:\n\nhttp://www.ioclebiz.com/retail/stc_retail_trans.asp
991882
This idea has absolutely zero unique value proposition.  Why would all these stores provide you with discounts?  The only social marketplace that could ever occur is on ebay, Yahoo, Google, or MSN where people would indicate their friends on the site (using something like Orkut) and then at the point of sale (via an auction or advertising clickthrough), the merchent's credibility is validated via the credibility of the network between you and them.  All this rebate/rewards stuff will never work - there is no company in the work short of airlines and hotels who often administer these programs directly that has ever made this work.
1084036
im pretty sure they do, it would give them more money. come to think of it there is a distributor by where i live and has there logo on it.
21305
Many firms use machines as tax write-offs.\n\nA new machine is purchased when an older one "falls off the books" or it's depreciated value is reduced to zero.\n\nMy firm turns computers and printers every 2 years to keep up with technology and software advances.  We also purchase after the new technology is 6 months old, so we avoid being the beta testers!
3800
Its business, they have there customers, if they have people who are willing to pay double the cost, then let them pay. If one complains about people selling toys for double its price, then why didn't you buy it when it was at an original price. Business is Business.