{"id":221,"date":"2008-01-02T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/wordpress\/?p=221"},"modified":"2008-01-02T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T00:12:00","slug":"laptop-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/laptop-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Laptop update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As first noted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/whats-better-than-free-laptop.html\">here<\/a> and then expounded upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/free-laptop-step-1.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/free-laptop-part-2.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/more-free-laptop.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/breaking-even-on-laptop.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/here-they-come.html\">here<\/a> I am in the middle of snagging a free laptop.  <\/p>\n<p>Just because my last post (containing the pic of my first arrived rebate check) in this vein was on October 1st, I do not want you to think that all is not well in laptop-land!<\/p>\n<p>The checks have been trickling in, and just before Christmas I received (what I thought was) my last bunch of checks.  With the holidays and all, I did not get around to entering them into my handy-dandy spreadsheet until today, when I found that I am still down 1 rebate!  I checked it online and it says Invalid due to missing confirmation email (the lamest excuse of all the ones I received)<\/p>\n<p>I emailed them just now and expect to have it validated shortly.  The weird thing is that my spreadsheet says that it was validated 9\/25\/2007.  So either CA validated it and then invalidated it (wouldn&#8217;t put it past &#8217;em) or I put the wrong entry in my spreadsheet and never actually re-validated this one.  I may get screwed because it&#8217;s been so long since the submission, but I will keep at it.<\/p>\n<p>My initial expense for this deal was $1,256.49.  With the 57 rebates I <b>have<\/b> received, I have gotten back $1,620 (and hope to receive an additional $15 shortly).  I also eBayed the 2 printers and got $69.32 between the 2 of them (after subtracting eBay and Paypal fees and actual shipping costs).  I keep meaning to put the software up there but the market isn&#8217;t that great for them (especially since this is the 2007 stuff and the 2008 stuff is now out)<\/p>\n<p>I aim to trade the laptop for a riding lawnmower.<\/p>\n<p>All in all &#8211; the best deal ever!!! (so far)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As first noted here and then expounded upon here, here, here, here and here I am in the middle of snagging a free laptop. Just because my last post (containing the pic of my first arrived rebate check) in this vein was on October 1st, I do not want you to think that all is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}