Wirefly a pain

excerpted from an IM

I just finished filling out rebate forms for my cell phone

what a pain in the .....

I got it from wirefly.com

there were three rebates for it

I looked the info over and two of them needed to be taken care of later in time and that threw me off on the other one so I missed the deadline

and that was a big rebate

so now it's later so I just filled out the remaining two rebate forms (totaling $125)

but their requirements are just bizarre

(end of IM conversation)

The bizarre requirements are:
1) copy of a statement between 150 days after activation and 210 days after activation showing that you've been paying the bill
2) the rebate cannot be postmarked before 180 days after activation or after 210 days after activation.
3) the rebate form is also a legal form saying they can bill you $250 if your service stopped or you you switched to a cheaper rate plan during the first 180 days of service.

yikes.

I had misguesstimated the days from when I ordered the phone (presuming it was activated within a day or two after then) so I was thinking that 150 days ended around September 28 when it actually ended August 28. I could've missed the 180 days to 210 days window (ends oct 27)

Man, that would've been frustrating... to miss all the rebate deadlines. As it stands now everything is in order. I probably wouldn't be too surprised if this all goes horribly wrong somehow. I think I'll call t-mobile and make sure my service wasn't interrupted at all this year.