Talk:Rebate (marketing)

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[edit] Price discrimination

A good example of why wikipedia sucks. Whoever wrote the lead sentence had no idea of what they are talking about (clue: it's not a civil rights issue) and puts in their made up idea of what PD is, and casts doubt on the real meaning of the economic term. 68.160.179.201 (talk) 16:54, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

hmm...it seems to be written in the same usage as the source (R. Avila and T. Avila "Rebates: An ethical issue?" Ball State University) which doesn't make any reference to any civil rights issue so I'm sure where your "clue" is coming from. I'd probably take your complaint up with the source and/or suggest prose with a different reliable source. AgneCheese/Wine 03:06, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lead section

It seems a bit cumbersome to me. I'd like to do some work on it to help it conform to WP:LEAD but would like an extra set of ideas on the best way to trim it down. It seems like we could almost craft a new section from it but I'm not sure what to call it. Any other thoughts? AgneCheese/Wine 00:57, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] North American centric?

A very relevant discussion took place in the archive, noting that mail in rebating may be common in the United States and Canada but is virtually absent in other parts of the world (e.g. Germany) and appears in Australia under the name of "cash back offer". See Talk:Rebate (marketing)/Archive 1#Very US-centric content. Since this doesn't seem to have been dealt with since then, I've tagged the article accordingly. Purgatorio 14:22, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately I could not find any reliable sources commenting on the virtual non-existence of rebates in other parts of the world. (I suppose it falls into the proving a negative trap). If you have any reliable sources in that regard, feel free to add them but it seems a little off to criticize an article for not focusing on the "nothingness" of rebates in other parts of the world. Should the Euro article be tagged as being Euro-centric for not commenting on the lack of use in the United States? AgneCheese/Wine 16:27, 20 September 2007 (UTC)