Tangentially related, SSDI disability process does the same thing.
A bazillion hoops with no hope of doing it all correct unless you have a lawyer. Each step of the process is prolonged with denials, extentions, hearings, appointments, reviews, etc.
You can’t work during the process, so if they take long enough they can force your hand. Can you actually find some gainful activity? You better because you have bills and it’s year 3 now. Private disability insurance runs out after 2 years or so.
Oh look, you happen to be able to do a job. Looks like you aren’t disabled. Denied.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is the crucial part. Same reason many brands have shifted from giving discounts to “rebates”. You have to jump through a few hoops yourself to get it, it’s not automatic. And that immediately results in a decent % of customers simply not even bothering, which is exactly what manufacturers are banking on.
prex@aussie.zone 15 hours ago
sometimes it goes wrong for companies foing this
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That decent percent is in fact roughly 60%, in my industry. At least according to what my vendor reps tell me.
Only 4 in 10 people even bother to attempt to do their rebates. The manufacturers love that, because it allows them to put a giant "$2000 OFF!!! ^viamailinrebate^" on their marketing literature and that gets eyeballs on the ad and feet in the door, but they know damn well they won’t actually have to pay out on the majority of those promos and in fact they don’t even budget with the expectation that they will.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I worked retail almost 20 years ago and that was the last time I saw a rebate. I haven’t had to mail in or apply for a rebate in ages.
Taldan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Menard’s has a perpetual 11% rebate program. It’s super obnoxious having to mail it in
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
I doubt Menards exists in a country where someone uses the term “bullocks”, but that’s fair. I’m curious to know how many Brit places have mail-in rebates nowadays.