Originally Posted By: chevrofreak
They didn't get out of anything. People doing the O'Reilly buy one get one free only bought 2 gallons of oil, so they should not expect the rebate for 4.
Two points:
First, the BOGO is between me and O'Reilly. From XOM's point of view, this is exactly the same as a 50% off sale. I don't know the terms of O'Reilly's wholesale contract with XOM, but I suspect that, for all intents and purposes, the oil was bought and paid for long before I set foot in the store. XOM sold X bazillion quarts of oil to O'R. XOM should be willing to offer customer rebates based on those wholesale transactions. Period. AFAIK, my retail purchase price and terms of sale are irrelevant.
Secondly, I was referring to the absurd 4 month delay, not an outright refusal to pay.
(At the same time, multiple people, including myself, have wondered - not unreasonably IMO - if they had been ripped off. Happily, several very recent posts suggest that a second 'wave' of rebate checks has been released. I'm off to check the mail now!)