Sounds like you can't understand that the guy wrote the price with the
rebate down on a piece of paper on Monday. That would be 5/17/04 which is
greater than 5/16/04. Your point is demonsrtrably wrong.
Except that you didn't say that in the original post. By writing it down,
was he guaranteeing the price?
If you are relying on a rebate for the price of something, I would assume it
is your (the customer's) responsibility to find out the details of the
rebate - what you need to do, when it ends, when you need to submit by, etc.
Now, if the saleman TOLD you that the prices would still be good when you
came back on Wed, that is the fault of Circuit City, and you should still
get the price. If you just assumed that it would still be good, that is
your own fault. And you can't fault the salesman for NOT telling you,
because then you probably would be complaining about the "hard sell" (I
wanted to go research the computers, and the salesman kept telling me that
the price was only good until tomorrow, so I needed to buy it today, etc
etc).
Face it, you messed up on this one. The good news is that rebates like that
happen just about every other week, either at Circuit City, Best Buy,
CompUSA, or whatever.