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Question for the Menards rebate users. If I were to drive to a Menards and purchase a train set. Does it benefit me to do that live in the store as opposed to mail order. Of course I would save shipping fee. How about the other add on fee? And what do they do with my rebate. Can I use it then at the store?? How does that work? Thanks for your help, Dave
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Menard's charges a handling fee along with shipping charges for mail order. The rebate has to be mailed in( no online). The rebate is store credit only.
Ok, no fee or shipping cost in store. Got that. How about rebate can I use that in store for the train set I'm buying? Thanks Dave
@Dave Nichols posted:Ok, no fee or shipping cost in store. Got that. How about rebate can I use that in store for the train set I'm buying? Thanks Dave
No rebate until after you buy something. Not retroactive.
Grampstrain is correct. Once you make the purchase, you have to submit the rebate request by mail, and they send a card with the rebate. You take that to Menards and can apply it to subsequent purchases.
Train aisles are up in at least two Menards’s stores I’ve been to recently.
Just a thought here..... Why not buy your set and mail in your rebate. Then you could use the rebate later to add a piece of rolling stock or an accessory for your new train set.
@B rad posted:Just a thought here..... Why not buy your set and mail in your rebate. Then you could use the rebate later to add a piece of rolling stock or an accessory for your new train set.
That's fine IF one lives within reasonable driving distance of a store. The requirement to use the rebate in-store isn't user-friendly for many train purchasers. But that's their rule, and I suspect that the vast majority of Menards' online sales are to people who live near a store - trains are a tiny slice of what Menards sells. They also don't carry a lot of train items in the stores - about one side of a short aisle for the Christmas season, far less at other times - so the likelihood of finding a particular item in the store is fairly small.
For those who don't live near a store, I have two suggestions - 1) submit the rebate, then send it to a friend who lives near a store, or 2) if you have a friend or family member who lives near a store, have the items shipped to their store and have them bring the stuff when they come to visit you, then give them the rebate.
The whole rebate process includes a lot of manual work and hoops to jump through. Given the amount of technology that Menards uses, that's gotta be by design to reduce the redemption rate. But if we don't like the conditions, there are plenty of other places to spend our money.
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