Baja Design - Black Friday Rebate?

[4x4TruckLEDs.com]

Thanks for that, I was wondering about how dealers were effected with sale pricing but wasn't sure. Wouldn't it be possible for a manufacturer to have a sale without cutting into dealer profits though? Or can it simply not work that way. I guess I always assumed that a manufacturer discount meant that they took the hit so to speak, or at least shared it.


As an aside, I get why manufacturers don't want dealers to put on their on sales, undercutting their direct sales or just creating competition between dealers, that sort of thing.

Ahh well some places do it. Take Morimoto (aka The Retrofit Source). So a week before Black Friday they allow dealers to get a little bit of a discount. It's not much usually (about 5% or so) but it's not bad. The problem is that during BF this particular brand typically has 25% off direct to consumers. SOO us dealers are kind of forced to match that. The 5% helps but let me tell ya, it still sucks to have to take 25% off without us getting massive discounts as well.

So usually there are not a lot of dealer incentives during Black Friday week (or the week prior), at least no where near the savings you'd think. So with Baja taking care of 100% of the rebate it REALLY helped us dealers. We got to keep our same profit margins AND sell more AND not worry about having to do a rebate ourselves. Baja handled it all.

 

[Baja Designs]

Hey guys!

We are doing our best to get these out as quickly as possible. The stack is huge, and please keep in mind, we don't hire additional bodies to process these. Lots of data entry, cross referencing data to verify, following up with people that left out key info, etc.

Those that sent out their info in the first week got theirs within a week. if you submitted in the first couple weeks after Black Friday, you should have already seen the check. If you submitted later, you are looking at 30-60 days to get your check.

If you feel yours has been delayed beyond a reasonable time frame, please email me at [email protected] and I will do my best to check your status.

Thanks for your patience!

-Chris F.

 

[Baja Designs]

Wow. That makes sense. Or one could just buy them the 51 weeks out of the year that aren’t eligible for a rebate and just not be bothered with it. That way you can still get the highest quality at the highest possible price.

@BajaDesigns thank you, thank you, thank you. I appreciate the generous cash rebate! It is certainly worth the wait!




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Thank you for the support and for the nice words!!

We don't offer many discounts, but we feel this one is pretty generous. Automating this process would open us up to fraud and hence would still require manual cross referencing anyway. This is a HUGE annual undertaking for our team. We are happy to absorb it and are happy there are plenty of gracious and grateful people taking advantage of the deal.

 

[smurfslayer]

I’ve done b/f BD purchases 3 years now, I’ve yet to receive the rebate without contacting them first. 1st year, never got it. 2nd year, 2 months I think, so far a month this time.

fair is fair - got the rebate from B/D today, no prodding from me, other than this thread.

 

[Sgt Beavis]

The whole point in manufacturer's having a mail in rebate is EXACTLY what most of you said... a lot of people don't bother. You can't blame any company for that. Also, not for nothing... but Baja's Mail In Rebates are EXTREMELY generous from what I see in the industry. I mean $50 back on a $215 set of lights. That's a lot of cash back right there, especially with no gap.

If you bought a triple fog light kit for example that is normally $750... well that's $150 back which means you paid $600 for that kit. That's some awesome savings!

Not sure how a company offering any type of mail in rebate is trying to screw a consumer... they don't have to do a rebate at all. Baja does rebates because they have a great dealer network and it's a way for the customers to get something back during Black Friday WHILE supporting their dealers at the same time. So it's a win/win. Customers get a killer discount. Dealers don't lose profit margins either by having to discount the item.

Take Diode Dynamics for example... 20% off typically around the holidays. Well that's eating RIGHT into a dealers profit margins. And it sucksssssss. So I personally LOVE Baja Designs rebates, especially as a dealer... because Baja is eating that discount, not us dealers. It's not coming out of my profit margins at all, it's coming out of Baja's profit margins. SO in a WAY Baja is actually **** a great service compared to other brands out there.

OK, I’ll admit, that’s a truly legit justification for MIRs. I’m all for helping out small businesses.

 

[Two Dogs]

Hey guys!

We are doing our best to get these out as quickly as possible. The stack is huge, and please keep in mind, we don't hire additional bodies to process these. Lots of data entry, cross referencing data to verify, following up with people that left out key info, etc.

Those that sent out their info in the first week got theirs within a week. if you submitted in the first couple weeks after Black Friday, you should have already seen the check. If you submitted later, you are looking at 30-60 days to get your check.

If you feel yours has been delayed beyond a reasonable time frame, please email me at [email protected] and I will do my best to check your status.

Thanks for your patience!

-Chris F.

Sent a request to that email two weeks ago and never received a reply.

 

[pastorwug]

fair is fair - got the rebate from B/D today, no prodding from me, other than this thread.

Sent mine in first week, still waiting for check.
I'm just going to let this go now, makes more sense than fretting, sending multiple emails, watching this thread, etc.
Probably not going to buy from BD on any BF sale again though.

 

[nermol]

I received my rebate yesterday. I mailed in my rebate on 12/12. No complaints here.


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[JK2Raptor]

Can't remember when I mailed mine in, but received my check this past week.

 

[smurfslayer]

Probably not going to buy from BD on any BF sale again though.

We probably need to just not be in a hurry while waiting on the rebate check.