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a discount that makes you pay full price now and chase your own money later
means A partial refund of money you've already paid, usually offered to lower the effective cost of a purchase.
from From Old French 'rabattre,' to beat down or reduce, built from 're-' (back, again) plus 'abattre' (to beat down) — the same family that gives us 'abate.' The image is literal: a price knocked down. English took it in via 'rebaten' in the late medieval period, and the financial sense of a sum returned grew naturally from that idea of an amount struck off.
redemption rateup to 40% of rebates never get claimed
on purposebreakage profits assume you forget to mail it
the mathsellers price in the cash you won't bother collecting
hostage formrequires receipts, barcodes, and your last shred of patience
originused since the 19th century to juice sales