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Two months ago I signed up for Mars Real Chocolate Relief Act. Two days ago I finally received my rebate for free chocolate. In short, it was great.

But there is much more to this story. Not really, but it sounds better that way.

Mars has been running their Real Chocolate Relief Act for a while now, giving out free chocolate to 250,000 people every Friday. Signing up is simple, but you have to wait 6 weeks or more to receive your chocolate. When I finally got my rebate in the mail, the fine print says that it’s good for any Mars company candy bar up to $0.85. The problem though, is the store I went to sells Snickers bars for $0.99. The store decided to give me an $0.85 discount on the bar so I didn’t even get free chocolate.

I guess the real morale of the story is to just go to Safeway or something to claim your coupon/rebate for chocolate and you won’t get ripped. The chocolate was still delicious and I recently registered for another rebate. Hopefully in 6 weeks I’ll still remember what happened and remember to go somewhere else to get my free chocolate. It is Friday, so it’s open season on rebates.