hmm, My sprint store did an instant rebate. Originally I wasn't going to go the Sprint store because of the mail in rebate, but I was going to trade a few phones in too to make the EPIC cheaper. At the end when they rang up the price it was cheaper than I thought. They had given me the mail in rebate as an instant rebate. They had done that previously when we bought my wifes phone and I just thought they screwed it up.