The legendary 1947-paper by Hsu and Robbins, in which the authors introduced the concept of "complete convergence", generated a series of papers culminating in the like-wise famous Baum-Katz 1965-theorem, which provided necessary and sufficient conditions for the convergence of the series ∞ n=1 n r/p−2 P (|Sn| ≥ εn 1/p ) for suitable values of r and p, in which Sn denotes the n-th partial sum of an i.i.d. sequence. Heyde followed up the topic in his 1975-paper in that he investigated the rate at which such sums tend to infinity as ε 0 (for the case r = 2 and p = 1). The remaining cases have been taken care of later under the heading "precise asymptotics". An abundance of papers have since then appeared with various extensions and modifications of the i.i.d.-setting. The aim of the present paper is to show that the basis for the proof is essentially the same throughout, and to collect a number of examples. We close by mentioning that Klesov, in 1994, initiated work on rates in the sense that he determined the rate, as ε 0, at which the discrepancy between such sums and their "Baum-Katz limit" converges to a nontrivial quantity for Heyde's theorem. His result has recently been extended to the complete set of r-and p-values by the present authors.