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Attention scam artists.... You cannot use a coupon if its worth more than the item!
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Quoth wagegoth View PostThere was a woman on Extreme Couponing who committed that type of coupon fraud. Disgusting. I doubt she's able to afford her designer crap now.
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Quoth PepperElf View PostI don't watch that show... did they promote the woman as an example of good shopping practices? or did they show her off as "this is what you don't want to do"?
She was shown off on the show, without really getting into how she was doing what she was doing, but someone paying attention could see that the coupons she had in her coupon wallet didn't actually match anything they showed among her purchases.
Needless to say, the author of the article was quite disgusted at the whole thing.
^-.-^Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden
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Quoth notlovinit View Postwolfie - when I was first reading that I thought you went through them all and got six free because of it and my thought was 'oh gosh, i hate this person', but now that I have read it correctly, that is very nice of you *high five*Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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Quoth TigressChar View PostIm a couponer, (and in fact TEACH Practical Couponing) and I hate SC who give honest people like me a bad name. Walmart will in fact, pay overage on a coupon, so long as the terms are right, and there are no restrictions on the coupon.
I wish people would stop trying to pass along high value coupons for more than they are. use them right or go home and stop making it harder for the rest of us people who are just trying to feed their families!
* Germany does not have anything like that and when I first read about coupons in a Eschbach book, I thought the entire concept might be misconceived by the author.
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I used to work for an Israeli guy who had never heard of the concept either. One day, this was back around 1989 more or less, he showed me a cereal box with a $1.25 off coupon on it, and asked what that was all about. (Remember that back then this was a substantial discount; common coupons of the time were more like 25¢.) I told him that if he cut that out and gave it in the next time he bought that product, they'd give him a $1.25 discount. He said "Why in the world would they do that?" and I told him that this was how they got people to try new products they might not otherwise have bought, and the manufacturer would give it back to them anyway. He said "Really? I've got to try this."
Next day he came in and he was all excited. "I bought the cereal and gave them the coupon, and they sold it to me for $1.25 less! This is amazing! You don't just find $1.25 walking in the street!" He couldn't believe that they'd just given him free money; apparently this just wasn't something they did in his home country. Of course I'd grown up with coupons (and S&H Plaid Stamps too, but I wasn't gonna get into that with him...) so it wasn't anything new to me, and I was a bit boggled by his amazement...
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Quoth Shalom View PostI used to work for an Israeli guy who had never heard of the concept either. One day, this was back around 1989 more or less, he showed me a cereal box with a $1.25 off coupon on it, and asked what that was all about. (Remember that back then this was a substantial discount; common coupons of the time were more like 25¢.) I told him that if he cut that out and gave it in the next time he bought that product, they'd give him a $1.25 discount. He said "Why in the world would they do that?" and I told him that this was how they got people to try new products they might not otherwise have bought, and the manufacturer would give it back to them anyway. He said "Really? I've got to try this."
Next day he came in and he was all excited. "I bought the cereal and gave them the coupon, and they sold it to me for $1.25 less! This is amazing! You don't just find $1.25 walking in the street!" He couldn't believe that they'd just given him free money; apparently this just wasn't something they did in his home country. Of course I'd grown up with coupons (and S&H Plaid Stamps too, but I wasn't gonna get into that with him...) so it wasn't anything new to me, and I was a bit boggled by his amazement...
OMG Shalom! Another person who remembers S&H Stamps! <high five>
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Quoth siskaren View PostI do too, but I remember them being green, not plaid.
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Quoth Teefies2 View PostOMG Shalom! Another person who remembers S&H Stamps! <high five>
S& Green Stamps"I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."
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Most of the time at Malmart, if you bought an item for, say, 97 cents and your coupon is for $1.50, it'll usually scan for 1.50..
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