Today I went grocery shopping, and there was a store coupon - hanging right in front of an item - for buy 1, get the second half off, so since I was buying it anyway, I got two. When the guy rang my order, it wouldn't honor the coupon. "Oh" he says, "you only got one." "No," says I, "I have two." Sure enough he looked in my bag and there were two. He apparently didn't ring one up. So he corrected it all and I went on my way, kicking myself for being honest. I would have gotten the second free, instead of half off. Oh well, I was brought up to do the right thing and it would have been on my conscience. :)
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Posted 1 year ago #
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This is a link to an article that discusses coupon fraud that probably occured in the first episode:
Posted 1 year ago # -
Here's another link to a blog post about problems with the show
http://www.southernsavers.com/2011/04/extreme-couponing-tlc-review-not-a-reality/Posted 1 year ago # -
Excellent information. I don't know for a fact if I've ever seen anyone do that (intentionally misuse coupons based on partial bar codes) but it might explain why I got in line behind a lady who was almost done yesterday and ended up waiting 10 minutes while she dickered with the cashier over every coupon...
Posted 1 year ago # -
Did you know they sell coupons on EBAY!
Posted 1 year ago # -
This is so sad. And eBay??? Good lord. Unfortunately I have to schlep around a few loyal-customer cards in my wallet at all times to catch any sales going on, but on the other hand it means no couponing. I don't know when I used one the last time really. It's more common to enrol in a loyal-customer program of a chain or similar and then get a reduction when paying for the purchases and this is what I need to start doing more; read the store web pages and check their special offers out before deciding the weekly menu on Saturdays. Can't wait until I'm back home in June, I'm all happy about this frugal bug already. Bite me, please.
Edit: Denmark doesn't do coupons as far as I know, either, but they have this really bad system (if you're a one-person household like I am currently). You have to buy two or three to get a cheaper price - makes me very happy. It's almost never "Buy this and get 50% off".
Posted 1 year ago # -
Yesterday I was stuck in the checkout line behind a couponer. Took ages. Then I had to go to customer service (why don't you carry Bon Ami cleanser any longer?) and there she was -- RETURNING many of the items she had just bought, and having the credits put on her credit card. Again, took ages.
I wonder now if she was using this ploy to buy food with a food stamp debit card (US anti-poverty program) and then turn it into money she could spend any way she pleased. I've heard of people buying whole cases of soda with their food stamps, then selling the soda for drug money.
Not to diss people on food stamps. I'm one of them. I'm old, crippled, poor, and wouldn't be surviving without them. I spend my allotment on food :)
Posted 2 months ago # -
@Zora -- When I worked at a grocery store in college we could only do returns to the method of payment used. Items purchased on an EBT account could only be returned to the same account. I guess they could say they didn't have a receipt and receive store credit, but honestly that didn't happen often and I worked at the customer service desk.
Posted 2 months ago # -
Hmmm. So she was being honest when she told the woman at the service desk that she had to buy four boxes of cereal to get the savings, but had to return two because she didn't need four.
Still a lot of bother to save a few cents!
Posted 2 months ago # -
They've started the blasted "two for one" here now, too. Not all offers yet but some, and I bet it will increase since they get more stuff out of the house that way. Bah.
Posted 2 months ago # -
We have one store locally that does 10 for $10 all the time. Usually the products are a good deal, but I rarely need 10 of them. I tried buying just the amount I needed and asking for the sale price of $1, but was told I had to purchase 10.
Posted 2 months ago # -
I love BedBath&Beyond for their generous coupons that never expire: either 20% off any item, or $5 off an item over $15. Their items are deep-discounted already, so the extra savings is gravy. The coupons arrive in the mail about once a month per member. I enrolled my cat as a member, so we get two coupons. Am I morally corrupt?
My old toaster oven recently blew out one of its functions... no more "oven" but only toast. I have my eye on a new Breville toaster oven at the BB&B discounted price of $250... it would be only $200 with the 20% coupon.
Posted 2 months ago # -
Food banks can really use those extras in this economy!
Posted 2 months ago # -
Our stores must be weird -- for the most part, if something is X for $Y, you get the same price if you only buy one.
Ella -- I think we have a BB&B gift card -- have to check :) We got it when we had a bunch of wedding presents to buy, and it was spend a bunch and get a $50 gift card for yourself.
Posted 2 months ago # -
Our local grocery does the 10 for $10, but you don't have to actually buy 10 to get them for the sale price of $1. They also have a thing where if you buy 10 participating items you get 50 cents back on each one ($5 off at the register) and they generally have several dozen items included in the participation so it's easy to buy 10. Our other grocery does the 2 for $xx, but if you buy one they halve the $xx price, so it's all good.
I look at the money I could supposedly save couponing and compare it to the money I could make in the amount of time it would take to coupon that aggressively, and it's not a good tradeoff.
Posted 2 months ago # -
@Ella -- check the fine print on the bottom of the coupon. When I was receiving them from BB&B, there was a list of brands for which the coupon couldn't be used, and I seem to remember that Breville was one of them. I hope that's changed, as my kettle's starting to play up!
Posted 2 months ago # -
lucy: Thanks for the heads-up. I checked. Breville is not listed among the excluded brands. :)
Posted 2 months ago # -
I can't imagine expending the energy on doing this. More power to people who actually make use of those mounds of goods, but I won't be joining them. I'm all for using a coupon on something that I would already be buying or that I can use, but I don't have the desire to devote any of my space to storing 1,000 rolls of toilet paper!
Posted 2 months ago # -
I use coupons but not to the extreme. I live alone in Sweden and live next to the shop, I see whats cheap and good and buy whatever I am in the mood for and is on sale. And because i'm a chef I can make something out of almost nothing (good when you want to live cheap). Sometimes I spend good money but thats only to treat myself.
Posted 2 months ago # -
@Ella: Did you know that at Bed, Bath and Beyond, you can use a coupon for each item that you're purchasing? If you have 10 items, you can use 10 coupons. I've even used them for bottled drinks. 20% is still 20%. And, if you have a $15 or more item in your buggy, you can use the $5 coupon in addition to the 20% coupons for the other items!! My mom went shopping there last Christmas. Before the coupons, her total was over $200. After the coupons, it was about $100. I get coupons at my house. When my parents get them, I confiscate them. When my neighbor gets them, she passes them on. It's great!
I clip coupons, but I'm not extreme or a hoarder. I have the delivered to my email inbox, and I look through the packets in the Sunday paper. I'm on a fixed income, so I try to save any place that I can. I also price match. By the time I get to the big box store, the cashiers have already seen the ads, so they don't always ask to see it. Sometimes they do. It depends on the person. I had one cashier a while back that studied the entire add like I was trying to get one over on her to save 20 cents. I had even circled the item. And she tried to copp an attitude with me. One day, I had $15 in coupons and $10 in price matches! It was great! Until I got cash when I paid, then the total was back up to where it was originally. But, the savings were still there.
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