Comments on: Coupon Fraud: Short Term Gain but Long Term Loss

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:55:45 +0000

Namealreadyinuse

My mother works 40+ hours a week and still manages to get all the same deals the other couponers get. So what if she has a 1$ OFF Coupon for that face wash that was on sale for a 1.50$? If you complain about not getting the deal because you work then obviously you don’t want the deal bad enough.

By: NameAlreadyInUse

NameAlreadyInUse — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:52:05 +0000

Personally, I think that all you coupon bloggers have ruined it for everyone. There USED to be a time when it was up to the shopper to hunt through the ads and coupons and find the deals. Now everyone just goes to cincinnaticents or moneysavingmom or some other blog and prints off that week’s deal list! And by the time I get to the store, which is after WORK, because not all of us have the luxury of being stay at home moms who make money from blogging–All the deals are SOLD OUT!

By: Angela

Angela — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:45:33 +0000

Beautifully worded and I admire your strong stance. I have referenced this post in my own blog where I recently came up with a “coupon code of ethics.” THANK YOU for your willingness to say straight up how you feel about this.

http://www.thecouponproject.com/the_coupon_project/coupon-ethics.html

By: Wayne Altman

Wayne Altman — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:32:31 +0000

Mercedes, This is an excellent post!!! Very refreshing to see responsible articles like this. Saving money is fantastic, but not at the cost of our integrity. The economy will never get so bad we have to resort to cheating and theft. LOVE IT!!!

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By: Mercedes

Mercedes — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:12:00 +0000

Looney,
Yes, part of it is the cashiers repsonsibility but most of it is the user’s responsibility. There are ton of coupons that scan with no beeps for items for which they are not intended. There are also tons of coupons that beep eveb when used on the product they are intended for. But I think that as users we shouldn’t have to put the cashier in a position to have to make the decision to take the coupon or not.

And just for the record, I am not better than any one. I have infractions received at HCW to show for my lack of judgment. sure I was surly at first, but then I saw it as the lesson in ethics that it was.

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:24:00 +0000

Thank you! I’ve deleted a couple of blogs that I had bookmarked because their behavior with coupons is questionable and I don’t want to support them. I’d rather have integrity than save a few more bucks.

By: looney

looney — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:21:00 +0000

There was a postsecret post about someone who would get a really talkative cashier every time so she could distract her while she used coupons that weren’t for things she bought…
I think it’s up to the cashier–if the coupon doesn’t scan, they need to INSPECT the coupon and product and refuse it if it isn’t valid for the date/product.
Some cashiers are lazy and just key it in manually without checking.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:09:00 +0000

I agree and I get so frustrated sometimes when I see questionable coupons being abused. For example I used the Lipton Tea q’s at target to get free Green Tea packets even though you know they meant them for the large boxes. I only got 2 or 3 at a time though and I saw on HCW where some lady used the $1 Archer Farms coffee to get 212 bags of single serve coffee without paying a cent AND she even told the Target store she was going to print 212 coupons from their kiosk! That kind of excess totally made me rethink my own sneaky packets of tea and makes me understand better why Target employees can be so snide to couponers…

By: Marcy

Marcy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:49:00 +0000

Great post!