[mountn man]

Extreme couponing, CVSing and the like look good but you have to also think about the struggling families who showed up at these stores looking to save some money on supplies only to find that it had been cleaned out by a small number of creative entrepreneurs.

So you're saying that you're for the lazy and unimaginative, vs the creative and dilligent.

[RummyChick]

There are some items that a store will hardly ever sell - except when someone found out that they were included in a deal and a coupon made them a money maker or free and it hits the internet - then WHOOSH...all the product is gone. Sometimes you will see things that have been expired long ago still one the shelf. That’s how few they normally sell...then one day..BAM - All their stores are sold out and Management doesn’t have a clue as to why they just got raided.

If they were smart, they would have some kind of programming to alert them of unusual sales to determine if someone screwed up and included something in a deal that wasn’t suppose to be in the deal.

Walgreens may have such a thing - because there was a deal before Christmas that didn’t last long. About a day.

[RegulatorCountry]

These “creative and diligent” people are like scalpers for tickets to sporting events or those pernicious people who sweep into the toy stores and buy up all that season’s “hot” toys to sell for twice the price online.

The publicity of having a televised competition is only going to spoil it for everybody when the coupon promotions are clamped down upon by the brand marketers who haven’t been paying very close attention to how their own promotions can be gamed. The notoriety will cause such opportunities to be greatly curtailed or killed altogether.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

So you're saying that you're for the lazy and unimaginative, vs the creative and dilligent.

No, I'm for people looking for a deal as opposed to those gaming the system.