The Coupon Whisperer: The Strange Story of Coupon Mike

The Coupon Whisperer ^ | January 1, 2010 | PJ-Comix

[Marie Antoinette]

Me! Me! Me! I would love to be on your coupon ping list. The story was great, but now I want to know more of the Mike & Sauron backstory, too. It’s been over a year since I did any serious couponing, and I loved couponing at WAGS! My family will no doubt be thankful if I start shopping there again. We really go through the toiletries. LOL!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Add me please

[PJ-Comix]

Heads up! The Oscillococcinum Flu Medicine deal didn't work. See, the medicine that gives the Register Rewards is for CHILDREN'S Oscillococcinum and the $5 coupon in the WAGS January booklet is ONLY for the adult version. However, no big deal since I heard that stuff is not much better than a placebo. PLUS I did some QUICK research at Walgreens today when that deal fell through and came up with an even BETTER deal that worked perfectly for me. Here is how it works:

Buy OMEGA FACTOR 3 premium blend 1300 mg fish oil pills (tuna & krill). They sell for 10 bucks but when you buy it, you get $10 back in register rewards. So what to do with that $10 back? Well, the big boxes of Colonnaide 14 day programs is selling for $29.99 but with in the January WAGS there is a coupon for $20 off that product. Soooo....use the $10 register rewards from the Omega Factor 3 (plus the WAG coupon) and you get it FREE! Great deal but in my case I don't need it since I already had the Fantastic Voyage routine (sans Raquel Welch) done on my colon and everything in there was A-OK. In my case, I used the $10 register rewards to buy 2 DiGiorno Supreme pizzas which were on sale for...$10. Therefore FREE! Plus I used the WAG sales sheet coupon to get 4 Progresso Soups for $5. Then used a couple of $2 register rewards I had on my person to buy all those soups for just a buck. I actually could have gotten it free but I didn't feel like scrambling outside to my van to look for a $1 RR that I knew was sitting in an envelop.

So let's look at my shopping trip. Didn't get that flu medicine like I thought but I quickly switched gears and used a $10 RR I already had to score a FREE bottle of Omega Factor 3 premium blend fish oil pills (which I take everyday) then rolled the $10 that generated to score 2 free DiGiorno pizzas. Plus got myself 4 cans of Progresso soup using $4 in Register Rewards that I had from last week. Total out of pocket for all that...a buck.

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[Hoffer Rand]

Please add me to your ping-a-ling list.

[libertarian27]

Oscillococcinum, even though I can’t pronounce,works great for me - [I call it ‘aussie’]

You got to take it right away - when you first go ‘oh no, I feel a cold coming on’....it doesn’t work when you are in the throws of a cold or flu but right at first signs.

I was so looking forward to the big savings on that - I stock pile it when I find it on sale - will have to check out the $5 savings anyways - might still be a deal.

I’m a big newbie on how to Wags the Sales - but I’m learning.

Thanks for adding me to your ping list.

[hennie pennie]

Have you seen this??? I had NO idea that freebies & coupons are SO big in China, absolutely HUGE.

KIDK TV Mobile Edition - Business - ‘Coupon generation’ wields consumer power in

Chinahttp://www.kidk.com/news/business/112778724.html?m=y

[hennie pennie]

Have you seen this??? I had NO idea that freebies & coupons are SO big in China, absolutely HUGE.

KIDK TV Mobile Edition - Business - ‘Coupon generation’ wields consumer power in China

http://www.kidk.com/news/business/112778724.html?m=y

[hennie pennie]

Good Morning, RummyChick.

IF you have the time and/or inclination, I've noticed that there are some freepers, and thus presumably a number of lurkers, too, who have NO idea what the word - OR - acronym "WAGS" either means or stands for.

I presume that the "W" is for Walgreens; perhaps the "S" is for store.

I've now spent over half an hour trying to find out, following earlier instructions to search the web, that it's ALL on the web, and I'm totally unsuccessful.

Do you by any chance have any idea what "WAGS" refers to, in regards to using coupons issued by Walgreen's?

I hope you will accept my apology in advance if you are too busy to answer this.

Thank you.

regards,
HP

[RummyChick]

Wags is the nickname for Walgreens.

The hot deal this week is the Omega Factor 3. 10 get back 10. But inside is a $3.00 coupon AND it qualifies for the free vitamin pack that some stores have.

So, there you have a money maker. If you are brave, you can just open it up and pull it out and use it.

If you aren’t brave, buy one..open it up..and buy another.

Walgreens is a major pain in the butt to deal with because of the rules of not using an RR on the same item and only one coupon per item..so you have to have fillers...but mostly because Walgreens is a crapshoot when it comes to employees/Managers and knowing their own rules.

But, you can make money just by buying products.

If you want to try the new Nivea product for men look for the display. 3.99 get back 3.00 but the brochure in that display has a 1.00 off coupon.

[hennie pennie]

>>>> "I roll hundreds of dollars all the time and it is a big big headache." <<<<<

Do I understand correctly..... that what the newbies do is to purchase the "free" items -- inotherwords, the items on the back of the weekly circular which show that for each one purchased, you get approximately the same amount in Register Rewards?

And then....

After your first shopping trip....

You try to "roll over" those Register Rewards by purchasing the next week's set of "free" merchandise....

AND.... you have been doing this for so long that you have actually accumulated 100s of dollars worth of register rewards, so that each week you are "rolling" them over into NEW Register Rewards?

Is that what you meant by your posting?

Thanks.

[hennie pennie]

Thanks RUMMYCHICK -- I've never heard of Walgreens called WAGS before, LOL

I was hoping to find a coupon for the Arthritis Salonpas, but evidentally there aren't any currently.

I think I am starting to understand WHY people get absolutely addicted to Register Rewards --- and it must increase revenues at WAGS by billion$ upon billion$ --- getting all those repeat customers, week after week.

I've never used any of my previous RRs, as they always expired before I got around to going back to Walgreens....

I take it that since I want the finesse, that I'll have to have that rung up separately .... as surely the rebate will require the sales receipt, and I'll need the sales receipt for the RR on it.

VERY confusing.... LOL

Walgreens makes a mint every week on people who never return to roll over their RRs, who never ever spend them, just toss the receipts away.

I would have thought that Finesse would have run a coupon for their new line of Shampoo/Conditioner, but there weren't any in the Sunday inserts.

Thanks much for your assistance.