Posted on 01/23/2011 6:55:42 PM PST by PJ-Comix
What if I were to offer you $10 for every 54 cents you give me. Even better, to sweeten the deal for you, I would kick in 30 bucks worth of stuff for FREE. Sounds like a fantasy. Too good to be true, right? Well, guess again because that is EXACTLY what I did today many times over.
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Seems to be that this is akin to gambling in that someone has to lose in order for someone else to win.
In order to score in “extreme couponing,” someone has to pay for the goods that you take home for little or nothing.
There are ethical questions to be considered here.
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The only losers are those that don't play the game. And The Coupon Whisperer doesn't intend to be a loser. Or do you think it is "ethical" to pay full price like the suckers?
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There are ethical questions in couponing but this Maalox deal is not one of them.
Did Dove intend for me to get free Deodorant this week given the release date of the coupon.
I don’t know.
But I am doing it.
What’s the Dove deal? I’m well stocked with BO sticks but my wife is running low.
You need the coupon that comes out next weekend - assuming it will work on the men’s line.
Until saturday it is 3.99 get back 2. Use the 2.00 Dove Deodorant coupon.
There is also a Dove deal next week but the items won’t be free. Just cheap.
So, you got 6 bottles of Maalox at 54 cents, to wash down 4 free pizzas? Are the pizzas really that bad? That doesn’t sound like a good deal to me.
Or do you use the extra Maalox for stocking stuffers next Christmas?
We haven’t gone through a single bottle of Pepto in more than a year, so what do you do with it all?
Or is it just a game to score “points”, with the one who “saves” the most by buying stuff they don’t need or use, the annual winner?
First, the ethical considerations:
If one is using so many $5 off coupons in one day, and if (like most) there is a limitation printed on said coupons, then one is theoretically (or at least morally) fraudulently using them.
On the slightly shady side:
One coupon per paper, so multiple copies of the paper must be used. People have been prosecuted for theft for taking “free” papers, on the grounds that they are intended to be free for all, rather than glommed upon by a single individual. This is unfairly preventing others who may actually NEED the product from getting a legitament discount.
On the worldly/practical side:
If, in compliance with normal coupon limitations, ONE per purchase (often even one per person per stoore visit; or even per day), how much time and gas money is wasted going from store to store, and standing in lines?
I’ve also noticed many times, theough that doesn’t seem to be the case in this specific instance, that very often even a ‘large’ discount coupon for a major brand product leaves it still more expensive than the store or lesser known brand THAT HAS THE SAME FORMULATION.
I’ve done manufacturing inspection work, where the ONLY difference in a product (and ultimate price) was whose lable was applied in mid run.
In the warehouse, there were times that product was relabled, to put together an order for a store-brand customer, rather than set up a custom label run.
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You seem to be leaving the $10 RRs out of the equation. Yeah, just one of those RRs can get me all that pizza. The rest can buy me a whole lot of stuff including cameras, electronic stuff, etc.. As for the Maalox, one can be very creative in what to do with them.
No such limitation for this transaction.
One coupon per paper, so multiple copies of the paper must be used. People have been prosecuted for theft for taking “free” papers, on the grounds that they are intended to be free for all, rather than glommed upon by a single individual.
The coupon inserts are from tossed away newspapers or purchased online. Next objection.
If, in compliance with normal coupon limitations, ONE per purchase (often even one per person per store visit; or even per day), how much time and gas money is wasted going from store to store, and standing in lines?
One purchase can include multiple items aka transactions.
I’ve also noticed many times, theough that doesn’t seem to be the case in this specific instance, that very often even a ‘large’ discount coupon for a major brand product leaves it still more expensive than the store or lesser known brand THAT HAS THE SAME FORMULATION.
Not when I buy the stuff. ...One final "ethical" objection, please.
In the warehouse, there were times that product was relabled, to put together an order for a store-brand customer, rather than set up a custom label run.
Nothing to do with couponing. The ethical problem in that case has to do with that warehouse not with The Coupon Whisperer nor his Couponeers.
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