I don’t e-bay. And $5 is meaningless money to me. I tip $5 on a $15 bar bill.
Only time I ever got $25 of coupons on one purchase was dumb luck, there’d been a bunch of durable goods I’d been thinking about replacing soonish, got a mailer with a bunch of coupon for durable good, most of which were on my “one of these days I gotta” list. Went to Target, got all that stuff, it was like $25 or so off close to $100. Don’t even know how I got the mailer, would have bought the stuff soon anyway.
I used to coupon a lot. But I moved on. The effort level stopped being worth it. I no longer need to pinch pennies, hell I no longer need to pinch Jacksons, I can even chuck around Benjamins without too much concern. I’ve just plain got better things to do with my time than chase $5 coupons all over the internet.
I buy the $5 coupons in bulk. Hardly chasing them around the web. Plus I estimate I save a couple hundred bucks a week at a minimum. Oh, and this computer is no small change. I saved almost $400 when I got it FREE a couple of years ago. BTW, I am now preparing a survivalist stockpile obtained via coupons.