Extreme Couponing is back, still full of scams

[mattm04]

TLC's "Extreme Couponing", is back, full of the stockpiles, er, hoarders, and shelf clearers. Though this time it looks like more people are fighting back against the stores for letting this crap happen.

Some great examples were a store, Bellows, that has never doubled coupons, doubling coupons for the show. A Price Chopped doubling every coupon, not just the fist 4 like coupons and allowing the double discount to exceed more then the 50% of the total.

http://www.jillcataldo.com/extremeco...ng_rules_again

Though it is nice to see one store, Lowes Foods, apologize for allowing them to film and break all sorts of rules and will not allow another similar show to film again.

http://www.jillcataldo.com/supermark...tremecouponing

If more and more extreme couponsrs, er, SC's try to replicate the trips and start to only buy items with coupons, buy 30 bottles of mustard for some reason, etc, sooner rather than later stores will all have much stricter policies, that most likely will include not doubling and manufactures will print less coupons to offset the people who only buy items with a coupon.

[MustangErin]

Wow, this is very interesting read.

It is unbelievable how much is fake on these "reality" shows.

I am going to share this story for sure.

[rageaholic]

NOOOO GOD!! NO GOD PLEASE NO.
NO
NO



NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

As if I didn't waste enough time waiting in line behind these assheads.

[Dreamstalker]

"Coupon" is NOT a verb!

I admit to watching that show a few times, mainly to see how over-the-top it is (the anxiety attacks at the register can get amusing) and how many policy violations I can catch. Part of me is waiting for a store to suddenly change their mind at the register and say "sorry but NO"

[morgana]

Part of me is waiting for a store to suddenly change their mind at the register and say "sorry but NO"

They'd never show it. Well, unless the resulting tantrum was particularly entertaining.

I'd love to see it, though.

[smileyeagle1021]

"Coupon" is NOT a verb!

I admit to watching that show a few times, mainly to see how over-the-top it is (the anxiety attacks at the register can get amusing)

Oh, I know, "oh my god, I may have to pay $105 instead of $99 for over a thousand dollars of product"
Oh, how I would love to have that problem.
For those of us with jobs and school and families who love them (okay, so I'm not sure how much the last one applies ) we are simply happy to get our stuff at a reasonable price and get out.

[Dreamstalker]

Ditto. What gets us is how 90% of the stuff these people buy is processed; do they eat nothing but processed food, or put the 'savings' into buying the perishables? (somehow I think not)

Mom just found two Catalina coupons for $10 off one shopping order...no I'm not going to use them both at once. We live close enough to the store that the "two transactions" rule can be properly applied (different days).

[draggar]

I hate these shows and would have it even more if I still worked in a grocery store. The quote "I'm sorry (I cleared the shelf) but you should have gotten to the store before me."

[ellie]

I haaaaate the influx of wannabes who are now flooding my store. They get upset that aren't "saving enough." Normal "couponing" will save 30% on an average shopping trip, not 99% or more. Then they get upset because we won't take a coupon that restricts trial size on a trial size item.

Doing a little poking around on the internet I stumbled on a "couponing" site/forum. It was filled with EWs that would bitch and moan because a store would not let them commit coupon fraud. They would only get things that were "free" with coupons, so I guess that meant they have nothing but razors, frozen dinners, sports drinks and toothpaste.

[Indigo]

I've said it before and I'll say it again - I HATE that show. It gives the rest of us who shop with coupons a bad name.

[taxguykarl]

What gets us is how 90% of the stuff these people buy is processed; do they eat nothing but processed food, or put the 'savings' into buying the perishables? (somehow I think not)

Makes you wonder why they don't all weigh 300 pounds (21 1/2 stone for UK readers 136 kilos for the rest)? How fast and much do they eat or donate? There are expiration dates for a reason.
I buy two weeks' worth of stuff at a time (one weeks' worth for certain perishibles). Yes I do use coupons when I can--I buy a lot of non-name brands and fresh produce.

[ellie]

^^I get the feeling that those "stockpiles" are just a form of hoarding. It isn't about having X amount of food on hand for the family for X amount of time. It's about amassing stuff that they can look at and say "I got this for free! Weeeeee!" For some of them, it isn't about actually saving money on stuff they need, it's about about acquiring anything for a discounted price.

They had one lady on who had cases of cat food, but she didn't have a cat, she was just proud that she got the cat food for free. And there it sits, rotting away in her basement, while animal shelters scrape by on whatever meager donations they get.

I too do use some coupons, but only on stuff I would normally buy. But through the show, I did learn that with a little research, you can use your coupons with store sales to maximize savings.

Nor do I find anything wrong with a customer coming through my line with coupons and price matches to save extra money. With the skyrocketting prices of everything, people need a deal anywhere they can get it. But I've also seen the ones who are under the assumption the a coupon=free. They get something that is $4 and have a coupon for $1 off, then seem surprised that they have to pay the $3.

[Redbeard]

Makes you wonder why they don't all weigh 300 pounds (21 1/2 stone for UK readers 136 kilos for the rest)? How

Hey......

Okay, I've got different reasons for my fat-assistude

As anyone who's been stuck in line behind these twits knows, they cause a psychotic rage in anyone behind them in line when they break out the messenger bag filled to the brim with coupons and then start handing sheafs of the bloody things to the cashier expecting to pay $5 for $100 in merch.

Someday people will realize that any "reality" show with 20 writers on staff may not be that real after all....