Ultimate Coupon Asshattery

[CalyCoRose]

I have a coupon notebook. It's a zipper notebook. It has a huge kitty angel on the front. It is pink & sparkly and very girlie. The reason I like the notebook?

1. I can see if I have multiples of one coupon.
2. Easier for me to read/refresh my memory of what the coupon is for.
3. Easier for me to find expired coupons.

I only have one binder. I do not price match. I have my list of stuff I want to buy. As soon as I grab item off the shelf, I pull out coupon. Or if there is an item on sale that wasn't advertised, and I want it, I check said coupon notebook to see if I have a coupon. I got an 8x8 Pyrex baking dish, originally $10, I got it for $3.75!

[dragon_wings]

When I rule the universe, one of my rules will be multiple transactions require you go to the back of the line for each one. One transaction per customer per trip through the line.

And I will gladly serve/follow you (I'm not one suited just a position of authority).

And @Kristev: I don't mind when customers do stuff like that. That makes tons of sense and my customers like you are generally nice.

[ellie]

Yesterday, I had a coworker (fellow cashier) come through my line with a buy 2 get 1 free coupon. However, she only bought two items. She said that she is buying two and one of those is free. I told her that she had to pay for two and get a third for free. She argued with me for 10 minutes (at the express lane no less) until a supervisor came over. When the manager saw the coupon, he told her that buy 2 get 1 free means she has to get a total of three. She argued with the manager saying that the coupon says buy 2 and one of them is free. The manager again told her that she had to get three items and the next time she worked she should review the coupon policy as well as the employee policy on conduct.

[siskaren]

I wonder what she'd say if it was a buy one, get one coupon.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Wow...sounds like someone really wants an express ticket to unemployment land...arguing with a manager at your own store about how you can or can't use a coupon??

[Geek King]

And I will gladly serve/follow you (I'm not one suited just a position of authority).

Excellent! I appoint you Minister of Poking People with Pointy Cushions! Now I'm off to put the finishing touches on the Small Yappy Dog Gun!

[dragon_wings]

Excellent! I appoint you Minister of Poking People with Pointy Cushions! Now I'm off to put the finishing touches on the Small Yappy Dog Gun!

Sweet! I get a title! *does a happy dance* ^_^

[dalesys]

... finishing touches on the Small Yappy Dog GunPistol!

The gun is the Rott' Gun. I can supply Cross 'Bo's & Sling Shits.

[Peppergirl]

I was at a local grocery today and got into a conversation with the cashier about extreme couponers. She told me that last week she had a woman purchase 36 5-pound bags of sugar and had a coupon for each one. She ended up paying 25 cents per bag, ultimately.

Now, please tell me (unless you own a fraking bakery) what you're gonna do with 36 huge-assed bags of sugar? Unless you're donating it to a foodbank, you're a selfish twat for wiping out the entire shelf supply of that particular brand.

Bonus: She also apparently attempted to present a coupon for ice cream cones. Except that she had.no.icecream.cones. When the cashier advised her of this, she conveniently pulled the 'I don't speak English' card, and continued to attempt to shove the coupon at the cashier.

I asked her what happened after that, and she said she had to call for a manager, who removed the coupon from the lady and pointed to the register and said "pay now". I was dying. If only I had been there to actually witness it. I think I'd have cheered. The mental picture alone that this conjured up was enough to have me rolling with laughter. Thank goodness it was slow and no one was behind me, because me and the cashier were having a good old time cackling at her relation of this story.

[Sapphire Silk]

Some couponers are just plain crazy. I had a lady the other day who forgot to give me a 50 cent coupon and she waited in line at the service desk for 30 minutes for them to give her the discount. Where a normal person would hold on to the coupon until the next visit.

Now I get that people need to save wherever they can, but if you spend 30 minutes or more of your time waiting to save 50 cents, is it worth it?

I've even had people who come through and will say, "I don't really need this, but I have a coupon for it." So if you don't need it or don't want it, why buy it? Yes, you save a dollar, but imagine what you would save if you didn't buy it.

This is why I rarely use coupons. The effort or the quantities you have to buy are not worth the "savings."

If the item goes bad before you can use it, you have not saved any money. You have wasted it. If you put more time and effort into using the couple, time and effort that could be spent doing other things, you have not saved any money.

I was at a local grocery today and got into a conversation with the cashier about extreme couponers. She told me that last week she had a woman purchase 36 5-pound bags of sugar and had a coupon for each one. She ended up paying 25 cents per bag, ultimately.

Now, please tell me (unless you own a fraking bakery) what you're gonna do with 36 huge-assed bags of sugar? Unless you're donating it to a foodbank, you're a selfish twat for wiping out the entire shelf supply of that particular brand.

She may resell at a markup. She can't possibly use that much sugar before it goes bad. It does not last forever.

[Eisa]

Ugh. This is why I hate to go shopping with my aunt. Even if she's JUST been to the store a couple days ago, she will go shopping for another 4-6 hours. She will end up with 2-3 cartsful. Of things we don't need, just because she has a coupon for it.

I'm sorry, how is spending $1000 for 80% of it at least junk that you don't need "saving" anything?

[Andara Bledin]

I've spent a grand total of half an hour clipping coupons in the past month (2 Sunday papers worth). I've saved about $6 with them on stuff that I would otherwise have bought.

I don't think what amounts to $12/hour worth of savings is a bad deal at all.

Considering that this is time I was also watching TV, I do believe I've come out quite far ahead.

^-.-^

[Anakah]

I think price matching is stupid. I'm sure it the purpose behind it sounds like the place is awesome but hell if I saw it somewhere cheaper I'm gonna go there and not start a big shit storm over it. I know the point is to get a sale where the price is being matched but damn that lady should've been shoved to the side until she got her shit together. What an EW.

[ellie]

Yesterday, I had a lady who unknowingly had a huge stack of fraudulent internet coupons. She went to these random sites and got these ridiculously high value coupons. She had coupons for $5.00 off Pepsi 12packs, $8.00 off toilet paper, $3.00 off salad dressing, etc. When we looked closely at them we found that fonts and expiration dates were different/mismatched.

I actually felt kinda bad for her because I don't think she did it on purpose. She was very apologetic and said she felt foolish. Plus I think that if she knew they were fakes and trying to pass them off she would have become an SC and demanded we take them.

I gave her a list of legitimate coupon sites and told her how to spot a real vs. fake.

[Draco]

Then there was the one customer who handed me what I thought was coupon but found it later that they'd cut off the AD on the front of the cereal box ... the actual coupon was on the inside of the box ... they got the discount and I got advised that all coupons must have things like bar codes and expiry dates and those warnings about having enough of the product in stock and so on ... *oops* ...

I've had people had me cut out ads from the circulars that only list the sales price, thinking it was a coupon... Somehow. I've never understood that logic either.

When I rule the universe, one of my rules will be multiple transactions require you go to the back of the line for each one. One transaction per customer per trip through the line.

By all that is holy, I wish we could actually do this some days.