Extreme Couponing
Discussion
I know this will mark me down in PH annals as a sad git but third episode of this series on Discovery Real Time tonight 9pm.
Basically it makes the UK supermarket BOGOF offers look silly.
American shoppers who go to extremes on collecting coupons and combining special offers to reduce a shopping bill of hundreds and thousands of dollars down to almost nothing.
Bill $684.56
Discount $676.29
To pay $8.27
I'll never look at the 2 for £3 offers in Sainsbo's the same again. Of course the system doesn't work in UK aiui, too many terms and conditions apply.
Basically it makes the UK supermarket BOGOF offers look silly.
American shoppers who go to extremes on collecting coupons and combining special offers to reduce a shopping bill of hundreds and thousands of dollars down to almost nothing.
Bill $684.56
Discount $676.29
To pay $8.27
I'll never look at the 2 for £3 offers in Sainsbo's the same again. Of course the system doesn't work in UK aiui, too many terms and conditions apply.
mrsxllifts said:
F i F said:
Bill $684.56
Discount $676.29
To pay $8.27
Who pays the other 200 dollars? Discount $676.29
To pay $8.27
Seen the trailer for this, it does happen over here, used to get them in Sainsburys when I work there but as you say, not so extreme.
It seems that unlike UK where any coupons have very limited duration, and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offers, the system over there allows doubling and tripling up of coupons, and can also be used in conjunction with half price discounts and so on.
Last week one guy was buying a load of cereals where he got good discount from coupons, then there was a promotional money back offer by writing in, so he was making money.
Tonight some dude saves 101% of his grocery bill. How does that work, does he take the groceries and then they hand money out of the till?
First week there was a really utterly irritating woman who bought 27 bottles of French's American mustard as part of her shop. Downtrodden hubby announced he didn't like mustard.
But the guy who took a trailer of stuff away to give to his church community support group after having paid a hundred bucks for several thousand's worth of stuff is clearly doing good work. The shop had to order a few hundred boxes of cereal in specially for him.
It appears that many supermarkets double up the value of coupons, so a 50c coupon gets you a dollar off.
One transaction on one item went like
If you bought ten items priced at 99c each then you got $3 off.
So $9.99 came down to $6.99.
There was also another online offer (I think) whereby for buying ten items you got a $3 dollar coupon printed off at the till for future purchases, whether on same item or anything wasn't made clear.
So that brought the effective total price down to $3.99.
They then had ten coupons clipped out of newspapers which more or less brought that $3.99 down to 14 cents total or something stupid like that.
So they were combining offers in conjunction with each other which are totally not allowed in UK.
The other part of their strategy was only buying stuff when they could figure out massive discounts like this and then buying in bulk and stocking up on such as nappies, or shower gel for the next two years or whatever.
Some of their houses had more stock than Asda. OK slight exaggeration but imagine big double / triple garages completely stocked out with shelving.
On the other hand they were spending a working week 40 hours plus just doing this and nothing else, 4/5 hours a day just looking for offers on-line and in newspapers.
Fascinating in a morbid way, they were completely obsessed, though the guy collecting stuff for church and the military seems like a nice chap, though his Mrs was more than a shade Bunteresque.
One transaction on one item went like
If you bought ten items priced at 99c each then you got $3 off.
So $9.99 came down to $6.99.
There was also another online offer (I think) whereby for buying ten items you got a $3 dollar coupon printed off at the till for future purchases, whether on same item or anything wasn't made clear.
So that brought the effective total price down to $3.99.
They then had ten coupons clipped out of newspapers which more or less brought that $3.99 down to 14 cents total or something stupid like that.
So they were combining offers in conjunction with each other which are totally not allowed in UK.
The other part of their strategy was only buying stuff when they could figure out massive discounts like this and then buying in bulk and stocking up on such as nappies, or shower gel for the next two years or whatever.
Some of their houses had more stock than Asda. OK slight exaggeration but imagine big double / triple garages completely stocked out with shelving.
On the other hand they were spending a working week 40 hours plus just doing this and nothing else, 4/5 hours a day just looking for offers on-line and in newspapers.
Fascinating in a morbid way, they were completely obsessed, though the guy collecting stuff for church and the military seems like a nice chap, though his Mrs was more than a shade Bunteresque.
Don't know about you but if I saw somebody heading to the checkout with 6 trolleys full of stuff I'd probably pick another queue.
Presumably the supermarkets are happy for them to do this and they still get paid because they provide staff to help drag the trolleys around, the management and staff stand there clapping in that annoying septic way when they get their final tally. Of course that could just be for the cameras.
Presumably the supermarkets are happy for them to do this and they still get paid because they provide staff to help drag the trolleys around, the management and staff stand there clapping in that annoying septic way when they get their final tally. Of course that could just be for the cameras.
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