Asda stopping coupon use

fuzzgun19

Craigoldfield wrote: »

And what exactly is wrong with that? I just don't understand why people complain when their abuse of a system has been stopped. Terms and conditions apply, live with it.:mad:

Well it's their loss... I won't be shopping at Asda anymore.

They get their money back from my legit coupons + a handling fee! My main shop will be Tesco now with top ups at Morrisons/Netto.

Craigoldfield

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

Well it's their loss... I won't be shopping at Asda anymore.

They get their money back from my legit coupons + a handling fee! My main shop will be Tesco now with top ups at Morrisons/Netto.

No, they won't notice you've gone and where will you shop when they all clamp down on abusers of the system?

chipbeck

Craigoldfield wrote: »

No, they won't notice you've gone and where will you shop when they all clamp down on abusers of the system?

I think you should take time out to consider who are the biggest abusers of the system. When you think you have the answer post it for us.

Craigoldfield

chipbeck wrote: »

I think you should take time out to consider who are the biggest abusers of the system. When you think you have the answer post it for us.

The biggest abusers are those who ignore the terms and conditions, easily available for checking, then whine about no longer being able to ignore those terms and conditions because eventually, the companies who produce the coupons will see that they don't generate a sales increase and will therefore no longer issue coupons. What next, shoplifters posting that it's unfair that supermarkets are putting security tags on items so now they'll have to go to Tesco to steal?

chipbeck

Craigoldfield wrote: »

The biggest abusers are those who ignore the terms and conditions, easily available for checking, then whine about no longer being able to ignore those terms and conditions because eventually, the companies who produce the coupons will see that they don't generate a sales increase and will therefore no longer issue coupons. What next, shoplifters posting that it's unfair that supermarkets are putting security tags on items so now they'll have to go to Tesco to steal?

This should lead you to the answer can you let me know who you think it is?

Craigoldfield

You have had your answer, you may not like it or is it that you don't understand it?

chipbeck

Craigoldfield wrote: »

You have had your answer, you may not like it or is it that you don't understand it?

Your hard work mate!
Last clue.
If two hundred people enter a supermarket and tender coupons for products they have not bought, who is the biggest abuser?

chipbeck

Right I'm off so I'll tell you.

The Supermarkets.

Craigoldfield

chipbeck wrote: »

Right I'm off so I'll tell you.

The Supermarkets.

Substitue shoplifters in your previous message and I'm sure you'd still blame the supermarkets, as I said, you just didn't like the answer, live with it, you'll feel far better for the experience.

Coupon-mad

Craigoldfield wrote: »

Substitue shoplifters in your previous message and I'm sure you'd still blame the supermarkets, as I said, you just didn't like the answer, live with it, you'll feel far better for the experience.

Dunno what planet you are on mate but chipbeck speaks a lot of sense and I am amazed you can't see where the abuse really lies??

Tesco & Asda had a stated policy to allow coupon-use WITHOUT buying the product. Customers then offer these as a method of payment fully acceptable to these stores (Tesco still allow it at the mo). Where is the abuse in that, from a shopper's point of view? The customer is doing nothing wrong at all in the transaction.

But look at what those stores do with those coupons. They submit them for redemption & a handling fee, using the smokescreen of the amount of those products they have sold generally. That's where the abuse/fraud lies (call it what you will) as they pass them off as having been directly accepted for the product when they often haven't.

Why do they do it?

1. Money (customers spending more than they otherwise would)

2. Money (the handling fee and redemption money back in full)

3. Money (beating the opposition, grabbing their customers, etc)

Is that clear enough for you or do you still think that cash-strapped coupon-users like myself and chipbeck are abusing poor Tesco when we hand over our coupons in a store where we know for a fact that they allow it?