Updated Printable Money off Coupons & Policies Thread 3

C_J

Blimey, that's a bit big. Sorry about that! I hope the cheese has not broken the forum.

Lovely_Lisa

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1146032/Firms-cheated-thousands-money-voucher-frauds.html

(Thanks to OP Navara on PTS)

Comments are worth a read aswell...

COUPON_GIRL

Lovely_Lisa wrote: »

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1146032/Firms-cheated-thousands-money-voucher-frauds.html

(Thanks to OP Navara on PTS)

Comments are worth a read aswell...

Coupons, R.I.P

veggiecar

Lovely_Lisa wrote: »

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1146032/Firms-cheated-thousands-money-voucher-frauds.html

(Thanks to OP Navara on PTS)

Comments are worth a read aswell...

"In one case, a multi-national firm was cheated out of £80,000 when a £2 food-product voucher emailed to a mailing list was redeemed 50,000 times - despite only 8,000 being printed off.
More than 90 per cent were redeemed through one supermarket chain, with 10,000 claimed through one of its stores."

10,000 through ONE of its [Tesco] stores when the manufacturer assumed only 8000 being printed ......and some folks wonder why we don't encourage multi-prints

And in the middle of it all is an advert...........
"Money saving tips - Discount vouchers
Find out all the latest deals, discount vouchers and codes..."

veggiecar

Lovely_Lisa wrote: »

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1146032/Firms-cheated-thousands-money-voucher-frauds.html

(Thanks to OP Navara on PTS)

Comments are worth a read aswell...

I don't really see this as a nail in the coffin for coupons...I see it more as a wake up call for manufacturers to control their marketing spend.
"The brands have asked to remain anonymous amid fears supermarkets will remove them from shelves. "
They realise that the supermarkets will continue doing what they do, and so the manufacturer will find more secure ways of issuing coupons.
It has to be good news for couponnet, and bad news for coupon-touts.
I may have to go back to using a colour printer soon though!!

m4rtin

veggiecar wrote: »

I don't really see this as a nail in the coffin for coupons...I see it more as a wake up call for manufacturers to control their marketing spend.
"The brands have asked to remain anonymous amid fears supermarkets will remove them from shelves. "
They realise that the supermarkets will continue doing what they do, and so the manufacturer will find more secure ways of issuing coupons.
It has to be good news for couponnet, and bad news for coupon-touts.
I may have to go back to using a colour printer soon though!!

Sadly even that may not help as shown by the airwick 'doctored' £6 moc which was originally via c'net.... Manufacturers need to sort out eBay then anything like that would at least be more localised and thus slightly more traceable :mad:

chesterlady29

I bet the Daily Mail aint moaning days there sales go through roof, when there are coupons in paper.

Jen_31

Lovely_Lisa wrote: »

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1146032/Firms-cheated-thousands-money-voucher-frauds.html

(Thanks to OP Navara on PTS)

Comments are worth a read aswell...

wow thats a lot of money lost, especially these days with the credit crunch and shops going bust all over the place. Tesco is too blame i guess, no other shops take them do they, so prob tesco will stop taking coupons for anything

swannee_D_3

Lovely_Lisa wrote: »

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1146032/Firms-cheated-thousands-money-voucher-frauds.html

(Thanks to OP Navara on PTS)

Comments are worth a read aswell...

Tesco are prob well aware of this but allow it to continue as it generates revenue for them, it's the manufacturers that lose out, Tesco just block the coupon they cannot redeem, glavya, mitchum, mail book coupon etc, those stores that take a big hit, the manager brings in their descretionary policy of no internet, only 10% or only 5 coupons, so I doubt much will change, just usual Daily Mail scaremongering....

hja_2

alexandrite wrote: »

Hi,

I am the original OP and prior to posting I printed some and tried them @ sainsburys - they were accepted no problem, the only thing is that they are valued @ zero and the price each store charges has to be typed in (so its useful to have this ready if the SA asks).

HTH.

thankyou. will try next time i go sainsburys

how many can you use?