Updated Printable Money off Coupons & Policies Thread 5 (and chat)

hogshead

Berry Shot for me too.
Cheers for the good to know family week link

hogshead

poshnosh wrote: »

I have just got back from the local newspapers (a very small shop attached to the post office) with my copy of the sun. There I was looking at various coupons in different newspapers and trying to decide should I buy, should I not......and along comes the boss ( who is usually a right GOS (grumpy old sod) - never smiles or says thank you). Still undecided, and realising he was watching me, I quickly blurted out, "Oh i do intend to buy the paper, just seeing which ones have the coupons in" "no problem" came a cheerful reply, "go ahead, in fact why dont you sit yourself down, make yourself comfy, take your time". feeling a bit surprised I did exactly that - suprised he never offered me a cuppa!!!!! Then the unexpected came from him "tomorrows papers have lots of coupons - icecreams, chocolates etc......come at 12.30 tomorrow and get the coupons....."oh, do you mean I dont have to buy the paper" "no, of course you dont, just come before 12.30 because thats when I'll be sending them back" "thank you thats really kind of you...ummm....what about the weekdays" (i said in a joyful tone)..."no problem, come at 5pm as I will be closing at 5.30 and thats when I do the returns, come and get as many coupons as you want coz i'll be sending them all back anyway......" OMG......i was totally bewildered, could not believe what I heard - free coupons for free stuff in t's - cant get any better. Only thing he prob. never realised my mind was far from chocs n icecream nss......

Unfortunately, can't make it tomorrow as have an appointment on other side of town, but guess where I'll be at 12.30 on sat and 5pm on weekdays. thats it - I'm dumping my local borders store and sticking to this little newsagents from now on. Its further away but who will say no to free coupons......

My parents used to own a newsagents and they retired about 6 years ago. I had no knowledge of the world of coupons back then....and often used to think I wish they still had it as it would be v. handy....buy hey...looks like i have found the next best thing.........ooohhhh i'm so delighted!!!!!!

OMG Posh that is brilliant news.
Do let us know what you are getting so we know what to look out for. My local newsagents aren't up for flattery so no chance of that sort of bonus down here!

veggiecar

katie1991 wrote: »

saw the same lady today apparently it is web coupon portal dot com but i cant get anything from it just page not found

If you google it without spaces and without the dot com you get this offered to you.. is this what she means?
It doesn't look like it is up and running yet though....but I've book-marked it for future checks.

hogshead

Site closing tomorrow, we will be chomping at the bit for updates.

Have a super Bank Holiday my coupon friends. We are going to the Cheese Roll on Monday NOT taking part though...pity the fool (OH did it 1 year for the laugh!!!!) Great free day out, knackering walk & picnic in a cow field....nice one!

veggiecar

poshnosh wrote: »

17:02 - just printed 40p off hovis bread from coupon net and date came up as 13/06/2009 - works fine

13/6/2009?....that's another unusual one for couponnet...3 weeks.... hopefully things are getting back to normal now though!
I think there us going to be a lot of confusion with out-of-dates over the next few weeks...how embarrassing for couponnet!;)

nanna38

i also got another print of the batteries when i clicked on the other link i got the same DEMO coupon for berry busrt what a waste of paper ink and a good promising coupon
never mind its an extra lets be greatfull:beer:

bullshot wrote: »

I just printed the 2nd of the battery coupons from the direct link .....got a DEMO coupon for Berry Burst...says quite clearly ...to the consumer this is a demo coupon..to the retailer ..this is a ddemo coupon.....happened to anyone else? What a waste of paper and ink....

madmuppet5

Good evening all. Just caught up on today's posts. Took me over half an hour. Did it while I was cutting out coupons

nanna38

dont know about you all but just got my self a rotory trimmer form wilkinsons 9.98 bargain as i ave problems using sissors being left handed i found this brill and my dishwasher tabs 1.70 and change from my coupons

veggiecar

poshnosh wrote: »

v.c, also printed the battery one - prints 2, one dated 13/06/09 and the other 21/06/09.

can anyone help me set the printer so that the coupon net and all the others come out in grayscale(black and white) as using up a lot of ink here esp. with the adverts on the top half of page. I remember reading on here that you can print with the coupon coming out first, then switch off the printer. is that a good thing for the printer - dont want to damage it.......sorry far from technical when it comes to using the p.c, only know the basics.

hopefully this will point you in the right direction, but without knowing what you have it's tricky;)
This is what I do for mine

On my Canon
assuming you are using windows.....
control panel
printers and faxes
click on your printer to highlight it
right click on it
choose properties
choose printing preferences
click on greyscale printing

on my Lexmarks .... (cannot do it as they only have a three colour cartridge, and produces black by mixing all three)

on my Kyocera....it's B/W laser only anyway

None of mine have the facility for doing upside down printing, but I would have a hunt in the user manual or under the properties/advanced settings and then experimenting
It shouldn't harm your printer to turn it off in the middle of a print, but it MAY store the info in it's internal memory, and on re-start. print it anyway, unless you reset it to purge it's memory.

nanna38

A big thank you to the laptop company for my daughters new power cable returned to me 2 mins ago and guess what i can now go and print print print yippeeeeeee more coupons x x x x x