Updated Printable Money off Coupons & Policies Thread 9 (and chat)

Dr.Who-Who

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Nice mugshot Dr W_W!:T

You'll be instantly recognisable at the Good Food Show (aka 'Couponers Convention') then!:rotfl:

Gee... CM, I wish I could but I have been summon to go elsewhere. And my visual friends (U know who u are) PROMISED me that they will sent me a truck load of coupons :rotfl:

jeferey wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: The mind boggles! (or it it something else wobbles :eek:)

Coupon-mad

Dr.Who-Who wrote: »

Nice mugshot Dr W_W!:T

You'll be instantly recognisable at the Good Food Show (aka 'Couponers Convention') then!:rotfl:

jeferey

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Your inner bum? Have you got 2 bums then??! :rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: The mind boggles! (or it it something else wobbles :eek:)

bulgariafairy

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Awww. You are very good at this couponing lark, most people don't get anything off their shopping let alone £18.

To answer the point in bold, I do a bit of a calculation before shopping but nothing complicated. I just count up approx how much in value in mocs I have sorted out for that day, then go in and shop to just above that value. I buy anything I want, no list, but just stop when my trolley value exceeds my coupon budget. If I see an expensive item/toy/DVD I fancy I often leave it but plan to buy it another time (using spare/rare mocs).

Mostly I use original mocs (in the local store that doesn't take internet prints)but sometimes one of each of the usual low-value PDFs - CIF etc. - get added to my wad (when in the Extra). I get the original mocs from products bought, from registering on websites, from bulk-buying any papers/mags, and from swapping on PTS. I do swaps on there between £5 and over £100 in value at a time, I was lucky to have lots to swap after the Airshow and a Roadshow I went to this Summer.

If I did decide to use one of each of every different moc I have available here than quite probably I could get more than £100 off, like bulgariafairy did. My store is like hers, they allow the policy and know me and my mocs, they really don't have a problem with the % couponed. Quality not quantity, they know they can redeem my mocs but they would come down like a ton of bricks on a customer trying to hand over 20% in unredeemable mocs (quite right too).

However, I don't do shops over £30 as a rule, and only once per day (no split shopping allowed in my local Extra). I hold rare/spare coupons back. I don't like to use up my high-value and/or long expiry mocs on a normal weekly shop as I am saving them for Christmas shopping.

For instance I still have my Nivea £2 mocs that arrived weeks ago and some £3 Finish from Rinse Aid purchased in July...plus £1 and £2 moc swaps from PTS that I have reserved for later use due to the expiry date etc. I don't even use my pic a pac mocs as a rule, except when asked to pay 45p or something (shock, horror, out come the emergency spares!!).

Hoarding high-value mocs only comes back to 'bite me on the bum' on the odd occasion that T blocks a moc that I still have (that's only happened once and I used it at Waitys instead). If T stopped their moc policy I would have a LOT of WAITYs spends to use up!

good attitude to it i would say!
as long as you play by the rules in your local and don't do anything wrong they'll have no reason to dislike you or not let you do it. I get on well with my personnel manager in my store, and she is well aware of how many coupons i use. I've even said to her on several occasions 'please let me know if you don't like what i'm doing' and she's like 'yes sure, sure' so i do make sure my back is covered. the benefit of being a member of staff and doing this is you're the first to know if they're not happy, as opposed to a regular customer they might watch for weeks before cornering them.

bulgariafairy

admittedly i do some mild calculating too, add up my Mocs beforehand and add up as i go round, or i go waaaay over the top and end up not having enough to pay for it all. at the end of the day peeps, being a tesco worker does NOT pay well!!

cjade82

My dad was told he could not use coupons at a store in skeg even though he had used them before. When he asked for cm they said he couldn't have used them before because they do not accept coupon? He went and got his receipt from car and asked to see manager and still they refused him ( he was buying shopping not loads of high priced stuff). When he got home he told mother that they made him feel like a criminal! so mum complained as my sister who lives near went in that eve and bought some vodka and they took her coupons and she paid approx 1.50! needless to say mum received a call saying that staff had been re trained and now take coups!! yay

bulgariafairy

Don't know how many of you know about this, but if you register with Lovefilm through the Bounty.com website, you get a 30 day free trial and a love2shop voucher which is valid for a ton of different outlets (be good for stocking up for xmas shopping!!!). Its one per household and no getting around that, and you give credit/debit details when you sign up. very easy to cancel though, just keep an eye on when it expires and phone them up!! i've done it already, got it sent to my mums and partner's houses too, so we've had several weeks of rental dvds to watch each night plus a £10 voucher for absolutely zilch!!
heres linky for the bounty one!

http://www.bounty.com/client/lovefilm/tenancy

make sure you add some titles to your rental list and change the priority to 'high' to receive them as fast as possible.
if you buy a discovery fajita kit there is a sol beer coupon code which you can register with through Lovefilm as well and after your first rental is returned you get £8 or sol beer coupons, which tesco sell!! I got a few of those too! all for nothing!

bulgariafairy

cjade82 wrote: »

My dad was told he could not use coupons at a store in skeg even though he had used them before. When he asked for cm they said he couldn't have used them before because they do not accept coupon? He went and got his receipt from car and asked to see manager and still they refused him ( he was buying shopping not loads of high priced stuff). When he got home he told mother that they made him feel like a criminal! so mum complained as my sister who lives near went in that eve and bought some vodka and they took her coupons and she paid approx 1.50! needless to say mum received a call saying that staff had been re trained and now take coups!! yay

gosh he must have been fuming!! I had that with the peterbourough extra store, only go in about five times per year. went in at the beginning of the year and spoke to customer service manager beforehand, he checked all coupons and said fine, went through, all good etc. next time i went in a few months later, he was off on hols and nobody else was aware of it, not even the duty manager so it was refused! i wish they'd train everyone up to the same level!:mad:

cjade82

he was fuming, but my dad won't say anything he'll tell my mum and she deals with it!:p he shops in boston as well as he works in boston and has never had a prob.
btw just received ff coups thru post

Freefall

Does anyone have the link for the 15KG Pedigree coupon. I have a large pup (St. Bernard) so it would be helpful.

Cheers