MSE News: Sainsbury's shopper arrested for coupon fraud

Googlies_2

myrtleturtle wrote: »

exactly why the rest of us genuine users are now having problems using coupons in stores

What is a genuine user?

princesslou_2

Googlies wrote: »

What is a genuine user?

a perfect user. only prints one-coupon, only takes one-item-per-glitch, follows the rules (while carefully bending them to suit glitches) in all situations. Also known to carry a mary poppins bag, complete with tape measure that measures them at "practically perfect in every way". in my opinion, obviously

Googlies_2

jamespir wrote: »

good hopefully this will be a lesson to those who clearly take the p

The lesson being not to accept a caution.

Old_Gold

I just wonder what has happened to the responsibility on the party offering the rewards in the first place. When hoover made their marketing mistake they had to honour it. Those issuing the vouchers should think ahead instead of trying lazy marketing tricks. If you encourage fraud to happen dont be surprised when it does.
however as stated this case is not about someone trying to get an extra 20p off their shopping but £150 at the minimum. Thats a different ball game.
It would have to be a stupid judge who would criminalise the normal voucher off junkie...........but unfortunately there are still too many stupid judges.

henlans

rose28454 wrote: »

Just wanted to add my opinion. When Tesco Dtd was going oN there was a Poster on here (henlans) who royally abused that promotion to an extreme degree and even posted pics if the haul he/she got. Funny how that persons locality is wrexham?

That is not me or anyone i know but if it was me i would not gave taken the caution and took it all the way to crown court but then again she did make up names but that talk is all over money saving about emails.

To this day with the dtd and jtd i did nothing wrong in law and would be more than happy to let a crown court jury decide. Some people on here rabbit on about stuff they dont know. Its also my beleave that the press openly make up stories or only tell half of the story and making a new facebook account to get a new voucher in my opinion is a misredemption and not breaking the law and would have been better to take to court to test it.

holly_hobby

I had a thought about the matter this AM - the offender used the self serve tills in Sainsbury's - from what I read on here - they only accept 3 vouchers before the SS assistant is called.

So that begs the question, either she used 3 vouchers with a value of £50 a piece - or something in this story is a little off (unless of course she said "oh here's the rest of my vouchers to be taken off" , handed the assistant a big wedge and hoped for the best).

Which means that she didn't actually get £150 off her bill at all, becuase the asssitant wouldn't have accepted the additional vouchers, which were apparently all duplicates/tampered originals would they ??

So, ever thought this story may just be a little bit not true - but aimed to put the fear of God into those who may currently abuse vouches & SS tills (as in this case Sainsubury's are fed up with absorbing the loss - rightly so but doesn't change the purpose of the story).

Just a thought as I say .... (unless they had been monitoring her over period of time, and let re-visit enough times using the same vouchers to hang herself !)

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recovering_spendaholic

I have read this thread with interest. I have recently started using some MOC, however I only use the coupon for the item intended, and don't copy coupons or use loads at the same time. However I do sometimes combine conditional spend vouchers - for example: at the moment I have a Mr T till spit voucher for £6 off £40+ spend and I also have a Daily Mail £5 off £40 spend. It does not say that you can't combine the vouchers on either voucher so I was intending to go to Mr T at the weekend and buy a big shop (say £100) and then use both vouchers. Is this fraud? sorry if I am being a bit thick here!

jellyhead

maybe she used 3 vouchers each time but made 50 transactions?

madmuppet5

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

I have read this thread with interest. I have recently started using some MOC, however I only use the coupon for the item intended, and don't copy coupons or use loads at the same time. However I do sometimes combine conditional spend vouchers - for example: at the moment I have a Mr T till spit voucher for £6 off £40+ spend and I also have a Daily Mail £5 off £40 spend. It does not say that you can't combine the vouchers on either voucher so I was intending to go to Mr T at the weekend and buy a big shop (say £100) and then use both vouchers. Is this fraud? sorry if I am being a bit thick here!

Perfectly OK :beer:
Don't forget Mr. T's also take Sainsbury's conditional spends:D

*Jelly_Tots*

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

I have read this thread with interest. I have recently started using some MOC, however I only use the coupon for the item intended, and don't copy coupons or use loads at the same time. However I do sometimes combine conditional spend vouchers - for example: at the moment I have a Mr T till spit voucher for £6 off £40+ spend and I also have a Daily Mail £5 off £40 spend. It does not say that you can't combine the vouchers on either voucher so I was intending to go to Mr T at the weekend and buy a big shop (say £100) and then use both vouchers. Is this fraud? sorry if I am being a bit thick here!

You are not thick. This is an example of the grey area I was talking about earlier. If the supermarkets had a proper system in place, the customer should be able to hand over coupons/vouchers and relax, knowing that the staff will only take what is valid, safeguarding the customer. It should never get to the point where people are able to make so many 'coupon mistakes' that it gets them arrested. It's ridiculous that the supermarkets do not have checks in place to safeguard themselves and the customer.