Extreme couponers have finally ruined us....

I've been to alot of stores in my day with coupons, but NEVER have I EVER had a coupon that would allow the purchase to go over the purchase price. I mean like if the item was $1.98 and I had a $2 off coupon... I didn't get the 2 cents back.. they'd just give the $1.98 off and the item was free. I was surprised that they stores on that show gave back the overage. That is stupid!

You know with those sites I wonder if the store gets paid back the money directly from the show so that there is no loss, or if it's just "put on". Maybe after the camera is off, they give back the overage.

I bet not. The manufacture isn't going to give them more than the coupon value. If the store does, I'd say that would have to be at their expense.And I wouldn't think that the store would give, then expect it given back off camera...wouldn't that be colusion or soemthing like that ....misleading the public or something? Not that it'd matter, not like everyone can go to that store and do the same ... but still... I dont' see why they would do that...why would they willfully just literally give away money? That comes out of the store's profit. But they do, but I bet they might stop. if they dont', they are stupid in my opinion! Why pay someone to buy your stuff!! How stupid is that!!!

It's like that for me to. I save $10-$15 per shopping trip off about $200 total order. And if you do it like you and I do...buy the sunday paper or print online...that is about all you can get. Few stores double and then only up to $1 and the coupons in the sunday paper..first they expire rather quickly so waiting for the item to come on sale to use it often don't coincide. I know you can buy coupons on Ebay, but what they dont' tell on that show is WHERE they get these coupons! I have noticed that most stores on the show are from mid-west area of the country and smaller towns. You won't find this in Los Angeles! And still...where do they get 100 of the same coupon? And the expiration dates..again..the person that is selling them has to be aware of not selling expired ones..so WHERE do they get them? No one is saying. I have heard many dumpster dive for them or get the from neighbors, but again..those are the same ones I get in the paper and I'll go through the circulars in the paper and clip 4-5 as that is all that are of use to me! So many of them coupons are not for things I need...dog food, baby stuff, expenseive brands.. I don't buy that stuff so the coupons are useless to me. But they do showt hat they extremers have one coupon per item so... I don't know. I just think it is unfair that they at least don't tell where they get the coupons and then it is unfair as they go in and take all that's on the shelf and I go and there the product is gone! Although I haven't seen anyone with alot of coupons where I go, frankly I seem to be the only one that I see using them at all! So I think the mass don't use them, so why would manufactures have a problem with that? I dont' think they do, I think those like the extremers are abusing the system, albeit legally

I would have complained to the manager. I don't mind having to wait if they have alot of customers, but for one to hold the whole show up...that is not acceptable to me! And the manager should have done something himself. Even the cashier should have called for help. You can buy coupons on Ebay...probably elsewhere if I cared enough to look. I tried selling them about 4 years ago when couponing came back "in style"..I collected baby stuff or pet stuff..things like that. Just large value coupons. Never sold a one! Couponing isn't hard...just have to look for what you want, put them in some kind of organizer and then match them with your list. I write a list, and then check my coupons and put a "C" beside those that I have coupons for and that way, when I buy that product I know to grab the coupon and match the item to the coupon for size etc. If I see things on sale that aren't on my list, I will check my coupons for a matching one. And these that spend like 50 hours a week (at least so they say) look what they could be doing if they had a job for that many hours! They'd get cash to pay in anyway they choose or need to. But spending that much time on couponing just to buy your weeks of groceries and some stock, most of which won't get used...is stupid. All theyare doing is saving the grocery bill...but...again, they never mention how much they spend to get the coupons and other related expenses. The gas it takes to go to multiple stores...their time to do so!

They don't even do that where I live. They double up to 1.00 and that is up to. $1.00 does not get doubled. .99 does though. I've never seen a coupon limit the number of transactions. The stores have set limits but I've never seen once where the manufacurers are.

I just recently noticed the limit on the coupon this week. Last sundays paper had a coupon from Pantene shampoo..buy one get one free. First thing it said in red letters was "only 4 coupons per transaction". I had bought an LA Times and a local paper and got two of the coupons and used them at Walmart, but that is the first time I have ever seen that stipulation. And it might just be Pantene, and it might just be with this BOGO coupon too, but I"d venture to say that they are getting tired of reimbursing the grocery stores for hundereds of the same coupon, obviously from the same "person" that this might be the new trend

I've read tons of grocery coupons and seldom, very seldom do they say one per transaction. Not the ones in the newspapers inserts which seems to be the ones they use all the time on that show. Online ones sometimes say "per transaction" but even them, not to often. Sometimes the store will have a limit on how many they will double. And often, the stores won't double over $1.00. They only double up to one dollar. If the coupon is for $2 off, the will only double the $1...giving you $2 off instead of $4 if it was doubled.

Exactly! And unless they just aren't showing it...you never see them buying any fresh produce or meat. Lunch meat sometimes, but no fresh meat, little frozen foods and breads. It's mostly all drinks, canned stuff, boxes stuff and pasta! And they never say how much they spend to get the coupons..you can't do that with just the ones from the newspaper.

I believe what little they do pay is the tax. Some of groceries are not taxable..to anyone. I don't know the specifics, but certain foods are not taxable. I know milk isn't. I have been in and gotten a single item and no tax was charged. I don't know the specifics, but alot of food is not taxable to any one, coupon or not. And now that you mention it..there have been some on that show where it was zero or so small that tax on a $1k order...would have been more. I hadn't thought about that before. And I have never been given anything back either. They double up to a dollar but most stores out here don't even do that..they might have a week 2 or 3 times a year where they will give you 10 double coupon options, but that is it. I have noticed that most of the shows on this are from the mid-west, smaller towns. Maybe that has something to do with the coupon acceptance. LA isn't going to do it! And yes..most coupons are for more than one item...buy 3 and get 30 cents off. I always look and can usually buy another brand for less than this brand with the coupon or even with the coupon..do the math and the items are still out of my budget. THose kinds don't help anyone! But I have noticed that the extremers don't use that kind of coupon either!

Well, I have been couponing for 30 years. I have seen it come and go. Back in the 80's refunds and rebates were the hot ticket. Send in box tops or UPC codes and get free stuff or a money refund. I did that and got a lot of really good things and some good cash to. Well, then people started making "libraries" of box tops and UPC codes. Picking through all trash cans for anything that had one or the other. They showed garages and rooms with a library style shelf figuration with boxes or box tops and UPC codes all in alphabetic order. That way, when the offer came in the newspaper, they just went to their "library" of BT's and UPC's and pulled what the offer required, sent the stuff in and got the free stuff or refund check. Well, the manufactures of the coupons found this out, and they started requiring original cash register receipts for each BT/UPC required in the offer. Obviously, the stream of offer submissions slowed to a crawl. In this case, tho, I think they were right...the people didn't buy any of the products that they were using to get he freebie so I can see why they started requiring the receipts. I never did that, everything I sent in was from what I bought (I wasn't going to go through the dumpsters and trash cans!) so when they stopped because of others cheating...hurt me, the honest one That is why I say that they are starting to pick up on the extremer's actions, and since they can't target just them, they rig it for all of us..even us honest ones. First they go to multiple items per coupon with a low value, and now they are going to go to limit per transaction and either hope the stores make rules of how many transactions per day they will allow a person, or not accept from the store but only a certain amount per day or month.

I've seen them say One coupon per item, meaning you have to buy 10 items to use 10 coupons, not 10 coupons on one item. That is how it has been for 30 years (at least..that's how long I have been couponing - and just to make ends meet!) But the problem now is, that htey make the coupons so low in value..that you can usually find another brand that is less without coupons than the name brand with coupons! I mean 30 cents off 3 cans... that's 10 cents a can.. I look at another brand and they are already 20 cents a can cheaper! This is the first time I have seen the limit of coupons per transaction on a product. NOw, granted it was a BOGO offer, so maybe that is why, but it wouldn't surprise me if the trend started this way.

That's what I think is starting to happen. We aren't the only ones that watch TV! They don't make money if they are giving their product away for free and basically that is what is happening with the extremers. So to stop that, they have to control how they are getting things from them for free..ergo altering the coupons they offer. Those extremers are just wasting things...like I say above..what do they need with 150 roll on deodarants? or 82 Hershey bars or 115 bottles of BBQ sauce, Most will either expire and not be edible, others will just go flat and not be edible and others will just dry up and not be usable. So..where have they saved any money? Yes they got it for free, but have you seen the money they put into getting it for free and storing it? They could give one of their kids their own room or a play room or an office in their house instead of hoarding tons of stuff they will never use