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"Extreme Couponing" Continues To Ruin It For Everyone
Extreme Savers Stealing Coupons From Newspapers
In this instance, a newspaper in Idaho noticed that all of the coupon inserts had been taken from a newspaper box without any of the papers being purchased. A sales manager decided to watch on a Sunday and observed a woman who purchased a single paper but removed the coupon inserts from all of the papers. The newspaper filed a police report reporting the theft.
A quick Google search turns up a similar incident in Oklahoma where 173 papers were stolen from several racks. In this case, a witness noticed a woman who paid for one paper to open the box and then took all of them.
I only use coupons occasionally, but I have noticed that a lot of stores won't take coupons printed from the Internet. In some cases, the store does allow them from sites like coupons.com but individual cashiers are unwilling to take them. It was one of the reasons that I stopped looking for coupons online. Anyway, it was just easier to shop at Trader Joe's than trying to use coupons at Jewel, and I still managed to save at least $20 each week. But I guess that isn't interesting enough to warrant an extreme show on TLC.
In this instance, a newspaper in Idaho noticed that all of the coupon inserts had been taken from a newspaper box without any of the papers being purchased. A sales manager decided to watch on a Sunday and observed a woman who purchased a single paper but removed the coupon inserts from all of the papers. The newspaper filed a police report reporting the theft.
A quick Google search turns up a similar incident in Oklahoma where 173 papers were stolen from several racks. In this case, a witness noticed a woman who paid for one paper to open the box and then took all of them.
I only use coupons occasionally, but I have noticed that a lot of stores won't take coupons printed from the Internet. In some cases, the store does allow them from sites like coupons.com but individual cashiers are unwilling to take them. It was one of the reasons that I stopped looking for coupons online. Anyway, it was just easier to shop at Trader Joe's than trying to use coupons at Jewel, and I still managed to save at least $20 each week. But I guess that isn't interesting enough to warrant an extreme show on TLC.
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I've been told by a lot of people that these extreme couponers will resell what they've gotten at garage sales and flea markets, which kind of begs the question of who out there is buying their personal hygiene products at garage sales? But apparently, it's quite lucrative. I've been told that one of our more annoying couponers can make upwards of 5 or 6K just at one garage sale.
This same lady though, also will buy stacks of her coupons off of ebay, so she's pretty diehard about her couponing...
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But last year, as a negotiation exercise, one of my business classes went to a flea market to see who could get the most interesting stuff for $10. I expected the market to have cool, unique merchandise. Instead, every single booth carried your basic drugstore products. I couldn't figure out why they'd sell those things at a flea market, but now I can guess that they came from coupon purchases.
It was actually kind of difficult to find something to bring back to class since I didn't want to buy paper towels or bathroom cleanser to compete against my classmates.
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