Just a quick note about adding coupons to the coupon database.
First of all, if you have not read the instructions on how to use the coupon database you can find that in the footer at the bottom of each Hotcouponworld page. Or at the following link:
How to Use the Coupon Database Second,
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE search the database before entering coupons. I am carpel tunnel in my fingers from verifying entries and so many of them are duplicate entries. I am begging you to please search. When searching leave off all punctuation when you search (Example: Kellogg NOT Kellogg's) and make sure you check multiple pages if you get multiple pages in your search results.
Third, make sure you put your coupons as the right source and give all the important fine print when adding.
Of note a lot of what I am seeing being added wrong are the following.
Mail In Rebates - No matter if your rebate was found as a tearpad, peelie, winetag, home mailer, insert, etc...it is a Mail In Rebate. You can denote that it was found as a whatever in the description.
Try-Me-Free - This is the same as mail in rebate except that you are getting the item for free. Again it does not matter if it is a peelie, tearpad, or printable...it is still a Try-Me-Free. The value on all TMF's should be "FREE"
Special Promo - This is for mail in forms where you send off UPC's and sometimes money to cover postage and get a physical item via mail. For example send Kellogg's UPCs and get a free Ball Cap, that sort of thing. Again this is for FORMS...not coupons.
Winetags - If it is a coupon (not a rebate, special promo or try-me-free) and it is sponsored by a wine, beer or other alcoholic beverage company it is considered a winetag. It does not matter if it is a hangtag, peelie or tearpad or booklet. Again sponsored by booze company = winetag
Home Mailer - Any coupon that you got via snail mail in your mail box that did not come from a trade...it is a home mailer. Got a freebie and it came with a coupon? Its a home mailer. Complimented your favorite ketchup brand and they sent you a coupon? Its a home mailer. Your local grocery store sent you coupons in the mail? Its a home mailer.
Other - This category gets a lot of overuse I think. People dump all sorts of coupons here and frankly we don't have the time to weed through them all to see what is mis-categorized. This category is for the oddball coupon that otherwise does not have a source. Like you got a coupon in a trade, and you have searched the heck out of the coupon database and you just have no idea where it came from, go ahead and put it here. Or you are shopping and find this random coupon on the ground, you have no idea where it came from and there is not one like it in the coupon database already, then go ahead and source it as "other". Also please do not put other coupons you know belong to another source here. Printable coupons that the link is no longer valid...yeah sorry those are still printable coupons. And for some reason I just had to change over a bunch of insert coupons that were sourced as "other" when they were copied and pasted insert coupons with different values.
Read the guide (link above) for explanation of the other sources in the coupon database.
Fourth - Check your spelling
Fifth - Format your entry the right way.
- All entries should start with a brand name (Not "Save", "Any" "$1.00 Off" etc) - this is important for those members that use the database to publish thier wish/have lists so that they can be posted in alphabertical order...plus it just looks better expecially when posted along with coupon match ups in the store forums!
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Correct: Kellogg's Cereal, Any 10 Oz. +
Incorrect: save $1 on any 10oz or larger kellogg's cereal
Incorrect: $1.00 off any kelloggs cereal 10z or larger
Incorrect: Any Kellogg's Cereal, 10 Oz. +
- Put all the details in the entry. Include any small print. Such as DND 5, DND 9, state restrictions, sizes, excluding trial sizes, specified flavors, one coupon per person, one coupon per transaction, etc.
- The store field is only for if the coupon is a store only coupon, not for where you found the coupon or where you should use it to get a hot deal. If its a Kroger coupon, Walgreens coupon, CVS coupon, Commissary coupon, then use the store field. If you found the coupon at Albertsons and it is a manufacture coupon, then leave the store field set as "Any". If the coupon is a manf. coupon with a store logo on it...its not a store coupon. Usually store coupons have a different type of barcode than manf. coupons. Please note that the coupon has a store logo but don't mark it as a store coupon unless there is some sort of wording on the coupon that makes you think it is only good at that particular store.
Anyways...I so appriciate everyone for adding entries, really I do. We get on average 300 new entries a day and most of them are fine. But there are still a lot of entries that are formatted wrong or are duplicates. There is just a small team of mods that verify entries and we too have lives outside of HCW so please do us a favor and all users of the database too and please add new entries the right way.
And if you ever have questions about how to add a coupon, you can ask , sbp, Mrspinecone, NrPeace17, mama22qts, Pennywatcher, Shoppingcartdiva, or myself (I think that is the database team LOL) and we would be happy to help you.
OK I am off to rub Ben Gay into my aching hands (cheap with coupon of course).
If you have questions about any of this you can of course ask in this thread too.
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