Tips: Contacting Companies to Complain or Cheer!

[sscrgi-6]

I don't have the website handy, but I emailed Hostess because my dh is addicted to their ho-ho's....got (2) coupons for a free product!!

[phlack]

Originally Posted by flash Just FYI, the cheapest a single coupon print for the SS insert, one coupon one time, is around $300,000. Minimum. So, P&G invests loads in printing their booklet, and in customer reps answering your emails to say that they won't send coupons, go buy a paper. Small companies can't afford the print, so they make their own and keep them close, maybe a tear pad, maybe just for people who ask. ASK :)

Seems like printables are the way to go. Too bad some stores don't take 'em.

-Mike

I've definately had my best experiences contacting companies directly they are particuarly generous if you had a real problem however simple and a upc

[dpmgmo]

Originally Posted by flash Yes, right thread, just a quick survey, and receive by mail. Thanks!

I could'nt see any place for survey in this site ... There is just an email id. Do we need to write to them complementing ?? LMK. Tia.

[PrincessSophiesMom]

Received from Bar S foods yesterday ~ 5 coupons for .25 off any Bar S product and a $5 VIP certificate good on any of their products.

[flash]

Originally Posted by phlack Seems like printables are the way to go. Too bad some stores don't take 'em. -Mike

Every year, fraudulent coupons cost retailers over $500 million dollars. The situation is serious enough that many of the premiere U.S. law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI, FTC, IRS, and USPIS and even the Secret Service investigate, and prosecute, coupon fraud related crimes.

Fradulent printables are towards the top of the list. :(

[flash]

Originally Posted by dpmgmo I could'nt see any place for survey in this site ... There is just an email id. Do we need to write to them complementing ?? LMK. Tia.

On the coleman natural home page, there is a link to click to receive $5 in coupons, it takes you to

http://www.colemannatural.com/survey.php

[dpmgmo]

Originally Posted by flash On the coleman natural home page, there is a link to click to receive $5 in coupons, it takes you to http://www.colemannatural.com/survey.php

Thanks a lot. I could'nt locate it first time when i saw it.

[diva_dynamite]

Thanks, Flash, for the info on how much it costs to insert a coupon - I had figured it must be expensive. That's why they don't bother to put them in our paper - the market's too small to make it worth their $. Looks like printables will be more attractive to marketers. It will be cheaper to put a file on their website than to print a glossy coupon. If someone sends them a fraudulent one, they just won't redeem it. The ones getting squeezed will be the grocers first because they won't get paid for taking the coupons, then we'll get squeezed because the grocers will stop taking any and all printables. I hope they figure out a way to stop the counterfeits. I will try contacting the companies - this is a great thread. Thanks for all the work.

[MrsPinecone]

Info from Leann:

http://www.freshstep.com Fresh step litter
they encourage you to join PawPoints, so you'd have to be loyal to them. Won't mail coupons.

www.bumblebee.com will only send in you sign up fo a promo, then it's onetime. This time they wanted you give them a bunch of e-mails, and they would send a coupon. Still waiting for a reply to my e mail from more than a week ago.

unilever.com
Each product has to be contacted directly
Lever soap was a no
Birdseye Veggie (yes)
waiting on several others.

Nestle Products will not send

BettyCrocker.com. on-line coupons only.
I wrote and told them I couldn't use them at my stores. they rec. finding a store that would take them.

http://www.myheinz.com. Heinz ketchup, said they will send one time only. No mailing list

delmonte.com Said they will send, one time only. No mailing list.

http://www.bocafoods.com
Will not send coupons.

SC Johnson Co. you just sign up for their Clean Home Journal newsletter. they don't mail regularly. they do have things you can print online

www.chickenofthesea.com, You can sign up for their club, and print online coupons. No mailers.