Transfer Prescription Coupons - how many of us transfer all over the place each month?

[anaj06]

I have 2 prescriptions I fill every month and I transfer them from pharmacy to pharmacy to pharmacy each month to get the free giftc ards. That is $50 a month in gift cards I get for my $20 oop on prescriptions. I have been doing this for 2 years plus.

Today I transfer my 2 prescriptions to CVS and go into pay with my K-mart Rx coupons (they take competitors). They tell me "a note has been placed on my account that I am not to get any more gift cards." WTF! I haven't done anything but follow their coupons and policies to the letters. He tells me "the coupons are to generate new business, not so you can get free money every month." I was really mad. I argued that I understood the intention but they will have to award the gift cards to customers who follow the rules of the coupon. Both myself and the pharmacist read the coupon verbatim and their was not exclusion for previously filled prescriptions.

I didn't say this (wish I had) but grocery stores have loss leader items to generate business, this doesn't mean they can not sell to people just buying the loss leaders...unless of course they put that into the rules (writing it in sales ad, on coupon, etc.

I know calling corporate would get me no where...I guess I can't fill Rx at CVS anymore since there is a "note" on my account. They were my favorite because I can make the gift cards last forever with EBs. I am just upset about the whole situation!

[hburnette3]

I am afraid to transfer mine. I always afraid my meds will get mixed up in the shuffle. Maybe I'll start with my allergy medicine.

[tacatcon]

I don't shuffle them around every month because mostly it's Rite Aid here and they only let you do two per 6 months i think

but we have a lot of prescriptions in our family so usually what I do is start a new script at CVS or WAGS and then have it transferred to Rite Aid when I can

I do try to keep the scripts together at one pharmacy because I like to think that if there was any danger of drug interaction the pharmacy would catch it. However, I'm OCD about this stuff so I'm constantly researching the meds my dd's take, so I don't leave it up to the pharmacist to do that for me.

[joshmamabear]

I'm sorry about that but CVS has the right to deny acceptance of that based on your prescription history with them. They may have reviewed it for the past 2++ yrs and they realize it does not benefit their business.

Can you fight it? Sure! but I think it is best to weigh things carefully if you wish to continue doing business with CVS. Just keep in mind they have your info on file. Meanwhile, start looking around where you can do unlimited transfers without hassle.

Good luck!

[uummm]

I don't start mine at RA either knowing theirs is ONLY transfers....But I do bounce them in and out of target because they usually have a $10 one and I have bounce in and out twice now since there is no wording about previously filled Rx not qualifing.

I have yet to take the $25 GC transfer for RA to Cvs, that is next month since RA just sent me gift cards to transfer them BACK (though I had to contact Corp to get them to give them to me)...After the bull I went through a couple of days ago with a condesending Pharmacist I can't wait to transfer it out!

[anaj06]

Thanks for all the feedback. I guess I will transfer them out of CVS next month and then not come back. CVS has always been the easy one; I pretty much did them every other month and found somewhere else on the odd months.

I know they can deny me and I know that is not how it is supposed to work, but none of the coupons have precluded me coming back again (wording isn't there) so IMO I am following their rules. Just frustrated that it stopped working!

[couponsmakecents]

I had that happen a year ago and I talked to the manager of the pharmacy. I asked him to pull my rx's (I have 10 a month) and to look at what it cost the pharmacy in their cost vs what they got from the insurance company. Without knowing the pharmacy cost for the drugs, they were getting $2154 each month from the insurance company.

I then asked him if it was worth losing that "guaranteed" income if I trasnferred out a RX here and there. I did not tranfer all 10 out each month; usually one or two. I asked was it worth me taking all my Rx's vs giving me $25 maybe 3 or 4 times a year.

He decided in my case it was not worth losing all my RX business and "allows" me to transfer out and back in.

May not work for you based on the $$ of the RX but might be worth a shot.

[Shy2481]

Well personally to me i think they were within their rights to do so. Store's do not put things out like this for people to take advantage of it, which is what i think that is. Sure stores put out loss leaders but they do not expect 1 person to come in and take everything, they hope to get people in and spend more money, just like DS don't expect people to transfer in and out so you can make alittle money.

[meems]

Go to as differnt cvs, they can't compare between stores.

[csstaci]

I feel like if their intention was for you NOT to transfer back and forth, they would write that on the coupon. I understand they don't like it, and they should talk to their own corporate office about writing an exclusion on the coupon. Otherwise it's no different than a cashier saying one per purchase is one per transaction - making up their own rules. JMHO.