Taking peelies from something you don't buy? - Page 3

PHmom · 02-02-2007, 02:36:52 PM

I have one more thing to add - I will definitely take them if they're on the wrong product! I was in a store today and they had some for $1 off Pepsi, diet, etc and had put them all over 12 packs of drinks that were not included in the coupon. They were also on all the 12 packs of the brands that WERE included so if someone wanted those brands the peelie would've still been available, I just grabbed the ones from the wrong sodas so now I'm trading them to someone who can use them. And, as several others have mentioned, I see expired peelies all the time (just saw some great ones the other day for .75/1 Quaker granola bars that I would've loved to found before they expired as DS likes those) so I have to think people don't use them anyway.

6months · 02-02-2007, 03:05:48 PM

I will take peelies, not all (but sometimes it's hard! Like BOGO Shake N Bake LOL), but I have found so many expired ones that I think if they don't get taken and used, the manufacturers will stop making them. Promos cost money and if the promo doesn't get a lot of use, they move on to something else.

I also think that many people just throw them away. My MIL couldn't care less whether something has a coupon.

queenofthehivemomof5 · 02-02-2007, 09:48:37 PM

I take them, take a few, leave some for others, comeback next week and if they are still there I will take a few more, leave some for others. I have asked the store managers at my local stores (I dont have but a handfull) and they don't care, told me to peel away. Heck I was in one day when they were putting some peelies on bread and I asked if I could have some and the guy handed me half a roll with over 200 coupons on it.

I think if you are in doubt, why not just ask the store manager if its OK to peel a few coupons to save for later? I would guess that they are going to say that they don't care, and what is the worse they can say? No..and there you have it, don't peel from that store.

I beleive in the same rules as CA10...leave some for others and don't damage the packaging.

I will never forget finding $1.00/1 Kellogg peelies the first year I started couponing, I would peel a few and come back the next week and peel some more, For months those peelies where there, and I peeled a few for myself and for trading, but months and months went by and eventually they expired and there were still hundreds of boxes with those hot peelies on them that went and expired.

Oviedo_Chicken · 02-03-2007, 08:13:51 AM

Well I am a rep & I have to do alot of foot work to get those on the boxes.So when the companies come behind us to make sure we did the job it appears we didn't when they are taken off.Also some companies I represnt will not do the peelies at all!!!because of this.They instruct us then while we are preparing to rotate or etc & a customer is looking at the product then ask if they want a coupon don't put them on the product!

In essence it makes it bad for everyone.However before this job I would do it,now I don't!

backyrat · 04-26-2007, 06:48:38 PM

Is this considered illegal or just bad or good luck depending on how you look at it. I try not to do this, but at CVS the other day, there was a peelie on Johnson's Cocoa Butter lotion, but it was for $1 off cocoa butter wash. I took it anyway, thinking maybe they put it on the wrong product by accident since it couldn't be used on the product it was on, but I still felt guilty. Just wondering what everyone else's opinions and thoughts were. And what the law is on that as far as being coupon fraud.

pedspeech · 04-26-2007, 06:57:24 PM

I don't think it can be considered fraud unless you used it for the item not intended (in this case, using it on the lotion instead of wash). I generally don't feel too guilty taking a couple when I see them in the store, but I never stand there and take more than 2-3 (granted, if they are still there every time I see them I take another couple if I really think I will use them). The only time I don't do that is when the wording on the coupon says "Save $ on the purchase of this product"- in that case I do think it was the manufacturer's intent for you to use it then and there. The situation that you described is different, the way I see it Johnson's just wants you to buy their cocoa butter wash, just like getting a tearpad or blinkie. Again, this is only IMHO!

SyLph211 · 04-26-2007, 07:17:19 PM

I hope this isnt bad coupon karma or something. I take them when I see them and if its something I will use. Usually its only a few at a time and I always leave some for someone else. If its on a product that says use now etc I will not touch it as PP said. I feel guilty taking wine tags. Oh the horror I feel and sometimes I get a little twinge of guilt when I pull tearpads off...

livingalmostlarge · 04-26-2007, 07:21:45 PM

No way bad karma. I don't take anything I'm not buying, but I've honestly never taken anything. I never did the teen thing of shoplifting or cheated. Bad karma, comes back in spades. I will take blinkies or a few from a tearpad, but not something off a box that I wouldn't use. I'd buy the product.

FWIW, I've had a lot of luck in my life and I think of it can be attributed to passing on good karma.

giveandreceive · 04-26-2007, 07:30:56 PM

I don't consider it bad 'luck or karma.' What I can think of right now is a peelie that was on a Wet Ones container.; The peelie said (I don't remember the exact wording) 'use on Wet Ones container OR BOX of wet ones singles.' So the company put it on there knowing people weren't necessarily going to use it on the product it was ON. Remember not everyone uses coupons, even when they are on them, so I consider it a coupon being saved from the trash.