Calculating cpn value for trading purposes

[NJOYURLIFE]

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I am looking to understand how cpn trades work when you are trading cpn dollar for dollar and one cpn is off of 1 item and the other is off of 2 items.
For example, I have one Snuggle cpn that is $3.00 off of the purchase of 1 item. I want to trade it for powerade cpns that are .75 off of the purchase of 2 items.
This is the way that I think that it works. I first need to convert the powerade cpns to a value off of 1 item. I think that this is done by dividing the cpn value by the # of items needed to be purchased. In this case .75 divided by 2. This would give the powerade cpn a value of .38. I would then divide the Snuggle cpn value of $3.00 by .38 to determine how many powerade cpns. The result would be 8.
So using this reasoning, the trade would be 8 powerade cpns for one Snuggle cpn.
I know other factors come into play also, but I am just trying to understand this one part of the trading value equation.

Thanks for your help.

[angeleyeza]

I usually try 10% of the coupon value per coupon sometimes less if it works out both ways.

[tacatcon]

Honestly, I have never gotten that exact. I just do it face value to face value (unless one is way hotter than the other). So I would do 4 of the Powerade to one of the Snuggle. I don't know if others do it differently

[kval07]

That is way too much thought for a trade. There is no dividing here. I wouldn't trade 8 powerade coupons for one Snuggle either. I would trade $3 ish in Powerade coupons for one Snuggle. But I don't ever trade value for value, so I could be wrong. To me, Powerade and Snuggle coupons are at about the same level-hard to come by and highly desired.

[FunnyFace]

I do just like tacatcon said when trading coupon for coupon taking into consideration what kval mentioned about desire value.

$3 Snuggle/$.75 Powerade=4

[queenofthehivemomof5]

If you are wanting to trade coupon for coupon it would just be a simple face value of the coupon for face value of the coupons. It does not matter if the coupon is off 1 or 2 or 3.

So in your case (1) $3.00 coupon would be traded for (4) $0.75 coupons or (6) $0.50 coupons or (3) $1.00 coupons.

Of course if one coupon is hotter than the other that might make a difference but I would say that both the Snuggle and Powerade coupons are equally hot.

If you are wanting to pay a handling fee for coupons the average price is 10% face value for regular everyday insert coupons. 20-25% of the face value for hot, rare, or free item coupons. And 30% for winetags for generic items like meat, cheese, deli item, bakery item, etc.

Of course there will always be folks that overvalue or undervalue their coupons or just want to make a good trade for coupons that they will use and get rid of coupons that they want. But if you are going to make an offer on a trade it is good to have some sort of guidelines to go by so you are not skimping or over trading for coupons.

[raesana]

I trade like funny face and tacatcon- just face value.

[gctattoo]

I usually trade coupon for coupon. It doesn't really matter to me whether one coupon is hotter than another. However, I won't do this for extremely high value coupons such as the $30 Contour/Breeze. For those, I generally go by the 10% guideline at the most.

But as mentioned before, I've also traded a very high combined value of coupons for a small amount--mainly potlucks. It depends upon how much I want to get rid of what I have. Unless I'm getting coupons I want out of the deal, the value of coupons I don't want isn't a factor for me. I trade by number, not value when it comes to those. Other traders get a great deal and I get more space on top of my washer. :)

Long story short, it doesn't have to be an exactly even trade to make both parties happy.

[raesana]

That's true too gctattoo. When I was still in TNT, one of the best things they told me was "if you think it's a good trade, then it's a good trade".