Is this okay or is it fraud?

[big bird]

I have about 20 of each of these coupons: B1G1 free M & M's, Snicker's etc. and $1/2 off same things. At my local grocery store (Smith's, a Kroger's store) Snickers are on sale this week 2 for 88 cents. I want to buy 2 candy bars and use the $1/2 and 2 B1G1 and end up with 4 candy bars for free or (a money maker if they do that there). (I would try it with one set first to see if it works.) This really seems too good to be true and I don't want to do anything dishonest. What do you think? Fraud or just a good deal?

Thanks for you help,
Berdette

[jen276here]

I'm not sure if I am understanding correctly but I'll try to help.

You cannot buy only 2 candy bars and use both the B1G1 and the $1/2. because 1 bar would have 2 MFQ's applying discounts to it which is a no-no.

You can buy 3 and use the B1G1 and the $1/2 (assuming there is no wording on the Q's saying cannot be combined with other offers) so it would look like this: $2.64/3 - $1/2 - $.88 B1G1 = $.76/3 bars

HTH!

[CW&M Mom]

If you had a buy1 get 1 and were using a $1 off of 1. then I think you could pull it off.

[meems]

I have about 20 of each of these coupons: B1G1 free M & M's, Snicker's etc. and $1/2 off same things. At my local grocery store (Smith's, a Kroger's store) Snickers are on sale this week 2 for 88 cents. I want to buy 2 candy bars and use the $1/2 and 2 B1G1 and end up with 4 candy bars for free or (a money maker if they do that there). (I would try it with one set first to see if it works.) This really seems too good to be true and I don't want to do anything dishonest. What do you think? Fraud or just a good deal?

Thanks for you help,
Berdette

Each coupon should be coded for 2 products, so buying 4 is legal use of those coupons...as to overage or not, that depends how your store computers are set up.

[MoneySavinDiva]

I have about 20 of each of these coupons: B1G1 free M & M's, Snicker's etc. and $1/2 off same things. At my local grocery store (Smith's, a Kroger's store) Snickers are on sale this week 2 for 88 cents. I want to buy 2 candy bars and use the $1/2 and 2 B1G1 and end up with 4 candy bars for free or (a money maker if they do that there). (I would try it with one set first to see if it works.) This really seems too good to be true and I don't want to do anything dishonest. What do you think? Fraud or just a good deal?

Thanks for you help,
Berdette

You could buy four candy bars and use a BOGO coupon on two of them and a $1/2 coupon on two of them. But you can't buy two candy bars and use the BOGO and $1/2 on just those two bars. That would be fraud...

[PurrMinn]

I think the OP is asking about this scenario:

buy 4 candy bars
use (1) $1/2 Q
use (2) bogo Qs

As far as I know, it would be legal (please correct me if I'm wrong!), but YMMV, because some stores won't let you use a Man Q on the original product that results in the free product from the bogo Q (if that makes sense). As far as I see it:

You are buying 2 candy bars and using a $1/2 Q on those two.
Then, you've already purchased 2 candy bars, so you are using two bogo Qs to get a free candy bar from each of the ones mentioned before.

[donnamcole]

I have about 20 of each of these coupons: B1G1 free M & M's, Snicker's etc. and $1/2 off same things. At my local grocery store (Smith's, a Kroger's store) Snickers are on sale this week 2 for 88 cents. I want to buy 2 candy bars and use the $1/2 and 2 B1G1 and end up with 4 candy bars for free or (a money maker if they do that there). (I would try it with one set first to see if it works.) This really seems too good to be true and I don't want to do anything dishonest. What do you think? Fraud or just a good deal?

Thanks for you help,
Berdette

My grocery store (ShopRite) will not accept a coupon on an item that you purchased in conjuction with a B1G1F Q.... but that is just their store policy. They figure a B1G1F Q "covers" both items, so I save those B1G1F Qs for other stores.

Wags and CVS have both allowed me to do this (stack B1G1Fs and regular Qs), but you cannot use a coupon on an item you are getting for free, only on the one for which you are paying.

In most stores, you'd need to put 4 candy bars on the register and use 2 B1G1F Qs and 1 $1/2 Q, leaving you paying .00 for 4 candy bars. You got 2 free with the B1G1F Qs and paid .00 each for the other two. It would be a rare store to allow overage, which would come to .12 per bar.

Fraud would come in if the store presented them for redemption at more than the .44 cents they allowed you for the coupon and that would be fraud on the store's part, not yours... at least imho.

I think some of the other answers you got here misunderstood that the candy are 44 cents a bar, not 88 cents a bar.

Donna

[stitch1769]

no stores in my area will accept both sets of coupons for the mentioned items, it would be double dipping in a sense, and most coupons state that they cannot be combined w/ other coupons/offers, so as of weather or not the store's cashier allows it is different than weather or not it is proper coupon redemption.

[zoeys_mom]

I can tell you at a Kroger store these coupons WILL beep

At Kroger the registers are programmed to read 2 upcs for bogo coupons(at least in my region)
So if you have 4 in your transactions
your 2 bogo coupons "eat" up the candy bars according to the system

After that, it is NOT technically against Kroger policy(at least not in my region) to use the $1/2 coupon BUT it will beep and will depend on the cashier or manager that might get called as to whether they approve it.

[434Teresa]

I think you would have to get 6 candy bars