Warning to extreme coupon "tearpad takers"

[ldregallo]

Maybe I'm mean, but I'm glad people like that get arrested. If I want any of those coupons, I have to buy them from someone online!

They take them all and sell them online. It really bothers me because coupons cannot be sold. You are allowed a fee for clipping. No one clipped these coupons. It's not like they are selling their extras when they have hundreds of them.

When I was at kroger last week there were about 20 boxes of something in the freezer section with huge parts of the box torn off. The box was still whole, but you couldn't see the picture on it. They peeled off half the box when they took the coupon. Who is going to want to buy a mangled box.

[cupunlvr]

I don't think its ethical but I simply don't believe your story of the "arrest".....seems extreme and would be a huge liability for the store.

[Gnorga]

Maybe I'm mean, but I'm glad people like that get arrested. If I want any of those coupons, I have to buy them from someone online!

They take them all and sell them online. It really bothers me because coupons cannot be sold. You are allowed a fee for clipping. No one clipped these coupons. It's not like they are selling their extras when they have hundreds of them.

When I was at kroger last week there were about 20 boxes of something in the freezer section with huge parts of the box torn off. The box was still whole, but you couldn't see the picture on it. They peeled off half the box when they took the coupon. Who is going to want to buy a mangled box.

me, right here! If it's free or cheap...who cares about some missing cardboard

[joshmamabear]

If its a food item with a mangled box, I won't take them even if it has a sign that says FREE.

But if its items like packing tapes, mangled boxes of mailing envelopes, I'll buy them all when I find them on clearance shelves.

[Gnorga]

If its a food item with a mangled box, I won't take them even if it has a sign that says FREE.

But if its items like packing tapes, mangled boxes of mailing envelopes, I'll buy them all when I find them on clearance shelves.

I mean, I'm not going to buy something that looks like someone tore it apart looking for a prize inside, but if it's obvious someone messed up when taking a peelie...sure.

I live life on the edge.

[CouponLuv72]

Something is kinda odd here though. How can someone be arrested for "stealing" something that 1) has no cash value or so little its 1/100th of a cent. and 2)the coupons belong to the company that put them out, not the store. so the COMPANY would have to file charges. I simply do not believe any stores claims or managers claims of having actually had someone arrested for taking coupons. Just does not fit with the law and how things work legally to me.

[joshmamabear]

I read a Family Dollar executive sent an internal memo regarding coupon acceptance (posted in 2 other boards). One point he stressed was coupons were legal tender. Hmm, I have to think twice on that because of verbiage that coupons have no cash value or as little as 1/100 of a cent. Add the fact that coupons are specific ONLY to certain items they are meant to be used, NOT for anything we can buy just like cash. WE can't use the $15 Nicorette or $20 Align coupons to buy our groceries;

or else, why shouldn't we just cut all the $10 Crest, $15 Nicorette, $20 Align and $30 Norelco MQs for our shopping money?

ya'll think coupons are legal tender? why or why not?

[CouponLuv72]

I read a Family Dollar executive sent an internal memo regarding coupon acceptance (posted in 2 other boards). One point he stressed was coupons were legal tender. Hmm, I have to think twice on that because of verbiage that coupons have no cash value or as little as 1/100 of a cent. Add the fact that coupons are specific ONLY to certain items they are meant to be used, NOT for anything we can buy just like cash. WE can't use the $15 Nicorette or $20 Align coupons to buy our groceries;

or else, why shouldn't we just cut all the $10 Crest, $15 Nicorette, $20 Align and $30 Norelco MQs for our shopping money?

ya'll think coupons are legal tender? why or why not?

Of course they are not legal tender. They have no actual value in an of themselves. I can buy anything I want with a $5 bill as long as it will be covered by that $5 of course. I cannot buy just anything i want with such and so coupon for so much off a specific product. While many treat coupons as being as valuable as cash, they simply are not. Just my opinion.

[OneHotMomma]

I'm not sure. They are used like cash towards a specific item. If something costs 5.00 and you use a 3.00 coupon and 2.00 cash, the item is paid for. However, like you said money AKA "legal tender" can be used toward anything in your cart.

[joshmamabear]

I hope it doesn't backfire on FD when smart aleck couponers go there and use the executive's memo to say that coupons are legal tender and therefore just like cash that they can use to pay for anything the store sells

when I read the memo, I just felt it didn't sound like something coming from an executive with the language/terms used, unless the executive made a couponer write it for him

I found it when I typed this on google ~ FD coupon policy from vp and the link from another board came up.