Are you always amazed at the crazy deals that are shown on Extreme Couponing? Me too! However, as I’ve said before, it’s not always legitimate, and here’s one more example of fraudulent couponing. . . read the full article HERE and more information HERE.
If you order coupons, I encourage you to really consider the company that you’re purchasing from, as unfortunately there are folks who’ve turned a seemingly harmless coupon into a major money making scheme. At this point, I really don’t advocate purchasing coupons and feel that you’ll get plenty of deals just by getting your local Sunday paper and printing all the great coupons that are available easily online. (I promise, I save 70-80% on our family’s grocery budget and use only printable coupons or ones from our Sunday paper. . . if I can do this, you can too!)
Want to learn more about coupon ethics? Here are a few more articles worth taking a peek at:
- Check out these great posts on how to coupon ethically
- Quilted Northern fraudulent coupon usage on Extreme Couponing
- Fraudulent Coupons? Use Good Judgement
- Tips on Avoiding Bad Coupon Usage
- Learn How To Make Your Cashier Love You (ethics really do matter!)
I knew it…I just knew it!! Everytime I watch, I always tell my husband that those coupons have got to be fake. I don’t watch very often, but happened to catch an episode late one night and saw a woman get several 12 packs of soda for free. She stated that she had a manufactures coupon for a free 12 pack up to a certain dollar amount. I remember thinking there is no way that the company sent her all those coupons, one – maybe two free product coupons if you have a legitimate complaint/problem with a product, but not a enough for a cartload of free soda! It was the same situation with the teenage boy who had all those coupons for free toilet paper up to $12.99 or something similar. I believe they found that one to be fake also. So sad that there are people out there who do this.
coke does give out “free” coupons for their 12pks BUT you need to enter 250pts to redeem it LOL so at the most i can usually get 2 MAYBE if i`m lucky with familys help 3 coupons, but it really sucks to see how people will make/use free coupons to save a buck when companies are already offering us ways to help save !
A couple of the sites those women ran were still up earlier today. It was quite interesting reading what they had to say about their site and coupons. They asked that you not tell anyone about ordering from their site, you had to have a referral to order from them and one site talked about how people sell fake coupons and how to stand your ground at stores when using the free product coupons. I have been fuming for months when I read people posting about overage coupons and buying them on ebay. Sure enough, several of the coupons mentioned are ones that were counterfeit. Believe it or not, there are still some of them for sale on ebay today with multiple bids…Dr. Pepper 12 packs, Dixie plates, Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup. All of these were included in the counterfeits. Sure, maybe three or four free product coupons could be legit, but when there are 65 coupons on ebay at one time for $5 off Driscoll’s fruit, it should be obvious that something is not right. Surely those that purchase coupons like this have to feel that something isn’t quite right about it?