Nancy Young wrote:
> Nancy2 wrote:
>> On Apr 7, 8:26 am, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>
>>> I never get how they can take so much off their bill, either. Yes,
>>> double coupons are nice but they rarely wind up with getting a
>>> product for free for me.
>
>> I don't get where they find all the coupons. Given I live in a city
>> with fewer than 100,000 people, but I could buy all the different
>> newspapers available on a weekend, clip every coupon in every
>> magazine I read, and never have the mountains and mountains of
>> coupons these people have (taking them 4 hours a day to sort and
>> plan shopping).... and I certainly don't ever get coupons that make
>> the product end up being free because most of those are "buy one,
>> get one free."
>
> Got me. Of course the people on the show go out of their way
> to get coupons. One woman dumpster dives, people write away
> for coupons, another woman somehow gets her newspaper to give
> her all the spare coupon inserts they usually toss. Still, I get two
> papers and that means I get 2 coupons on any given product.
> Hardly stacks of them.
>
> I will never be the people who get $600 grocery bills reduced to
> 5 bucks. I get excited if bleach is on sale and I have a coupon so
> I get 3 for $3 or something. Heh. Amateur.

I won't be one of those people either. I am glad though that rebates aren't
what they once were. I can remember when I worked at K Mart, rebates were a
big thing. We had so many of them that we actually had a rebate board and
at times there we so many rebate cards/certificates that they wouldn't all
fit on the board. Some people made a career out of doing those rebates.

What I really hated was that some companies were not good about sending the
rebate money or products to the customers. And if the customer didn't do
everything exactly right they wouldn't get the rebate. So where did the
disgrunted customers come? To us!

Over the years the rebates seem to have dwindled quite a bit. Once in a
while I'll run across one. But not very often.

At Christmas time I saw a display of Andes Mints and a sign that said "Buy
two get one free!" There were what appeared to be coupons. I just picked
up three and a coupon. But when I got to the register, the clerk (after
unsuccefully scanning the coupon) informed me that it was a rebate and I'd
have to mail it in. I opted not to get the mints. I didn't really need
three packages of them anyway. She said she didn't blame me.