On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 21:40:15 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
> "sf" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:04:30 -0700, David Harmon >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:35:11 -0400 in rec.food.cooking, The Cook
> >> > wrote,
> >> >Extreme couponing is for the birds.
> >>
> >> And, at least as shown in the various reports I have seen, relies on
> >> a lot of cheating and fraud.
> >>
> > Care to post a link or two?
>
> I sure will.
>
> http://www.jillcataldo.com/node/16258
>
> http://www.hotcouponworld.com/2011/0...-coupon-fraud/
>
> http://thekrazycouponlady.com/2011/0...-coupon-fraud/
>
> http://supercouponing.com/extremecou...questions.html
>
> And there are a lot more. They kept on doing it even after it was brought
> to TLC's attention and I am one of the people who did so.
>
> There is a list of bogus coupons.
>
> There is a link here to check if your coupons are fake:
>
> http://www.atg.wa.gov/BlogPost.aspx?id=20710
>
> You can still buy these fake coupons on Ebay and other places. Not that I
> am telling you to do so. Anyway... On the last episode, a woman was
> shopping at the Seattle K Mart and used the very same bogus toilet paper
> coupons that were brought to their attention prior. I do not have the link
> about her but it's out there somewhere. She said that she didn't know that
> she had bogus coupons and that she was just trying to save money because she
> was having a baby. But IMO she would have to have known. It was all over
> the Internet that the coupons were bogus and most people who do make an
> effort to use coupons on a regular basis do check in at least once in a
> while to the various couponing websites. The bogus coupons are always
> listed there so that we don't accidentally use them.
>
> I may have in fact bought bogus coupons from Ebay. I did buy coupons a few
> times. But the ones that seemed too good to be true were not for products
> that are sold in this area. So chances are, the few I was able to use were
> legit.
>
Thanks, I wondered why my world of coupons seems so different from
theirs. They cheat and I don't.

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