"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:04:09 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>> And you didn't read what I wrote. In order to do this, you do need to
>> get
>> tons of crap that you won't eat or use. The idea is to create overage to
>> get the stuff that you do want.
>
> I have no idea what overage means, but where is the savings when you
> have to buy stuff you don't want?

*sigh* Overage means that you are being paid to take it from the store.
Here is the example I gave to Jill. You have a coupon for 50 cents off.
Your store doubles it to $1.00 off. The item is on sale for 70 cents.
Therefore you get 30 cents back to put in your pocket. The store just paid
you 30 cents to take that item from the store. Doesn't matter what this
item is or if you will ever use it. Do this 100 times and you've made $30.

Keep in mind that while Walmart gives overage, most stores do not. Most
also do not double your coupon values. But when I lived on Cape Cod, all
stores doubled them. And on Tues. Stop and Shop tripled them on Tues. but I
think they had a limit of 10 coupons.

The people who get away with this stuff have all sorts of tricks up their
sleeves and have all sorts of ways of bending the rules to get what they
want. Some also use bogus coupons. That Extreme Couponing show showed
several of them using the bogus high value toilet paper coupons. They were
making money hand over fist. But in some cases, the store demanded that
they get paid back.