I guess this is on topic.
Today I needed to order some pepper - both teli and white from Penzey's.
When I typed in "Penzey's" there popped up several coupon sites before I
moved on down to the real catalog site.
We believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny; have suspicions about
the Great Pumpkin. Do any of these coupon sites actually benefit cooks or
do they just want to give us 1% off of 12 dozen pairs of golf cleats and
give our spam filter constant grief? Polly

"Polly Esther" > wrote in message
...
>I guess this is on topic.
> Today I needed to order some pepper - both teli and white from
> Penzey's. When I typed in "Penzey's" there popped up several coupon sites
> before I moved on down to the real catalog site.
> We believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny; have suspicions about
> the Great Pumpkin. Do any of these coupon sites actually benefit cooks or
> do they just want to give us 1% off of 12 dozen pairs of golf cleats and
> give our spam filter constant grief? Polly

I don't know what coupons you saw and I don't shop at Penzey's but yes there
are plenty of real coupons online. Some you have to print off and take to
the store. Some are coupon codes that you punch it at checkout.

On 9/19/2011 9:59 PM, Polly Esther wrote:
> I guess this is on topic.
> Today I needed to order some pepper - both teli and white from Penzey's.
> When I typed in "Penzey's" there popped up several coupon sites before I
> moved on down to the real catalog site.

> We believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny; have suspicions about
> the Great Pumpkin. Do any of these coupon sites actually benefit cooks
> or do they just want to give us 1% off of 12 dozen pairs of golf cleats
> and give our spam filter constant grief? Polly

Whenever you shop online you should always search for coupons
for that particular website. If you see an offer that appeals
to you, you'll find a promo code or whatever they're calling it.
It can save you good money on your order or for shipping.

nancy

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:39:32 -0400, Nancy Young <email@replyto> wrote:

> Whenever you shop online you should always search for coupons
> for that particular website. If you see an offer that appeals
> to you, you'll find a promo code or whatever they're calling it.
> It can save you good money on your order or for shipping.

I know it can be done, but I haven't done it. My DD's first job after
graduating from college was at a small internet "engineering" firm.
She told me a story one time about them needed new computers and the
boss found online coupons that didn't have that caveat about not good
with other offers or whatever the legal language is so he bought what
he needed - basically for free. He checked back at the website a
couple of hours later and that loophole had been close.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:39:32 -0400, Nancy Young <email@replyto> wrote:

>On 9/19/2011 9:59 PM, Polly Esther wrote:
>> I guess this is on topic.
>> Today I needed to order some pepper - both teli and white from Penzey's.
>> When I typed in "Penzey's" there popped up several coupon sites before I
>> moved on down to the real catalog site.
>
>> We believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny; have suspicions about
>> the Great Pumpkin. Do any of these coupon sites actually benefit cooks
>> or do they just want to give us 1% off of 12 dozen pairs of golf cleats
>> and give our spam filter constant grief? Polly
>
>Whenever you shop online you should always search for coupons
>for that particular website. If you see an offer that appeals
>to you, you'll find a promo code or whatever they're calling it.
>It can save you good money on your order or for shipping.
>
>nancy

Many web sites for national brand products have coupons you can print,
or register to receive coupons by snail mail. Whenever possible I
phone my order, I simply ask for the promotional discount and if one
exists I've yet to be refused. Penzeys has their coupons in their
catalog... they don't give discounts but if requested will include a
sample with your phone-in order. And this reminds me to go to the
Freschetta web site to print my coupons.

On 9/19/2011 8:59 PM, Polly Esther wrote:
> I guess this is on topic.
> Today I needed to order some pepper - both teli and white from Penzey's.
> When I typed in "Penzey's" there popped up several coupon sites before I
> moved on down to the real catalog site.
> We believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny; have suspicions about
> the Great Pumpkin. Do any of these coupon sites actually benefit cooks
> or do they just want to give us 1% off of 12 dozen pairs of golf cleats
> and give our spam filter constant grief? Polly

I have a coupon service that will pop up when I got to a particular web
site. They offer the codes. I have used them many times and they work
most of the time. I think the one I use is Price Blink. Just used it
for free shipping the other day.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:32:13 -0500, Janet Wilder
> wrote:

> I have a coupon service that will pop up when I got to a particular web
> site. They offer the codes. I have used them many times and they work
> most of the time. I think the one I use is Price Blink. Just used it
> for free shipping the other day.

It's always nice to hear about something that works, thanks.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Sep 20, 12:51*pm, sf > wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:32:13 -0500, Janet Wilder
>
> > wrote:
> > I have a *coupon service that will pop up when I got to a particular web
> > site. They offer the codes. *I have used them many times and they work
> > most of the time. *I think the one I use is Price Blink. Just used it
> > for free shipping the other day.
>
> It's always nice to hear about something that works, thanks.
>
> --
> I love cooking with wine.
> Sometimes I even put it in the food.

I go to Coupon Cabin sometimes and have found some useful promo codes
there.

N.

On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:10:27 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
> wrote:

> I go to Coupon Cabin sometimes and have found some useful promo codes
> there.

Thanks! That's the first useful coupon site I've seen.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On 9/19/2011 10:39 PM, Nancy Young wrote:

> Whenever you shop online you should always search for coupons
> for that particular website. If you see an offer that appeals
> to you, you'll find a promo code or whatever they're calling it.
> It can save you good money on your order or for shipping.

That's a very good tip. I do that all the time and usually always find
a deal I can use for what I was already going to buy.

On 9/20/2011 10:59 PM, Cheryl wrote:
> On 9/19/2011 10:39 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> Whenever you shop online you should always search for coupons
>> for that particular website. If you see an offer that appeals
>> to you, you'll find a promo code or whatever they're calling it.
>> It can save you good money on your order or for shipping.
>
> That's a very good tip. I do that all the time and usually always find a
> deal I can use for what I was already going to buy.

Jill told me that years ago, and when I found luggage I wanted to
buy, I remembered when I saw that 'Promo Code' box. It saved me
another $20 or something. Cool! And after that it was easy to
remember to look.

nancy

On 9/21/2011 7:32 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:39:32 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> Whenever you shop online you should always search for coupons
>> for that particular website. If you see an offer that appeals
>> to you, you'll find a promo code or whatever they're calling it.
>> It can save you good money on your order or for shipping.
>
> I had to buy a Greyhound ticket online about 10 hours before I left.
> When booking it asked if I had a discount code. So I opened up
> another tab and typed "greyhound discount code". Up pops a site with
> a code, I entered that, and got $20 off.

That's what I wind up doing, too, opening a window while I'm
checking out already. $20 is nothing to sneeze at considering
people who don't look just wind up paying full price.

> For regular grocery coupons, they can often be found right on the
> manufacturers site or their facebook page (you usually have to "like"
> them first, but then I immediately "unlike" them). My grocery store
> also publishes valuable coupons on their site and gives them out on
> the mailing list.

Perhaps it's no longer true, but for a long time there was a
sign on the registers where I shopped saying they don't accept
internet coupons, so I've never tried printing grocery coupons.

> I don't give my email to coupon sites. BTDT.

I get the idea those sites will turn into a spam avalanche and
I just don't even go there to look.

nancy

On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:40:05 -0400, Nancy Young <email@replyto> wrote:

>Perhaps it's no longer true, but for a long time there was a
>sign on the registers where I shopped saying they don't accept
>internet coupons, so I've never tried printing grocery coupons.

I don't think I ever printed grocery coupons but I've done it for
concerts and restaurants. They have a bar code on them. That for
cheap shows though. We saw Erasure last weekend and the tickets were
a C-note each. They mailed the tickets as no printing was allowed.

Thanks to who ever started this thread. I'll be looking for codes
from now on.


Lou

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:59:49 -0500, "Polly Esther"
> wrote:

>I guess this is on topic.
> Today I needed to order some pepper - both teli and white from Penzey's.
>When I typed in "Penzey's" there popped up several coupon sites before I
>moved on down to the real catalog site.
> We believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny; have suspicions about
>the Great Pumpkin. Do any of these coupon sites actually benefit cooks or
>do they just want to give us 1% off of 12 dozen pairs of golf cleats and
>give our spam filter constant grief? Polly

Check out the web sites for the two coupon fliers that appear in my
Sunday newspaper.

www.smartsource.com
www.redplum.com

--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)