I have kind of a complicated coupon question.
Pedigree dog treats has a manufacturer BOGO out. Target also has a BOGO out on pedigree dog treats. We sell the treats for $2.99 and the coupon rings up as $4.02 The guest had eight bags of treats and four of each kind of coupon. She clearly thought it was going to be a moneymaker and even argued with me a little about it. What I ended up doing was ringing a manual $12 manufacturer coupon (because I wasn't being prompted to change the value of the manufacturer BOGO) and scanning the Target BOGOs. So she ended up getting all eight bags for free, but no overage.
Was this kosher, or did I do something wrong? She was using only one target and one manufacturer coupon per item so it seems fine to me, but I'm not sure.
Jill, was this for this week? I can not find any coupons for pedigree dog treats bogo.. that is not typical for most coupons. The only one I found for pedigree (on legit coupon sites) is for 1.00 off any two pedigree stackerz. I won't go to the bogus websites because they usually cause some kind of rogue virus crap on the computer.. It's not often that a manufacturer is going to give much away - the purpose of coupons is to see whether people are purchasing the product.
Have you ever gone to coupon information center website? It is very enlightening..
http://www.couponinformationcenter.com/ and look at the counterfeit notifications page.. I know many of target's AP's don't want to deal with it and accept the coupons all the time, but in the end we are hurting ourselves.
If target wants to stay uneducated about the coupons, then it's their loss - or the loss for everyone who works for target in the form of raises..scam couponing hurts everyone.
Our GSTL’s and ETL-AP are very coupon conscience. Target does not get reimbursed for counterfeit coupons and they understand that.. There are many coupon scammers out there and many will Target (ha ha) the new cashiers. That's why we always
ask cashiers to flip on their lights when something doesn't look right. Sometimes it’s almost impossible to pick out a fake coupon, but after a while you get to understand the pattern of the people using them.
When our cashiers flip on their light to have someone look at the coupons and our usual scammers see me or one of the other gstl's walking over, they just tell the cashier to forget the whole sale - we put the items aside and then ring them up in training mode later- they become recoveries. Most in excess of 2-3 hundred dollars. Sometimes we can get a few of those a day (depending what the scam deals are being talked about on the internet), so we are somewhat helping Target not make it so easy for the scammers.
One of the problems is learning the difference between a legitimate extreme couponer and a bogus one.. it takes lots of time and practice, which Target doesn’t really want to invest in.. It’s kind of sad that they cry over not making sales, yet they allow people to steal right under their noses.