extreme couponers

[xanis]

Don't care if this is a repost.

Has anyone watched this show? The deals these people manage to get are absolutely insane... this one woman I just saw had a $1,300 total bill and wound up somehow NETTING $150.

 

[Zeze]

I saw this on a morning news 3-4 years ago. Now they made it into a show.

What they don't show is the all the labor and hours of work you put into it + giving up the freedom to eat what you want on a whim.

 

[xanis]

I saw this on a morning news 3-4 years ago. Now they made it into a show.

What they don't show is the all the labor and hours of work you put into it + giving up the freedom to eat what you want on a whim.

From what I've seen it's basically a full-time job. One woman said that she spends something like 35 hours a week collecting coupons.

 

[FoBoT]

i was in walmart last week, behind 3 girls with 2 shopping carts full of hair products, shampoo, conditioners and skin care products, lotions, etc

they gave the checker guy at least 100+ coupons
when he finished, the walmart guy gave them $46 in cash (the girls paid $0) and all the stuff

i thought maybe it was on tv so i waited/watched, it took a really long time

i believe they bought the coupons in a packet, as they had this binder with a cover type page, it said something like "Save over $246" and all the coupons were cut square, they were clearly not cut out of papers/magazines by hand as there were no crooked or ragged edges

 

[sandorski]

She goes into the store, then she comes out with Stuff and more money. You can't explain that!

 

[trmiv]

There's a guy at work that does shit like this (although apparently not to this level!). He has a pantry totally stocked with garbage like beanie weenies, cheap bbq sauce, chef boyardee and every other kind of crap you can imagine.

 

[TwiceOver]

This show is nothing but "Hoarders: Food Edition". Who needs an entire shelf of Mustard.

About the only one that I could stand was the guy that was doing it to create care packages for troops. But these women with like 50 bottles of Ketchup? WTF is the point of that.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

slickdeals and fatwallet on steroids?

 

[xanis]

This show is nothing but "Hoarders: Food Edition". Who needs an entire shelf of Mustard.

About the only one that I could stand was the guy that was doing it to create care packages for troops. But these women with like 50 bottles of Ketchup? WTF is the point of that.

This woman on now has a entire basement full of stuff worth something like $15,000... she says she has some compulsion to buy sale items.

On the plus side, I know who's house I'm raiding first when the apocalypse happens.

 

[GTSRguy]

Its pretty epic how someone can walk into a store, take $1,000 in merchandise, and then get paid $150 and leave, LOL. Im always surprised to see the managers smiling and clapping (on the show), lol, whats the manager so happy about? Thats total loop-hole ownage there, id be pissed! If i was the manager/store owner, Id be like 'dont let that b!tch in my store she takes all my cheap BBQ sauce and mouthwash"

 

[xanis]

Its pretty epic how someone can walk into a store, take $1,000 in merchandise, and then get paid $150 and leave, LOL. Im always surprised to see the managers smiling and clapping (on the show), lol, whats the manager so happy about? Thats total loop-hole ownage there, id be pissed! If i was the manager/store owner, Id be like 'dont let that b!tch in my store she takes all my cheap BBQ sauce and mouthwash"

Middle management in charge of a food store. How much would YOU care?

 

[goog40]

When you take into account the number of hours they spend on that, and the real value of the merchandise they're getting (it may retail for a thousand bucks, but it's certainly not worth anywhere near that much to the buyer), it's basically a job that pays around minimum wage or less.

 

[CPA]

Its pretty epic how someone can walk into a store, take $1,000 in merchandise, and then get paid $150 and leave, LOL. Im always surprised to see the managers smiling and clapping (on the show), lol, whats the manager so happy about? Thats total loop-hole ownage there, id be pissed! If i was the manager/store owner, Id be like 'dont let that b!tch in my store she takes all my cheap BBQ sauce and mouthwash"

The stores get reimbursed for those coupons, less a fee imposed by the coupon processing company like International Outsourcing Services, by the manufacturer. They don't lose money, the manufacturers do.

 

[Newbian]

This show is nothing but "Hoarders: Food Edition". Who needs an entire shelf of Mustard.

Depends if it's the great spicy kind or the crappy sweet kind.

 

[Bignate603]

Its pretty epic how someone can walk into a store, take $1,000 in merchandise, and then get paid $150 and leave, LOL. Im always surprised to see the managers smiling and clapping (on the show), lol, whats the manager so happy about? Thats total loop-hole ownage there, id be pissed! If i was the manager/store owner, Id be like 'dont let that b!tch in my store she takes all my cheap BBQ sauce and mouthwash"

Could it be cheap advertisement. It would cost them much more than $1000 to get a TV spot.

 

[OutHouse]

We watch the show and enjoy it, my wife has used coupons for years and has saved me thousands of dollars. what pisses me off is the ones that take it above and beyond and get 200 bags of rice..... ok i get it you will donate the excess to a food bank but store managers really frown upon somebody coming in and wiping them out of one product like that. those inconsiderate pricks should call ahead and order it so the store has it for them instead of just cleaning out the shelves.

 

[lxskllr]

This show is nothing but "Hoarders: Food Edition". Who needs an entire shelf of Mustard.

About the only one that I could stand was the guy that was doing it to create care packages for troops. But these women with like 50 bottles of Ketchup? WTF is the point of that.

You can make some extra money selling at flea markets. I used to buy a lot of stuff at one particular market. I quit going for awhile, and they closed down. The vendors spread out to different markets, but I didn't feel like tracking them down.

 

[kami333]

I've also heard of people having "yard sales" to resale the stuff they get on coupons.

Coupons are really only good for packaged food and personal care/hygene type items, you very rarely come across coupons for fresh produce or meats. I usually use coupons when appropriate (been a big Hot Deals, SD and FW fan for 10years) but there's a point of diminishing returns. If my gf was a SAHM we'd probably use more coupons, but as it is we both work so spending more than an extra hour couponing and planning our shopping is a bit much. Though I have to admit I did stock up on about 50lbs worth of pasta when Kroger had them on sale for 25cents/lbs in the spring.

Personally, I think some of their coupon stacking is unrealistic, for example a lot of stores have stopped accepting more than 1coupon per item etc, and I think it's also not very honest when they use coupons that were received from buying a previous item since there was a cost there but they don't include that in their calculations. The stores let them do it on the show since it's free PR, and most people who try to copy them will fail to plan enough and end up buying more than they need to while not realizing the savings.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

i'ver seen that show. those people are ridiculous. with all the time and effort it takes, just get a damn job. "2 pallets of barbecue sauce cost me $1.75" whoop dee dooo, now eat it before it expires in 6 months.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

The stores get reimbursed for those coupons, less a fee imposed by the coupon processing company like International Outsourcing Services, by the manufacturer. They don't lose money, the manufacturers do.

Of course they lose money. They have labor costs involved in moving those products from the warehouse to the store, from the truck to the backroom, from the back room to the shelf and the time of the cashier to ring those monster orders. If a product goes out the door for free the store comes out behind.

 

[Bryf50]

I don't get how this works. Nearly every coupon says things like 1 per customer and can't be combined with other offers. As someone who worked as a cashier I would generally ignore the wording when the customer was reasonable. But if a customer was buying massive amounts of the same product and trying to use 3 coupons for each I would usually stick to what the coupon said or my manager would be pissed at the end of the night.

The worst were the people who constantly tried to give the wrong coupons for products and hope the cashier just scanned them. It was always the same people and they'd target the new cashiers. My favorite was when they'd conveniently cut the expiration date off the top of the coupon. Or one time we had someone going around with coupons for a free packs of cigarettes that was clearly fake.

 

[FoBoT]

i knew they must be buying these things
http://wholecouponinserts.com/
http://buycoupons.org/

 

[ViviTheMage]

From my knowledge, the show only shows what coupons they HAVE.

It does not say how they get them ... alt he ink they use to print coupons, all the papers they have to buy, all the driving around collecting magazines, whatever...honestly, not worth the time IMO....now if you're a stay at home mom...go for it...that's 80% of the show it seems like.

GF watches it, so I listen in.

 

[cubby1223]

Of course they lose money. They have labor costs involved in moving those products from the warehouse to the store, from the truck to the backroom, from the back room to the shelf and the time of the cashier to ring those monster orders. If a product goes out the door for free the store comes out behind.

No. Read. The store gets reimbursed for the coupons, the store comes out ahead. These are largely manufacturer coupons, the manufacturer takes the loss, not the store.

 

[mjrpes3]

Could someone give an example of a coupon where you get money back? That part I can never understand.