Couponing

I went on a small shop this morning in my local major supermarket with a load of coupons to see if real savings could be made....

I used:
comfort €1 coupons x 3
Killeen €5 coupon x 1
Dettol €1 x 2
Heinz Ketchup 75c x 2
Hellmans 80c x 2
and another particular one from a magazine that scans for a higher amount than printed. (so dont ask me which one!) All couponites on here will know!

I got 3 comfort items on offer at 1.99 - 3 x €1 coupon. All 3 coupons were accepted at the till even though it states one per transaction! so each comfort item only cost 99c

The killeen coupon scanned no problem and i was up €2.40 as i had only bought two killeen items at €1.30 each! happy days!

I tried buying one dettol spray as per one €1 dettol coupon and chanced my arm buying a dettol floor liquid to see would the other spray dettol €1 coupon cover that even though it was not a spray... it didnt. the cashier said it didnt scan cause two dettol sparys would need to have been bought/scanned as per coupon terms. so only was able to use one of the €1 dettol coupons.

bought one heinz ketchup but used the two 75c coupons against it no problem! so saved 1.50 on it!

Same again with the hellmans... bought one jar and was able to use the two 80c coupons against it so saved 1.60 there!

Now, we come to the last one... :o:o

The one that scans higher than face value... i reckon all the major shops know about that now, as the cashier spotted that straight away, as though it was brought up in an employee meeting to be watched out for by supermarket staff... so she saw it, looked at me and pressed the buzzer and told me she would have to "check this one out with her boss"... she (the line manager) came over and saw it and looked at me as though i came into her house on christmas morning and smacked one of her kids in the head.
She informed me and the rest of the others in the queue quite loudly, that there had been problems with that coupon and that certain people were using it to benefit more than they were allowed. i will have to refuse it if that was okay and she tore it up. I stood there and just replied that my wife had got it from a magazine... and gave it to me to do the shopping with! - as manuel in Fawlty Towers would say... "I Know Nothing!"

Its okay... still saved a few quid on items we could stock up on anyways and it wont put me off couponing... maybe not at that particular store for a while though!

Access, I would have been scarleh if that had happened to me:o I was scarleh enough when they were being authorised. The flipping cheek of her ripping it up though, at the very least she should have offered to put through the amount that was on the voucher:mad: Not good at all. I was tempted to use them again but my heart isn't well after reading your post not to mind if the same thing happened to me.

Look, as i see it, i could have kicked up a fuss etc. but whats the point? i was the one using that particular coupon and i played dumb and they obviously knew of an issue with it and it was flagged. Now that was the first time i used it as i was only informed of that coupon last week. yet it is still available on the web.

Maybe it was only that my particular cashier spotted it didnt register as its face value and i reckon cause i only had a small shop, where as another cashier during a big shop might miss it and it could also be a case that my local store here only flagged it, but i wouldn't try it again lets just say!

I got my discounts off the items i usually get on a regular basis and to be quite honest, i would not print off any vouchers from pigsback or super shoppers that i would not normally be buying week to week anyways... ie... big als burgers... my crowd here say they are tasteless in their opinion and i personally think that even with the coupons for them, they are still overpriced. just my two cents.

I will give you another example... over the weekend, i had a €1.50 coupon off any goodfellas pizza in centra (from the centra facebook page) and i said id chance using the killeen €5 coupon there too. I got my €5.25 of killeen items along with my pizza and headed for the till... the centra coupon? no probs... accepted against the €3.49 pizza, but the killeen? :o:o

Laura (the cashier) called for lisa, who checked it with norma, who rang up the the shops office, who then sent down dave the assistant manager to tell laura that that was okay! Yeaaaaahhhhh! result! but at a cost of 4 mins and blushes of myself while people went off looking for the answer!

I had to laugh though... there was another guy with a killeen coupon in the queue... all the legwork was already done for him!

etcetc wrote: »

the goose is being killed folks

Hunh?

waynestledger wrote: »

I need some help. This is an example if i have a €2 of coupon for washing up luqid and in tseco they have it on sale at €1.99 can i use the coupon for it???????

Are you only allowed to use coupons for items that are not reduced or on sale???

Please help me with this

The terms and conditions on most of the coupons state that you are not supposed to use the coupons with other offers/promotions but they have always gone through for me.

snubbleste wrote: »

That Killeen coupon is very generous. If anyone sees Killeen on offer over the next few months, post it up.

This is probably a stupid question but what's to stop someone walking in with ten (or a hundred) of those vouchers and getting a load of free killeen stuff?? Just seems too good to be true...

I am loving this thread, great idea!

Used the Comfort, Dettol & Vanish Pigsback vouchers in Tesco today. You really get great value when the products are on offer in the first place.

Found this one for 50c off Flora, don't think its been posted yet -

Edit - this has expired - oops!

Keep 'em coming

Siobh73 wrote: »

Something I have noticed with Tesco self service tills is that they tend to let you do 2 coupons yourself in one shop but for any more, you need an assistant to authorise each one. Anyone else find that?

Yeah that happened to me earlier. I thought it was because I was using the Vanish voucher to get the product for 7c and they knew something was wrong but the girl didn't even look at the voucher when she came over! I would go to an actual checkout next time if I have a load of them just to save the hassle

Very excited about using my coupons on my next shop. Gonna go to a big store like Tesco to avoid the whole "sorry we dont accept coupons" malarky.

Quick question for the pros. Do we as consumers have any rights regarding coupons and the refusal of such? Are stores anyway obligated to accept them or do they always have the right to refuse?

Cheers!

oconnor20100 wrote: »

I have only started but sofar i have saved €110 in three weeks and hope to save atleast another two hundred this month. Doing my shopping on friday and I have loads of coupons. But I have found that they look at you when you tell them you have coupons, like today when I was buying the carefree liners, I give the girl the coupons and she didn't know what to do, she had to get someone else to show her what to do. God help them on Friday I have at least 20 to 30 coupons

Great to hear... but stick to items you would buy in your weekly shop anyways, or it will cost you money using your coupons to buy things you dont normally use. the first few times you use coupons, i have found it to be very daunting and you can almost feel the eyes of the person behind you in the queue drilling into you as you delay them further by handing in a load of coupons, but that disappears when they see how much you save!

cant for the life of me get the killeen one or hellmans one to print properly

losing a fortune on hp ink here

danacol €2 off coupon

killeen voucher €5 off(hope this prints better)

KILLEEN VOUCHER REMOVED!

rafaetha wrote: »

Can these Vanish coupons from pigsback be used with any Vanish product or just the one specified on the T&C's? Anyone tried?

I used it on other vanish liquid yesterday in Tescos, no problem accepting it.

sok2005 wrote: »

Hold on, did they want u to buy €5 worth of products from Kileen or just one Killeen product worth €5 or more? Could u not have picked up some other bits to make up the fiver?? That's awful if not.

Yes you could buy a couple of Kileen items or just one for 5 euro .

Had fun with coupons in tesco today . Does anyone know can you print the pigsback ones multiple times?

hellomynameis wrote: »

My daughter tried to use 1 of the mc donalds ones today and they refused her saying they dont accept them, its a mc donalds coupon being used in mc donalds, am i missing something here?

Strange, and unfortunate, but might be explained by the fact that McDonalds is sometimes run by a franchisee who may or may not have the ability to opt out of "McDonalds" promotions.

Tirabaralla, you have started something wonderful here! Fair deuce!