So we've established that she is in fact NOT using your pics?
Because I see pics on her FB page that I am positive I've seen on SC. If she did not copy the pics from SC, they are hers. If anyone knows her ID on SC, please PM me.
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I just saw that clip on the news in Calgary and I must say that I am very disappointed. I feel really bad for the people that coupon that live in her area. I also sure hope she works for SS as she had 4 full pads of 1 type of coupon, and the other full pads :eek: That is not good at all :mad: whatever happened to coupon etiquette:icon_scratch: If I were her I certainly would not be advertising the fact that I am starting a business teaching others to coupon so pay me for all the coupons in town that I took if you want some:rant: I'm sorry for ranting but that is not acceptable unless of coarse she works at SS, but even then, those coupons were meant for consumers, not for someone to start a business with. Where are your manners:shock:
The PDFs are an attempt to help out the poor souls whose computers don't print the coupons properly for whatever reason. They're trying to help others. I don't know of anyone who went out of their way to abuse this, at all. If people want to be unethical about it, that's THEM, not US as a whole. Don't group what a few do into all of us. I have never done that and I'm sure 98% of people here haven't either, the 2% that do are bad apples like the person this thread is about, or newbies who don't understand WHY the pdfs are posted. The rest of us don't do crap like that.
And who said PILES? I said they share coupons. I didn't say they grab a fistful and trade them. Most SCers who are looking to trade will take 2-4 of the coupon to trade off because they remember somebody was looking for those specific ones, not take a whole pad. And when I said they SHARE coupons, I mean they really do just share, they don't trade, they share. I just sent a girl 15 $5 enfamil coupons that I got from blue bin diving for NOTHING. It was a random act of kindess, JUST BECAUSE I FELT LIKE IT. I didn't want anything from her, I just wanted to share what I have, because I'm a nice person. I didn't steal from anyone else or take whole pads that were put out for LOTS of consumers just because I wanted them. I went looking in the recycling for discarded inserts, had extras of something I won't use because I don't have a baby, and SHARED. I'm so unethical.
Where are you seeing this 20 free boxes of cheerios coupon abuse that you're so sure about? You realize people trade, right? If I traded 18 people for their free box of cheerios coupon and had one account for myself and my grandma has one account and ordered that coupon for me, how am I unethical? How have I done a single thing wrong? How have I stolen from others or committed fraud? If each of those 18 people have one account and trade me one coupon, NOBODY IS DOING ANYTHING WRONG. Stealing a whole tearpad =/= trading. There is just no way to bend that so it's anything like what you're saying. When it was brought to light that somebody was bragging about having a LOT of accounts on websaver, like I said, websaver was contacted and that person's accounts were removed. We do not put up with that here. Trading is perfectly ethical, and that's what members here do (again, excluding the few bad apples like the woman this thread is about).
There are only so many deals around, and when they start popping up, everybody knows about them at roughly the same time. Things are bound to come up on multiple sites and really if somebody copies and pastes the basic details of a deal (70% off _____, start date/end date) who really cares? That isn't what we're talking about here at all. It takes two seconds to write that, whether it's copied or not most of the deals on various deal sites are going to be the same because everyone has the exact same information and there's only so many ways to word it. It's basic information.
Anne takes a LOT of time to compile the deal threads and they're quite extensive, that's not something you get in an email from a retailer. It takes a long time to write that all out. Copying and pasting a deal that the "original poster" just copied and pasted from the message they got in their inbox isn't the same thing as copying and pasting an entire deals list and pretending like you wrote it.
You don't need to give credit when all you're doing is sharing basic information that everybody has access to, but when you're ripping off an extensive, thorough list that somebody took the time to compile, I think it's pretty rude to post it as if you wrote it and not actually credit the person who took their time to write it all out.
I'm sure Anne wouldn't really mind if she posted it if she linked her and SC on each post (speak up if I'm wrong, Anne!), but then again I'm sure she wouldn't want to be associated with somebody who committed coupon fraud on the news and justifies it by saying she donates all the stuff she fraudulently got with the wrong coupons.
Holy cow that was long. Sorry gang :P I'm just extremely frustrated that somebody with 2 posts is trying to tell me SCers are on the same level as this Amanda woman is. Ugh.
I'm confused by the one comment the banned person made. They said it was "unethical" to post the PDF of the ziploc coupon and that <blank> and were above that... but I know for a fact <blank> posted it on her site. So... okay for one, but not the other? :shrug:
Anyway. The Listerine coupons were underneath the LaCoupe in the Amanda video. They were definitely used in one transaction. I'm surprised she hasn't admitted she made a mistake. Everyone grows from mistakes. That's a good lesson if she plans to teach. "Everyone makes mistakes once, just don't do it again!" :)
PS: I'm super glad she didn't say she got her coupons from God. I got enough of that from Extreme Couponing! I'd rather she say rep than God (unless God is her rep?) :lolsign:
Mmmmhmmm, probably wouldn't be as good for her little opportunistic "business" to credit someone else though. She's touting herself as a "master couponer" afterall. :lolsign:
SOMEONE must have clue who this person is on SC so please pm Amberlab if you have any idea. :top:
I'm so angry! How can she just put herself out there like that promoting her little business when she knows nothing about ethics or couponing except how to make sure no one else in her area get any coupons, constantly taking information from other sites and not giving credit where credit is due. All the contributers, Mod's, Anne and everyone put in long hours to do all this work for us here on SC. She should be ashamed of herself!!!
I got this PM from millivill and I just don't understand it??? Can anyone decifer this since this person is now banned???
boo plagerism
read this including the comments
http://www./2011/01/why-i-watermark-my-images.html
Also boo or his mods have copied lots of content from 's site since she left sc
Also known they have cut and paste tons of stuff word for word from including boo himself when he used to be around. That is why then banned link to sc after htey noticed all the copying to the blog here by the site itself
jeez, sweetcoupons facebook page deletes more than they let through LOL. They posted how there were 'lots' of admin - so hay fanz its not just Amanda posting!!! :rolleyes: Then someone replied that its too bad 'that one admin' was the cause of all the trouble and negativity being attracted to the page. And that comment was deleted. Now a fan has posted a deal copied word for word from another deals blog. She teaches her students well, apparently. Someone pointed out where it came from.. wonder if that will get deleted too?
It boggles my mind how people think this girl is someone to learn from. :icon_scratch: