What do you think trades should be worth 2.0

Many people mentioned the old one was getting hard to read with many pages of comments and they found difficult to find the information, so a summary of the answers is here (probably more helpful for the new members we will get for January 1st too)

If you do want to read the old discussion, it is here

As always, this is a guideline for you to know if a trade is fair, actual trade rates are up to the individual and any trade should be what the two people trading are happy with, regardless of guideline

• $50 'start up coupons' not handpicked by trader - 5 stamps
• $100 'start up coupons' not handpicked by trader - 10 stamps

Hand picked coupons are usually traded at $5 per stamp plus a stamp for postage

• $20 hand picked coupons - 5 stamps
• $50 hand picked coupons - 10 stamps / $5 GC
• $100 hand picked coupons - 15-20 stamps / $10 GC

HV/FPCs are usually traded for other HV/FPCs

• $10 worth of HV coupon(s) - same / $3 GC / $20 reg coupons
• $10 worth of FPC coupon(s) - same / $5 GC / $25 reg coupons

The 'value' of HV and FPC would be what SCers would pay for the product considering cents off coupons they would usually use and sale prices NOT max value on coupon or how expensive you can find it for to prove value.

• Stouffer PINs - $2 reg coupon or equivalent
• icoke PINs (based on $5GC/FPC being 6000 icoke /12 pins)
• Pampers PINs (based on $10GC being 1100 pampers points)
• Huggies PINs (based on $15GC being 375 huggies points)
  
• Aeroplan PINs (based on $25GC being 3500 miles)
• Lunchmate bucks/codes (based on $5 GC being 125 lunchmate$ / 25 codes)

• $1 CT Money - same as GC

• SDM points (per $ coupons) 50-100 per $
• SDM points (per $ HV/FPC coupons) 200/250 per $

Let me know if there are codes/rates you want added

Thanks for this.....on the "plus 1 stamp for mailing" has always been my trade rate too....made sense to me but to some, they just didn't get it :0/

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Originally Posted by kk008

Thanks for this.....on the "plus 1 stamp for mailing" has always been my trade rate too....made sense to me but to some, they just didn't get it :0/

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thanks!

thanks :)

thanks for the summary. It's really hard to read thur all the pages.

Thanks so much for this, this are the guidelines I usually, it seems fair to me :)

Awesome! THANK YOU so much for posting this!

Thanks, it makes it so much easier to follow now:)

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Originally Posted by kk008

Thanks for this.....on the "plus 1 stamp for mailing" has always been my trade rate too....made sense to me but to some, they just didn't get it :0/

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well otherwise it is just a sase without them supplying the envie lol

Thank You!

Its always nice to thank someone...shows we appreciate your hard work!! :)

Thank you! So much easier to reference now!

Thanks for all the reps/PMs/thumbs up :)

Thanks. You could also add Huggies code to the above list.
I have been trading
1 Pampers point = 1.2c
1 Huggies point = 2.6c

What about $5 Amazon.ca codes?

Amazon are GCs, I updated with Huggies (but used a prize value of GCs so ppl can decide what they are worth themselves)

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Originally Posted by FallenPixels

Amazon are GCs, I updated with Huggies (but used a prize value of GCs so ppl can decide what they are worth themselves)

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Ok. I thought I would ask because people give very different responses when it come to $5 Amazon gc codes.

Could I please get an opinion of what value FPC and/or HV coupons would be good for a $5 gc?
Thanks

looks good.
Nice & tidy!!

In the other thread, very few ppl said they trade Amazon differently than regular GCs, some do value them lower but not sure how many trades they get as a result since the consensus was they are $5

For $5 GC

• $10 worth of HV coupon(s) - same / $3 GC / $20 reg coupons <-- $ 3GC so $5 would be around $16HV
  
• $10 worth of FPC coupon(s) - same / $5 GC / $25 reg coupons <-- $5 GC
  

So two or three Lunchmate PINs aren't worth much, am I right?

I don't normally buy these, and don't anticipate buying them regularly, but my DS has been asking for them since school started. Now they're 3/$5 at Superstore, and my DS has been very good lately, so I bought three. :)

great reference thank you

According to ppl in the know, 99% of lunchmates are worth $5 (lunchmate dollars) and you would need 25 codes for $5

So 5 codes per $1 gc, so 2-3 is worth a stamps worth of coupons??

Some ppl want them badly for the bigger prizes and trade as much as $5 reg coupons per code

Lunchmate codes are also a wee bit less because the demand is not as high as Pampers or Huggies or icoke codes I think.

I spoke to several ppl who trade for them in making the list and they seem to trade them higher than 'true value' so there is definitely a market for them

I will trade $5 in my reg. coupons per lunchmate code but I like to make the trade for a bunch of codes so it is worth the postage for me as just a few codes is not worth a trade alone.

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Originally Posted by FallenPixels

In the other thread, very few ppl said they trade Amazon differently than regular GCs, some do value them lower but not sure how many trades they get as a result since the consensus was they are $5

For $5 GC

• $10 worth of HV coupon(s) - same / $3 GC / $20 reg coupons <-- $ 3GC so $5 would be around $16HV
  
• $10 worth of FPC coupon(s) - same / $5 GC / $25 reg coupons <-- $5 GC
  

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i must have missed in the other thread were they valued the amazon.ca the same as a $5 GC. I was under the impression that this was what others thought (copied and pasted from old thread):

post: "So I see that a $5 amazon.ca code is worth less than a $5 gc and a $5 GC is usually @ $50 in coupons so what would be a coupon value for a amazon code. I was offered a $5 chapmans for a $5 amazon code? Thoughts?"

post: "bluz I think it depends on the person I myself have traded a 5.00 Chapmans just for the fact it wasn't that hard to get points that time around did a couple surveys ect. I enjo free icecream so why not "

post: "So I see that a $5 amazon.ca code is worth less than a $5 gc and a $5 GC is usually @ $50 in coupons so what would be a coupon value for a amazon code. I was offered a $5 chapmans for a $5 amazon code? Thoughts? "

post: "I would accept this offer too! :razz: "

These were posted in October, have things changed since then? I have traded according to these posts above and now that I am looking for amazon.ca codes I am getting people looking for all kinds of FPCs in exchange for them. Ranging from anywhere from $12 in FPCs to $50 in FPCs. I am getting really confused trying to trade for these. I am starting to think its not worth it and I should stick to trading FPC for FPC.

It really is what ppl are comfortable with, as I said, some ppl do trade them lower (and some ppl trade all GCs lower) and how rare the FPCs are. Personally I have traded a $5 GC for $10 FPCs that I really wanted, I have also given $25 in HV coupons to get one.

Most ppl who trade them do it for SDM at 2500 pts per $5 GC - just because they didnt publicly post doesnt mean it isnt what they usually are worth

Thanks for the update!

Hi :)
I have a 25$ Kernels Popcorn Gift Card. I was hoping to trade it for amazon codes. How many do you think is fair? I was thinking 15-20$ worth? Or is that asking too much? I have never traded away a gift card before

Thanks in advance!!

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Originally Posted by julisa68

i must have missed in the other thread were they valued the amazon.ca the same as a $5 GC. I was under the impression that this was what others thought (copied and pasted from old thread):

post: "So I see that a $5 amazon.ca code is worth less than a $5 gc and a $5 GC is usually @ $50 in coupons so what would be a coupon value for a amazon code. I was offered a $5 chapmans for a $5 amazon code? Thoughts?"

post: "bluz I think it depends on the person I myself have traded a 5.00 Chapmans just for the fact it wasn't that hard to get points that time around did a couple surveys ect. I enjo free icecream so why not "

post: "So I see that a $5 amazon.ca code is worth less than a $5 gc and a $5 GC is usually @ $50 in coupons so what would be a coupon value for a amazon code. I was offered a $5 chapmans for a $5 amazon code? Thoughts? "

post: "I would accept this offer too! :razz: "

These were posted in October, have things changed since then? I have traded according to these posts above and now that I am looking for amazon.ca codes I am getting people looking for all kinds of FPCs in exchange for them. Ranging from anywhere from $12 in FPCs to $50 in FPCs. I am getting really confused trying to trade for these. I am starting to think its not worth it and I should stick to trading FPC for FPC.

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In the last month I have probably gotten 80$ in amazon codes through trades. I am usually asked for about 15$ worth of FPC's and I feel that is fair :)

I get tons of people wanting my entire list of FPC's for 5$ though. Its really annoying and kind of ofensive. Like in what world is it fair that I give 60$ in FPC's for a 5$ code! HA!

I would say $15-20 Amazon for a Kernels GC is fair

$10-15 FPCs are traded for most GCs so again, seems Amazon goes for same as them (IME certain GCs are easier to trade and go for more: SDM & WM, then Timmies, then other national grocery stores, then Chapters/Indigo, then regional grocery stores then Starbucks and other stores (clothes baby etc which are more specialist)