A Disapointing Month!

[bargain_hunter_lola]

I was buying two bags of dog food not that long ago at RCSS. I had two coupons. Some jerkface gets behinds me and says to the cashier.."Is this going to take long? I f*cking hate extreme couponers!!"

He was so rude. I just turned to him and said,,"Well, I hate a**holes. We'll call it even."

Awesome!!!

[abbasgirl]

I wish "Extreme Couponing" had never gone on the air! It's brought out so much craziness!

[abbasgirl]

The coupon selling thing... I think maybe what needs to happen is manufacturers need to get involved in tracking people down. Stores can't prevent people from taking all the coupons, unless they don't put them out in the first place and I can't see manufacturers wanting that to happen because it defeats the purpose of them sending coupons out.

[ishyx0x]

i live in surrey , and i NEVER !! EVER find ANY tearpads in stores !!

not just now.. i have been couponing for over 7 months.. and i never see any tear pads anwhere !

sux !! some ppl ruin it for everyone!!

we're having similar coupon stealing problems in my small community.

so much so that some Store Managers are investigating options as to what they can do about what they perceive as theft.

Apparently there are 2 women in town who teach couponing classes and sell coupons at them. I have been scouring stores that i normally found coupons and have mostly come up empty as they just clear off the tear pads. Even SDM isn't putting out the beauty and personal care products coupons. And Safeway won't put out the $0.75 off catelli coupons as they know they'll be gone in a heartbeat. it sucks

I was just saying to my DH he other day that if someone took 10 coupons off a tearpad that would give a person plenty to get deals and even trade, and that would leave tons still on the tear pad. As always, it only takes a few to ruin it for everyone

[fourfurryfeet]

Everyone that said this was happening before the show is absolutely right! I too don't think the show MADE this happen. I also believe there were people selling coupons long before the show but I think the show put the entire thing into a new light! People are saying, hey I can make money doing this when really this was never the intention! I hope the show tapers off and stops a tiny bit of what it has caused (again not saying it didn't happen before the show) but I myself see a big difference in couponing even in the short time I have been practicing this hobby!

[Budgetwise73]

Wow! You have such good intentions in helping others with the couponing, sorry you have had these kind of experiences while shopping.

[Jasminenicole]

I found coupons in my town for the first time ever last week! I spread the word to other local couponers but by the time even one of them managed to get to the store (Metro) about 3 hours after I had been there all the tear pads where practically empty and someone had the nerve to rip the coupons out of the Campbells soup booklets! . I like you have also encountered rude uninformed people in the stores who just don't understand the whole idea behind couponing, it is not a nice feeling but always remind yourself that you coupon so you can get by month to month! and make sure to educate them a little, people don't like what they don't understand.


When it comes to taking tear pads, I have a general rule...I take one for every person in my house hold (Me, DH and our Cat) that is 3 coupons off each tear pad I find. If I go back another week to shop and there are still any left then I will take more, because I have given people ample time to pick them up even then I often will share them with my local group.

[katie333]

I wonder what is done in the States to prevent these situations? I know they have way more coupons available there and less strict rules, they must have this same type of problem?

I cross border coupon shop a lot. I've only seen a tear pad once and it did have some coupons on it. US couponers have access to weekly inserts that are 3-4 times the size of ours, as well as a lot more printables and direct from company sources (like our call ins).

I have heard about newspaper theft in the States in order to get access to lots of coupons.