Taking Peelies

[NuCoupon]

I wonder if people also take 50% off stickers and apply them to different products on different days... it wouldn't surprise me.

[anastasia1009]

I wonder if people also take 50% off stickers and apply them to different products on different days... it wouldn't surprise me.

When I went to Fortino's yesterday they had all these health and drug products in a basket with 50% off and I grabbed this can of shaving cream and the 50% pink sticker was peeled off and I could feel the sticky stuff. I went to the cashier explained and she said yes it happens and they watch out now for people doing that.

[couponsbaby]

The coupon on the product is intend to be use for that specific product. This happen to where I am at, somebody empty the whole shelves of 4 dollar off Van hotte coffee. There must have be over 40 box of coffee with out the peelies and you can tell there is peelie been taken off the package. To me it's vandalism, destroying the product package, it's very disrespectful of the other customer.

[frugalmom]

I wonder if people also take 50% off stickers and apply them to different products on different days... it wouldn't surprise me.

Speaking of 50% off stickers, I was in NF one day and sitting right on the shelf in plain view was a whole roll of these pink stickers. I though someone could have a hayday with it so I took it to an employee. I could see someone slapping them onto any product and leaving the store with some great finds.

[NuCoupon]

The coupon on the product is intend to be use for that specific product. This happen to where I am at, somebody empty the whole shelves of 4 dollar off Van hotte coffee. There must have be over 40 box of coffee with out the peelies and you can tell there is peelie been taken off the package. To me it's vandalism, destroying the product package, it's very disrespectful of the other customer.

This is why i'm so against people taking peelies. I wanted to buy Van Houette coffee with $3 peelies on them a few months ago. All but one package had the peelie left when I went to buy it. You could see part of the sticker where it had been ripped off on the other packages. I was going to buy an extra anyway because I had a $2 coupon and they were on sale. My husband said no because the package looked tampered with. The one package I got I was able to stack the $3 peelie plus $2 manufacture coupon (in Ontario!). I drink lots of coffee, so it would have been great to get a few more.

[NuCoupon]

When I went to Fortino's yesterday they had all these health and drug products in a basket with 50% off and I grabbed this can of shaving cream and the 50% pink sticker was peeled off and I could feel the sticky stuff. I went to the cashier explained and she said yes it happens and they watch out now for people doing that.

I can't believe people would go to such lengths! Don't they realize this is stealing? Is it really worth going to jail for this?

[young-one19]

I don't know bout ch'all, but I am super suspicious of some people on the trade list who claim to have 10-20 of each coupon, even the tearpads. I think the worst ones head to eBay, but I think others take lots of tearpads with the goal of trading for more high-value coupons. It's like people forgot this is so we don't have to be in debt with how expensive everything is nowadays, not making a coupon-black-market.

[Speckled28]

I don't know bout ch'all, but I am super suspicious of some people on the trade list who claim to have 10-20 of each coupon, even the tearpads. I think the worst ones head to eBay, but I think others take lots of tearpads with the goal of trading for more high-value coupons. It's like people forgot this is so we don't have to be in debt with how expensive everything is nowadays, not making a coupon-black-market.

I usually don't bat an eye at 10 coupons....unless they're all the same FPC or something. My best friend lives in another town and knows I coupon so if she comes across some she'll grab a few for me.....so sometimes I'll end up with 10 of the same one between the two of us. Or I might grab 3 or 4 one time.....and grab another 3 or 4 a couple weeks later....assuming there are still any left....which rarely is the case. It's probably a bit easier to get them for those who live in the city too....because there are more stores where you can look for them.

[DianneS]

I usually don't bat an eye at 10 coupons....unless they're all the same FPC or something. My best friend lives in another town and knows I coupon so if she comes across some she'll grab a few for me.....so sometimes I'll end up with 10 of the same one between the two of us. Or I might grab 3 or 4 one time.....and grab another 3 or 4 a couple weeks later....assuming there are still any left....which rarely is the case. It's probably a bit easier to get them for those who live in the city too....because there are more stores where you can look for them.

There are also more people looking for them in the city, so I think it all evens out....tough to find them anywhere....

[Speckled28]

There are also more people looking for them in the city, so I think it all evens out....tough to find them anywhere....

Very true!

[Midnightly]

i will remove a peelie, no diff. then taken a coupon on a tearpad imo to use at another store. Why is it okay to use tearpad coupons one store(sobeys) offers at another store(walmart or no frills)? I will not open a product to steal a coupon out of it. It gets used to purchase a product that the peelie was ment for as does the tearpad coupon. I look at peelies no different the a coupon on a tear pad. If the manufacturer wanted to safe gaurd it they print the coupon on the inside packaging of the product. I will use peelies elsewhere where i can find a better deal, i don't damage the packaging tho.

i recently heard from a manager that if a peelie is taken off a product the product is considered damaged and it has to be pulled from the shelf and not to be sold so if a peelie is taken off a product and the store notices it they take it as a loss if they take too much loss prices go up

[hollyquaiscer]

I personally will continue to do what i feel is okay, each there own.

Although there will always be people like you around, most of us here struggle daily to use coupons correctly. Peelies are meant to be used when the product is purchased, so much so that it will even say on the peelie that it is to be USED IMMEDIATELY when you purchase that product. We all make mistakes when using coupons, things are changing so quickly with wording these days, but to blatently remove something from a product that was put there with the intention of the person purchasing the product to get a discount is just wrong.

[Speckled28]

So....I just thought I'd share this: I picked up some Pantene yesterday with the B1G1 coupon and one of my bottles had a peelie on it.....which I didn't get to use (stacking), and I would have left for someone else but all the ones of that kind had the peelies. Anyway.....the wording on the coupon states:

"$1.50 off THIS Pantene product. Void if transferred, sold, auctioned, reproduced or altered from the original. Any other use constitutes fraud. We in our sole discretion may refuse reimbursement (to the store) where we suspect fraudulent redemption has occurred"

[Sally888]

here you cant get off the50% off stickers, they will break. I have problems getting them off products I've bought with them on lol!

[Speckled28]

here you cant get off the50% off stickers, they will break. I have problems getting them off products I've bought with them on lol!

Here too!! The ones at the RCSS are bright pink and come off in 5 billion tiny pieces! Usually I just give up so my product isn't covered it the glue underneath lol