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10/7/09 at 5:59pm
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So I'm off to Shoprite tonight to stock up on $5 cases of Snapple which I now drink every now and then as a treat.  My mom stops me and gives me a coupon to go get her a bottle of Extra Virgin Olive Oil for free.  I accept and go to the store and fill my basket and as I'm checking out the cashier starts freaking out, telling me its a phony coupon.   I reply that it can't be phony, my mother wouldnt make something like that up...  I tell the guy its a manufacturers coupon and to scan it in, he refuses and calls his supervisor over and she confirms its fake.

D'oh.

Now my Mom's perfectly aware of the millions of scams on the net and yet she took one of her dopey friends at face value as knowing what they were talking about with it, and conveniently failed to mention to me where the coupon originated, apparently a dumb ass chain letter.   Sigh.

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=49172
http://www.abc2news.com/content/dwym/story/Warning-New-Bogus-Coupons-Circulating/3xCelNkn5U-dIqRRBXN9kA.cspx

Double Sigh.  Here's your sign Posten....

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10/8/09 at 6:42am
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Shame on you for trying to get something for free!
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10/8/09 at 7:20am
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Oh, I believe it all right, Sam.

Same thing happened to me a few months ago.  A co-worker gave me some coupons for a free ice cream (or something) at Friendly's.  Turned out to be a whole big fraud that Friendly's tried to put a good face on...but which probably would have driven them out of business if they had made good for everyone who tried to redeem one.

It's no wonder so many retailers have stopped taking internet coupons of ANY kind...even legitimate ones because it's so hard, sometimes, to separate the wheat from the chaff.  It's really too bad as the internet would be a GREAT resource for discount coupons. 

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10/9/09 at 10:13am
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Too right!

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