Budget Savvy Diva provided us with this update on the coupon fraud on Extreme Couponing. (See more posts on what prompted this here and here.)
We feel strongly about exposing this as much as possible – because what she did effects all of us – making it harder to use coupons in the future.
In the most simple terms this couponer Jamie committed coupon fraud on national television, fraud for which she was caught for a year before. She also teaches couponers in a coupon class all about it — for a pretty penny — $35.00 !!!!!!
What she does wrong:
– There is a way to figure out coupon codes.
You see the bar code ?
There are numbers under the bar code – well you take the first set of numbers and you look for UPC on products from the same company and if they match up, then the coupon CAN be used on that other product. So people will take a high value coupon for one product and use it on a low cost product – sometimes being from completely different products. Like using a detergent coupon on toothpaste.
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| The Couponer Under Fire |
This is what she does – and she is proud of it.
The repercussions of such couponing are large… such as lower value coupons and more extreme restrictions at store like Krogers
Many upset bloggers and couponers have let TLC know how they felt – and TLC has FINALLY responded.
TLC said in an statement to EW: “We have received a strong response to the premiere and are listening to and reading the various comments around the show — as with all programs, we appreciate the feedback. While the series documents extreme couponing strategies, we take any concerns about specific tactics seriously and are looking into the situation.”
I don’t know…sounds hokey to me. They haven’t actually acknowledged any wrong doing, even though the show aired over a week ago. It doesn’t take a rocket science to figure out what was done wrong. They should already be certain that what they aired was a person committing fraud.
What do you think?
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