# On the news! **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [January 11, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048 "2003-01-11T04:42:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Alex](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alex)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/1 "2003-01-11T04:42:28Z")
Wow this is really funny and cool at the same time! this guy was a stay at home dad. he saw in the news paper coupons for $200 off a brand new car that was 42,000. he collected a bunch of coupons until he had 42,000 worth in coupons for the car. so he went to the car dealer ship, the coupon never said that there was a limit on how much coupons that you could use. so now they are looking over the documents and all that mumbo jumbo… thats all i remember. for the full story, watch the news;) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/2 "2003-01-11T04:44:46Z")
haha, finally a moment when reading the fine print is in your favor. what a great guy for doing that. must’ve taken quite a lot of newspapers to get it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/3 "2003-01-11T04:46:11Z")
i would buy all the news papers i could to get a FREE 42,000 dollars car. :sure: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/4 "2003-01-11T04:47:56Z")
i hope so to, the car dealer ship will be kicking them selves in the teeth :chinaman: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/5 "2003-01-11T04:48:17Z")
i never really understood the concept of coupons. if a company were willing to give so many cents or in this case, dollars just for showing a coupon, why won’t they just mark down the price automatically? i’ve had my theories like they want to know how many customers they are getting to, or it is just a way to boost sales or get new customers. anyway, i’m still a coupon-user, but i think the sometimes it’s just stupid. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/6 "2003-01-11T04:51:07Z")
Yes, it is a way to get more buyers and boost sales up. A lot of times people only buy what hey have coupons for, but if they end up liking what they bought, they stick with it (sometimes), that brings in more money for the company. Cha-Ching. For a few measly sents you can bring in some mucho dinero. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/7 "2003-01-11T04:51:49Z")
well, im not complaining, i dont do the shopping :beam: i bet that guy had a scanner. scanning and printing out a couple of copies for friends and familly. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/8 "2003-01-11T04:52:37Z")
Unless he has newspaper papers to bring on, scanning and printing would not help any. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/9 "2003-01-11T04:53:27Z")
ooo ya i didnt thing of that:blush: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/10 "2003-01-11T04:54:41Z")
I always wondered about this, what if they jack up the price for let’s say $50 and have coupons for $50 so the only person getting screwed is the consumer. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/11 "2003-01-11T04:56:24Z")
yeah, i also thought about that at times. my dad rants on and on about it too. whenever he sees a coupon he’s always like, “yeah, they just raise the price that amount so the consumer saves nothing while the company is only getting richer”. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/12 "2003-01-11T04:56:38Z")
you never know. they probally do that so the consumer thinks that there getting a good deal and in makes the purchase. never know what people would for a money ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/13 "2003-01-11T05:00:04Z")
From a Retailer’s view, coupons allow you to easily track ad performance. In order to figure out if your advertisement actually reached the intended audience, and if they bought (with cc info). in another life, I was a Regional Manager of Retail Shoe Stores… Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/14 "2003-01-11T05:01:30Z")
hm…rev, that makes you older than i suspected. so you would know all about this coupon business. do they really jack up the prices and give out coupons to make money? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/15 "2003-01-11T05:06:33Z")
Now if you were going to spend that much ANYWAY, then it is a good deal, but to spend that much just to get the 200, is stupid, anyone with common sense shoud realize that. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/16 "2003-01-11T05:07:18Z")
thor: first, thank you 😊 second, [SIZE=3]of course they do[/SIZE] We used to get product in @ say $10, mark it @$80 for 6 weeks, then put a coupon out for $49.90 for around 8 weeks, then finally mark them down to $19.90 until they were gone. Standard Markup (keystone) is 2 times cost = retail. therefore, we were making a profit, even when they were tied together sitting in a clump on the bargain table in your local Mall… 😏 Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/17 "2003-01-11T05:10:33Z")
wow, that’s a large profit, $70!!! now i’m starting to wonder what shoe store chain you worked for so i’d know whether my nikes or reeboks really cost $10. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/18 "2003-01-11T05:15:10Z")
Pretty much any shoe store, or any story in general. The store my mom works out sells things for like 10 bucks when they cost like 50 cents. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/19 "2003-01-11T05:15:42Z")
These are still standard practices… If they are a new/hot style, then no. If the style of the sneaker is a couple years old, then probably. If you buy from Kinney’s then definitely… I worked for Florsheim for a while, Nordstrom for a while, Bally of Switzerland for a while… then became a chef… Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048/20 "2003-01-11T05:16:57Z")
they most likely buy things by the gross from china and then just bring up the price. [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-the-news/11048.md?page=2)