Is It Okay To Buy and Sell Coupons Online?

There is always those that want to game the system. Manufactures provide coupons primarily to advertise their products and to win new customers to try their products. They were never interested in a customer taking advantage to get a lifetime supply, it would defeat the purpose. They also had not intended that products offer for free would be taken in quantity and sold to folks who regularly use the products at a discount.
This unintended use of coupons increases the advertising cost and regular shoppers end up paying more to cover the costs of these freeloaders. Some one pays when the suppliers cost rise! That would be the paying customers!! It may be legal, sort of, but it is not right.
Leave it to the "something-for-nothing crowd" to wreck a good advertising program. Frankly, I hope manufactures limit this coupon abuse so that the rest of us don't end up paying more to cover the higher cost of advertising.

I'm a cashier and I HATE most couponers. They don't read the instructions on the coupon. You must read the coupon at least 5 TIMES. They also complain when I don't accept expired coupons, and attempt to "trick" me by cutting off the date....REALLY?

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Actually many people who do "sell" coupons are not exactly selling the coupon. (And I am surprised you didnt address this in your article) They are selling their time to cut out and process the coupon, so they are NOT selling coupons, but you are paying them for their time. I know this is just a way around the ban in selling coupons but if it is stated this way in the website. there seems to be no way for them to stop it. Many coupon ads on ebay also (at least they used to) say they were selling their time and not the coupons], perhaps that has changed.

I am a responsible couponer and get so frustrated when people "clear the shelves". Buy what you need. Not an armyload. Also if I have quite a few coupons I always let the person who has 2 or 3 things ahead of me in line. I know that I am going to be a few extra minutes and appreciate it when others do it for me. People who "donate" their items 9 times out of ten donate to there own pantry and never give to the community or to those in need.

I also hate seeing the people who clean out the shelves selling their items at garage sales. Irritates the crap out of me.

i buy my coupons online. i see nothing wrong with it. especially since we never get coupons in the paper.

I belive to always do the right thing. If you do that God will bless you with Plenty.

I belive to always do the right thing. If you do that God will bless you with Plenty.

I remember my mom cutting out coupons every week for the Saturday grocery run; at no time did she use more than what the paper offered in its inserts or on the actual newspaper pages. Meaning, never did she steal other neighbors' papers, pay for one paper in a newspaper box and take all of them (or only the inserts, leaving the papers), or otherwise attempt to collect and hoard coupons. The '60's and '70's were not terribly prosperous for my family, and Mom went to more than one store every Saturday to get bargains. (At that time, coupons might be doubled or tripled by the store on occasion).
I began my career in retail in 1969; I have only worked for 4 companies and the first 3 went bankrupt after I left. I worked for my last employer for nearly 36 years (just retired) and I noticed a tremendous jump in "cheap customers". These customers want holiday merchandise marked down BEFORE the holiday; they refuse to read the fine print on the store ad coupons that states what product is actually on sale, and the same on manufacturers' coupons. The reasoning by the women is that they need to save money (while carrying a Coach handbag), or that they donate---every kind of "cheap" excuse. The women come in with their giant coupon collections and definitely wipe out as much product as they can; (in theory, store employees are supposed to inform the customer about quantity policy at checkout; you try arguing i.e. "discussing" this with an aggressive, angry customer who touts "the customer is ALWAYS right" in your face).
Many people are using the poor economy as a reason to justify their actions, be it couponing in excess and hoarding product or robbery. Jobs ARE hard to come by---the rules have changed and the employers have decided to require much more out of the workers with much less in return compensation. These things cannot be changed. What can be changed is the view that we won't have enough.