Image courtesy of Jill CataldoThe other night shopper Aprille was featured as the 'briber' in the second 30 minute installment of TLC's Extreme Couponing.
Here's here description from TLC:
"In Michigan Aprille works at an auto dealership and bribes her co-workers with snacks from her stockpile."
The show follows her at work and captures her saying she prints coupons from more than 20 computers at her office after hours.
At the very least you get 2 prints per coupon per computer, so in theory she could have 40 prints of a single coupon.
I understand that loyal couponers will print extras of a really good printable coupon, and certainly printing is better than illegally copying the coupon, however the practice of printing that many left me puzzled.
So I asked
what they thought of such techniques used by extreme couponers like Aprille.
Here's what Patrick Crisp with www.coupons.com communications said:
A couple of thoughts.
Our technology does limit the number of prints for any coupon based on what the manufacturer requests, and we limit that per campaign and per device. It is possible that a single consumer could print coupons using multiple devices.
We certainly do not encourage this because that scenario is not how our clients, the coupons issuers, intend their coupons to be used. Finally, the behavior is not typical of real-world coupon usage.
Best,
Patrick Crisp
Coupons.com Communications
So where to you stand?
Do you think it's ok to print as many as you can or should you enforce a limit on yourself as a courtesy to others or the manufacturer?
By the way check out Jill Cataldo's post about Aprille using fake free Quilted Northern coupons here.