I’d feel comfortable re-using it, providing I was paying extra for toppings and tossing something in the tip jar.
I also have a coupon for a free pizza from Papa Johns and have used it 4 times in the last month. I just pay the $2 for delivery and $3-4 tip and I havnet been asked for the coupon yet. If they don’t ask me for it, I see no reason as to why I shouldn’t use it again.
I am at a loss as to all these opinions that say keep using it. It was for a FREE PIZZA. ONE free pizza. Not free pizza’s until the end of time or you fess up and hand over the coupon.
Using it again is STEALING and quite dishonest. Just because the company made an error and didn’t collect your coupon does not mean that you get to use it again and again.
I agree that the companies allow you to reuse your discount coupons to encourage business but that isn’t this situation at all.
I’m with you.
I think that it would unquestionably be unethical to use the coupon again. In fact, just to save you from the temptation, you better send the coupon to me to keep it safe. No, no, no need to thank me, I’ll bear the burden just because I’m one hell of a guy.
I was scanning through the subject headings on the forum page and somehow I read this subject as "The ethics of Re-Using condoms.
The employee should have asked for the coupon.
I would say that if you had tried to give them the coupon and they said keep it you are fine. If they don’t take the coupon I think youshould offer it up and let them say you can keep. I thnk the analogy is this. What if you were going to pay for a pizza and in all the confusion behind the counter they forgot to take your money, would you feel obligated to speak up?
I have never been at a loss for pizza coupons in my life. Most places around here say on the coupon not to bother clipping them. I’d say at worst it’s mildly dishonest, but not a serious moral issue.
Only difference there is that if she doesn’t take my $20, at the end of the night her drawer is going to reflect that. She’s going to be in trouble, and it might come out of her pocket. With a coupon, she knows exactly how much cash is coming in, her drawer is even, and from the sound of it, she doesn’t have to account for the coupon at all, so she won’t get in trouble.
I’m still not sure if I’ll try to use the coupon again, but if I do, I’ll be sure to have it in hand when I go to the store, and offer it to the clerk. I don’t think I could in good faith use it as a never-ending meal ticket.
As a side note, if it’s true that you can so easily invent coupons and get away with it, what, if anything, prevents pizza place workers from just rampantly giving away pizza to their friends as they feel like it? And is there any other place but a pizza place and maybe an amusement park where someone could so blatantly make up a false promotion and get away with it?
I used to work at a small pizza place, delivering pizzas. We were generally required to pick up 20% off (and the like) coupons from customers, but we often forgot. And of course we always threw them out.
However, we had a thing that if you collected 20 of these “coupons” that were attached to the pizza cases, you were entitled to a free pizza. Those we always had to collect.
- No
- Yes
Sure, the universe won’t end if you do it, but you’re cutting into their profits. It’s a form of stealing.