Cosmetics
Fragrances
Coach Brand
Dooney & Bourke
Kate Spade
Louis Vuitton
Bridge designer shoes & handbags
Watches
Jewelry
Small Electrics
Personal Care Electrics
Technology
Impulse
Bridge Sportsware
Lacoste
Tommy Bahama
Geoffrey Beene Dress Shirts
Lauren
Bedding
Furniture
Rugs
Waterford Crystal & China
Baccarat
Lalique
All-Clad
Bridal Kiosk
Super Buys
Everyday Values
Previous Purchases
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Gift Cards
Stride Right
Bridal Salon
Furs
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Ticketmaster
Special Orders
Restaurants
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Macy’s Weddingchannel.com
Macy’s.com
Payments on credit accounts
And I have FOUR of these. Personally I think they screwed up on the last one. The should allow %25 off when you make a payment to your account. You give them $100 cash and they only credit your account for $75.
I swear. The entire backside of the coupon is cluttered up with fine print. I had to get somebody [del]younger[/del] with better eyesight than me to read it to me.
I wonder what they mean by “Technology”. Maybe they’re selling nuclear reactor plans on the fourth floor behind Domestics.
I just got a “Congratulations! You’ve Won!” email from Northwest Airlines (actually from them, not spam of some sort). I’d “won” $150 or 1,500 miles toward my purchase of an air/hotel package worth at least $995, booked in the next four weeks with travel completed within the next six weeks, to select destinations. Gee. Thanks.
We also got a kind of hilariously insulting coupon for $5 off our next rental of $100 or more from an equipment-rental place where we’d just spent more than $200 to use a floor sander. I mean, $5? Come on.
Oh… look! I save $25 by just spending $100… regardless of the limitations after the “discount” you just spent $75, (or more if you didn’t read the fine print…")
Anyone who falls for this gets $500 off their next donation to the “Send FML to a tropical Island Paradise ( on every donation over $5000)”.
regards
FML
ps: I promise to have a drink in your honor if you donate now!
I got one of these yesterday from Best Buy. I’ve been wanting a digital camera, and SLR. The coupon says, 10% off cameras. Great I think I’ll get a nice one, until I read the fine print, not good on digital cameras. Does Best Buy even sell film cameras any more?
Even before I scrolled down and saw “Macy’s”, I knew you had a Macy’s coupon
They are NOTORIOUS for doing this, and they delight in sending them out during the Mothers’ Day/bridal/graduation/Easter holidays. Which means anything you’d probably remotely want to purchase isn’t included.
A lot of grocery coupons offer niggling discounts, like “Save 25 cents on two boxes of Carb Cram Cookies”. I suppose if it’s an item on your regular shopping list, you could use it, but I just can’t see it providing any incentive to buy for anyone but numbnuts’.
They are building a new subdivision down the road from me. They just put up a sign that announces “Free Car with the Purchase of One of Our Homes!”.
That has got to be some of the worst marketing ever. First of all, the car obviosuly isn’t free. It is built into the price of the house which should be obvious. Why would someone go house shopping if what they really need is a car? The way I read it, it says “Buy a house from us and we will make you buy a car as well”.
Wife and I bought a car a few years back. Dealership sent a coupon for a free oil change that expired less than two months after we purchased the car. The manual was pretty emphatic that the break-in oil not be changed before 5000 miles. If only I was a traveling salesman…
You’d be surprised. I regularly have women bring me an expired coupon for $0.25 off a $4 box of cereal. When I tell them it’s expired and we can’t take it, at least 85 - 90% of the time they will not buy the cereal. Which is why I usually take them anyway and hope for the best.
