# Worthless Coupons

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-coupons/403473>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 9, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-coupons/403473 "2007-05-09T23:56:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-coupons/403473/21 "2007-05-11T12:32:17Z")

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[QUOTE=Veuve\_ClicquotNJ]  
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.

Bastidges.

VCNJ~  
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I particularly hate the “Early Bird” sales they have…I saw a sapphire jewelry set that I’d rather like to have, but the sale prices are only good from 9 AM to 11 AM, on two days. Nope. And now that I know how much the jewelry is marked up there, I’m not likely to buy _any_ jewelry at all from them. I expect an insane markup on jewelry. However, if they can sell something for $19.99 when normallly it’s over $100, then that tells me that the markup is more than insane.

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**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-coupons/403473/22 "2007-05-11T13:04:54Z")

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My mother “won” a Caribbean cruise a couple of years ago. We pry after the whole schpeal…the cruise was 8 hours long (cue the Gilligan theme) which would require us to fly across country on our own dollar to Ft. Lauderdale. For an 8 hour cruise.

When I bought my car they told me I got “Free wiper blades installed twice a year.” Cool perk methinks. Except I misheard them and what it REALLY was was, “Free wiper blades INSTALL, twice a year.” Oh fantastic…you mean you’ll not charge me for the 20 seconds it takes to put them on? How generous! I feel so valued!

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