!!! $10 off $10 @ Staples B&M Printable Coupon!!!

[yellowfiero]

YMMV, disclaimer says scans are no good, but these are many times accepted by the local stores. Enjoy.

[katemattmom]

Does anybody know if Office Depot matches coupons like this? I don't have a Staples anywhere close to me. (sniff, sniff) Do they match it nicely or give you a hard time?

[bwsmom]

This really looks like a scanned coupon....is there truly any chance at all that the stores will take it? I've heard of people having trouble in the past with the actual "print this" coupons that were legit, so I'm a little leery of this one.....thoughts? Anyone have experience with this? Your insight, as always, is much appreciated!

[dchambers]

have two staples near me, used one at each store yesterday, had no problem at all...of course, i purchase LOTS of office supplies and these people see me in there all the time, maybe thats why they take them, dont know? its always worth a shot tho, dont you think? good luck....

[lectric]

Our local Staples has had coupons posted by their registers that said...DO NOT accept illegal coupon.
So you just never know...This one could be good.

[charmay]

Please verfiy where this coupon came from originally.

[JKeez]

These coupons are NEVER legal. They may be given to a few people but then they are scanned and put all over the internet costing staples thousands of dollars. By using these coupons you are stealing from staples. I have a great staples in my area, it's so convienent I would hate to see them go out of business because of stuff like this. Some of these coupons are made at home on adobe and other art programs. (Check out fatwallet or gotapex just to name a few that brag about making these) Getting off my soapbox now.

[yellowfiero]

They are most certainly legal. It may be unethical to use a scanned coupon, but please note that there is a bar code that is scanned by the checkout computer at Staples. IF this coupon were no good, then the central computer at Staples would reject it.

The bottom line IS, Staples does not need to accept this coupon if it doesn't want to. Nobody is stealing from Staples by using this coupon, because they verify it on the spot. If it is a regional coupon, then their central database would verify if the coupon was being used in the right market locality.

As for people 'creating' coupons, this is another topic altogether. It would be doubtful for someone to be able to 'create' a coupon from scratch, since they are again validated in the afore mentioned manner. Someone may try to change the dates on a coupon, or perhaps change the fine print on the terms, but dates are subject to verification, and the terms on this particular coupon were obviously not modified (since it states that copies are not accepted).

Hope this helps.

[LUVMYBABYBOY]

IS THERE A SMALLER COUPON BECAUSE WHEN I PRINT IT OUT ITS VERY BIG AND IT DOES NOT FIT ON ONE PAPER?

[dchambers]

thanks yellowfiero....i was beginning to feel guilty that i used the coupon at two different stores......i work for three different companies and purchase between 300-500 per month there, so i really didn't feel like i was ripping them off or anything.....i give them plenty of business.....i'm sorry if anyone took it as stealing from the store.....

[lookn4deals]

how come the coupon is so big when i try to print? Is it ok to resize it??

[charmay]

Again, where did this particular coupon come from originally?

[bdinalbq]

I unwittingly printed out one of these about a year ago, and took it into Staples. I asked in ADVANCE if they would accept it, because I wasn't sure of it's legitimacy. The clerk told me it was fine, so I shopped, but the coupon wouldn't scan. I felt really embarrassed, and just offered to pay, but the manager was SO nice, he actually went in the "back" and brought out a legitimate coupon. I felt really slimy over it though, I won't do it again.

[lookingahead]

I used that one last year and when it doesn't scan thye just type the number in and it worked. Give me a break how slimy can you feel. You still used it!!

I think the "no copies / facsimilies" written at the bottom might be cause for concern in the ethical category. But legally?? Conterfeiting money is illegal but coupons? If coupons are money then Staples is printing money, which is unconstitutional.

I have always pondered the constitutionality of coupons in general. The last I read about the topic, "coupon fraud" was close to 1 billion dollars a year, with retail store owners and grocery store owners raking in the majority of the profits. There were reasons behind the founding fathers making the rule that minting money was exclusive to the federal government.

Coupons and targeted marketing (such as giving coupons to a select elite few, apparently the case here) only confuse the customer as to the actual price of an item, and personally, I think that any company that tries to confuse the customer deserves to deal with the security problems relating to their activities. The reason some stores accept them and others don't is that the system is even confusing to them. Imagine the confusion to the consumer just trying to figure out what price a product really is?

The prices of all items would go down tremendously if there were no coupons and their associated expenses and fraud.

But... alas... the world has coupons and we would be ignorant consumers if we did not take every last penny offered. And it shouldn't be up to us to decide the legitimacy of an offer or worry about the problems inherent in distributing coupons to an elite few.

joemuseum

(breaking the vow of brevity... free at last!!!!)