Like i see the shows (which makes me think it is faked) where they go from a 300+$ total before coupons to a few dollars. Most of the coupons i seen have a one coupon pet item/transaction type limit that prevents that kind of stacking the rebates. How can they stack them?
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As an addendum to what everyone else has said already:
1. Most of the restrictions on coupons are due to extreme couponing and didn’t exist when those shows were filmed; too many people started doing it, companies were losing money instead of gaining it. So it’s been heavily nerfed. Coupon doubling really isn’t a thing anymore when it was ubiquitous thirty years ago. Digital coupons are established at this point and are a lot harder to use fraudulently.
2. There was a lot of fraud involved, ranging from cheating (such as snipping the expiration date off expired coupons or getting an item similar to but cheaper than the item a coupon was for and hoping the cashier was too busy or too conflict adverse to push back) to blatant fraud (editing legitimate coupons in Photoshop and printing them back out. This is very much a felony, incidentally.)
Source: used to be a cashier in the window where retail really cracked down. Rejected a surprising number of counterfeit coupons.
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