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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It’s not faked, it’s just weird deals that a ton of stores won’t do specifically because this can happen.
It almost always involves a store that will do “double coupons”. That means what it says: under certain conditions if your coupon would take $5 off something, this store will let you take $10 off. For most people, they do it for a handful of items but overall buy other things and the store gets its money back.
The extreme couponers will spend days and weeks categorizing hundreds of coupons and orchestrating a grocery trip to maximize these things. They’ll find a $5 off coupon for a $6 item. With a double coupon promotion that means they are at -$4. A lot of stores count that as a credit. So they get something else for free, or they bring 15 copies of that coupon so they end up with -$60 and use that to buy a lot of other things.
You can’t do it at just any store. A lot of stores either won’t do double coupon promotions or they put limits on them so it’s harder to get those deals. These people specifically pick stores that run those promotions and will buy 20 copies of a newspaper if it has a coupon that saves them more than the newspaper is worth.
You’re likely correct that you never see deals like that. Most coupons are limited to prevent things like this!
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