Comments on: Online Auction Coupons

By: Darla

Darla — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:43:00 +0000

If a coupon is “void if transferred” then when your mom gives you a coupon she received in the mail, it’s now void. Do you really think that’s what that means? No. Many manufacturers send out sample items and promotional items with several coupons included that have this language on each coupon and yet the promotional materials encourage you to use one coupon and then share the others with your friends. The manufacturers know that your positive experience with their product is valuable and sharing that experience with someone is also very valuable and when you give a coupon to a friend/family member then you have done their job for them. They don’t mind if that person goes and buys the product with that coupon. They won’t send either of you to jail.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:00:06 +0000

Fraud is the crime of deliberately deceiving another in order to damage them. That is what law is being violated.

Like it has been stated, some coupons claim to be “non-transferable” or will be “void if transferred.” If you knowingly use a “void” coupon then you are committing fraud.

You asked, I’m just telling you. Good luck to the stores or companies to ever enforce or catch offenders though. It’s like any crime though, get greedy and get caught. It is also fraud if you intentionally use multiple coupons for a single item (when it is prohibitted). That is still “deceiving” the store or manufacturer in order to damage them (or allow you to profit).

I don’t think it is looked upon as a big issue, but there is the “law being violated” that you were looking for. Fraud.

By: WendySue67

WendySue67 — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:19:44 +0000

I see nothing wrong or illegal about selling coupons on Ebay or otherwise but there is one practice that bothers me and that’s people that take all the tear-off rebates from the store and sell them. If someone wants to clip and bundle coupons that they got out of their paper and sell them that is a lot of work and those people paid for their newspaper so it seems like a good thing to do with coupons you aren’t going to use. But those tear-off pads are put there by manufacturers and are FREE for everyone that comes by to take. It may not be illegal but it is certainly unethical and very unfair for the rest of us when the pads are empty.

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By: Debiannj

Debiannj — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:13:45 +0000

I think you may be wrong about selling coupons being illegal. To my knowledge there is no law that is violated selling coupons (except, perhaps copyright law which is a civil law not criminal). The coupons fine print only says that the selling or transfer of coupons could void the coupon, but that would not be in their best interest because it would mean that they have to prove that the coupon had been sold, and by whom. Many people pick up coupon inserts at recycle centers, or from neighbors – if selling of coupons based on the wording on the coupons was illegal, then certainly giving your neighbor that $2 Huggies coupon would be. I would like to see anyone who says that it is illegal show me what actual law is being broken. There is nothing federal, or in any state that I know of. Just the company’s POLICY being violated which is NOT illegal. Bud Miller of CIC has been saying for years that it’s illegal to sell them but he has yet to prove which law is being violated. He, on the other hand, has been baiting and harassing people for years. I have never gotten one of his infamous “coupon fraud” letters, although I wish I had as I would have taken him to court to have him prove that by trading or buying coupons I’m breaking the law.

If you can show me what law is being violated, have at it. Betcha can’t.