I'm always on the lookout for cool ways to save money -- and buying coupons on the internet might seem pretty strange. But it's also pretty cool. TheCouponClippers.com is a family-run website that sells coupons: you can get hundreds of coupons for hundreds of products. They often have more than 1,000 copies of each coupon available, and the expiration date/terms of the offer are clearly listed.
The minimum order is only $3, but with shipping and a 50 cent processing fee, the site is probably only worthwhile for ordering lots of coupons. But if you find yourself buying the same products regularly (and who doesn't?) you can probably save yourself a ton of money here. The prices per coupon are pretty reasonable -- 50 cents off Dawn Direct Foam costs 5 cents -- if you live in an area where coupons are doubled, that will give you a return on investment of 2000%. Warren Buffett, eat your heart out!
For my coupon-saving opportunities, check out MyCoupons.com, which has a pretty cool list of special promotional codes for various retailers: Shoes.com, Kohls and Victoria's Secret, to name a few. They also have a pretty cool coupon blog.
Buy coupons online! Save money!
Posted Nov 13th 2007 5:19PM by Zac Bissonnette
Filed under: Personal finance
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-14-2007 @ 9:12PM
Matthew Tilley said...
What these sites are doing is technically fraud.
If you read the legal print on these coupons, you'll find that in most cases, particularly with grocery coupons, coupons are not to be sold, traded or transferred.
However these sites try to portray this activity, it is definitely selling, trading and/or transferring coupons. And conducting this sort of business through the USPS may put you in danger of prosecution for mail fraud.
With over $300 billion in coupons available to consumers every year (most of it in your Sunday newspaper), it is unnecessary, not smart and potentially illegal to buy coupons. At best, it's a gray area ... but why mess with something so unethical?
Buy a Sunday newspaper for $1.50 and get (on average) $50-75 worth of coupons. Now, that's a good investment.
11-21-2007 @ 9:55AM
Greg Stoltz said...
First, Zac, thanks for the plug! The core of our business model is to charge advertisers, like Shoes.com less than other channels for promoting their coupon codes in exchange for a better discount for our users.
Matthew, you are 100% correct in your comments about trading, selling and buying coupons. We have message boards for our community to use but we have no direct involvement in support or encouraging such activities. Our business is focused on promoting online merchants and we have nothing to do with CPG coupons.
Greg Stoltz, President http://www.mycoupons.com/