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March 31, 2007
Super Discounts? Coupons? Vouchers?
Now mention coupons in the UK and you get looked at like some pauper wanting a freeby or a handout. But not many people realize how much you can save with them and without having to pay a month fee to do so.
(For example, all nurses get given coupon books with their union membership, but most just throw it away without a second glance, and some of the deals are amazing...So go marry a nurse.. I did ;) )
Add to that many people in the UK don't bother with a store club card (like your Tesco's card), or if they do, they hardly every get round to spending any points that they accrue on them.
But in the US, I was given a link to the Coupon Chief site and at first dismissed it as per usual (being a Brit Expat). That was until he told me how much he has just saved on a brand new PC he'd bought from Dell with a discount coupon he had obtained from Coupon Chief.
Well my mate has just rung me to say that he was just about to spend a fortune at Bed Bath and Beyond, and remember the Coupon Chief and went and had a look at their Home and Garden section and just by entering their coupon code a the BedBathBeyond web site got an instant 20% off and free delivery.
And that's the thing with the Coupon Chief site, you don't need to be a member, you don't pay anything to them to join up (because you don't and can't join). I guess that they get all of their income from referral fees.
Well my gripe is why don't we have something as good in the UK. The only reason my mate had mentioned it to me in the first place was I'd just told him what I had just spent on some new furniture, and he told me how much he had paid, and saved by using the Coupon Chief.
Posted by Chris Wright at March 31, 2007 12:13 AM
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