Juicy Juice Coupon is a Fraud

[mommapoppins]

People are selling juice coupons on eBay ?

Yep go check! You can "buy" just about any kind of coupon imaginable. The way they get around the "not to be sold" part is they say the coupons are free, but you are bidding on their time to clip the coupons.

 

[jessica52877]

No store near me will take coupons printed from the internet for this exact reason. It is a bummer for legit coupons. i know nothing about this exact coupon or how it was sent, so not saying it wasn't legit.

 

[Green Tea]

How many folks who use coupons would actually read thier notice about the coupon being an arrestable item?? I'm not too worried about the feds tracking me down over a package of juice boxes.

 

[grlpwrd]

How many folks who use coupons would actually read thier notice about the coupon being an arrestable item?? I'm not too worried about the feds tracking me down over a package of juice boxes.

Well, I have been couponing for a long time - I am just not diehard about it now. lol This is not the first time or will it be the last that this has happened.

Ultimately, coupons will get scarcer and scarcer and have more limitations. I know some stores don't even accept internet coupons so it will come back to bite us in the end in that way.

You'd be surprised how coupon fraud is a major problem. People do get busted for it. It really bites that consumers suffer for it in the long run.

 

[jessica52877]

I won't buy coupons or envelopes with free coupons either. I don't feel it is right and in the end we will all suffer. I do already in that no one around here will take internet coupons.

 

[DMRick]

You'd be surprised how coupon fraud is a major problem. People do get busted for it. It really bites that consumers suffer for it in the long run.

The people arrested in my area were "making" their own coupons. It was hard to tell the difference between those and coupons printed off the internet. No doubt that was fraud.

This was a coupon posted on the website of Nestle. In a "paper" they should have realized would be passed along. After all, they didn't object when I got the paper passed along to me without a coupon in it. I think they would have a hard time yelling fraud for this one. I personally think that companies should go back to paper coupons. It appears they thought they could save some money, by not having to print them. Guess they thought wrong. I think it bit them.
I don't care for juicy juice..it's way too sweet, (how do you call it 100% juice and see water listed as an ingredient?) but I do resent the company yelling fraud on this one (as well as the kmart coupon..it too was on their site).

 

[mickeylove2]

This is just like the Starbucks coupon... I wonder if Welch's will take on the JJ coupon!

 

[julm26]

personally, i don't know what all the fuss is about, I'm gonna use my juicy juice coupons, if they take them good, if not, oh well. I don't feel one bit of sympathy for the grocery store....

 

[CheshireVal]

Does anyone really need this much Juicy Juice?

 

[meandtheguys2]

Does anyone really need this much Juicy Juice?

LOL, the friend I sent the links to runs the women's shelter here in town. I called her this morning, and told her about the concerns. She hooted! she bought 12 of them yesterday. She's planning to call the grocery store and let them know, to see if she needs to return what is left of them. I suspect the grocery will allow her to keep them, and possible ask for proof of donation for taxes.

 

[belleandthebeast]

Okay, so now I have to ask-I use the coupon with the 6 coupons on 1 page (I used all 6). My supermarket accepted all of them. What do I do now?

 

[Doesney]

Okay, so now I have to ask-I use the coupon with the 6 coupons on 1 page (I used all 6). My supermarket accepted all of them. What do I do now?

I think you should either return them or go back and pay for them. Just explain to the store it was a mistake in judgement. You didn't mean to use siz coupons you were not entitled to.

 

[Maggimus]

I dont know why people feel the need to return them. Personally, I DO believe Nestle will reimburse the grocery stores for the coupon-- but they say they wont in hopes that YOU, the consumer, feel terrible and take them back so that they dont have to (or simply stop using them). They dont want to spend more money than they have to on their own mistake.
If they dont reimburse-- the big grocery store chains will investigate on their own. Once they find out it was indeed a legit coupon... even if it was used out of the context, I have a feeling Nestle's reputation wont be so great.

JMO though.

 

[belleandthebeast]

I think you should either return them or go back and pay for them. Just explain to the store it was a mistake in judgement. You didn't mean to use siz coupons you were not entitled to.

I called the store I used the coupons at. I spoke to a manager who thanked me for calling and told me he would take care of it. I asked if I needed to return the juice (I still have it, I picked it up on Tuesday night)-he told me I didn't have to do anything.

 

[timmac]

I've used several of these over the last few days, all printed from the original PDF (formerly) obtainable directly from Nestle. The conversion to the six per page version, I agree, could be considered a fraudulent use of the coupon. I don't see how anyone can claim there is anything fraudulent about the original. Not how it was intended originally? Perhaps. A mistake that it was available publically online with no restrictions placed on it? Most certainly.

All that said, I will not use these any more, as Nestle no longer has them available on the site. I really wish they'd take responsibility and admit the mistake, however, rather than trying to shroud the real issue by claiming fraud. Did anyone else notice that the notice posted on cents off was one of the altered versions (for those not familiar, that particular version was put together in a somewhat sloppy way that causes the barcode to be non-scannable, on top of it), and not the original brochure? Seems like a bit of a smoke screen. I don't know how they could ever claim anything about the original.

 

[DebMcDonald]

pretty much. Only you can add that they are also threatening have any SAHM with her two toddlers in tow caught using one at the Jewel tomorrow arrested.

Shades of Starbucks. Corporate Moronacy.

What did you mean shades of starbucks?

 

[Toby'sFriend]

About a year ago Starbucks emailed a coupon to some of the employees. It was for a free drink of some new product they had, I can't remember. The email specifically invited the employees to forward the coupon to their friends and family and invited them all to visit a local Starbucks within a time period to use the coupon for a free drink.

Of course the thing hit the internet and the next day every Starbucks across the entire nation was besieged with people who were bringing coupons in for free drinks.

Starbucks responded by voiding the offer and refusing to honor any of the coupons. They got a ton of negative publicity and some lawyer actually sued them. I never heard how that turned out.

 

[mickeylove2]

About a year ago Starbucks emailed a coupon to some of the employees. It was for a free drink of some new product they had, I can't remember. The email specifically invited the employees to forward the coupon to their friends and family and invited them all to visit a local Starbucks within a time period to use the coupon for a free drink.

Of course the thing hit the internet and the next day every Starbucks across the entire nation was besieged with people who were bringing coupons in for free drinks.

Starbucks responded by voiding the offer and refusing to honor any of the coupons. They got a ton of negative publicity and some lawyer actually sued them. I never heard how that turned out.

Actually, I think it was a friends/family coupon, not only employees. But that's beside the point, the point is that it was terrible customer service, in my opinion....but in my town Dunkin Donuts and another coffee shop both honored the coupons that Starbucks was declining! Now that's a very smart corporate move...

 

[DebMcDonald]

About a year ago Starbucks emailed a coupon to some of the employees. It was for a free drink of some new product they had, I can't remember. The email specifically invited the employees to forward the coupon to their friends and family and invited them all to visit a local Starbucks within a time period to use the coupon for a free drink.

Of course the thing hit the internet and the next day every Starbucks across the entire nation was besieged with people who were bringing coupons in for free drinks.

Starbucks responded by voiding the offer and refusing to honor any of the coupons. They got a ton of negative publicity and some lawyer actually sued them. I never heard how that turned out.

I'll ask my husband, he's an employee.

 

[marshallandcartersmo]

I'm sorry, I guess I'm just a horrible person.

But there's no way I'm taking my juice back, or offering to pay for the juice I've already gotten free. And I'll continue to use the coupon until my store tells me otherwise.

It was/is a coupons off the COMPANYS website. Why are people thinking they can't use it??