Extreme Couponing Tip: What to do When a Coupon wont Scan

It’s a a single thing a couponer dreads most: A COUPON THAT JUST WON’T SCAN. We’ve all been by it as well as it’s never a pleasant experience. If it’s a coupon from a paper, sure, they can just manually enter it. But for printed Internet coupons? Almost each store policy states: if it doesn’t scan, it doesn’t count.

So, what can we do?

Ask if they have a palm scanner. I’ve had instances where even coupons right out of a journal haven’t scanned. Sometimes a palm scanner will review them better. Recently, during Walmart a palm scanner worked its magic upon a single of my realistic coupons as well as scanned it easily, though issue! So go forward as well as ask; after all, it doesn’t harm to try.

Take a items off your bill as well as try somewhere else. If it’s a common sale during many stores, consider leaving though those items as well as perplexing your coupons during a opposite retailer. There is a single store we go where we almost always have an emanate with their machines not celebration of a mass my coupons. At an additional retailer, we have never had which problem. So, if a sales have been similar, or we can wait, try this approach.

You win some, we lose a little (for now). Remember, sales cycle. If we aren’t means to take advantage of a sale now, know which it will be behind again.

Contact a manufacturer as well as let them know their coupons were rejected. If we got a coupon by Coupons.com, Smartsource, or even better, directly from a manufacturer site or email, find their hit us as well as send them a respectful message about what happened. Be certain to tell them which we similar to their products as well as ask them if they can send we coupons which will work upon your subsequent trip. Sometimes, a manufacturer will send we even improved coupons than we had in a initial place! we once contacted a manufacturer about a little bean coupons which didn’t work, as well as they sent such good coupons to me in a mail, which we wound up removing multiform cans for giveaway with a subsequent sale! This may not always work, though it’s extraordinary how mostly it does! (Note: we may have to hit a primogenitor association if there is no hit couple upon a product page.)

Always make certain your print cartridge is working! If your printer is starting to give we spotty or streaky pages or is visibly using low, shift your cartridge right away! Some coupons won’t scan rightly when your ink is faded, so we may be means to forestall this complaint prior to it ever happens by gripping your printer maintained.

This has been a guest post by Amber from St. John, AZ
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