Jul 08 2008
Coupon Sites
I am always intrigued by coupon sites. Being on a Linux system poses serious challenges as most places won’t allow my Windows compatible printer and software to print them off of the web. I thinks it’s a monopoly to push Linux users out of the market, but that’s my own personal conspiracy. As such I am always looking for good coupons, I can print, or have sent, or use online. I think I have found a Mecca of sent coupons, but they do cost money. I have also found an awesome online coupon site my readers, I think, will be pleasantly surprised with.
Please allow me to introduce you to The Coupon Clippers . This is a wonderful site that details each coupon, it’s expiration date, and even where you can match coupons with sales! The coupons are from 5 cents a piece to 20 cents a piece. The even have organizers for coupon clipper regulars. The over head fee is about 59 cents and about 50 cents in shipping. The greates thing is not only can you pick and choose coupons for things you normally use, and they have rebates for things as well, but they also have NO EXPIRATION DATE coupons. I have never in my life seen these. Of course I ordered a whole stack. I’m going to write it off as a business expense, since I actually have to test the service. They sent me confirmation emails and even sent out my coupons very fast. The next coupon shipping date is tomorrow if your interested. I will tell you how fast the package arrived, what kind of coupons I got, and more as soon as they get here.
Coupon Winner is another really awesome site, if I may say awesome about a coupon site. They have tons of online coupon codes for Amazon, Newegg, Target.com, Pet Smart, and tons more. I am an Amazon regular so I am always looking for a way to save there. I found coupons for 10 dollars off select merchandise in Amazon. There was buy one get one free from Vons and 10% off your entire order at the fruit company. Honestly, this site has so many online deals for FREE that I could take a whole post explaining. The major downside I noticed was their printable coupon section is NOT Linux friendly. Therefore this is a great online coupon site, but not in the store site for Linux users.
Retail Me Not is a very unique service in that you enter a stores url and they have links to deals. However, the links to the deals are rated by other users and have comments next to them. They even have a success rate meter to help gauge what is worth your time. Again this is for online coupons and online shopping. I especially like the comments because somtimes you will see, not an actual coupon but a great sale. Other comments I saw were that this site “was confusing.” If your in a rush, confusing usually equals frustration and sometimes money lost. This the most social coupon site I have seen. As a savings site though it is a little better than average. Some of the links end up in strange areas and/or with just a search result. The links are user submitted most of the time so this isn’t any fault of the site, only an observation.
At anyrate, I sincerely hopes this helps fellow Linux savers out there. I also hope you save a few bucks. I have listed these in order of usefulness for my family. For you it may be different. Chow!
