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Old 05-06-2008, 05:01 PM
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Coupons

Have you tried contacting your favorite business to compliment them?? Most of them are willing to send out coupons for a FREE product. I've recieved ones lately by contacting:

*country crock (recieved one for margarine and one for a side dish)
*Sunny D
Dannon Yogurt free 4 pack or 6 pack drink product (plus 2 50cents off)
*saran wrap
*glade refil for flameless candle (plus I recieved a free flameless candle as being a bzz agent)
*Country Bob's all pourpose sauce
super pretzel (from doing a survey)
*Kraft contacted me via E-mail and asked if I wanted to get a coupon for a free product, I chose live active but could not find it

anyway I've contacted several other companies, I'm using the list on www.mysavings.com and its taking a few days, but its so worth the time. Plus I'm still signing up for free samples every day too!

Plus I finally made it to teir 2 on bzz agent! Woo Hoo!
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Old 05-06-2008, 05:21 PM
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I never thought of that. Once I contacted a company and gave praise on a product and got no response. I didn't get ruffled up about it...I am sure they get tons of emails. But it is worth it to contact companies. The company will give a better coupon then the ones you get in the paper, normally.
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Old 05-06-2008, 05:34 PM
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Um Free Is The Best.
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Old 05-06-2008, 06:45 PM
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I've also done the opposite! We ordered from Pizza Hut a few years ago and the pizza was horrible. The service wasn't much better! We normally used a different location but this was closer at the time. Well, I went to their website and filled out the "what do you think" form and politely told them about the service. Within a day or two a rep from Pizza Hut called the house, asked me about the service and we ended up getting a gift certificate type deal for the amount of the pizza!
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Old 05-06-2008, 07:17 PM
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I've filled out several restaurant comment cards when having bad service. (It has to be really bad for me to comment, most things I can take in stride) I've never been offered anything- no coupon, no discount, nothing! I do sign up for free samples, but I never thought about writing a company that I like. Of course, I'm mostly a generic brand person. Saves money!
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Old 05-06-2008, 07:38 PM
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We went to a restaurant recently that we have had consistent superior food and service. It NEVER fails for a manager to come out and check with us. The last time we were there, something was not quite as good. I don't remember exactly what. It was NOT "bad", just not up to the superior quality I was accustomed. So when the manager came out, I truely believed they cared. So I told him it wasn't as good as usual, but it was STILL very acceptable. Well, he took it off my bill! If I thought he'd do that, I wouldn't have said anything, because it really wasn't bad!
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Old 05-07-2008, 01:52 PM
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I'm really talking about companies, not resturants. (though I'm the the first one on the phone if we have a problem or bad service.)

I got an E-mail today from the flinstone/Bayer company they are sending a coupon booklet on their products, I also got one from the Campbell's soup company after they got my compliment, they are sending a free coupon for a campbll's product wich includes the V-8 and other things.
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Old 05-07-2008, 01:55 PM
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mysavings also has a place for people to TRADE coupons or samples.
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Old 05-10-2008, 09:36 AM
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Now I took someones suggestion about contacting windex about how my cat tried to jump through the window, because it was so clean. Well they sent me a free coupon and a book of coupons with like $1 off $2 off and so on. Score!! I used them right up!

Thanks for the suggestions Aball. am going to the link you put up right now.
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Old 05-10-2008, 10:50 AM
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I bought a graco carseat for my dd. For some reason, the fabric made her break out (it was like a nylon) so I contacted them just so that they were aware of the problem if it came up with other customers. The sent me a NEW cover for the car seat made out of cotton. I had also gotten a swing from the same company but with the shipping and banging around to get it to the store, it wouldn't work. They overnighted me a new moter!

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