why do you think the redemption rate is so much higher for online coupons versus sunday paper coupons?

Question

and would you use coolsavings.com to print coupons for your regular purchases, such as groceries, magazines, music, beauty, supplies, etc...)

Answer 1

The rate will be higher for online coupons because people search these items out. However, total usage is still higher with newspaper coupons because it cheap advertising.

We easily save $100 per month on groceries and household items. We only use coupons for items we regularly buy unless it is a full-price coupon, which makes it free.

While we use coupons for all of our shopping, we rarely use online coupons (including coolsavings.com) because the newspaper coupons are much more valuable. For example, why use a 25-cent coupon online when the newspaper has a 75-cent coupon for the same item?

Here's my best advice:

1. Invest in 1-2 Sunday newspapers and clip out the coupons.

2. For the coupons you use most often, go to eBay, where you can purchase extras at a very reasonable price. In our household, we focus on high-dollar items like coffee, milk, juice and hard cheeses. We usually pay no more than $1-$3 for 10-20 coupons, including shipping (a first-class stamp and #10 envelopes). The coupons we don’t use are resold to neighbors or co-workers, which recoups our eBay costs.

Here's a direct link to the listings: http://health-beauty.listings.ebay.com/Coupons_W0QQ_trksidZm37QQsacatZ82567QQsocmdZListingItemList

3. If you go online, here's a couple web sites we do frequent for product news, trials, recipes and, occasionally, a coupon:

http://www.pg.com/en_US/products/index.jhtml

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf?e=email

Answer 2

Redemption rates for online coupons would be high because the person has to deliberately go out and print them off. The ones in the Sunday paper just arrive at your house

Answer 3

Are you sure??? Here in Florida, the major grocery stores
don't accept online coupons because of problems with counterfeit coupons, fakes and forgeries.