Posted on Sunday, 14th October 2007 by 
Bcarter
The other day I decided that I was going to try and coupon shop. I don’t know where I got the idea that I would have time for this, but it really wasn’t about the time, it was about putting food on the table. I started out at afullcup.com and used their Target coupon generator. I didn’t have any problems with this, and my Spysweeper didn’t pick it up at all. I know that Wal-mart takes competitors coupons, but I wasn’t thinking that at the time, all I was thinking was “I don’t want to go grocery shopping in 10 different places”. So that’s where I ended with Target.
So I go to coupons.com (I’m not going to even link to it) and land in an endless nightmare. All I want to do is print about 10 little couples to save me about $5 on my next grocery trip and I land in this endless maze of referral signups. How does this website stay online? Anyone in their right mind will not go back to this, it took me 30 minutes to decline all of the offers on the 10 pages I had to go to before I could even print my coupons. I think they do this on purpose hoping you’ll get weak and just sign up for something to get out of the endless cycle. No thank you, I did this a couple years back with pch.com and I was regretting it ever since. Email coming out of my ears and good luck opting out.
After 30 minutes declining all of these signup offers (I really wanted to save $5), I finally get to the page to print my coupons, but now I’ve hit another snag. I have to download their coupon generator. Not a problem, the one at afullcup.com didn’t do any harm, but this software downloads directly into my startup folder making itself all comfy and cozy. Hello, who do you think you are putting your crappy software in my startup folder, if I wanted it there I would have put it there.
Pretty much, the whole moral of the story here is to avoid coupons.com, it’s not worth your time or the money you save. Spend the $1.75 on the Sunday paper and you’ll get the same coupons and save yourself a lot of headaches. If you know of any coupon sites that won’t waste my precious time, please feel free to leave a comment.
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