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Kiran - 24 Sep 2005 15:54 GMT

The followign auction offers cat food coupons, clearly anounced in the
description to be worth $5. With 7 bids, it is already at $4 (+.50
shipping), with more than two days left to go. Just wondering how
people put a value on these things.

<http://cgi.ebay.com/Save-50-on-Fancy-Feast-canned-cat-food-10-coupons_W
0QQitemZ4406691385QQcategoryZ20739QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem>

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Kris Baker - 24 Sep 2005 16:04 GMT

> The followign auction offers cat food coupons, clearly anounced in the
> description to be worth $5. With 7 bids, it is already at $4 (+.50
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> <http://cgi.ebay.com/Save-50-on-Fancy-Feast-canned-cat-food-10-coupons_W
> 0QQitemZ4406691385QQcategoryZ20739QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem>

If you were trying to make a clickable link, it didn't work.
The standard format works just fine:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4406691385

Anyway.....some stores still double and triple the coupons, so the
buyer could possibly come out ahead.

Or maybe the cat is bidding.

Kris

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Angrie.Woman - 24 Sep 2005 23:21 GMT

>> The followign auction offers cat food coupons, clearly anounced in the
>> description to be worth $5. With 7 bids, it is already at $4 (+.50
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> Or maybe the cat is bidding.

It says save .50 on four, but it's probable that a buyer could use a
different coupon on the other three cans too. Plus, getting them doubled
and combining them with an in-store sale.

I belong to a local bargain hunting group, and a lot of those women are
coupon clippers. They are far too savvy for me, but they can go to the
grocery and buy a cart full of stuff and pay nothing, or next to
nothing, for it.

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Kris Baker - 25 Sep 2005 00:20 GMT

>>> The followign auction offers cat food coupons, clearly anounced in the
>>> description to be worth $5. With 7 bids, it is already at $4 (+.50
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> A

I used to do that, back in the 1970s.....and ended up with a bunch
of stuff for free that we didn't want, and still had to do the grocery
shopping.

Kris

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Angrie.Woman - 25 Sep 2005 02:51 GMT

>>>> The followign auction offers cat food coupons, clearly anounced in the
>>>> description to be worth $5. With 7 bids, it is already at $4 (+.50
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> of stuff for free that we didn't want, and still had to do the grocery
> shopping.

That's about why I don't do it. I don't need 14 boxes of free peach
flavored oatmeal. I did notice that a lot of the things they get aren't
fruit, veggies or meat. So when they're posting the results of their
amazing shops, they're not including the costs of everything they eat.

Gosh - I hope they're not actually living on all those frozen entrees!

A

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Kris Baker - 25 Sep 2005 03:02 GMT

>>>>> The followign auction offers cat food coupons, clearly anounced in the
>>>>> description to be worth $5. With 7 bids, it is already at $4 (+.50
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> A

....and all of that hamburger helper. Yuck. Tried *that* once.

As if hamburger needs help.

Kris

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