Jim Skamarakas

ARGH! I hate coupons - I don’t know who invented them, but it had to be something made to iritate male shoppers. I got a coupon in the mail a few weeks back - $5.00 off. So today I was buying something online, and at check-out there was a box for insert your coupon code. Crap - call hoe and asked my wife to find it in my top right drawer were I had put it. She sends me the code

CRAP!

Its for $5.00 off only on a purchase of $30.00 or more

My purchase is for $29.34

ARGHH!!!

Try as I might, I cannot find anything worth anything to get me over the $30.00 amount on this merchants website. As it is, my purchase was for $10.00 and I bumped it up to the$29.34 to try and get to the $30.00 to use the coupon. If this was someone in front of me and I handed them this coupon and they told me, sorry you are $0.66 short to use this I would throw a pencil or a candy bar on the counter and say here. Or tell them to just give me the difference, or $4.00 off - whatever. And if the person behind the register just did not want to cooperate, I would leave the items on the counter and walk out the door never to return to that store. Such is the beauty of shopping with local merchants who understand the danger of coupons and the value of repeat customer business.

But the website offers no sympathy, just frustration and a blinking cursor urging me to check out already, lick my wounds and go home without my $5.00 savings - and of course, Good luck next time kicking the football Charlie Brown.

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