I dont get the posts regarding coupons being better now. Didnt Staples just make coupons useless in PM sales?

You want a printer for $200. You have a $30 off $150 coupon. That makes it $170. The same printer is at Office Depot for $145. You price match and they give you the printer for $142.50 (170 - 145 = $25, x 110% = $27.50)

Now, you DONT use your coupon. $200 PM'ed to $145 is $139.50 (200 - 45 = 55 x 110% = $60.50 PM)

You're better off NOT using your coupons, and save them for non-PM sales. Using a coupon on a PM sale is now effectively lighting the coupon on fire, as you'd get the same price with or without the coupon.

Taking off the coupon from the pm price was YMMV depending on csr. Mostly they did not care. I am sure this will change now.

I didn't think I saw anything different about the posted policy. The only difference would be if they start strictly enforcing it.

In related news, Yahoo now collects personal information about you and Google owns all your mail that goes through their Gmail system!

The day people stop and actually start reading the legalese is the day all these shocking sky-is-falling "news" bulletins come out.

TheBarry said:Aagiants said:didn't they always have this wording in there Policy?

Yeah, I think that verbiage has always been there. I even talked about that fine print in some hot deal thread months ago.

yeah, i notice the wording a 5 month ago, but i didn't have problem pricematching. it didn't just start. i think most of you just haven't read it lately, but its always been there.

TheBarry said:Aagiants said:didn't they always have this wording in there Policy?

Yeah, I think that verbiage has always been there. I even talked about that fine print in some hot deal thread months ago.

It certainly has not. The policy prior to today had a parenthetical phrase that said (but not mail in rebates) or something to that effect. The new policy has a parenthetical phrase that says the exact opposite.

I found the hard-evidence. This is the 03/2005 version:

How do Staples coupons and rebates contribute to the Staples price?

We¡¯ll deduct any available Staples coupons and instant rebates (but not mail¨Cin rebates) from the Staples price to arrive at a net price. For example, if you buy an item from us for $100 and we offer a $20 instant rebate, the net price is $80. If another company¡¯s price is $80 or more, we will not match the price. Another example: if you buy an item from us for $159 and you have a $30 coupon, the net price is $129. If another company¡¯s price is $125, your price match would be $4.40 (110% of the difference).


http://web.archive.org/web/20050328071826/http://www.Staples.com/sbd/content/help/using/general_match.html

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I hate to say this... but i don't even bother trying to read your posts... trying to read your post takes the same amount of time to read the entire thread

Can you even begin to imagine how long it must take him to actually write them? Waay too much time on your hands lad.. then again, what else do you have do when you're a snot-nosed, pimply 13 year old living in the attic other than being faux 'l33t'?

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What the heck is that?

I just did a pricematch with Staples, yes, it is true, they deducted the rebate before matching the price

I just ordered something from Staples with a $20 off $150 coupon, and got a sucessful FULL PM....

EDIT: details: I first went to Staples chat and asked if I would be able to pricematch office 2003 student edition to CompUSA @129.99, they said yes, so then I said what about pagecomputers @$124.99, they also said yah, so then I placed an order using a 20off 150 coupon, then gave the csr my order number, and he refunded me $29.xx.