Most of you know how much I love coupons and how much I love Target. I put the loves together and usually use a ton of coupons at Target. Well...recently I've received NUMEROUS forwards from people with a coupon for $5 off any $25 purchase at Target. It's a printable coupon, so you could print as many as you wanted. Because of the forums I daily read I knew this was a fake coupon. Let me explain. Months ago Target put out a coupon for $5 off any $25 TOY purchase. Target is well-known for putting out vague coupons...not extremely specific and known to work on lots of things. For example, this TOY coupon would work perfectly fine on any purchase over $25, but only a few people knew that (like those of us who frequent the forums). Anyway...someone altered the TOY coupon, making it good on ANY purchase. Then started emailing it and it spread...like wildfire. It would scan at the store since it was really the toy coupon (that worked on anything over $25), so people used tons and tons of them. Now Target has stopped accepting EITHER coupon...the original and the altered one. Ugh...and right before the big summer toy clearance. I can't believe one idiot could cause such a stink.
Here's an article about it
ETA: In response to the first comment here (and I don't know who you are...please out yourself!)...the memo/signs went up last night/this morning at Target. Yes, the Holland Target is included. I was there this morning. Each lane has an 8 1/2 x 11 paper showing both coupons and says they won't accept either.
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I used three of those fake coupons (2 in one shopping trip) at the Holland Target just last weekend. The cashier couldn't get it to scan so she just took the $5 off...apparently she didn't get the memo.
I blogged about this issue as well. I work for a company that manages and tracks gift cards, and I've been following the target coupon fraud on savvywallet.com. My concern is the cards being stolen out of mailboxes around the phoenix area. Now that people know that target recalled the 85,000 coupons, it's a red flag. Just be careful. Hopefully target came up with a way that is secure.
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