kenbenobi

I saw it in theaters, and wanted my money back. It's okay to view once, but personally I wouldn't recommend owning it. If you have Netflix, I suppose it's worth a rental...

kenbenobi

It worked for me last night. Anyone else have it scan as expired?

kenbenobi

In fairness, he didn't really "doctor it up" like the idiots that used Photoshop to remove the Transformers picture or change the expiration date. Although cutting off the expiration date may be wrong, he could easily cough it up to "cutting the coupon in the wrong place" if questioned. I'm not condoning what he did, but I've seen people do a lot worse. Well, he did it once, I doubt he'll do it again, so I think we can let it drop. You guys have made your point. We don't need to overtake the thread with a big argument about this...

Heat

As opposed to talking about a deal that ended a week ago?

I know that he cut the corner off, that's in the realm of OK, but to photoshop a coupon to change the expiration date is the same as stealing.

Just to give a couple examples that are from my local Target... Guy #1 printed off UPCs for inexpensive Star Wars Legos toys onto stickers, put them on expensive Star Wars Legos sets and bought them for the lower price (got caught when he returned for more). Guy #2 bought a plastic storage bin, put the DVD set of House, Season 4 into it, put a second plastic storage bin on top. Checked out and didn't seperate the bins or otherwise let the cashier know that the DVD set was in there. Both were arrested for theft and Guy #2 lost his $200,000 a year job as director of the Abraham Presidential Museum. "It was up to the cashier to catch that the UPC and the product didn't match", "I forgot about the DVDs" or "The cashier should have looked" just aren't valid excuses.

As for the $5 coupon... I miss it.

b2net

Wish it were still valid (not expired) cause it would work well with the $17 sale right now..

mraw

Thanks. I've already decided to return it. I've had enough blind buys burn me, but I don't see 3-star-or-less reviews often, and Four Christmases received them across the board.

Swiski

Sorry. I thought "doctoring" a coupon was fraudulent only if someone was to change the text or the bar code on a coupon using a program like Photoshop. Technically, a coupon is not suppose to work anymore if the expiration date is expired. This is another glitch in Target's system that people are taking advantage of. So again...it's not fair to point fingers at one person (me) when others here are not being honest as well when they go to the checkout lane, getting away with using an expired coupon.

TGM

so, does this coupon not scan anymore, or what?

Moopher

Hey hal9000, there were people who actually changed them for their own benefit. I'm pretty sure he wasn't referring to you.

mraw

It scanned for me just last night (too bad I'm returning the BD today or tomorrow)

kenbenobi

No, I wasn't referring to you. Your image was actually quite amusing... There were others who really did change the coupon, and posted about doing so here...

Brent L

I just successfully used the $5 coupon to get The Hangover for $12.

Schloob1

Guess you just won't get it Swiski, will ya? You "blatantly" took off the entire top of the coupon showing the expiration date, whereas all the others here that have used the coupon after 12/24 have not. There is a BIG difference there, they are not being dishonest and many are either pointing out that yes it is expired but asking Target if they will try and scan it anyways or if they are being denied saying "oh well". You HID the fact that it was expired, PLAIN AND SIMPLE. I just don't see how the 2 are at all the same, especially the dishonest claim by you.

tucker

this thread should be locked since the coupon has expired

Maxflier

It's too bad Target doesn't have self-checkouts like Wal*Mart does. Wouldn't have to worry about your coupon getting rejected with those.

Brent L

As long as they keep scanning in and I get people to take them, I'm gonna keep trying to use it.

doctaheath78

I picked up SuperBad today using the $5 coupon. Does SuperBad come with a slipcover?

Also are Casino Royale 2 disc and Beetlejuice possible to find with slip covers at Target (or anywhere for that matter)?

Arthur Dent

No.

hal9000

Whew! glad it wasn't me...

I didn't notice people claiming that actually altered the coupon via Photoshop... only the guy that physically "cut" the expiration date off (that's bold). lol

Sorry for the misunderstanding... I didn't mean to come across as a douche in my post. I was a bit hung over earlier... and I get really irritable/defensive, it's just a side effect.

amd555

Too damn bad these assholes didn't get caught earlier. I work retail and hate filth that creates SHRINK for us. We have ipods, wiis, ps3, and bunch of other stuff that comes up missing and that infuriates me.

Trevor

Wow. Looks like the forum really did lose an entire days worth of posts. And even the closure of this thread!

Mickactual

It's all apparently YMMV regarding both whether it still scans and whether You get a well-wishing cashier (rare) or mean-spirirted troll (far more common).
I used it Wednesday on "Watchmen" ($17 sale price minus $5 = $12). Had to try it at three different Targets before I got one who would accept it:
Store #1 - It came up as vaild & deducted the $5, but the cashier saw the date on the coupon and nixed it.
Store #2 - Cashier kept scanning (at my insistence to "humour me") but nothing deducted.
Store #3 - Scan deducted the $5, and the cashier accepted the $12 total.

abintra

I took the coupon to customer service and asked a manager if it was still allowed if it scanned properly. He said that as long as they had it active in their system that they were going to continue to accept it (he had someone else ask earlier that day also).

Being a Target coupon, rather than a manufacturer's one which they wouldn't get reimbursed for, I figured it was okay to go that route.

Snowmaker

I had a coupon with me today, but did not have the guts to try it.

sotra

Got 9 for $15.99