![]() Other glitch group members have advocated snipping off part of the coupons’ fine print, or even the products pictured on the coupons, in order to help sneak them past unsuspecting cashiers. “I just got toilet paper and some other stuff, mixed the coupons in with others, and they scanned,” she continued. “$5 off Crest Whitestrips works on this,” one member of a Facebook “glitch group” posted recently, alongside a photo of several giant packs of Charmin toilet paper. So when checking out with the help of an inattentive cashier or a self-checkout machine, they could use the high-value coupons to get loads of Crest toothpaste, Charmin toilet paper, or other P&G products for free – with overage, to help cover the cost of the rest of their purchases. Later, bold red lettering was added to the coupons to get cashiers’ attention, imploring them to check whether the coupons were being used on the correct products.īut none of it stopped the misuse, because glitchers found that Whitestrips coupons would scan just fine on just about any P&G product. So P&G added the exclusion, then added wording banning overage for good measure. Many argued that wasn’t abuse at all, since the coupons didn’t exclude trial-sized products. That often resulted in significant overage, at stores that give cash back if the value of a coupon exceeds the price of a product. But some couponers who specialize in seeking out so-called “glitches” started abusing them almost immediately.įirst, they found that the high-value coupons would be accepted by their stores’ scanners when they bought a lower-priced trial-sized Whitestrips product. Whitestrips are pretty pricey, so their introduction in 2001 was accompanied by correspondingly high-value coupons – offering $3, $7 and even as high as $10 off at times. That means its coupons will no longer scan correctly at the checkout unless you actually purchase Whitestrips.Īnd coupon “glitchers” who have long taken advantage of the Whitestrips coupons are not happy about the change. Now the Whitestrips product line has its own unique manufacturer ID, distinct from most other P&G products. Procter & Gamble has changed the bar codes on both the coupons and product packaging for Crest 3D White Whitestrips. ![]() Just the way coupons are supposed to work. But now, what was arguably the most famously and frequently misused coupon can only be used on the product for which it was intended. It cost a major manufacturer millions of dollars, and earned countless couponers shelves full of trial-sized toothpaste and toilet paper.
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