Coupons May Search for You Online
Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:21PM EST
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The kids are off from school this week, and after a fun, short trip to nearby Pennsylvania to find some real, accumulated snow to ski and sled in, we're looking for some fun things to do at home.
With that in mind, I started looking online for some coupons to save a little on some of that fun. Trolling for coupon sites, I noticed that Valpak, the company that regularly sends an envelope full of coupons for local businesses (the ones I would regularly set aside certain I would use them only to recycle them months later), is also now online.
The local business pickings were slim on the site, but as I was reminded by this New York Times article, online coupon clipping is slow to take hold. Only about 12 percent of 175 million Internet users in the United States are avid online coupon searchers.
But, as the Times piece points out, that could change as coupon services use technology to put more coupons in front of web surfers where they are surfing. In the next few weeks, coupon services including Coupons.com and CoolSavings.com will begin offering more clients the option of placing coupons on sites with content related to what they are offering.
Would you be more willing to print and clip a web coupon if you stumbled across it? Or are you among the 12 million who already going looking for coupon deals online?
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2 Posted by sampendleton on Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:02PM EDT Report Abuse
I'm a big online coupon person, and the site I've been using saves me the hassle of going to multiple sites to search for the coupon I need. It's called http://www.searchalldeals.com I can see all the bargains or coupons from the top sites out there and allows me to search for specific coupons from all of them at the same time. Very cool.
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1 Posted by galtonjisix on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:05PM EDT Report Abuse
How ironic that you should discuss this today ... I just got suckered into a coupon online deal the other day and now my inbox is full of unwanted solicitations (to their credit, though, they do offer easy unsubscribe options ... so hopefully this will end soon). After clicking on a "free" coupon site (I already forget which one it was), I found myself clicking through an enormous array of surveys ... which mostly created the full inbox situation. I would like to just go to a site to clip manufacturer and/or local biz store coupons ... without going through all of their marketing hype. So, to answer your question: yes and yes. I would be very likely to clip and use a useful coupon should I stumble upon it and I would also like to use a no-catch online service.