Counterfeiters Ruin Another “Free Product” Coupon
Purina cancels a coupon for free cat food, after counterfeiters reproduce and sell copies of the coupon online.
Purina cancels a coupon for free cat food, after counterfeiters reproduce and sell copies of the coupon online.
Finally, a definitive answer to why Facebook is shutting down coupon groups – turns out investigators working for the coupon industry are behind it.
Four Florida residents are charged with using counterfeit coupons to get free products from Walmart, then reselling them at flea markets.
The Coupon Information Corporation warns of counterfeit printable coupons that bear its own stamp of approval.
Coupon blogs that do things the coupon industry doesn’t like, are warned to change their ways – or businesses may no longer do business with them.
New Jersey police arrest two men, and expect to arrest two others, for using counterfeit baby formula coupons at hundreds of Walmart stores.
When is it okay to print a PDF coupon, how many can you use, and why can’t companies and retailers offer a straight answer?
Those looking to buy and sell coupons online have one less option on where to do it. Shortly after eBay announced new restrictions on the sale of manufacturer’s coupons (read: “eBay Cracks Down on Coupon Sales”), the online shopping site eCRATER decided to ban the practice altogether. The lesser-known shopping site suddenly became popular among eBay coupon sellers last week,[Read More…]
Seller beware: You may not have created the coupons you’re hawking on eBay, but if they turn out to be counterfeit, you could be the one in trouble while the actual counterfeiter gets off scot-free. That seems to be the case so far in the federal lawsuit that snack maker Link Snacks filed earlier this year. The search for the[Read More…]
Tens of millions of dollars worth of counterfeit coupons are out of circulation, and now, so is the woman charged with running the whole operation. 41-year-old Robin Ramirez, who was set to stand trial for operating a multi-million dollar counterfeit coupon ring in Phoenix, has changed her pleas to guilty, on charges of counterfeiting, fraud and illegal control of an[Read More…]