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Wednesday, December 29 at 8pm the Discovery Channel premiered on TLC a appearance that already fabricated history: Extreme Couponing. The appearance is produced for TLC by by Sharp Entertainment, LLC. For those of you who absent it, never worry, it will re-run Jan 04, 10:00 pm. What you’ll see is apparently doubtful for many, but some advertisement shopaholics absorb hours on the Internet, chase for abundant deals, and you’ll alike acquisition them dumpster diving for coupons.
The stories are unbelievable. A cartographer from Villa Hills stockpiled in his garage more than 10,000 items, with a retail value of $5,743.00. However, Nathan Engels only paid $241.00 in cash for his stock – the rest was covered by coupons, with 95% savings! The other featured coupon shoppers don’t come close to Nathan’s performance.
Between a TLC hit and the realities of the Web, the road is rather short. Some of the best success stories on the web revolve around coupons and deals. All mommy bloggers you can think of make a living promoting special deals, give aways and so on, but their “career choice” doesn’t compare with sites like Groupon, Living Social, freeshipping.org and the season-targeted Black Friday and Cyber Monday sites. Amazon itself is popular for its deals, and while these sites don’t necessary offer printable coupons, but coupon codes, e-coupons and instant deals, the factor that makes them successful is the same: giving customers the chance to find deals they wouldn’t find elsewhere.
Trivia bit: did you know that Americans throw away $57 billion worth of coupons every year? Can you think of how many coupons ended in the trash in your family. Given Nathan Engels’ example, would you reconsider throwing your coupons away?