Free Coupons: Recycled Refunds
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November/December 1970
By Clark Hinkle
Fortunately, for those who want to dig deeper into this source of cash, there is a small bulletin published monthly that covers the field. The bulletin is QUICK SILVER published by Eggleston Enterprise in Milford, N.Y. 13807. The bulletin is about three typewritten (both sides) pages, lists almost all available refund offers, sells for 35¢ a copy, $1.00 for 3 months or $3.50 per year. And you can earn back the subscription price by sending the editors information on refund offers in your area. They'll give you 25¢ for each tip they use. They also guide you as to which offers require an official refund certificate and which do not. Approximately 90% of the listings are valid without certificates.
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Many of the promotions specify one to a family and the big refund operators that I talked with, were using up to ten: different addresses in order to milk an offer for that many dollars instead of a single buck.
The refunds are made on dog food, soap, coffee, frozen foods . . . almost everything sold in the leading chain stores, across the nation. The newspapers are full of offers for 5¢ to 50¢. These are certificates that are presented at the register for a discount. In many cases you buy an item for 50¢ and give them a coupon worth 10¢. You then send in the label of the item and get a cash refund of 50¢ and another coupon to buy something else. There have been several offers where, after the initial purchase, a product is free for the next few weeks while the offer lasts.
The back of supermarkets, restaurants, and other trash piles offer wonderful picking for labels and box tops worth cash refunds. Sunbeam was offering $5.00 for the front panel and a sales slip from the purchase of an electric razor. A rubbish pile in the rear of a store provided two panels and some fast work with a pencil made the sales slips. Two addresses, and $10.00 was on the way home.
I questioned one lady about her trash pile picking and tried to find out if it bothered her to be seen foraging through the empty boxes in back of a supermarket. "What would you do if you saw a dollar bill laying in the trash?" she asked.
The price was right, I decided. You don't really get something for nothing . . . but then you don't lose anything either, if you work at it, scout out a source of labels and box tope and set up a couple of friends to receive mail, you can soon be getting quarters, half dollars and dollars in exchange for the debris from our Great Consumer Economy.
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