[digginout]

I won some coupons on ebay for "FREE" Amy's organic frozen food products. Here's a link.

Two Free Coupons for AMY'S Organic Products - eBay (item 320399071319 end time Jul-15-09 10:48:01 PDT)

I am almost certain that the coupons are frauds due to odd paper they are printed on, the fuzzieness of the pictures, the poor cutting job, and the color of the "black" ink. I have contacted the company twice and the first time they completely ignored me, the second they said they would get back to me but haven't as of yet. I am really frustrated. I want this seller shut down for obvious reasons. What the heck can I do? I am really frustrated with the company's lack of response, even after i offered to mail the actual coupons directly to them so they could verify whether or not they are authentic.

I don't want to see others get scammed on these coupons or much worse create a bad rep for those of us who do use coupons in a legitimate manner.

[flower_mom]

How can you tell if they are truely fakes or not?
Have you actually tried using them? Which "company" have you contacted (the one with its info on the Q or the one who sold them to you)?
You are in an interesting predicament, my child!

[ajot]

i looked at the listing. i would NOT buy anything from someone who has a 'private' feedback section and his/her feedback percentage is pretty poor too. i don't know when you purchased them, but the seller offers a money back guarantee if you return them within 7 days.

[digginout]

I got these when he had like 13 positive feedback. Haven't checked him out since and the "private" feedback thing is new. I did contact Amy's via thier website, that is actually how I figured this out. I won a set of coupons from this seller as a second chance offer the first time around and thought oh great what a deal. Strange thing is that the auction was for 2 coupons, I was mailed 3 coupons. At the time I thought 'sweet bonus coupon'. Then I went back and bid again when he had another set up. Once again I got a "second chance offer" when I lost the auction for the second time.
In the mean time I had contacted Amy's directly through thier website saying how much I loved thier products. Someone got back to me within hours saying thanks we will be sending coupons out in the mail which they did and I recieved them less than a week later. None of those coupons were for FREE products.

The second set of coupons, again being an auction for 2 coupons(recieved 3) arrived the same day as the coupons directly from the company. At that point I put the two sets side by side and it was pretty obvious that the "free product " coupons were not directly from Amy's. I immediately scanned the coupons and sent a reply to the email I had recieved from the person at the company. I still haven't recieved a response.

I did research these coupons and at one point in time they were indeed sending these out to people. I think someone decided to get crafty and copied the coupons onto glossy photopaper. The ebay coupons are on paper that is about twice as thick as the real coupons and they definatly aren't nearly as professional.

Honestly I am scared to death to try and use these coupons. One of two things is going to happen.
I present the coupons and the cashier freaks out calling a manager who then accuses me of trying to pass fraudulent coupons and I get a bad rep.
OR
I present the coupons and they scan no questions asked. The store then submits the coupons and they are denied as frauds. The store is then out the money for the free products, and I have basically stolen from the store.

Neither scenario sounds good to me.

[flower_mom]

Originally Posted by digginout

Honestly I am scared to death to try and use these coupons. One of two things is going to happen.
I present the coupons and the cashier freaks out calling a manager who then accuses me of trying to pass fraudulent coupons and I get a bad rep.
OR
I present the coupons and they scan no questions asked. The store then submits the coupons and they are denied as frauds. The store is then out the money for the free products, and I have basically stolen from the store.

Neither scenario sounds good to me.

I agree, doesn't sound good. It makes me scared to trade/buy Q...Hopefully I would be smart enough, like you, to notice they were fakes.
I hate that there are people in the world that would do that, but obviously so.
I'm sorry!