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A little respect and understanding for coupon sellers please
May 3, 2011 at
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I have seen a lot of coupon seller bashing around SD and I feel I need to say something. First of all, no seller is 100% perfect all the time. We are humans and we do make mistakes. The good ones do their best to make things right.
Second of all, I know that a lot of buyers feel their order should go out asap. So do we. I don't think any buyer actually understands the amount of work that goes in to coupon clipping. It takes about 1 hour to sort 100 inserts. Longer if it is a huge one. So, if there is 3 inserts, 600 of each. It takes approx 18 hours just to sort them. Then, you have to cut them. Some are on double pages (on the spine), which has to be cut by hand. I personally work these hours to get orders done on an average week. Saturday, 8 am - 6 or 7pm (listing, pictures). Sunday, 9am-7 or 8pm sorting and cutting. Monday 7:45am to roughly 12 midnight filling orders. Tuesday, 7:45am - 5 to 6pm. This is just to get weekend orders out. That is roughly 49 hours in 4 days. If your order doesn't go out for 2 days, it isn't because we don't care or are being lazy. I know, I do as much as humanely possible until it is all mailed. If you buy on Sunday, it maybe Wednesday until it goes out because there are 300+ orders in front of you. If you order from any other business on the internet, it will be at least 2 days before they ship it. (I.E. Wal-mart, Target, Toys r Us). These are companies with thousands of employees. I do not understand the assumption that we shouldn't get the same amount of time, when there is only 1 or 2 people filling orders. We do not have large office spaces with 10, 20 or 30 people working. I don't want anyone to have the assumption that all of Saturday and Sunday orders go out Monday. I posted this on my site. It is absolutely impossible.
Also, we all have families of our own. We do work from home but dinners still have to be made, kids have to get to school, laundry has to be done, dishes, baths...etc. We are stay at home moms just like you. We use coupons just like you. I honestly just want the same understanding any buyer would want for themselves. I do everything in my power to make my customers happy, and I feel I am very good at what I do.
If any of this seems unacceptable or unreasonable, then, my apologies but I am not the clipper for you. Thanks for reading.
Lorihas3kids
Second of all, I know that a lot of buyers feel their order should go out asap. So do we. I don't think any buyer actually understands the amount of work that goes in to coupon clipping. It takes about 1 hour to sort 100 inserts. Longer if it is a huge one. So, if there is 3 inserts, 600 of each. It takes approx 18 hours just to sort them. Then, you have to cut them. Some are on double pages (on the spine), which has to be cut by hand. I personally work these hours to get orders done on an average week. Saturday, 8 am - 6 or 7pm (listing, pictures). Sunday, 9am-7 or 8pm sorting and cutting. Monday 7:45am to roughly 12 midnight filling orders. Tuesday, 7:45am - 5 to 6pm. This is just to get weekend orders out. That is roughly 49 hours in 4 days. If your order doesn't go out for 2 days, it isn't because we don't care or are being lazy. I know, I do as much as humanely possible until it is all mailed. If you buy on Sunday, it maybe Wednesday until it goes out because there are 300+ orders in front of you. If you order from any other business on the internet, it will be at least 2 days before they ship it. (I.E. Wal-mart, Target, Toys r Us). These are companies with thousands of employees. I do not understand the assumption that we shouldn't get the same amount of time, when there is only 1 or 2 people filling orders. We do not have large office spaces with 10, 20 or 30 people working. I don't want anyone to have the assumption that all of Saturday and Sunday orders go out Monday. I posted this on my site. It is absolutely impossible.
Also, we all have families of our own. We do work from home but dinners still have to be made, kids have to get to school, laundry has to be done, dishes, baths...etc. We are stay at home moms just like you. We use coupons just like you. I honestly just want the same understanding any buyer would want for themselves. I do everything in my power to make my customers happy, and I feel I am very good at what I do.
If any of this seems unacceptable or unreasonable, then, my apologies but I am not the clipper for you. Thanks for reading.
Lorihas3kids
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It has been more than a month or so since he's had a "vacation," I think.
It's been over a year since I've gotten a warning
It's been over a year since I've gotten a warning
It's been over a year since I've gotten a warning
I don't think the Mods did any changing
I think arj quitting has a lot to do with this.
Second of all, I know that a lot of buyers feel their order should go out asap. So do we. I don't think any buyer actually understands the amount of work that goes in to coupon clipping. It takes about 1 hour to sort 100 inserts. Longer if it is a huge one. So, if there is 3 inserts, 600 of each. It takes approx 18 hours just to sort them. Then, you have to cut them. Some are on double pages (on the spine), which has to be cut by hand. I personally work these hours to get orders done on an average week. Saturday, 8 am - 6 or 7pm (listing, pictures). Sunday, 9am-7 or 8pm sorting and cutting. Monday 7:45am to roughly 12 midnight filling orders. Tuesday, 7:45am - 5 to 6pm. This is just to get weekend orders out. That is roughly 49 hours in 4 days. If your order doesn't go out for 2 days, it isn't because we don't care or are being lazy. I know, I do as much as humanely possible until it is all mailed. If you buy on Sunday, it maybe Wednesday until it goes out because there are 300+ orders in front of you. If you order from any other business on the internet, it will be at least 2 days before they ship it. (I.E. Wal-mart, Target, Toys r Us). These are companies with thousands of employees. I do not understand the assumption that we shouldn't get the same amount of time, when there is only 1 or 2 people filling orders. We do not have large office spaces with 10, 20 or 30 people working. I don't want anyone to have the assumption that all of Saturday and Sunday orders go out Monday. I posted this on my site. It is absolutely impossible.
Also, we all have families of our own. We do work from home but dinners still have to be made, kids have to get to school, laundry has to be done, dishes, baths...etc. We are stay at home moms just like you. We use coupons just like you. I honestly just want the same understanding any buyer would want for themselves. I do everything in my power to make my customers happy, and I feel I am very good at what I do.
If any of this seems unacceptable or unreasonable, then, my apologies but I am not the clipper for you. Thanks for reading.
Lorihas3kids
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Also:
No.
WHY? why cant u just keep it to yourself like everyone else? whyyyyy must we be included in your BLAHNESS
so u make money cutting free papers? what are u btiching about?
also...use a ruler. DUH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYCbB4_
The solution is to make her hubby work more hours or get a better job so she can focus on making him steak dinners and OTs.....of course that is what all women want right?
Oh and thanks to the mods for moving this topic here...we need the chum every once in a while...
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Second of all, I know that a lot of buyers feel their order should go out asap. So do we. I don't think any buyer actually understands the amount of work that goes in to coupon clipping. It takes about 1 hour to sort 100 inserts. Longer if it is a huge one. So, if there is 3 inserts, 600 of each. It takes approx 18 hours just to sort them. Then, you have to cut them. Some are on double pages (on the spine), which has to be cut by hand. I personally work these hours to get orders done on an average week. Saturday, 8 am - 6 or 7pm (listing, pictures). Sunday, 9am-7 or 8pm sorting and cutting. Monday 7:45am to roughly 12 midnight filling orders. Tuesday, 7:45am - 5 to 6pm. This is just to get weekend orders out. That is roughly 49 hours in 4 days. If your order doesn't go out for 2 days, it isn't because we don't care or are being lazy. I know, I do as much as humanely possible until it is all mailed. If you buy on Sunday, it maybe Wednesday until it goes out because there are 300+ orders in front of you. If you order from any other business on the internet, it will be at least 2 days before they ship it. (I.E. Wal-mart, Target, Toys r Us). These are companies with thousands of employees. I do not understand the assumption that we shouldn't get the same amount of time, when there is only 1 or 2 people filling orders. We do not have large office spaces with 10, 20 or 30 people working. I don't want anyone to have the assumption that all of Saturday and Sunday orders go out Monday. I posted this on my site. It is absolutely impossible.
Also, we all have families of our own. We do work from home but dinners still have to be made, kids have to get to school, laundry has to be done, dishes, baths...etc. We are stay at home moms just like you. We use coupons just like you. I honestly just want the same understanding any buyer would want for themselves. I do everything in my power to make my customers happy, and I feel I am very good at what I do.
If any of this seems unacceptable or unreasonable, then, my apologies but I am not the clipper for you. Thanks for reading.
Lorihas3kids
That's a math word problem waiting to happen.
These are some serious folks. At least the one guy was donating some of his stock to a food bank.
ETA: Why would someone buy these? I can just go buy a local newspaper. I don't get a local paper any longer but when I did there were very few coupons I would even consider using. And these days I can get my coupons online and add (some of them) to my store card electronically. You buy a bunch of coupons, most of which I guess you won't use, and then pay more than you would to just buy the local paper? I must be missing something.
WHY? why cant u just keep it to yourself like everyone else? whyyyyy must we be included in your BLAHNESS
so u make money cutting free papers? what are u btiching about?
also...use a ruler. DUH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYCbB4_
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