Fixing "Please Wait' probs with Coupons

[cheapchick]

I found this advice on another site. This has happened to me a lot. Someone will paste a link to a coupon and when I click it I get the "Please Wait" message and then nothing happens. Well, I finally found out why:

Problems printing Bricks coupons? This may fix your problem!
So, everyone uses different browsers, from IE to FireFox to Safari.

Sometimes people paste Coupons.com/Bricks links that they recieved in FireFox, which do not work in Internet Explorer or vice versa. You get the "Please wait..." or "Please Install The Coupon Printer" even if you already did.

This trick will allow you to simply change 2 characters in the URL to make a FireFox link work in Internet Explorer and vice versa

Here's how easy it is, the following is a FireFox link:
hxxp://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=ri3peuo59687503&bt=wg&o=53740&ci=1& c=GM&p=TyQrvJAY

note the "wg" in the URL. This link gives the repeating Please Install The Coupon Printer in Internet Explorer.

To make that link an Internet Explorer link we simply change "wg" to "wi" OR "vi" (in this case, both variations work, other coupons it may be wi or vi, trial and error):
hxxp://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=ri3peuo59687503&bt=wi&o=53740&ci=1& c=GM&p=TyQrvJAY
or
hxxp://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=ri3peuo59687503&bt=vi&o=53740&ci=1& c=GM&p=TyQrvJAY

UPDATE: If you want to print Bricks coupons on a MAC with Safari, replace the "wg", "wi", or "vi" to "xs". You can also do the reverse, take a Safari link "xs" to IE "wi" or "vi" or to FireFox "wg".

You do the opposite if you want to print an Internet Explorer link in FireFox!

[lucyrevenge]

I posted this info last week. Should catalog this somehwere on the boards if possible for reference.

[cheapchick]

I did a search for this before I posted...must have missed it. Oh well, some things need repeating!

[lucyrevenge]

Yeppers. Right here, $1.25 off Progresso broth

When I post coupons now, I just let people know if it is set up to print from IE or FF and how to change it to print if they need to.

[cheapchick]

---Ok, I was looking under thread starters but not within the actual threads. But I suppose more people will notice it if it has its own thread. It should be under a sticky somewhere cuz it is an annoying prob.
---Before when someone would post a link to a coupon and it wouldn't print I just assumed the coupon ran out, then I got smarter and realized it had to be a prob with my computer so I started googling the coupon until I found it then I could print it.

[lucyrevenge]

Ok, I was looking under thread starters but not within the actual threads. But I suppose more people will notice it if it has its own thread. It should be under a sticky somewhere cuz it is an annoying prob.

Yep. Should definitely be catalogued for reference.

[pizzajim]

found out about this about a month ago.Works like a charm!!!

[bucksaver]

Thanks for the information! LOL!!! I had several times that I could not print coupons but I just tried this and it worked!!

[mugbuddy]

thanks for making this a "sticky" - I just noticed it and was finally able to successfully print the Lindt q!

[Leanna]

I have had a lot of problems with this issue. Thank you - can'y wait to try it!!