CVS question for the Speedstick deal on this week (2/12 to 2/19)

[Desert Debbi]

We once again have a GOOD speedstick deal going on. Its $1.99 each and has a $5 ECB reward when you buy $15.00

I am planning to do the following:

Buy 8 speedstick and use 4 BOGO free coupons. The thing is.. last time I did this it rang the coupons up at $3.99 each which would make this a GREAT donatable. At a $1.00 each not so much. Does anyone know if they are ringing up at $1.99 or $3.99 on the BOGO's?

[CurtisBeers]

We once again have a GOOD speedstick deal going on. Its $1.99 each and has a $5 ECB reward when you buy $15.00

I am planning to do the following:

Buy 8 speedstick and use 4 BOGO free coupons. The thing is.. last time I did this it rang the coupons up at $3.99 each which would make this a GREAT donatable. At a $1.00 each not so much. Does anyone know if they are ringing up at $1.99 or $3.99 on the BOGO's?

I think it actually depends on the cashier. At my store, they will give you the regular price for the coupon of $3.99. I have seen other postings say that the cashiers at their stores adjusted the coupon down to $1.99.

[shallen3]

I think it actually depends on the cashier. At my store, they will give you the regular price for the coupon of $3.99. I have seen other postings say that the cashiers at their stores adjusted the coupon down to $1.99.

I bought 6 and used 3 that rang 3.99 so walked back and got 2 more and different cashier rang them at 1.99 2 minutes later.

[Desert Debbi]

yeah thats what I thought. A poster who works for CVS had mentioned last time that if they adjust it the store loses money somehow. Well here's hoping.

[lisabr]

Well, I was just getting ready to post my cvs trip about this very thing, well, only it was a rain check from the last great deal they had with the buy 6 (or $12 worth) and get $6 ecb's back. Well, it's taken me this long since that deal to actually find enough in (or any in I should say). So I got two deals:
12~ speed stick (6 men's & 6 women's)
had 6 b1g1 cpns and rain check for 2 deals
$0 w/o tax
$2.27 w/tax
And yes they just scanned the cpns and left them at the $3.99 that the cpns were taking off!!
Got back not only the $12 ecb's ($6 from each deal), but also because of the deal going on right now I got back another $5 ecb! Woohoo!!

Ok so my next transaction was of
2-colgate ($2.75 each get back $2ecb's, can do 2 deals)
2-revitlens ($2.49 each)
2- candy fillers (@ .44 each)
1-conair combs ($3.19)
1- conair combs ($2.99) now the conair items were suppose to be: buy any conair hair appliance and get back $5 ecb's limit 2 deals. They first didn't want to give me the ecb's for these because they didn't know about it, but I had asked the manager about it while I was looking at the combs and brushes, and he said I could get 2 deals, and yes no matter how much the item cost that for each item I bought (up to 2 deals) that I should get the $5ecbs for each. Ok had to gently argue the fact when of course the ecbs didn't print out, one of the cashiers went back there with me and he saw the signs, and told the lady ringing me up to honor it, but she only gave me 1 of the $5ecb's. I said I need 2 of them cause I got 2 conair products, but they would not give it to me, just said that it's for the one transaction or something. I got them free plus got ecbs back so I didnt argue the point anymore. By then there was like 4 employess up there at the registers and one of them a new employee, and they were trying to tell me also that the deal probably wasn't even for those things I got but probably the hair dryers. What ever! Like I said they aren't always the most friendliest there especially if you question them! The 2 that were helping me (ringing my stuff up) were very nice but we had problems first of all cause the girl who gave me my rain checks for the deo deal, didn't write out the form correctly, so had some talking to manager, he said just honor it. So it took longer cause the one was teaching the other, and so on. It just seemed one problem after another, and I think when it came down to giving me another $5 ecb, they were basically done being nice about it and said no. Not to the point of being rude, but they didn't want to discuss it further.
So the cpns I had:
2-$.75 colgate
2-$2/1 revitlens
$12 ecbs (from the speed stick)
$.04 w/o tax
$.57 w/tax
got back $9ecbs ($5 for the conair & $4 for the colgate)

So got a total oop for both transactions: $.04 w/o tax & $2.84 w/tax
and have a total of $14 ecb's & another $2 ecb from last week (I didn't need it this time around)=$16
It makes me mad thinking that I should have had that extra $5 ecb that they refused to give me!!! Has this happened to anyone else?

[Desert Debbi]

Sweeet =D Wish me luck that I also have the same thing happen!

[Bear]

Mine took off $3.99, $3.99, $3.99, and the last one had to be adjusted to $3.95. Good Luck.

[Bear]

It makes me mad thinking that I should have had that extra $5 ecb that they refused to give me!!! Has this happened to anyone else?

In the past the Conair Hair Appliances has not aplied to combs and brushes only hair dryers, curling irons, etc. I think you were lucky to get the $5 ECB.

[happysmileylady]

The thing with the Speed Stick coupons is this:

A BOGO coupon is SUPPOSED to trigger the register to ask the cashier for the price. The cashier then enters the price of the item, that's how much the coupon takes off, that's how much the cashier is to write on the coupon.

With the Speed Stick, no prompt comes up asking the cashier the price. The coupon is (for the most part) automatically taking off $3.99. It's acting as if it's a $3.99 coupon instead of a BOGO coupon. It could totally be that there are some coupons out that have the proper coding in them and it's triggering the register to ask, but I haven't personally seen one yet.

When the cashier manually enters the coupon for $1.99 without the prompt, they are basically telling the register that they have made up a coupon, with no paper coupon tied to it. There's nothing in the register that says that $1.99 is a Speed Stick coupon. Therefore, the manufacturer has no proof that the coupon CVS sends to them is the coupon that was actually used, and the manufacturer doesn't reimburse for anything $1.99 OR $3.99.

At least, that's how it was explained to me by my supervisor.

As to how they reimburse that coupon when it rings up $3.99 and the product is only $1.99, I dunno.

[CurtisBeers]

The thing with the Speed Stick coupons is this:

A BOGO coupon is SUPPOSED to trigger the register to ask the cashier for the price. The cashier then enters the price of the item, that's how much the coupon takes off, that's how much the cashier is to write on the coupon.

With the Speed Stick, no prompt comes up asking the cashier the price. The coupon is (for the most part) automatically taking off $3.99. It's acting as if it's a $3.99 coupon instead of a BOGO coupon. It could totally be that there are some coupons out that have the proper coding in them and it's triggering the register to ask, but I haven't personally seen one yet.

When the cashier manually enters the coupon for $1.99 without the prompt, they are basically telling the register that they have made up a coupon, with no paper coupon tied to it. There's nothing in the register that says that $1.99 is a Speed Stick coupon. Therefore, the manufacturer has no proof that the coupon CVS sends to them is the coupon that was actually used, and the manufacturer doesn't reimburse for anything $1.99 OR $3.99.

At least, that's how it was explained to me by my supervisor.

As to how they reimburse that coupon when it rings up $3.99 and the product is only $1.99, I dunno.

What happens at self check-out where we scan our own coupons and then put them in the slot? Most of the time, coupons go through with no problems....but sometimes a cashier is needed to put the price in for free items. They always look at the screen and put the amount in shown. Even if you enter an Extra Care Card number, it does not come off until the very end when you hit payment.
Doesn't the store get reimbursed for the regular sale amount when they turn them in?