Free Trial Size Products
Did you know that you can get trial/travel size products for free with coupons? Just make sure the coupon does not prohibit it’s use on trial sizes.
The end of the month is fast approaching and I bet everyone has a ton of coupons expiring! Why not go through them to see if you have any that can be used on trial size products. I usually wait until they are about to expire to get the travel size, just in case I can get the full size product for free instead. But, if it’s about to expire, I would much rather get a free travel size product than throw away a coupon!
Travel size products are great if you want to try something before buying the full size product. Besides being great for travel, they are also great for keeping in your purse, glove compartment, desk, or other places you might need these items on a spur of the moment!
*Warning* Using coupons on trial sizes may cause cashiers to develop a bad attitude, and they may try to refuse your coupons. The best cures for this are to have an example coupon handy that does say “excludes trial sizes” to compare to the coupon you are using that doesn’t say that. (If the manufacturer didn’t want you to use it on the trial size, they would have stated so on the coupon.) If the store does not want to give you the overage (the whopping 1 – 3¢ – they will be reimbursed the full amount of the coupon!), tell them you do not mind them adjusting the coupon down to the price of the product. It is store policy after all. You can also carry a copy of the stores coupon policy with you, and program the phone number for corporate into your phone. Be prepared to stand up for your savvy-shopping self! Don’t say I didn’t warn you…
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Thanks for the freebies, I’ll definitely be getting some of those.
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I love using coupons to get free travel sized products, too! It makes packing for trips that much more fun, too!
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How funny…I just got travel sizes of Axe body wash and dove facial moisturizer for free with coupons at Target. The cashier told me because they were .97 and the coupons were for $1 off I would have to buy bigger sizes. I politely told her the coupons didn’t exclude travel sizes…yikes…she was sooo not happy with me and after talking to customer service agreed to give me .97 off. Great tips Stephanie!
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Thanks for this post. I had a frustrating cashier at Target who wouldn’t let me use my coupons since I was using them on Trial size items. I felt like a criminal and wondered if I was naively being unethical. Thanks so much for clearing up any confusion I had lingering after calling Customer Service. Now I know I can be more confident in standing up for myself AND my coupons.
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I have some friends that are overseas or going there in the next few months. All of these will be perfect to send over there and they will be greatly appreciated when they are recieved thank you.
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I tried to use coupons for trial sizes at a Target this week and the cashier was putting them through, but the manager saw what she was doing and stopped her. The manager said that I could not use the coupons for trial sizes and he started to get upset when I said that the coupons did not say that they were limited to trial sizes. I simply left the store (left all my purchases at the checkout counter) and drove to another Target (thank goodness I pass by two on my way home from work) and was able to use the coupons there – no questions asked.
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I had the same problems! Went to Target and cashier was inexperienced and she brought over the mnager and she told me I couldn’t use them on trial sizes and that I couldnt do it b/c the coupon was higher than the trial sizes. I left the items, went home, printed out the policy and drove back (not happy) went to the same manager and she called over another manager b/c she obviously didn’t believe me. He told her that I was RIGHT and she never even apologized. Rang up my items and still overcharged me by .38. She had an attitude about it. POOR customer service!! I called Guest Relations and told them everything and her name. They apologized to me and I told them that they need to make sure their employees know their coupon policy b/c this is happening to many times to people. Thanks Stephanie!
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I tried to do this last week at Target. I was so excited and every coupon they tried to scan of mine would not go through and each time the cashier had some excuse as to why they would not accept them. I was so upset I just ended up leaving there were a ton of people behind me and it was close to closing time. I have never had the problems with people accepting coupons as what I have had at Target.
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I had the same problem at Target today. Manager said I couldn’t use the coupons on trial size because it was worth less than the coupon. None of the coupons would go through. I explained the coupons didn’t say they couldn’t be used on trial size. I also told them I had used a same coupon in the past at that very store for a same trial product. They told me that some employees were fired for accepting the coupons. I told them I didn’t want the products and left. It was really embarrassing.
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Wow, were you right, went to Target today to get my free trial size items that I had coupons for but found everyone there had a bad attitude about using the coupons. I kept my cool and asked the manager for a written policy on coupons, which he supplied after about 15 minutes. Even though the policy said if the transaction amount was brought to less than $0 the cashier was to manually adjust the coupon to the item, he still refused now telling me that I had to get exactly the “pictured” item. Tried to use the $2 crystal light coupon on the two .99 cent size packages, he refused stating I wasn’t purchasing the correct product even though the coupon said ANY two crystal light products! It was exasperating. I was really only getting the trial size things for Christmas stockings we are making for the troops in Iraq but I didn’t even mention it to him because that shouldn’t matter!! UUUG!
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