Originally Posted by The Batlord

My favorite are the schmucks who ask if they can use a coupon twice. Like, I'm still not sure if those people are trying to run a lame scam or if they literally don't understand how coupons work.

Originally Posted by Exo

If you get a Wendy's gift certificate,

Originally Posted by Exo

"Sir, this coupon was used already."

"Well that's impossible."

"Sir, this computer has very few functions but one of them is keeping track of coupon ID's and it never fails. Ever. You are a liar and I'm going to throat punch you if you don't leave."

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

I mean people who literally try to use the same coupon twice for a single transaction.

Originally Posted by rostasi

You wrote a screed on the "racket" of gift cards (it's not a racket because there's nothing illegal or dishonest being proffered).Then you said that you were "astonishe[d]" that it actually works. It works because some people might not know exactly what to get someone. People stopped buying music gifts for me a looooong time ago and so I get "cards" from, for example, Bandcamp, so I can choose and, most importantly, it's not just someone lazily throwing 20 bucks at me to go buy something. To think that a store offering the convenience of a gift card to a customer is somehow ensnaring them into their web of deceit or money-hungriness is conspiratorial. Instead, it shows that they are offering a valuable option to the customer and, yes, of course, it's a benefit to the store because they are offering their customers an option. They'll want to come back.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Convincing people to trade money that can be spent anywhere into money that can only be spent on something sold by the seller is a hella ****ing racket. Actually believing that $20 you can only spend at one place is a more thoughtful gift than just a plain old twenty that can be spent anywhere is some serious blind allegiance to capitalism. What’s next? A Wendy’s only GoFundMe? Actually, I could totally see that happening and people actually believing it’s a more thoughtful way to give money. It’s amazing to me what these *******s are capable of selling. Selling money that’s actually less valuable than money is at least as mindboggling as selling ice to Eskimos.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Convincing people to trade money that can be spent anywhere into money that can only be spent on something sold by the seller is a hella ****ing racket. Actually believing that $20 you can only spend at one place is a more thoughtful gift than just a plain old twenty that can be spent anywhere is some serious blind allegiance to capitalism. What’s next? A Wendy’s only GoFundMe? Actually, I could totally see that happening and people actually believing it’s a more thoughtful way to give money. It’s amazing to me what these *******s are capable of selling. Selling money that’s actually less valuable than money is at least as mindboggling as selling ice to Eskimos.

Originally Posted by jwb

you get drunk and pass out in the drive thru line.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.