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Coupons.com Sucks

Coupons.com requires you to install some special software for diabetic coupon printing, and it specifically does not work in VMs.

My grandma needed some coupons printed which are related to an arthritis drug called Zostrix (note the rel="nofollow") but was having some problems doing so. My mom also had such problems, so I decided to give it a go using my shiny new printer.

It turns out that the coupons for this drug are printed via Coupons.com, but when I went to use their service I was informed that it didn’t support my browser (FF3 on a Mac). Switching over to a VM running IE7 under XP I found that the site requires one to install some sort of silly coupon printing software in order to do the printing. Since I was using a VM I took a snapshot then attempted to install the software, at which point I received the above error.

The damned software refuses to install in a VM.

At this point I’m just not going to print the coupons… I don’t want to cruft up my normal or work machines (the only interactive non-VMs I have) with such crap, so there’s not much more I can do. Digging around a bit more on it, I found this writeup called A Closer Look at Coupons.com which details quite a number of questionable things done by this software.

13 Comments

  1. G
    G February 8, 2010

    I hate that site. They have limits too so you can usually only print ONE coupon. I don’t use that site much.

  2. jim vandemoter
    jim vandemoter February 12, 2010

    I have printed coupons from coupons.com many times. Now all of a sudden it won’t print. This sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. Ed
    Ed April 4, 2010

    Coupon.con sucks, their program does not down load at all.

  4. Greg
    Greg April 5, 2010

    Coupons.com is garbage! I have always had difficulties with it in Mac OS X. It always tells me my printer is not supported, and then shows me a tutorial to fix the problem in WINDOWS XP! How off-putting! My printer PRINTS, how is it NOT supported!?

  5. Ed (again)
    Ed (again) April 17, 2010

    Coupons.con still sucks. The FAQs are on no help. This is the only program I have never been able to download and print from. Why? Cause they Suck.

  6. Ed (again and again)
    Ed (again and again) April 18, 2010

    I fixed my problem ( no help from their site) by going to tools — Manage add ons — and enabled the add ons.

  7. Jason
    Jason April 7, 2011

    I tried to use Coupons.com to download a $5 coupon for SCOTTS Lawn Care Products. Going to scottsezseed.com, which was advertised on TV, directs me to a Facebook page for that product. Why do companies these days utilize FaceBook to host their products??? Are companies getting so CHEAP nowadays that they cannot host their own website domain for their products??? Anyways, after I went through the process of filling out the necessary information, the Coupons.com webpage told me to be sure I was next to a connected printer, since the coupon will not save to a PDF file. I was connected to a printer, then I continued to the next step. I then get an error message saying that my web browser (Google Chrome) is NOT SUPPORTED by Coupons.com. I then have the website send me the Coupon link to an alternate e-mail address. I do that, and then click on the new link that Coupons.com provides to me into my compatible browser, and then I get a message that I already printed the coupon the maximum allowed number of times, when IN FACT I WAS NEVER ABLE TO PRINT THE DAMN COUPON!! This is so stupid, all the trouble to just get a dumb $5 coupon for such a product. I HOPE NOBODY ELSE WHO READS THIS GOES THROUGH THIS SAME ORDEAL AGAIN JUST FOR A DUMB COUPON!

  8. bob
    bob November 1, 2011

    Coupons.com sucks. Poorly designed. Unable to search for things. Poorly catagorized. I give the site a 1 star rating out of 10.

  9. Kevin
    Kevin September 21, 2012

    Yeah, coupons.com sucks. I can’t tell you the number of complaints I’ve heard from people who either couldn’t install the software (on machines meeting their system requirements) or couldn’t get it to work. And don’t try to get any help from them. Their customer service personnel are retarded chimpanzees who will send you the same irrelevant form email over and over again. No evidence that they even READ your question.

    Problem is that they serve their customers, which are the companies advertising on their site. They don’t give a damn about the end users.

  10. mike
    mike January 29, 2013

    They force you to get this crap software to install. Why not just let us save a PDF and use SMART PHONES to purchase like the rest of the world? Their business model is crap.

  11. Leandra
    Leandra August 7, 2013

    He stopped offering subsidized oil prices to his own people,
    because Venezuela was making a fortune selling it to the rest of the world.
    I know that on my local high street alone there is not only a Pizza Hut,
    but also many other franchises such as Domino’s, Donatos and East of Chicago. Keeping this craze in mind companies are opening outlets in different parts of the world.

    my weblog: pizza hut coupons *Leandra*

  12. LC
    LC October 5, 2013

    there site so sucks. i can’t print my coupon. pissed off!!

  13. SG
    SG April 29, 2014

    Does not work, at third attempt, coupon invalidated. What a HUGE SCAM. Set default printer, installed coupons.com – NO COUPONS.

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