While driving to work one morning, I heard an radio advertisement for a $1000 grocery gift certificate give away. I figured I had apretty good odds since it was 6:00AM. I called and the attendent asked my zip code. She said yes for my area there two certificates remaining and that if I continued I would be guaranteed one of them. Since we had just moved and had no groceries, I thought this was a great way to stock-up. She said I could not by alcohol or tabacco. I could easily spend $1000; I needed cleaning supplies, diapers, wipes, groceries.
She proceeded to tell me that this was available from a marketing research company and that they would like to see what I would spend the money on. She said I would go on line and download a coupon and bring it with me to the store and redeem it for products I wanted.
She then went on to explain that there are three other companies that I will be enrolled in. One would be a health and wellness, where I can get all my health and beauty products. One would be travel and leisure, where they send me details on discount airfare, hotels, cruises, etc. I can't remember what the third was.in exchange I would receive another $150 in gift certicates. Each of the three companies charges $4.95 plus shipping to enroll and send out my packets. She wnet on to say that if I'm not satisifed I can cancel within the 30 day trial period, but I would have to cancel with each one. She went on to say if I do not cancel I would automatically be charged the monthly enrollment fees from each company. I asked, 'I'm getting $1000?' She said yes. Then I can deal with canceling these later. Total cost $19.95.
Here is what I got. I got a letter and card in the mail for grocerysavers.com. I can go online enter my card and view all the coupons available and I have a $1000 balance. Now the coupons are not anything special. $1.00 cereal, $1.00 off detergent, $0.50 off toothpaste, etc. Coupons are only good if they are for the products you already buy. There were alot of products (brands) that I don't buy. I thought to myself; I can at least recoup my $19.95. I click on two dozen or so products and it says I total up to $50 in coupons. Here is the kicker. They want me to pay another $4.20 to send me the coupons.
As you can tell from reading the above I feel like I've been ripped-off.
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