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Coupon
Books
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Rating: 
Level of Review:
Researched. We had one given to us years ago,
would not ever buy one again, or attempt to sell
one.
Overview:
You buy a box or more of coupon books, with
coupons for places near you. You are supposed to be
able to sell them for more than you paid, at a
higher price. Or you pay for a membership with
rights to sell them online.
Product: A
coupon book.
Cost: Varies
widely.
Compensation:
Depends on markup. Books can sell for anywhere
between $12 and $40. You have to sell a lot of them
to make anything.
Conclusion:
Pretty much always a scam. Coupon books do not
sell anymore. Even when they were new, people were
reluctant to pay for something which had coupons to
places they might want to go, because they could
not be sure they would use them. And since they
have a wide variety of things in them, from a wide
varietty of merchants, most people won't use even
half of them. Sure you may get a coupon for the
hair salon you use most, but what are you going to
do with the one for the other hair salon? $50 worth
of coupons means nothing when you won't use half of
them!
Coupon clippers are
notoriously frugal people. They won't pay for what
they can get free by watching the paper. The only
people who would ever buy these are people who only
play at being frugal, and they aren't looking for
them.
The other problem
is that often the merchants won't honor the
coupons. You see, some of the companies that print
them do not honor their agreements with the
merchants, so the merchants refuse to honor the
coupons. This has happened enough that people won't
trust the coupons to be any good.
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Our Rating System:
No program is right for everyone.
Even a rating of four or five does not indicate that you should
dive in without some careful thought and consideration. Business
is still risky. All reviews have the reasons for the rating
clearly defined.
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Information presented in program is accurate and factual concerning
the potential of the program, program is based on sound business
principles, and has good potential to provide stable income
for individuals to whom the program is suitable.
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Information is accurately presented, company focuses on selling
product, but business is either more confusing, less predictable,
or slightly higher risk for one of a number of reasons. Still
considered a sound company and very acceptable risk.
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Information may be confusing or misleading, company may have
significant issues with program structure, support of product,
or public perception and reputation. A rating of three does
not mean you should not do it. It just means you need to be
sure you are suited to overcoming the difficulties that the
program has.
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Information generally misleading, risk fairly high, many unanswered
questions, business principles questionable, but still has some
potential for actually working for some people.
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Cannot declare that it is an outright scam, but potential for
it to work is very low. Will have questionable business theory,
bad reputation, excessive hype that is not backed up by common
sense, or other aspects which indicate very high risk. Will
always have multiple issues, not just one thing.
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Outright Scam. Anything labeled this way is never worth any
kind of risk.
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