How do you like a sale to work?

Do sales and coupons sometimes just make you mad? Sure maybe you’d like a 50% off sale instead of a 10% off sale but that’s not what I’m getting at here…

One supplier of mine offers coupons weekly but always on sizes I don’t use or quantities it would be hard justify. I get this one: they have lots of a certain item and they want to move it. Still annoying, however, that I can never get a great deal on the stuff I use day in day out.

It never fails that what I need at Office Max or Staples is only available online, not in store, but the coupon only applies to in-store purchases. And heaven forbid -- you can’t have it shipped to the store and use your coupon at pickup----this is FORBIDDEN. OR item is only available in store and I get the online only coupon. It’s almost as if they want me NOT to shop there (which is going to be the result). I just don’t understand their goal in this craziness.

So when I do coupons or sales for Opera Bracelets, I try to make them applicable to anything the customer may be wanting to buy. I don’t want to put up road block to the sale, right?

But, do I have it all wrong? Do people want a Madama Butterfly only sale? Some of these sales I see make me wonder… did I miss coupon class?