Comments on: Sell Coupons on eBay

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:59:40 +0000

If selling coupons is illegal, why does Ebay allow you to do to commit this supposed crime?

By: BrianLL

BrianLL — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:52:42 +0000

This is where the manufacturers will be able to stop Ebay from allowing coupons to be sold, err, I mean for the clipper’s time to be sold.LOL
First off, Ebay themselves state explicitly that you are selling the coupons themselves. You will read that in the same area where they state conditions in selling them. So saying you are selling your time is pointless – Ebay disagrees with you. Notice if you read carefully how Ebay advises coupon sellers to NOT VIOLATE the terms of the coupons, and there is a good reason for that.
Most coupons state they are VOID if they are sold, auctioned or transfered. Now, no matter what you claim you are being paid for, as soon as you MAIL thru the US Postal Service, those coupons, you are committing mail fraud, because you are mailing VOIDED items that cannot be used BUT you got paid for them! Ebay, again, states that you are SELLING the coupons. Period.

So you are using the US mail to defraud people when you do NOT state in your ad that the items (coupons) CANNOT be used because they are VOIDED according to the terms of use. Once you attempt to use those coupons,that is fraud since the coupons have been voided (of course there is no way for anyone to know how you got them). Still, the fact is that a VOIDED item that CANNOT legally be used is being mailed to you, and you paid for that useless item.

Fraud.

That is what they will use to go after the sellers. Mark my words.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:58:33 +0000

Wrong. All that on the CIC website hinges on a term or condition printed on a coupon which has already been stated is not a law but merely conditions from the manufacturer to redeem the discount.

Everyone is free to buy as many sunday papers as they like and cutout the same coupon from each insert and stack them and if able use them. theres no law against selling said inserts as well. Its the same as selling the sunday papers to someone else since now they belong to you. Remember “First Sale Doctrine”

If the seller takes the time to cut the coupons out of the insert then thats what your paying for. The same manufacturer you process coupons for knows its a hazy road to travel down and i would bet they dont want to attempt it

By: Mally

Mally — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:43:04 +0000

To the person who mentions CIC, I work for a manufacturer coupon processing office, it’s illegal to Buy or Sell coupons online, even if they claim they are just selling “their time and efforts”. Do not buy into it. From CIC’s website directly: “Individuals selling or auctioning coupons often know that such sales and auctions are in violation of the terms and conditions of the coupons. As such, they may include an invalid disclaimer, such as, “I’m selling my time to clip the coupons, not the coupons themselves. Such disclaimers are invalid and do not provide any legal protection to either party. Such obviously invalid disclaimers merely serve to prove that the seller/auctioneer knows that their illicit coupon sales are inappropriate, wrong, and subject to civil and/or criminal penalties, depending on the situation.”