What are the disadvantages of a company using coupons?
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For one, you are selling at a discount, two, people may only buy your product because it is a low cost solution, which does not help your brand unless your product position is already low price, then it can only help, but you should not constantly offer coupons or people will refrane from buying when they don't have a coupon handy, since the value is perceived at a lower price.
899298
1. Size of vendor\n2. Payment/delivery track record\n3. Credit rating of vendor\n4. Number of substitutes/suppliers (i.e. do they NEED the business and be hurt if they could get supply)\n5. Interchaneability of the product/service (i.e. will a large discount lock them into using your good/service indefinitely, is the buyer just price sensitive and can go to anybody?)
1011928
For me, it would be if the store does not have a fully secured check-out. It amazes me how many online stores either do not have a secure check-out, do things through e-mail or send me off to another service like PayPal that I have to sign up for.
681628
Senior notes probably have a lower coupon rate because they have less "default risk" so to speak.  If the company defaults, they are more likely to recover assets so the senior notes get discounted slightly.  The junior notes would likely get not as much so they have a highe risk and pay a higher rate.
519363
although its anoying, you would most definetly do it yourself if you were trying to attract new customers to your business, at the end of the day most people will only buy if the deal is really good or they are currently after that particular product or service at the time of the call or e-mail, so for 90% of people contacted the answer will probably be no or please call back another day so its probably not ethical for them anyway.
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Pro's-\n1) You don't hold any stock, so no chance of having left over stock to get rid of\n2) No overheads of storage, etc\n3) Allows the opportunity to 'buy' a wider range of products\n\nNegatives-\n\nHere, I will speak personally. I used a dropshipper for a while, The Select.co.uk, and they were useless. They sent a package to one of my customers that was broken, they didn't send an order out to someone but didn't tell me, so I had no idea that I had a p*ssed off customer on my hands... they go out of stock but don't tell you, so you sell something that basically you can't supply... but it's you who has to deal with the flack, not them!! \n\nI really wouldn't advise it, it may seem cost effective, but it is more stressful than you can imagine!
920593
help you with problems you could have with their products.\n\n:>peace
856922
There are coupons in the newspaper and online, plus shopping online is so much easier. People go to the movies and so similar activities less and less.  The only thing left from the entertainment book is restaurants and some activities, for which I guess people have so many options that they don't want to pay to be tied down to certain restaurants.  Plus, the huge amount of restaurant competition causes them to have specials w/o coupons anyway.  Plus, schools and groups have more ways to fundraise.  Also, fundraising has slown down slightly, perhaps because fewer kids have to do so for activities.
211321
You need to provide the site and the coupon you want to print.  You will also need to have your popup blocker turned off so it can popup when you find it.
1175099
Valupak's coupons are worthless
632882
advantage is size and one-stop shopping... disadvantage is competivity pricing on some of thier products
871698
Your friend is not commiting an offence at all. Shops are not obligated to accept all of the coupouns but most will especially if they sell that product. At the end of the day it depends on what shop your friend goes into and whether the manager takes them. If you know the owner then maybe they will take the whole lot as payment.
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Everything depends on LOCATION, CUSTOMERS, ADVERTISING.\n\nIt all costs money.  Franchises fees are not cheap either.  You may have to purchase all the supplies from the company.\n\nI have a friend that owns several McDonald's.  His sales fluctuate with the weather, news reports on healthy food, whether or not the local team won, what toys are in the Happy Meals.  He is not rich, by any means.  He is ALWAYS at work, dealing with situations that arise.
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See, not every customer is after the discounts. In some sectors, major corporations choose to go with much expensive solutions for a variety of reasons, such as after sale support and cutting edge technologies.\n\nBrand loyalty can be built on discounts, which means you need to keep prices down all the time because thats what comes to mind when your brand is present.\n\nSome companies have a nich market that helps build thier brand regardless of pricing and discounts...
602889
Advantage is mainly ease of use as you can avail these facilities on net or phone or through ATMs however disadvantage is you loose human touch and worse is if something goes wrong it is very difficult to get it corrected.
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1) Brand is a promis of quality to the customer\n\n2) Products die buts brands do not.\n\n3) Can change the positioning of the product in the market \n\n4) differentiate the product from the competitor.\n\n5) promotional activites will be ezier.\n\nBut few disadvantages ...such as wrong/ unethical or false attributes can be infused to the brand by the manufacturer
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There are some great suggestions already, including those who say you really won't be able to find anything worth while on that budget.\n\nThat said, if you want some computer coupons, try:\n\nhttp://www.couponheaven.com/category.cfm/8\nhttp://www.bradsdeals.com/computer-systems-catid-5a.html\nhttp://www.dealcatcher.com/coupons~view_type=1~category=7