General Knowledge Question About Coupons hehehe!!!!!!?

On coupon in smaller print it says cash value: 1/100 of a cent….what does this mean????
well geez i know that much but i was just wondering why they bother doing that. do ppl actually collect 100 of those and try to cash them in??

Due to legislation you had to offer a cash value for the coupon as well as for the amount that could be knocked off the price of your product.The aim was to ensure that the system could not be artificially used to “fix” prices over long periods to get around the existing restrictive practice trade laws.

The effect of the law was that people could then collect the coupons and cash them in without buying the product. This was obviously not what the manufacturers wanted and hence, they gave the cash value as a minuscule amount so that it was not worth the effort to collect them and they also gave the coupons short expiration periods.

(In a similar way for “promotional competions” legislation states that manufacturers have to say “no purchase necessary” and also allow non- purchasers to enter the competions. At least they do in the UK. and I suspect it will be the same in the USA and Australia although individual states or countries may vary.

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