Most likely unaware of the consequences of their store owner’s extreme behavior. Many people setup appointments to shop in a stranger’s basement turned grocery store. I constantly see the sales post in Facebook groups. These sales are still going strong five years later. Instead of spending time clipping coupons or downloading digital ones, Sanderson scans the internet looking for the latest stockpile sale.
So, I look for the sales,” Scott Sanderson said. “I wish I had the time to do the couponing myself, but they take the work out of it for me. I met some shoppers who return week after week to purchase items at Neumann’s sale, and some even negotiate to save even more. Neumann pays pennies on the dollar for the items and re-sells the products for cheaper than you’d find in the store. Neumann sold everything from soap to sauce at a yard sale. You see moms posting about their stockpile sale on Facebook Groups, Swap Shops, Craigslist, and the Facebook Marketplace. Years later, these sales are just as popular. However, some argue it’s gaming the system.Ĭristina Neumann of Ohio made $300 a day at her stockpile sale when I first reported on this in 2011. The couponer then makes a profit, and you save money. Then, they sell their surplus to you less than the retail store sells the product. They buy the diapers or shampoo at a discount with coupons. Extreme couponers create grocery store in basementĬouponers are passing their savings onto you with stockpile sales. Plus, the stockpile sale violates coupon policies. It sounds like a deal, but some argue stockpile sales cost us all in the end. She may not have “cases of Tide” anymore, but if she has enough other products to sell – she may want to use the proceeds to buy a stronger lock.UPDATED Shampoo, shaving cream, and diapers all for sale in a basement or front yard for a fraction of the retail price. So Perry will be working to build up that stockpile again.
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Jones had been pulled over and arrested on unrelated charges shortly after posting his photos, and police found it curious that he had a “trunk full of soap products.” Once Perry called them, and they reviewed the security footage, they charged Jones with burglary.īut by then, Jones allegedly had already sold some of Perry’s products. Perry called police, who put two and two together and realized they actually already had their man. “She could have bought her own stuff back, before she even knew it was stolen.” “You can’t make this up,” police chief Steve Runge told KPLR. She said she saw the photos, and recognized the hand-written price tags she had put on some of the items. Later that day, Jones posted pictures on a local Facebook “items for sale” group, under the heading “Shampoos… conditioners… hair spray… mouthwash… laundry detergent,” all being offered at prices far below what you’d pay at any store.Īs luck would have it, Perry is a member of that very same Facebook group. The video then allegedly showed him breaking into Perry’s storage unit, and carting away many of the items inside. Police say 34-year-old Demetrius Jones was spotted on security footage visiting his own storage unit in the wee hours of the morning last Friday.
Some of it she ends up using or donating, she said, and the rest she sells.īut imagine her surprise when she saw her own purchases offered for sale on Facebook. She gets so many products for little or nothing, that she rents a storage unit to hold it all.
The victim was Shawn Perry, a couponer with a whole lot of stuff. Police in Charlack, Missouri sure considered it a crime when a man allegedly stole an extreme couponer’s stash and held his own stockpile sale online. So when a hoard of products destined for resale is stolen – is it a crime, or karma? But many couponers frown on it, most coupon issuers discourage it, and some critics say the only way to acquire massive stockpiles intended for resale, is by cutting corners and committing some form of coupon fraud. Using coupons to collect a huge stockpile of products that are then resold at garage sales or flea markets, has long been a controversial subject.
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