I have started using Bump website a while ago. There is a swap board. I have traded some coupons with other moms. Is it legal to ask for cash on that website? One of the moms wanted to sell her coupons and asked for cash.
Thanks for your input:)
Ive never seen that site, and dont know whats legal or not, but thats not nice to ask for money for coupons in my mind. Dont you get most of them free? And if you need to mail them why not just pay for postage? Seems greedy and selfish to ask someone to pay for coupons to save a few cents.
Hmmmm...not sure. I know you cannot "sell" coupons on ebay.
I agree with Victoria that it is probably against the rules but illegal, no. How the IRS would look at it is the person selling should report that as income but they are not going to care if someone doesn't report a couple thousand in income each year.
I would think the website would have a policy against something like this since the persons giving the money would have no logical way of actually making the person produce the coupons.
It could easily be a scam where a person posts they have such and such coupons then when they receive the money they keep it and don't send the coupons.
I would say they would not be able to do anything legal about it but might block those users which really does nothing except make the bad person just use an alter email address and join again under a different name.
i am not sure it would be illegal but it might be against policy. see if you can report those to clean up the site!
People who sell coupons are the reason that some stores have taken to keeping their sales fliers containing coupons behind the customer service counter where you have to go and ask for them, instead of out front so you can look through and only take what you will use. :(
I'd report her, as I' SURE it is against the policy of the board. People like that make it harder on everyone else playing by the rules.
you cant sell for cash. i believe it says it on the coupon.
Sure. Haven't you seen on eBay where you can buy gift cards at less than face value? Nowhere have I seen on a coupon "cannot be sold to another individual". How's anybody going to know?
It is NOT legal to charge for coupons, BUT you can charge for your "time" to clip, post, and organize them. People do it on Ebay all the time with this disclaimer.
