75% off Sewing Scissors-JoAnns: This Weekend!!
 

My JoAnn's flyer mentions that "all sewing scissors" will be 50% off this weekend for the Founder's Day Sale: Fri, Aug 3-Sun, Aug 5, 2012. There is also a coupon in the flyer that says "25% off Your Total Purchase: Including regular, sale priced and clearance items." If I am reading it right, that would make your new pair of scissors 75% off. :thumbup:

Great deal! Thanks for pointing this out. I never have enough scissors...lol.

I will have to read mine carefully. Sometimes that won't include the 25% off on the coupon item you bought. Hopefully, you are reading it correctly. Thanks for the reminder.:)

The coupon states Regular, Sale and Clearance items.

Yes it is a good deal but it does not end up being 75% off. The additional 25% off comes off of the 50% price, so it actually comes out to be about 63% off the original price which is still a Wonderful deal and way below even Wholesale. So if you need scissors now would be the time to get them.

It's not quite 75% ... They take the 50% off first, then the 25% off the remaining total. It ends up being 62.5% off. Still pretty good! I bought my large cutting mat at a similar sale.

My coupon reads "Includes regular, sale-priced & clearance items"

Then, down in the finer print, it says,

"Cannot be combined with any other discount or coupon."

The way the JoAnn's in my city handles it is they take the 25% off of all items, but not the coupon items. Ugh!

That is a great deal! Thanks!!

Every JoAnn store I've used a coupon does it differently. The ones that give you all the benefit of the coupons have managers that don't ask the main office what to do, they just do it. One manager said don't ask don't tell applies to Joann's perfectly and she's been manager for over 20 years. LOL

You are truly blessed. That is one thing that bugs me about the manager of our store... He's not my favorite person. In fact, I try very hard to avoid having him cut my fabric or check me out. I end up having to pray for him when I walk out the door.

My Joanns let me use the 20% coupon off total purchase even after I gave her a 40% off coupon for an item. So that was a nice surprise for me!! Once the check out girl did a 20% off coupon from under her register on her own without me even asking. I sure said thank you!!

I was going to say this too but I was just too lazy to figure out the math!!!

Thank you to the math whizzes for pointing out the actual discount when you get 25% off something that is already 50% off. I know the principle and use it, but the store wants us to not stop and think.

Dayle

wish we had Joann stores here but done poor me could use a pair of new scissors

my store takes the 25% off even when I use coupons for other stuff.

Oh, I need your attitude, because sometimes praying for him isn't my first impulse! Thanks for the good reminder!

Figuring out the actual Joanne's discount made me remember the first time DH and I we were trading in our car for a new one. The orginial trade in price given us by the salesman for our old car was so much that I actually thought we'd be getting the new car for almost nothing. Boy were we naive because after the manager 'checked out' our old car and we practically would have had to pay them to take our old car off our hands. Needless to say we didn't buy a new car from that dealer.

I'm not trying to be a bugger here, but check your receipts when you get into your car (if you can understand them~~I find them very confusing!). As I understand it their cash registers are set up to deduct the extra 20%-25% coupon off every thing but not those coupons that were rung up on the register.

As to how I found that out, one time I made a large amount of purchases and figured I would be spending about such and such... The actual total kind of blew my mind so I checked the receipt (and did the math in my car) and walked back to the checkout clerk where it was explained to me that the total purhase coupon did not take off an additional percentage of those items purchased with a coupon. That is when I decided to shop a little more carefully and to read the fine print.

Maybe all JoAnn's don't have the new registers.

I am so glad that I took that business math class at our community college. I feel that this course should start to be taught at age 15 - when people are starting to want to buy cards and use charge cards!

I tried that with a sale awhile ago and they wouldn't give me the additional 25% off on the notion that I was getting... because it was already 50% off...

I sure wish that there was a JoAnns near me. Well good luck to all of you.

Have a blessed day.

debra

Business Math 101
 

Thank you for clarifying this common mistake.

Joanns has a national computer system that each individual store has no control over. A manager can do an overide and allow the additional percentage to be taken off a coupn item but it is not company policy. I think it is rather dishonest when they do that. If products are on sale, then the additional percentage will come off. Will not come off the total if a coupon was used. Doesnt make sense, but sometimes the manufacturers dictate what their products can be sold for. Our store recently went through a liquidation in preparation for the new store opening. Most of the store was reduced dramatically yet there were several items that were removed from the store early in the process and many of the items that were left in the store til the end were never reduced. In other words, Joanns doesnt always have the final word on pricing

There is always "fine print" when shopping at Joann's...... Sometimes it make my blood boil... But better ask befor purchasing...

There is always a Joann's near... Thanks to the Internet... They usually have better deals... And all their coupons are good for online purchases...

There was a Joannes manager that was so horrible, I had to PRAY FOR ME!!!! He took delight in humiliating everyone he came into contact with. A friend of mine bought a very cheap item, a dollar or two and went to take it back, he declared loudly, "Oh please, this isn't worth my time!" And took two dollars out of his pocket and gave it to her. I was so angry for her and she was so embarrassed.

sewextreme, you don't need a coupon to get the 50% off so the extra 25% would apply :)

My JoAnn's store tells me only one coupon per item. So if you use say a 40% off you can not combine it with the extra 25% off on that item. It is something to do with their computer system because they have tried to over ride it before. Even if they have to do a price adjust it will not take the extra 25% off. So, I always shop the sale items and use my coupon for those things. Also, most of my coupons always say they exclude the GO products but they work on them anyway. The ladies at our store try and use every coupon even if they don't think it will work. They are great! I even had one of the clerks give me some Elvis fabric for a project I was working from her own private stash!

That is how I see this being promoted. So I also think it will be honored as not two coupons being used.

That's not quite the math, I think. If the scissors were originally $20 and you had a 50 % coupon, the purchase price would be $10. Then you would get 25% or $2.50 off the $10, so the scissors would be $7.50. I think the percent change in price would be 62.5%, which still isn't a bad deal--but I'll bet JoAnn's won't let you use both coupons on one purchase. froggyintexas

My apologies Johanna. You started a thread about scissors being a really good deal because they were 50% off and then an additional 25% would be taken off with the customer appreciation 25%off total purchase coupon. I jumped your main point here and added confusion. I am sorry for this.

If a customer is buying a regular price item with the 40% coupon (which is on the back of the flyer), that item won't receive an additional 25% off~~at least at my JoAnn's. The scissors are a good deal. Planning to be at JoAnn's when it opens. :thumbup: Along with the rest of you :D

No. it means extra 25% off after you take 50% off. So that means 25% X 50% (new price) = new cost

or 50% +12.5% = 62.5% off.

So, if they are $10.00, sale price is $5.00 and the extra discount makes them not $2.50, but $3.85, still not

a bad deal.

I have the best Joann's near me. The last time I was in there (and my hubby calls me 'the coupon queen' when I go there), I had 50% off Joann's coupons, 40% off Michaels, and 40% off Hobby Lobby coupon. I used them, and she handed me back the HL coupon and said she had another Joann's 50% off under the counter and proceeded to use it!! They are great there. By the way, since Micahels will only let you use one coupon at a time, Joann's will just allow one of theirs to be used at a time. Joann's also will take Hancock's coupons. Coupons at Joann's have saved me a lot of money!!!

This is great. I'm encouraging my 15 yo granddaughter to be interested in quilting and want to fix up her own sewing basket with essentials. I'll get her scissors this weekend.

Well, not exactly. If they do honor that coupon, they will probably take 25% off the 50% off price. So if the scissors are $20, they will probably take 25% off $10, not off the $20. But, still a savings!

All quilting notions will be 50% off also. My 25% off total says it cannot be used with other coupons. But, the sissor sale is not a coupon, it's a sale, which means you should get both discounts. Yes, they do take the discount off before the coupon, so it won't add up to 75% off sissors.

My JoAnn's let me use a 40% off one item and 50% of one fabric cut. 2 coupons. I got a new mat and some fabric too.

nyc, I would have emailed joanns and reported that manager of course that would have been after I told him off.

I used to work there. Each store manager handles differently some times. When it says "includes sale priced items" when it is their markdown (not coupon) they are supposed to honor it. That fine print refers to coupon or "discount" as in Teacher Savings Card etc. If they don't give you the discount ask to see a mgr.

Former employee and thread starter here: your comment "As I understand it their cash registers are set up to deduct the extra 20%-25% coupon off every thing but not those coupons that were rung up on the register. " - that is correct. They are not supposed to be using another discount on your coupon. That is why I watch for their discounts, to which these apply. Also, if you have the 10% VIP card from your quilt guild (register online) you can use that %10 off when they mark something down too - like if you did not have the coupon.

Regarding: "I'll bet JoAnn's won't let you use both coupons on one purchase"
To clarify, it is not 2 coupons. They are discounting all sewing scissors in the store 50% to anyone who walks in the door. If you have that coupon, it will take an additional 25% off the discounted (not orig) price. You are only presenting 1 coupon to the cashier.