JoAnn's 60% scratch off coupon
 

I was lucky enough to get a 60% off coupon. The only problem is.....it seems like everything is on sale, which means I can't use the coupon. Is anyone else having this problem? Any ideas on what items I can apply the coupon to?

Thanks,

I haven't ever received a 60% off coupon!! But I do know what you mean that most times things are already on sale and you can't even use the coupon! You could us that coupon at Hobby Lobby or even Michaels if they sell anything else you want.

With a 60%, off coupon, I'd be looking at new rulers, rotary blades, scissors, extra cutting mat, or some of the quilting books with a new technique I'd like to try. Or maybe a bolt of 108" fabric for backing. It doesn't spoil!
Happy shopping!

That is what has happened to my friends and me. What we wanted was always on sale, or so it seemed.

That's called marketing. It gets people into the store and maybe they'll buy something anyway.

I've all but stopped shopping at Joann's for this very reason. Their coupons are almost always useless for me. :(

Hmmm....I didn't know you could use the coupon at Hobby Lobby or Michael's...

I have asked they charge the full price and then use the coupon. Not sure when that was, a few years ago - and at first they thought I was nuts, but did it. The problem is, these coupons come so often and they have so many "sales" I don't get excited unless I need something.

I would look at these things too! You can always use new rotary blades, new rulers, etc.

That's the retailer's way of enticing you into the store without having to honor the 60% off coupon. It always felt a little like bait and switch to me.

AliKat - 35th Ave will take Jo-Ann's coupons. I may be wrong but I think it is only one a day?????

I've asked several times if our Joann's would charge the full price so I could use the coupon, but was told flat out no. They were rather "short" about it, too. :hunf: One time they told me that only Hobby Lobby would do that ... so guess where I went. :D

I like Hobby Lobby's fabric better anyway. Our Joann's seems to have two grades of cotton fabric: the thin, stiff, see-through fabric on the wall, and the better fabric that's out in the middle, but is always "on sale" so that the coupon can't be used on it.

I was so excited when Joann's opened here a couple of years ago, but got disenchanted with them rather quickly mostly because of the coupon issue. The coupons are great if what you're buying is at regular price. I just seem to always need what's on sale! :p

I didn't even get a sale paper this time. And I'm in there all the time. They scan it regularly.

This has been my experience at the Joann's in my town, too. So guess what. I simply don't step foot in the place. I agree with an earlier poster - seems like a bait-n-switch tactic.

I only wish we had a Hobby Lobby here. We have Craft Warehouse, which is actually a pretty decent hobby store. They carry good quality, name-brand quilting fabrics, and occasionally issue coupons that are a generous 40% off anything in the store, no restrictions. If what you want is on sale, they will gladly give you 40% off the regular price.

With a good quality, customer-service oriented store like this in town, who needs Joann's? :cool:

My scratch off only came to 40 percent off but I was able to use it. I make a lot of Linus Quilts and I purchase rolls of batting that are 48" by 10 yards. When I was in there last week they didn't have any. When I asked if they had some in the backroom they said they weren't going to carry that item anymore. I stopped on my way home that day and ordered a roll of batting that size from a private business that sells Bernina machines, fabric and quilting and sewing accessories. Today I just happened to find a roll of the 48" by ten yard batting and it was not on sale. They let me use the coupon. When the batting I ordered comes in I will be fixed for at least a couple of months. I get miffed by the coupon scan at Joanns. The only time I really benefit from their coupons is if I need something like thread or other notions that usually aren't on sale. That is about the only way I get to use the coupons.

I used mine over the weekend on a king sized batting

A long time ago, JAF use to let you use coupons on sale price and charge full price then get the discount. But you have to know that this company was bought out by a hedge fund management company and they want to squeeze every penny that they can make out of JAF. Never have enough cashiers or cutters on a big sale day. We just have to stand in line like a herd of cattle.

Yes, Last summer the same 60% off, and everything was on sale....ugh!

What about batting, if it's not on sale now would be a good time to buy an entire bolt. Also a multi pack of rotary blades.

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I rec'd the coupon for 60% last week.

JoAnn's will no longer sell at regular so you can use coupon (tried it last week),
BUT Hobby Lobby still does it.

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I usually find Js coupons useless to me, everything is always on sale so what good are they.

The only time I use the 50 or 60% off is when buying a bolt of W&N batting. I pay $200.00 instead of $400.00.

I rarely find another use for them.
peace

Hancock's honor JoAnne's coupons, also

I just used my 60% coupon on a package of rotary cutter blades. Something that is always good to have on hand and they were not on sale in my store. You are right--almost everything else is on sale. Sometimes I pick up Wonder-Under or Stabilizer because I do a lot of applique. Good Luck

I tossed mine, since it was only 40%. Whoop-tee-doo, LOL. Thus, I can't remember if it can be used online. If it can, I've noticed that online, the coupons do apply to sale items. The system applies sale or coupon, whichever is better. Of course, you can't stack coupons online, so you'd have to choose between coupon price and shipping deal.

Please continue to write to JoAnn's customer service and complain about this issue with the coupons and everything with a sale tag. I've done it three or four times but maybe if everyone would do it they would see how annoyed we are. I don't have other options for fabric so I have to shop there.

I used mine today on 6 yards of Classic Country Cotton because
it was not on sale.

Yes, I have used Joann's coupon at 35th ave in Phx. I had a 60 percent also and used It on some nice 90 inch wide muslin. I get discouraged also with their coupons. It is about 110 miles round trip from me and I get there and nice stuff you want may be $1.00 yd off. I am glad i got to use mine for Mother's Day. I did look at a ruler I wanted but changed my mind.

Hobby Lobby will let you use their coupons if you let the cutters know that you have one to use at cash-out. They move the price back to normal and then you check out and get the 40% off. I would ask clerks at Joann's to do the same.

To be honest, I have my doubts that it will work. 2 years ago, while visiting my MIL in Sacramento, I discovered that she is friends with the regional manager of Joann's corporate. When she found out I am a quilter, she asked if I shopped at Joann's a lot. I told her no, and explained why. I also told her that none of my quilty friends shop there for the same reason. I had hoped since she was mid-to-upper management that my comments would work their way up the chain, but nothing has changed. :(

Well I took nygal's advice, went straight to Michael's and bought a 5 pack of rotary blades for $14, didn't even stop at JoAnn's. From now on when I get a 50% or 60% coupon, I'm going to Hobby Lobby or Michael's.

I got a 60% off also. I bought a bolt of the muslin that I usually use for foundation piecing. The only other thing I could use the 40% off was on my diet coke. I canot complain too loud, the bolt was 79.99 and my total bill was 38.24.

Wish there was one of those nearer than 40 miles from me. I too very rarely am able to use the coupons....last time I was in the store...and it seems my trips there are getting farther apart....I noticed the floor plan is changing and lots more of other things are being brought in, and quilting stuff is less and less......

It's a ploy to get you in the store. I've had the same thing happen many times. Last trip I ended up getting a bridal shower gift, Gooseberry Patch cookbook with a coupon that was useless for sewing. Makes me really irritated that the coupon would saved me more than their currant sale on fabric etc..

On many items JoAnn's regular price is much higher than other places so the sale price really brings the price down to what is more reasonable. Even when you are able to use a coupon the price you're paying isn't that much different than other places regular prices. I'm not a big fan on JoAnn's but for some people it is the only option for a brick and mortar fabric shop within reasonable driving distance.

Our Hobby Lobby won't accept other store coupons, and it's the same at Hobby Lobby and Michaels - everything I want is already on sale.

Hancock Fabrics is the same way send out loads of coupons but everything is on sale so they are useless, because they exclude most costly items like irons, sewing machines, etc. Marketing ploy for sure.

What's worse is when I do have things I can use the coupons on and the boy rings it up without the coupons. I told him and he said, well then I would have to rering everything. I just looked at him. Finally I said, then I guess you will have to rering everything. He rang up everything 3 times that day. I try not to go to him now.

That's what irks me about most stores. You can't use coupons on sale items. I've even asked if I could be charged the regular price so I could use my coupon (the price with coupon would be cheaper), I was told no. GRRRRRRR

My scratch off was only 40%. I went to JoAnn's to get a skirt pattern for the summer. Decided it would be cooler here in Texas to wear skirts than even shorts. The pattern was marked with a price of $15.95 and then it was 40% off of that. I was shocked at the price but since it had been so long since I had purchased a clothing pattern, I thought this must be the going rate. I went online when I got home to Simplicity to read how to fit the pattern correctly and was surprised to see the same pattern on their site listed for less than what JoAnn's sold it for after the 40%. And it was Simplicity's regular price. This proved what I have suspected for awhile that JoAnn's lists their merchandise quite a bit higher than other retailers and then discounts them. They need to make money to stay in business so it's not that I'm faulting them, but the coupons are just a marketing tool to get folks in their stores.

Most of the time they won't let you use the coupons on patterns or magazines, the 2 things I would use them for.

You can't at our stores... JoAnn's will take theirs, but HL and Michael won't take anybody else's.