A few days ago I read a thread where someone asked about the new "print coupon" option when printing the packing slip. Well I created one coupon and printed 25 copies, and I'm going to put one in each package. I have a number of buyers who are repeat customers and this will give them a little incentive to buy my stamps and coins instead of my competition's. I still send offers, but the discount is on top of the offer price (as I understand you use the coupon code on check out, on the total owed). So I will keep in mind there are coupons circulating when sending offers.
Wondered if anyone else thought this was a good idea. I get if you're selling one off type of items where people won't likely be back, it probably wouldn't work well. But in my store there's about half a dozen buyers who show up every two weeks to buy stamps. Some just come and pay, others wait for an offer by putting what they want on their watch list.
I don't have quite as many repeat coin buyers, but there's a few. I put the coupon expiry to July 31 so I can go ahead and send new ones in another month or so. The two month time limit is to encourage repeat business to happen more quickly, as opposed to giving someone 6 months to come and make their next purchase. It has unlimited uses up until expiry so those frequent buyers of mine can shop as often as they want and pay as much or as little as they want for an order and still get a discount to use the following time.
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