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B-Rant- submitted by J.Glarsten on 10/06/2007Bed Bath & Beyond: Stop Sending Us Those F***ing 20% Discount Cards
An Open Letter To Bed Bath & Beyond Mr. Arthur Stark We have a fantasy. One day this week, just one, we'd love not to receive in the mail that 20% discount card….you know, the one that says we get 20% off of any single item in the store, the one that comes every day (sometimes twice a day; by the way, how do you pull that off--you have your own discount card mail service?). We have no strong feelings about BB&B. (Though we are a little shaky about the name. It’s a bit retro-crystal-far out-Twilight-Zoney, no? This is 2007, not 1972. Beyond what? Yes, the bedroom and bathroom. But how far beyond? And, really, what does it mean? Just because your competitor, Linens-n-Things, has adopted an equally dopey ethereal name -- "n" "things"?; apparently they think their target customers are 6-year olds? -- doesn't mean you have to.) The thing is, on getting so many of your cards...as much as we might like to consider buying that 50th bathroom rug or soap dish or set of “casual-chic” dessert spoons, we're just not going to. We're not a hotel or spa resort. We wish we were. But, we live in a house. We've got a few bathrooms, a couple showers. If we're lucky, we've got a bath. So what, really, are you thinking? Other than stupid. Our garbage-recycling bins are already full (from Crate and Barrel catalogs). We’ve already collected enough of your cards to supply landfill for the average Superfund toxic waste site. Another minor point. (By the way, where do you get your marketing team, The Institute For The Really Stupid?) We don’t live anywhere near a BB&B. And yea, you guessed it, the cards you send us are only good for in-store purchases (and only 1 discount per visit). So, let’s see, you’re hoping we’ll drive the 2 hours round-trip daily to get our 20% off that great new carrot peeler? Earth to BB&B. Gas is not free. And those road trips?....Not likely! So, our fantasy is a one day moratorium. But what we really want, and we don’t think it’s asking too much, is no more cards. None. Stop sending us the f***ing cards. It almost makes us long for the good old days, when we received "free" AOL discs in the mail every 3 hours. At least those we could throw against the curb and shatter, or toss randomly into irritating neighbors' open windows on the way to work; or heave across parking lots in wild neighborhood competitions to see who could get closest to the warehouse dumpsters. That was fun. But your cards, flimsy crappy cardboard, just sink to the ground when we fling them. And burning them, which we’ve done of course, is just not practical. Our town’s been cracking down on all-night ritualistic bon fire parties. So...please, enough. We've asked the Post Office not to deliver them to us anymore. But they say they have to. (Besides, the mail carriers say, they're spending most of their own free time getting rid of their discount cards; they're not about to do it for the rest of town.) We look forward to not hearing back from you. Ever. Yours, People Who Don’t Need Any More   Awesome. I get these cards - submitted by 20girl on 07/23/2007
Awesome. I get these cards too, what are these fools doing? LOL I want 50 soap dishes, ok? - submitted by Anonymous on 07/23/2007
I want 50 soap dishes, ok? Don't ruin it for the rest of us. You can never have enough - submitted by soapdishwonder on 07/23/2007
You can never have enough soap dishes or carrot peelers. I'd fly continents to keep my hands lcean and carrots peeled. I'll take them - submitted by Marla on 07/23/2007
I'll take those coupons! These stores are evil. How - submitted by envior on 07/23/2007
These stores are evil. How many trees do they kill, it's sick. I think there's a place you - submitted by Anonymous on 07/23/2007
I think there's a place you can call to get your junk snail mail stopped. Not sure where it is but look it up online, it won't stop everything but tiit'll stop a lot. I'bve called that place and - submitted by Anonymous on 07/23/2007
I'bve called that place and it worked at first then i got the same catalogs all over. At least Bed Bath is just little cards. We get 4 pottery barn catalogs a day sometimes. I want to scream. I get Bed Batgh carfds all - submitted by returntosender on 07/23/2007
I get Bed Batgh carfds all the time too. I have a store near me and I dump them on a counter every month or so. It's a waste of my time but i like the looks of the people there, like what are these, what are you doing, what I am supposed to do with these now. It feels like they'd almost give me stuff free if I agreed to take back their stupid cards. I agree you can't use 50 - submitted by gifter on 07/23/2007
I agree you can't use 50 soap dishes but what about toothbrush cups? Thjey have so many varieties, can't we buy hundreds of those? Give th em as presents to everybody like when your kid goes to a birthday party, have her bring her friend a tooth brush cup. Soi charming. Gifter, I think you have - submitted by Anonymous on 07/23/2007
Gifter, I think you have something here. I'm going to give these 20% cards to my daughter's friends as birthday gifts. Bar Mitzvahs, Communions, e er=very occasion will be an opportunity for the 20% off card. But do you think i needd to wrap it? People who run big chains - submitted by Anonymous on 07/24/2007
People who run big chains are fools. How do you think they got their jobs? by being fools. Dont forget Woolworths. It set the standard for horrible magnagement and horrible inventory. Bed Bath and others are quickly catching up. Last poster, get some rest, - submitted by chill on 07/24/2007
Last poster, get some rest, you're insane. Bed bath is middle of the road, hothing more nothing less. I get thse discount cards too and recycle them. I'd rather get them than a Victoria secret catalog every day. I look at the models in nothing and want to scream. If I lost all my weight I still wouldn't look thlike them. Goitta run, time for my mallomar bfreak. I LOVE MALLOMARS BUT I CAN'T - submitted by mallomarheaven on 07/24/2007
I LOVE MALLOMARS BUT I CAN'T FIND THEM ANYWHERE. WHEZRE ARE THEY? Mallomares and twinkies my - submitted by gomallos! on 07/24/2007
Mallomares and twinkies my favorite foods. I haven't seen mallomars in decades. Maybe Bed Bath sells them with their 20% discounts? They should because most of their stuff you want to throw away after getting. I tell mymailman do not - submitted by Anonymous on 07/24/2007
I tell mymailman do not deliver any 20% discount cards. No kidding, for every catalog we get we get 3 or 4 Bed Bath and Beyond cars. They must be trhing to match the weight of the catalogs. I once called them at customer service and yelled at them but the person on the phone was such a no nothing I decided to let it go. They come, I dump them, part of natures course. Send em back - submitted by O'shea on 07/24/2007
I take those postage paid envelopes from credit card companies and stuff them full of other company's junk mail! Send your BB&B junk to VISA!! mabye if they werent so - submitted by princessangry on 07/24/2007
mabye if they werent so expensive mabye they wouldnt have to mail the cards out! lower your prices and save some green both ways! OMG, I love O'shea's - submitted by perfecto on 07/24/2007
OMG, I love O'shea's approach. Dump your junk mail in other peoples' postage paid envelopes. Beautiful! Thankyou. VISA, welcome to Bed Bath! LOL I threw in some junk mail in - submitted by Anonymous on 07/25/2007
I threw in some junk mail in the life insurance mailings i always get. It's liberating, thank you O'shea! Actually works for me.... - submitted by Anonymous on 07/31/2007
When I take my 20% off coupons to my local BB&B they will use one for each thing I want to purchase. Saves a lot of $$!!! BBB - submitted by shopgirl on 08/01/2007
Don't ruin it for the rest of us. Love to shop there. Can buy the higher end stuff there with a 20% percent savings. Thank you, BBB! Keep them coming! - submitted by shopgirl on 08/01/2007
Don't ruin it for the rest of us. Love to shop there. Can buy the higher end stuff there with a 20% percent savings. Thank you, BBB! Really stupid comments. - submitted by Anonymous on 08/01/2007
Really stupid comments. What you should really be focusing on is how bloomin expensive Bed Bath and Beyond is and how despite sending 42 million 20% off coupons around the world, you can still go to Walmart or JC Penny down the street and get it 30% cheaper. DAAAAAAA!!!!! It's called "opt-out" - submitted by drmike on 08/01/2007
You know in a third of the time it took you to wrote that, you could have called their customer support line [1-800-462-3966] and <a href="http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/policyPrivacy.asp?order_num=-1&">opted-out</a> of their mailings. "If at any time you do not want to receive offers and/or circulars from us, you can always remove yourself from our mailing list by sending an e-mail to customer.service@bedbath.com, indicating "NO SNAIL MAIL" in the subject line along with your name, address and zip code." sometimes they work - submitted by Anonymous on 08/01/2007
we were lured to go to bb&b and guess what, we used all the 20% and all the $5 coupons in one go - and they accepted it! no kidding. each item had a 20% off plus the $5 off (ours was more like $15 off when we did this). Just wondering... - submitted by Anonymous on 08/01/2007
Why don't they cut their astronomical direct mail budget, stop offering 20% off on one ittem on a regular basis, and lower their prices? Someone should do the math. Bunch of losers - submitted by Anonymous on 09/19/2007
Why you home everyday!! Why don't you get off your lazy #%$ and do something. If your not interested in the offer then throw it away. You spent hours on harassing a publicly traded company when you could of done something productive. You obviously don't have any big goals in your life. LOL Sell em on Ebay. - submitted by Anonymous on 09/23/2007
I just saw hundreds of the BB&B coupons for sale on Ebay!! :) I get these cards all the - submitted by Anonymous on 10/06/2007
I get these cards all the time and I've complained at the store and nothing changes. I hate the waste, I've vowed never to shop at that store awgain I hate these cards because - submitted by Anonymous on 10/08/2007
I hate these cards because unlike catalogs get get torn to shredds, plus we never use them. We get probably 10 a week and that's just for us. We get them too for former tgenants in our house plus for just "residents." It's craziness I hate the waste of paper. - submitted by Idioty on 10/08/2007
I hate the waste of paper. I've complained and nothing changes. We now use them as scrap paper and also for bottom of bird cages and kitty litter boxes. Tak that Bed Bath Behind!!! What's Bed Bath & Beyond?? - submitted by NewtoEarth on 10/08/2007
What's Bed Bath & Beyond?? It's a toxic waste dump, - submitted by Anonymous on 10/08/2007
It's a toxic waste dump, New, LOL I don't know where else I - submitted by Jilly on 10/08/2007
I don't know where else I can buy towels for 3$. Yea the cards suck, but the towels and other stuff are cheap so I don't mind the store. Jilly, are you sure they're - submitted by Huh? on 10/08/2007
Jilly, are you sure they're towels you're buying and not wash clothes or toilet paper? Why BED? They don't sell - submitted by Anonymous on 10/08/2007
Why BED? They don't sell beds and that's misleading. They also don't sell baths. I know about the carrot peelers. We've had 1 for 10 years so not the stuff to make a regular road tripo forr. We get cards from a place - submitted by CURIOUS on 10/08/2007
We get cards from a place called Bath & Toilets Heaven? No store is near us, don't know what they are. Anybody get these or hear of them? 20% coupons - submitted by Linda Bigglesworth on 02/13/2008
Send me all of your coupons. Price matching - submitted by Anonymous on 08/05/2008
They may seem more expensive, but you if you find the same item somewhere else for less money, bring the add in, and they will price match the item. Combine that with the coupons in the mail and that's a good deal. Not complaining.... - submitted by Samantha Ingalls on 08/18/2008
I can absolutely use those coupons. So please sent it all to me. That would help us alot. I like BB&B store and LNT as well.  |
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