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Maybe you get more of the one topping with the different priced pizzas? I mean, isn't extra peppercinis worth $2?
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@GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat: You only paid $9.99? We're only covering half your pizza with pepperoni. Enjoy!
@katstermonster: For 9.99 you are only getting 1.75 pieces per slice. If you want 5, you know what to click.
I like Dominos way of doing promos, every time you buy something you earn points. You can then redeem them for cheap items such as bread, of save them and get a medium pizza. Of course I think is only for online customers.
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@MightyDwarf56: We love the 2X Tuesday deal, and order it almost every week. We like to MEDIUMS, as they are just the right size, but they are only listed on the onsite coupons as LARGE. Mediums are not an option there. I have to order the mediums, then apply the 2TT coupon code to get the deal. I contacted Domino's HQ about it, they replied and said they would look into it, but it is still exactly the same as before. No medium deal listed.
Not everybody wants LARGES! Hello?
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@pb5000: This. Also, I wish they'd stop robocalling me with SPECIAL DEALS! once a month or so. I usually end up scrambling to get the phone and stubbing a toe, tripping on something, etc. and then get pissed because it's the stupid pizza place.
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@h3llc4t, breaker of office dress codes: Listen to the very end. They provide a number you can call to remove yourself from the list.
@MightyDwarf56: Papa Johns is doing something similar for their 25th anniversary. Sadly, it's only until February 28th and you only have the option of redeeming 25 points for a free large three topping pizza.
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@lannister80: I can get Domino's but not Papa or the Hut (which has not one, but TWO locations nearby that point the finger at each other when we call... redlining lives!). But the joke's on them — I tried the neighborhood mom-and-pop joint that isn't afraid to deliver, and whatcha know, their pizza is better! And they send out coupons in every valpak/clipper/etc. so it's not like we miss out on deals either. Plus they don't have the resources to do robocalls, and my unpublished phone number doesn't get into some national database. Win-win-win!
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Well, now, those in the affluent upper crust wouldn't be caught dead using a low-end coupon like that $9.99. In today's economy, it's more important than ever that businesses take care not to alienate the rich folk with their coupons....
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Every time you use a .JPG, the compression fragmentation kills a kitten.
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@GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn: Rule 30 of the internet: Always assume its a guy on the other end.
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Hey, my idiocy is important to me!
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As a proud employee of Pizza Hut, I have something I wish to contribute to the discussion:
lol
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One of my local pizza places always runs a special that's $10 for a one topping large, when regular price for a one toppping medium is $10. We always, always order the medium because we can't finish the large and the slices get thrown into the trash anyway because they're not as good the next day (I usually love leftover pizza, but for some reason, this pizza is great fresh but terrible leftover). Whenever we call to order pizza, the people are always absolutely incredulous when we decline their offer for the $10 large pizza.
@pecan 3.14159265: A local pizza place sends out monthly coupons to nearby residents for a $7.99 large pizza with 2 toppings (regular price $10.99 without the toppings plus some additional cost per topping). But they don't actually take the coupons, it's on the honor system that you'll discard the coupon after using it.
@pecan 3.14159265: That's it. You're officially out of the running to be the next future Ex-Mrs. GitEmSteveDave.
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@GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn: does that bring the rest of us female types one step closer to winning that lab coat in divorce court?
@katia802: I hadn't thought about that possibility.
@GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn: Hey there SteveDave, CT and NJ aren't that far apart... ;)
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Pizza hut's best deal, if you don't mind the different sauce, is the pizza mias comboed with the 20 percent off coupon for a new account...which gets real easy if you have gmail. You can even, if they're nice, stack the toppings and get a 3 topping medium and 2 medium cheese if that's how you roll.
Pizza hut isn't close to the best, but cheap *is* cheap
@coren: I haven't seen a Little Caesar's in over 10 years, easily. I used to love their breadsticks... but I guess we just don't have many of them around here.
@SabreDC: Yeah I think that the ones near where I live phased out over ten years ago. Then I started a job 30 miles north, found it, and within a fwe months they were back in town. Mmmmm good
@coren: The cheapest pizza, if you can find it, is still Little Caesars. $5 for a 14 inch Hot N'Ready pizza.
@Kuchen: You know, people say that, but Little Caesar's is one of my favorite pizzas. If it was $10 I would still prefer it over Pizza Hut, Domino's, Papa John's, etc.
The \"hut\" around my way does a horrible job of heating up pizzas, they always taste like as if they've been reheated...
@bloggerX: Pizza Hut is just horrible period. They slowly became worse and worse after PepsiCo bought the company. It's sad when frozen pizza is starting to surpass the major \"pizza\" chains in quality.
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I've noticed things like this before.. it's a good thing too because whenever we order pizzas we check all of the places around us to see which one has it cheapest. (Pizza hutt, Dominos, and Papa Johns)
I always check and make sure the coupons are in fact the cheapest deal for what we want.
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I've seen coupon sets like this before in paper coupons I get monthly in the mail. They'll have two coupons for the same thing that have two different prices on it that are $.40-.50 difference.
The idea is that you can get the customer in the door with the lowest price coupon, and then hopefully convince them to come back for slightly more. I'm also pretty sure some people don't even notice the two coupons have two different prices on them, and just assume them to be the same and go. By the time they notice at checkout, they're already in the restaurant and unlikely to simply walk away after ordering.
What this does is just make me wait the month until the new set of coupons come out. I rarely eat out anyway, so it's easy to do.
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often times.. Pizza Hut is a huge rip-off..
their iphone app is GARBAGE!!!!
but my main beef is............
We ordered 3 medium pizzas over the phone... Sorta specialty Pizzas, with at least 2 toppings..
Price came out to 50 bucks.....
WELL I THOUGHT THAT WAS ABSURD!!!!, i just ordered 2 large pizza's for 20...
so we went online, used coupons, 3 Large Specialty Pizza's.... 35 bucks...
SO, we were slightly confused. We called them back like \"why were we charged so much\". Apparently if you order over the phone, its more expensive, and Online gives you an automatic discount.... PLUS we used the online coupons... Whereas over the phone, they dont mention deals, and charge you for full price. What ripoffs.. Imagine how many people call in to still order Pizza.
good pizza tho
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Am I the only one that negotiates pizza pricing? When we order from the local Round Table (I can't stand the Hut, still have a brain blockage from the Hepatitis Hut issues in the early 90's), I always let them total it up then I tell them that I have the \"$X dollars\" off coupon. They never ask for it when they deliver, and I have never had them tell me no. Sometimes I even throw in free sodas or bread sticks.
It's the little things that keep me entertained.
@henrygates: Wow, the interwebz are full of truth and honesty today. I feel dirty now.
I've never tested this to see if they'd take a $20 off coupon, the values I use are always identical to the ones that will be stuck to the top of the box when they deliver - So yes, I lie about having the coupon but I'm not creating discounts that aren't readily available. They've never questioned it, I figure the person taking the order knows the proper codes to put in the register and it's a done deal.
It's surprising how often this works. While shopping two weeks ago for a pair of boots that would be one time use only (Halloween costume), I noticed while waiting in line that everyone but me had a 50% off everything in the store coupon. When I got to the register the cashier asked if I had one and I said \"No, but can we pretend I do so I don't feel left out?\" She honored the discount. I fail to see the harm there.
@pecan 3.14159265: Theft implies that the property (pizza) was taken without the owner's permission. If you want to get technical about it, it may be considered larceny if you throw a fraud topping in. However, it is a business transaction and the store has the ability to decline my offer. They don't, so it's negotiation.
If someone negotiates a lower sale price on a car, is it grand theft auto?
This reminds me of airline pricing, except that you can't see the other prices being offered.
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I saw one similar offer for Kellogg's cereal in Sunday's newspaper. It was a set of three coupons.
Left coupon: $1 off ONE cereal
Right coupon: $1 off TWO cereals
Center coupon: $1 off THREE cereals
Hmmm... Seems like a no brainer to me.
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@almightytora: I noticed that too but I think the difference is in the types of cereal the coupons are good for. It seems that the $1 off one box is for the healthier Kellogg's options, then the $1 off three boxes includes Raisin Bran. Yet the $1 off two boxes includes Froot Loops. Unless, those are just the pictures they used and you could use the coupon for any cereal. Actually, at the Kroger where I shop, you probably could use the coupon for any Kellogg's cereal because their coupon policy is quite liberal.
As someone who eats at a lot of different pizza places, I can explain this: Each of those coupons has a different expiration date. One you can't see when you order online, since, of course, it won't show you an \"expired\" offer.
The difference between Pizza Hut, Dominos, and Papa John's is that Dominos and Papa John's only have a handful of chain-wide and district-wide offers, while the Pizza Hut online ordering system shows you *every* coupon - national, local, and single-location.
This is like going to McDonald's and seeing the prices for NYC, LA, Atlanta, Seattle, and Boise all on the same board.
@RvLeshrac: As a 4 year veteran of Pizza Hut, I can tell you exactly what happened here. They took the regular coupons that they print and put on the box and put them onto the website. The box coupons will often have this because once you use the paper 9.99 coupon, you'll move on and use the 10.99 coupon next, then the 11.99 coupon.
They're clearly just not tech geniuses if they haven't figured out that their online system doesn't *use up* the online coupon, forcing them to use the next best offer next time.
@RvLeshrac: Yep. I've been using Dominos a lot more since I moved to a house that doesn't have a Pizza Hut in delivery range. Most of the time I have to go searching for coupon codes to get a good deal as they're almost never listed on the site. Half the ones I tried aren't honored at my local branch.
A lot of times I'll also see coupons like the ones above. The same pizza but different prices, however one will be for delivery, and the other will be carry out only.
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sometimes ads like this are a play on psychology. humans like to compare items
for example if a company is selling 2 items product A and product B, if the 2 products are very different and cant really be compared then customers are less likely to pick any of them because there isn't really anything to compare it to
but suppose produce B is more profitable to the company
in order to increase the sale of product B, the company will create product C which is just like product B for a little worst
so this causes people to think this
I don't know how product A compares to product B but I know that product B is better than produce C and thus I will go with product B
People are more likely to choose a item that is comparable or better than another over 2 unrelated items
in many cases just making up a comparison is enough to increase sales, for example when home shopping networks sell a Nintendo wii for at a price thats been inflated like over $180, they make up a comparison by listing \"original price\" (even though that price doesn't exist and the company just pulled a random number out of their ass, that comparison is enough to trick ignorant into buying the overpriced item; thinking it was a good deal.
everywhere in advertising you will see comparisons, many of which are made up because humans like to compare.
Choose the more expensive coupon? You just paid the stupid tax!
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My arteries are now officially contracting for 1 Large multiple-topping pizza from Pizza Hut.
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Coupon code 430 - Large Pizza, at least 3 toppings, $9.99.
At some point in the past I did a search for pizza hut coupons and got this site- [www.retailmenot.com]
Very useful.
I see it this way. You use the coupon today for 9.99. Tomorrow you get hungry, and need to use another coupon (10.99). The following day...
Obviously a typo as everyone knows you can't get pizza at a Pizza Hut. Perhaps we need a new term for the greasy, fake dough and cheese pseudo-pizza one gets there.
If you pay $11.99 instead of $9.99, they donate the extra $2 to The Consumerist.
Bridge for sale.
Here's what it shows on my deals page:
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They seem different there. Maybe the reader's was an anomaly.
Alright.. I will admit I can't read the text on these.. but the question does come up [since these appear to be online only].. do you have to login or does it track your IP? If it's something like tracking the IP, perhaps it's done in such a manner that it makes note of which coupon you use and it's a 1 time shot. Which means the next coupon is a buck more.. but still valid, whereas the first cheapie used is no longer usable.
I dunno... Mind you, I don't order online. Or from Pizza Hut. And I'm in Canada [if that effects anything]
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I hear different franchises get to pick which coupon codes they will honor. Apparently there is a check box on the form for \"All of the above.\"