[quote name='Roufuss']Since Shippy is on, how are we going to deal with glitches, like the Circuit City PC game glitch that just happened? For those of you who don't know, it was in their ad last week as buy any PC game $19.99 or under, get one of equal value for free, however the register was glitched to allow you to get any PC game, regardless of value, as the free game ($50 games for free).
The thread on that got locked, in the future will those be allowed to stay? It still falls under the stores needing to catch their own mistakes (which they did, about 5 days after the fact), but the thread made on it got locked and moved to the deal graveyard while it was still active.[/quote]
The moderators will probably have to discuss those on an individual basis. This will never be an exact science, but we are just trying to find the best way of dealing with situations like this.
As for scanned coupons, those are allowed for a couple of different reasons. Often times the coupons are available online, but still say "No copies allowed". Well, that's kind of difficult then isn't it? Another reason to allow them is to show people what the coupon looks like so that they know what they are looking for. If people feel the need to try and print them out and use them in stores, well I think that should be up to them and up to the stores to police the policies on their coupons. Posting the coupons also allows for a way to validate that their is actually a coupon out there and that the deal exists. Otherwise, we would have to deal with a lot of people claiming that there are coupons for certain things that didn't exist.
As said before, though, fraudulent photoshop coupons will be deleted.