I just got an email from one of my visitors, John G. C., saying that he spoke to a Wendy’s manager and the coupon is fake. I’ve therefore removed the coupon from SmartCanucks.ca. Thanks for pointing this out.
Hi Boo Radley,
Im a concerned viewer of smartcanucks.ca and I just spoke to Wendy’s marketing manager alice and she said that the coupon was “fake”. Please update the website and if possible to remove this coupon as it misleads alot of people.
Thanks, John
cndlady also posted in the forum mentioning that it’s fake:
Just got a phone call from the local Wendy’s Manager, Owen Sound, Ontario. HE SAID THEY GOT THE EMAIL WARNING THIS MORNING AT ALL WENDY’s …
THE COUPONS ARE BOGUS !!We cashed 3 of ’em in last nite, noproblem.
Then I got the phone call 2:00 p.m. today… because
I gave one to the Canpar Guy for a “trick or treat”
… the manager honored it … but told me
ALL WENDY’s GOT AN EMAIL THIS MORNING
NOT TO HONOR THE COUPONS ~~~
any Wendy’s that did accept the coupons …
WILL NOT BE REIMBURSED FOR THE $6.00 VALUE
ON THEM….
SO PLEASE HE ASKED
GET ON THE SITE where I found them…
AND TELL PEOPLE NOT TO
USE THE COUPONS….
THEY WILL NOT ACCEPT THEM.
Not only that, but all the coupons the Wendy’s accepted
are “out” the $6.00 … and those are privately
“locally owned” franchises (so it is the individual
store that is out the $$$)
If you’ve already printed out the coupon please don’t use it.
When I saw it I wondered about it, since it didn’t have any special number, or subtext telling Wendy’s what to do with it.
Good thing I didn’t use it. 😀
It may not be that the coupon was fake, as much as it was that it wasn’t meant to be used by the public like this.
When I was a delivery guy with Pizza Hut, we had a problem with very similar coupons that gave away a free medium pizza. The problem wasn’t that they were fake,but that they were intended for shareholder’s only. When it turned out to be 16 year old kid’s that stank like Axe and pot everytime we showed up to deliver, we knew something was up, so we stopped taking the coupons.
I wondered about the coupon… because I didn’t see any limitations on it- like an expiry date or any way to proove you are a shareholder. I didn’t really examine it too closely since I don’t eat at wendy’s or macdonalds, or burger king etc. I wouldn’t even know what sorts of things they’d usually have on their coupon.
Sorry that happened Boo!
Julieonmymind, the coupon looked very professional and I didn’t really doubt that it was fake so maybe as jimmycanuck mentioned, it was just meant for a certain group of people.
The coupon is indeed a fake. No doubt about it, and you don’t have to take my word for it. Just go to Wendy’s Restaurants’ website, at http://www.wendys.com
There’s a notice about it being a fake on the first page.
I have been looking for content like this for a research project I am working. Thanks very much.