misredeem

present singular third person misredeems · participle present misredeeming · participle past misredeemed · past misredeemed

1. To redeem inappropriately; to convert to cash under invalid circumstances.

   Ecover reserves the right to refuse payment against misredeemed vouchers.

   2009, Waitrose Food Illustrated, page 7

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   With today's sophisticated copying machines, one of the easiest ways to misredeem coupons is simply through duplication and gang cutting.

   1982, Don E. Schultz, William A. Robinson, Sales Promotion Management, page 32

   Trying to stimulate the sales of a less popular size or variety of a brand, for example, by issuing a coupon redeemable 'only' against that size or variety, will very often fail simply because too many consumers will misredeem the coupon against the most popular size/variety.

   1994, Christian Petersen, Alan Toop, Sales Promotion in Postmodern Marketing, page 60

   The difficulty is that retailers can misredeem the discount delivery vehicle (e.g., coupon) without a redemption, that is submit coupons for redemption that were not submitted by consumers with purchases.

   2012, Özalp Özer, Robert Phillips, The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management, page 591