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Please ask for the coupon at cash point.

English translation: collect your coupon at the cash desk

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English term or phrase:Please ask for the coupon at cash point.
Selected answer:collect your coupon at the cash desk

13:37 Aug 11, 2010
    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2010-08-15 07:54:08 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)


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Marketing - Retail
English term or phrase: Please ask for the coupon at cash point.
I need examples of wording for "Please ask for the coupon at cash point."

Thank you
katcat1907
collect your coupon at the cash desk
Explanation:
Does the customer really have to ask? In a foreign country that can be offputting. Hopefully, it will be offered by the member of staff to all customers.

Cash point could be confused with a cash withdrawal machine; till is very UK and rather passé, anyway. I think cash desk is pretty international.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-08-11 16:29:26 GMT)
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"Your" makes it personal - as though there's already a coupon with their name on!
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Sheila Wilson
Spain
Local time: 18:42
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +2collect your coupon at the cash desk
Sheila Wilson
5please go to the till and request a coupon
Sarah Bessioud


Discussion entries: 7





  

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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
please ask for the coupon at cash point.
please go to the till and request a coupon


Explanation:
In light of the additional context.

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Note added at 27 mins (2010-08-11 14:04:45 GMT)
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Text on the sign could read:

Pick up your coupon at the till

Sarah Bessioud
Germany
Local time: 19:42
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 3
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
please ask for the coupon at cash point.
collect your coupon at the cash desk


Explanation:
Does the customer really have to ask? In a foreign country that can be offputting. Hopefully, it will be offered by the member of staff to all customers.

Cash point could be confused with a cash withdrawal machine; till is very UK and rather passé, anyway. I think cash desk is pretty international.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-08-11 16:29:26 GMT)
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"Your" makes it personal - as though there's already a coupon with their name on!

Sheila Wilson
Spain
Local time: 18:42
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thank you for your contribution !

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Travelin Ann: Several good points in your explanation, Sheila//British Diana makes a good suggestion. How about "Your coupon is waiting for you at the cash desk"? Removes the offputting part of having to ask, and it could even be on a spindle or tear-pff block.
1 hr
  -> I like your suggestion Ann. Thanks
agree  British Diana: or "Please pick up"? Otherwise I really like this one, it is inviting//Yes, I hadn't considered that: "collect" is indeed more universal bec. of the Latin root
1 hr
  -> I like "pick up" but I think phrasal verbs should be avoided here - this sign is for all tourists who don't read Turkish, not just anglophones.
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