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https://us.coca-cola.com/holidaygiftcard/

This instant win requires a 20 oz. bottle Sip & Scan. I know… but look at all these amazon gift card prizes.

945 GRAND PRIZES (105 per Week): A $50 Amazon.com Gift Card, terms and conditions apply. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $50
Limit: 1 prize per person. Total ARV of all prizes: $47,250.

online amoe opens up december 21st (I highly suggest buying a 20 oz qualifying drink see rules at the store to take advantage of the free sip & scan entry). sweeps ends january 2, 2019

https://us.coca-cola.com/holidaygiftcard/

https://www.powerade.com/FIFA/

The Sip & Scan icon on a Powerade gives you seeds in the World Cup bracket, kinda like the March Madness seeds. Lower odds in the lower prize brackets compared to March Madness ($10 amazon, $5 amazon), but better prizes in the higher prize brackets (50 $360 Best Buy gift cards given out to people with the winning team).

Only problem is that many grocery stores don’t have Powerades with the Sip & Scan icon, mine was on a Powerade Zero.

Online AMOE for this one starts June 18, for anyone who doesn’t want to go to the store.

Bracket refresh is back again for 2018.

enter at coca-cola offers page

One entry per day via sip & scan (smartphone picture) is available now, instead of entering 20 AMOEs like last year.

official rules

for the instant win prizes, you must claim the prize within 7 days of winning it (for example if your team makes the sweet sixteen you have seven days to claim it)
prizes:
sweet sixteen: 20 oz coke or 7-Eleven Big Gulp (sent via text from 711711)
elite eight: $5 Wendy’s Reward (sent via app, or wendy’s website) ((must have app or registration for Wendy’s before the prize is sent out)
final four: $10 visa prepaid card

@lawomaniam1 said in Coke Rewards Official thread:

@ctujackbauer said in Coke Rewards Official thread:

https://us.coca-cola.com/5878-Target-Interact/

Enter 5 coca-cola product codes for a $5 Target egc. There’s a link at the bottom of the page after entering the 5 codes, but you should also immediately receive an email to a cashstar page too.

The e-gc can be printed out for use in-store.

Offer ends 12/28.

Also, on this one, if you don’t claim the reward within 5 days of earning it (by entering the 5 codes), it might not work according to the deal’s terms and conditions.

Was this a short lived promo? I click the link and it goes to Coke, but other stuff and I can’t find a link for the target card.

Yea that one only lasted one day. Fortune rewards the quick.

There’s no way to expire an individual post in this thread.

@yoregano said in Coke Rewards Official thread:

Perhaps I shouldn’t complain, it’s multiple free entries per day, but the #@*% site is making me click SEVERAL screens of verification boxes on EVERY entry today. I I didn’t win anything with three accounts for the holiday contest. Very tedious and annoying. Wonder what’s going on, it wasn’t like this until today.

Thankfully, I did get two $5 WM cards for the AMOE sip-n-scan contest today.

Try logging into Chrome and your Gmail account, and keep the associated cookies for it. It doesn’t get rid of all the captchas, but most of them are the one-click i’m not a robot things.

Also you can sip & scan the holiday instant win instead of using AMOE.

@yoregano said in Coke Rewards Official thread:

@ctujackbauer said in Coke Rewards Official thread:

Apparently there’s a mobile device/phone scan with an AMOE entry?

No, I don’t think so. You can use a smartphone to scan in codes, but that is just as opposed to typing them in. Code entry yes; AMOE, no.

I think people on the other forums are just scanning the sip and scan symbol and using the same 1 coke product over and over.

Which is obv super shady.

@mistercheap
Most of ibotta’s bonus offers and mobile bonus offers are ymmv. I also got 2x $1 for $2 back.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-28/forever-21-is-said-to-prepare-potential-bankruptcy-filing

The retail apocalypse is about to claim another one. Use 'dem gift cards, all you fast fashion phatwalleters!

Check if you got a $5 when you spend $25 at U.S. office supply stores too.

Will stack (you can see the office supply store addresses for Staples in the amex offer, but a lot of the other addresses besides Office Depot/Staples aren’t real office supply stores)

@ukedog said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:

Those crazy Sears bets are back!

Eddie Lampert, king of carnival games. New king, same as the old king.

@briarycliffs said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:

Well the last 2 kmarts in Kentucky are closing. It was fun while it lasted. Refresh my memory on using points during the closeout, can you use them? Do the prices rise first and then lower?

But now your cows will go hungry.

@freebird097
Sweeps weekly is sent out somewhat randomly. It only works if you have the initial email titled Sweeps Weekly.

I didn’t get it this week. Make sure you have email subscriptions for SYW and Sears.

Are y’all sure that adding an espresso shot won’t be a 25 star per shot charge? On the rewards website it specifically has that.

The enemy strikes again.

And by enemy, I mean private equity leverage buyout firms.

@ukedog said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:

@ctujackbauer “You were so close!”, sigh. Thanks anyway. Maybe others can cash in on this doorbuster!

For me, sweeps instant wins and Win It! spin wins have petered away the last couple of weeks. A few months ago, I was averaging close to $10/wk spending a few minutes a day on them. Now it’s closer to $2, if that…

if you saw the pink doorbuster tag, i’d definitely check your point balance by logging out and logging back in. i didn’t win anything on the spin/instant win game too.

@my4mainecoons said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:

@ctujackbauer I was in the store trying to buy 3rd party gc when it died. While I was at the register someone pulled the remaining cards from the sales floor.

So now that I’ll be spending my gc on merchandise I figure I have nothing to lose by doing the promotions. I bought a microwave for $120. Receipt shows I’ll be getting back $25 x 3. Since nothing’s official yet I should get the first $25 tomorrow. So $95 for the microwave if the next 2 $25’s don’t post. I’m ok with that. I paid $130 in points for current microwave.

You actually dodged a bullet by not being able to buy a third party gc. Some types of gift cards were “bought” but not activated and able to be redeemed. Apparently Sears didn’t pay their processor.

Don’t buy a mattress either! Buy something you can walk out of the store with.

Sweeps Weekly email this week has an $8 off $8 or more. YMMV. They seem to be giving out the sweeps weekly email at random, haven’t had it in a while, other users reporting the same.

@briarycliffs said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:

Anyone else get a lousy Sweeps Weekly offer? Mine was $5 freecash on a Kmart/Sears order of $60 or more. I like no minimum purchase requirements.

They vary. The past two weeks were just freecash. Sometimes they have purchase requirements, sometimes they don’t even send an email.

Everyone got the same $5 off $60 this week though.

Eddie Lampert carny games continue, this time with higher stakes…

$200 in points back wys $200 (excludes mattresses) on sears homepage. Paid back in 6 monthly installments of $33.34

https://www.sears.com/

edit: oops, ctgolfer already posted this, ends today fwiw.

@ukedog said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:

@ctujackbauer Lol, yeah I’m curious what tomorrow’s new “dare-to-gamble-against-us” offer might be. Spend $300, get back $300 in points (over 18 months)?

Buy one major appliance $500 and above, get a $500 major appliance in January?

It’s already a bit of a dice roll for Sears to make it to January. You pays your monies, you takes your chances.

@mrvietnam said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:

My account was unsuspended.

Here is the chatter from that other deal forum:

Somebody posted on Facebook that a woman posted on Instagram that she supposedly got many items INCLUDING a washer and and dryer, just from taking this survey multiple times.

Is it just me, or am I the only one who found that funny? Walking out with a washer and dryer from points. All earned $10 at a time, it would have taken at least an hour or two.

@my4mainecoons said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:

Quite the business model. SMH

It’s obviously dying, but Sears has been holding out for how many years now? There are quite a few people at my local Kmart paying cash (and with Kmart gift cards, smartly); so there are some customers out there.

But Sears/Kmart are losing so much money every quarter.

I think what’s happening is that Eddie Lampert genuinely believes he can turn this ship around, or at least delay the iceberg. He already spun off the real estate into Seritage Growth. But these CEO people and hedge fund people are bonafide true believers in their apparent ability.

Back again for $10.79

$11.99 - $1.20 with code ACCEXTRA10

I saved up $8 in lenovo rewards because I didn’t qualify for that $10 lenovo rewards bucks giveaway last time. You could do the monthly points and build up for 6 months (points expire after 6 months) if you are a gambling man and want to chance that it goes on sale for somewhat near this price. It’s usually $14.99 or so on a normal sale, this sale is a bit better.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/rewards/

@my4mainecoons said in Ocean Spray Class Action Settlement:

I purchased a bottle in December (?).
I earned iBotta for the purchase.
I wonder if I can search my iBotta history and find the date of purchase.

Account (bottom right), then click ‘Your earnings’, then click 'View Full Earnings History" on the bottom circle.
Then you have to select the store/purchase date in the list in your earnings history.
Then click the help (?) in the upper right, then click 'View Receipt Image"

If you have Fetch Rewards, they organize it a little better to view your receipts.

@mrsguin $.99 for me.

Lenovo Rewards has a 3,000 point survey ($3.00 equivalent) on the rewards page, go to view points expriation and wait a little while for the surveys to show.

I don’t think it is targeted but it could be because I was notified by email first. Possibly YMMV.

@MrVietnam @DelCheapo

https://www.sandiegoville.com/2020/05/souplantation-sweet-tomatoes-will-not-reopen.html

Employees were saying their goodbyes at the headquarters in San Diego. No official announcement from the Souplantation company spokesperson, yet.

@mrvietnam said in Souplantation / Garden Fresh Restaurants to close and not reopen:

@ctujackbauer said in Souplantation / Garden Fresh Restaurants to close and not reopen:

@mrvietnam said in Souplantation / Garden Fresh Restaurants to close and not reopen:

How much did you lose, ctujackbauer?

$120 and a $10 promo card.

Well at least you didn’t lose as much as I did. Hopefully as this pandemic rolls on I won’t lose additional money at other restaurants/stores. This is the one gift card holding I had that I was worried about the most and now my fears have been realized.

If there was some kind of Faustian bargain where I could trade in some of the gift card in return for the Souplantation and its wonderful employees to return in some form, be it another corporate owner with the same great food or just the same restaurant, I probably would do it.

There aren’t even that many buffets in this area.

I have an MX300 (prior model) from 2016 still running like a clock. Crucial Storage Executive says it has 95% of its remaining life, although it could fail immediately tomorrow (SSDs fail all at once).

@dangeruss
It is if you needed to build one today. I haven’t run into any slowness though, so waiting to see how the Intel Optane shakes out.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/off-price-retailer-tuesday-morning-preparing-bankruptcy-filing-as-soon-as-this-weekend-11590266678

More retail dominoes to fall.

Although I wasn’t really a fan of this place, they had 9,000 employees which is always a sad thing to see.

@dangeruss said in Tuesday Morning to file Chapter 11 Bankruptcy:

@mrvietnam said in Tuesday Morning to file Chapter 11 Bankruptcy:

Wow. It seems like companies are going bankrupt one after the other.

I wonder how much of this is just a scheme to snap up the company for pennies on the dollar, ala what happened with Sears.

Sears was unique in that it mostly owned its own real estate and land the buildings were on. Only a few retailers really had that, off hand I think Target and Home Depot do too. A REIT made sense only if you had billions to buy the entire Sears corporation (Eddie Lampert sunk nearly every last dollar he made from Autozone into Sears, the land would outlast the stores).

Pier 1 and Tuesday Morning don’t have that advantage, and a lot of their stores are too small to even be attractive to other off-price home goods places like TJMaxx and others.

A lot of these companies are just going to shutter. Malls will too, such as malls dependent on Macy’s, which is becoming last man standing amidst department stores and even they had an 80%+ drop in sales. This might be the death knell for a lot of treading-water malls.

Just Mercy was probably the best historical drama in a while. If you count the mid-80’s as historical.

The director also made an amazing debut movie, Short Term 12. If you have a library card, most of them give you access to Hoopla, which has that movie for free. Highly recommended.

The link is below without a link preview:
https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11165552

Tailored Brands warned of bankruptcy in a filing on Wednesday:

“If the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are protracted and we are unable to increase liquidity and/or effectively address our debt position, we may be forced to scale back or terminate operations and/or seek protection under applicable bankruptcy laws,” the filing said. The company said it had no comment beyond the filing.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/14/investing/mens-wearhouse-bankruptcy-threat/index.html