Posts made by ctujackbauer

I received mine. If you have USPS Informed Delivery to track packages, it comes from Melrose Park, IL.

This was a good deal, I already redeemed mine for cash. I suggest getting the PayPal app and then going to the rewards section, but the offer links @KohlsPowrShopper provided should work too.

New instant win game. You can win points, free food, or free food with a minimum purchase amount (usually $3)

Also there was a 67-cent small classic frosty on my app’s offers.

@mtnagel said in Ibotta Daily Drop - possibly free money - new and final contest period starts 11/11 and ends 11/30/2025:

Didn’t win anything for the 4th period. Oh well.

@my4mainecoons said in Ibotta Daily Drop - possibly free money - new and final contest period starts 11/11 and ends 11/30/2025:

@mtnagel said in Ibotta Daily Drop - possibly free money - new and final contest period starts 11/11 and ends 11/30/2025:

Didn’t win anything for the 4th period. Oh well.

Neither did I.

Shot in the dark, but are you entering 24 hours or more after your entry? It’s specific in the rules and popups when you enter.

$5 for me tonight.

$5 Costco rotisserie chicken (or any rotisserie chicken) is better than turkey. The turkey never gets completely eaten, even in large gatherings.

Maybe it’s time to let the old ways die
Maybe it’s time to let the old ways die
It takes a lot to change a man
Hell, it takes a lot to try
Maybe it’s time to let the old ways die

@mtnagel said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

Yet I see people posting they are buying many more than 2 things back to back to back at the kiosk. https://www.facebook.com/groups/276540461532308/posts/843735398146142

I never said it stopped working. I said the employees have been trained ever since the kiosks were installed to tell customers they have to wait 15 minutes between deals.

I go to a kiosk-only McDonald’s. A few times a year, someone will have the app all ready to go with their deal added in the app thinking they can use that deal by scanning their code, and every time an employee gets flagged down from what they’re doing and the employee will explain to them to wait 15 minutes and to not add the deal on the app and to just log in with their code.

@sonofzeus said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@ctujackbauer Can I buy a sammy with points and get a Monopoly freebie sammy simultaneously?

No. One offer per transaction.

Wait 15 minutes like the rest of us.

@sonofzeus said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

Does the rewards points balance have an expiration date?

6 months from when you earned the points.

@mrvietnam said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

My codes today took 19 hours for me to get them

I went to another McDonald’s today to redeem my food prizes at a kiosk inside the store. I ordered three items in separate transactions and I was at the waiting area to get my orders and an employee came up to me and said you can only order up to two items so I had to cancel one of the items, but I had already paid for it through the kiosk, so I’ll need to check and see if I got the prize or if I lost the prize forever. The employee wouldn’t let me get all three items. She said if you get more than two it’ll flag your account. I doubt that will happen. It seems like each McDonald’s has their own rules about how many of those food prizes they’ll redeem in the same visit.

It was always 15 minutes, re-logging into the kiosk with a new login code broke that 15 minute rule, but the employees have always been trained to remind people that you can only use one deal every 15 minutes.

You’ll see this often at the kiosk when someone who doesn’t know how to use it who first adds a deal in their app and tries to log into the kiosk - they aren’t able to use the deal loaded onto their app at the kiosk and the employee will tell them to wait 15 minutes and try again.

This one started a while ago but I just saw an ad for it in today’s Kroger/Ralph’s ad, so people might not know about it.

Purchase 3 participating Chex cereals, get a free Chex x PEANUTS holiday tin. Looks like they are going to change the design from last year’s holiday tin too.

offer page

Participating Products
Purchase 3 participating Chex™ products below on the same transaction between 9/15/2025 and 12/31/2025 and upload a qualifying receipt to receive a limited-edition Chex x PEANUTS® Holiday Tin.

Rice Chex (original, family and giant size)
Corn Chex (original, family and giant size)
Wheat Chex (original and family size)
Cinnamon Chex (original and family size)
Chocolate Chex (original and family size)

Another day, another $5.

@mistercheap said in Free Dunkin Large Hot or Iced Coffee with App Promo Code to 10/30:

@yoregano said in Free Dunkin Large Hot or Iced Coffee with App Promo Code to 10/30:

@mistercheap said in Free Dunkin Large Hot or Iced Coffee with App Promo Code to 10/30:

THANKYOUSPIDEY

Got it. Wish it was for a cold brew, though.

@yoregano if you know the people at your store well, if you ask them if you can pay them the difference (think it’s about a $1 or so) between a large iced coffee and large cold brew (without cold foam) they met help you out if you redeem the freebie at the register in store.

A couple of months ago, I had that free refresher drink code and it is loaded with sugar, I asked them in the store if they could just make me a large iced coffee instead for it and they did.

The regular refresher and sparkling refresher has an almost identical amount of calories as a cappuccino or latte. The light refresher has half the calories.

Lemonade refresher and Sabrina Carpenter’s Daydream refresher (with oatmilk, yuck) are the ones that pack a bit more calories.

@mrvietnam said in Ibotta Daily Drop - possibly free money - ends 11/30/2025:

@ctujackbauer said in Ibotta Daily Drop - possibly free money - ends 11/30/2025:

@my4mainecoons said in Ibotta Daily Drop - possibly free money - ends 11/30/2025:

I didn’t win anything again this cycle and actually read the “Sorry you didn’t win” email.
You can enter once every 24 hours until the program ends on November 30th, 2025. Enter again for your chance to win up to $20.
Doh. I won $15 the first time and $5 last time so I guess I’ve maxed out. Glad I’ve only entered twice this round

I think you misinterpreted win up to $20, I am thinking it means up to $20 each round.

So if I only won $5 so far this round I can keep on playing this round and win more (up to a total of $20)? Has anyone won twice in one period? The next and last period starts one week from today on 10/21/25 and runs through 11/30/25.

No. One win per period.

My4mainecoons said she won $20 total and thought she was maxed out, which isn’t true according to my interpretation of the rules and from the experience of everyone winning more than $20 so far.

@mtnagel said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@ctujackbauer said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

You can redeem one reward/food item every 15 minutes inside the restaurant on the touch screens. It’s pretty easy to just log in with your phone, click the earn points option on the bottom bar of the app, scan the QR code, that logs you in and will show you your rewards.
Or you can do the app order, the same 15 minute rule applies, either way.

Two words: Separate accounts

That’s a very bad idea when the prizes are this big. If you won under $10k cash but over $50 (let’s just say $1,000) and they found out - it isn’t that difficult for them to find out because we have to use one email for paypal/zelle payments.

Unless you already setup separate paypal and zelle accounts for the second account for your one phone before the sweeps started, that is.

@mrvietnam said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@ctujackbauer said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@mrvietnam said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@ctujackbauer said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@mrvietnam said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@ctujackbauer said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@mrvietnam said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

I have a question. I go through the process and I get the two codes sent to my email and then I entered the codes but nothing happens. How do you find out if you’re a winner or not after entering the two codes that they sent to your email?

Did you register for Monopoly on the McDonald’s app yet? And are you talking about the verification codes (5 or 6 numbers) or the long string of text and numbers that you have to enter on the McDonald’s app? Once you get the real game code, it will prompt you to use your camera when you click add code at the top, you might as well allow camera, then you need to click the ‘enter code manually’ in yellow at the bottom. Then paste the code and enter.

I’m talking about the long stream of numbers you have to enter in the app. I enter the code, but it doesn’t seem to do anything after I submit it. How do I check if I won I’m anything?

It shows what you win immediately after entering it. On the bonus play, it will bring up a spin of prizes after clicking.

So if I didn’t win anything, then it won’t say anything?

No, you’re getting some kind of error. If you didn’t win anything, it will say you didn’t win a prize (and then refer you to your bonus play.)

Did you click the prompt to allow camera access to the McDonald’s app? You should click yes to allow the camera access.

Thank you so much. I really appreciate your help. I allowed access to the camera on the McDonald’s app and it started working just fine today. I won a free small soft drink and two free and a biscuit breakfast sandwiches and a double cheeseburger or McChicken along with several properties in the monopoly game. I can’t wait to play every day. I think you can only redeem one item every hour though if I’m not mistaken. Is that true?

No problem Mr V. Thank you for choosing me as your McDonald’s app customer service representative, we aim to please.

(I knew it was the camera access, haha!)

You can redeem one reward/food item every 15 minutes inside the restaurant on the touch screens. It’s pretty easy to just log in with your phone, click the earn points option on the bottom bar of the app, scan the QR code, that logs you in and will show you your rewards.

Or you can do the app order, the same 15 minute rule applies, either way.

@briarycliffs said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@ctujackbauer
Yes yahoo

Yahoo is known for not letting sweepstakes administrator’s emails through to your inbox. Especially the automatic emails like AMOE request forms and verification emails.

Unfortunate, but lessons learned. You can’t change your email for the McDonald’s Monopoly game now because prizes are tied to that initial sign up.

@mrvietnam said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@ctujackbauer said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@mrvietnam said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@ctujackbauer said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@mrvietnam said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

I have a question. I go through the process and I get the two codes sent to my email and then I entered the codes but nothing happens. How do you find out if you’re a winner or not after entering the two codes that they sent to your email?

Did you register for Monopoly on the McDonald’s app yet? And are you talking about the verification codes (5 or 6 numbers) or the long string of text and numbers that you have to enter on the McDonald’s app? Once you get the real game code, it will prompt you to use your camera when you click add code at the top, you might as well allow camera, then you need to click the ‘enter code manually’ in yellow at the bottom. Then paste the code and enter.

I’m talking about the long stream of numbers you have to enter in the app. I enter the code, but it doesn’t seem to do anything after I submit it. How do I check if I won I’m anything?

It shows what you win immediately after entering it. On the bonus play, it will bring up a spin of prizes after clicking.

So if I didn’t win anything, then it won’t say anything?

No, you’re getting some kind of error. If you didn’t win anything, it will say you didn’t win a prize (and then refer you to your bonus play.)

Did you click the prompt to allow camera access to the McDonald’s app? You should click yes to allow the camera access.

@mrvietnam said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@ctujackbauer said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@mrvietnam said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

I have a question. I go through the process and I get the two codes sent to my email and then I entered the codes but nothing happens. How do you find out if you’re a winner or not after entering the two codes that they sent to your email?

Did you register for Monopoly on the McDonald’s app yet? And are you talking about the verification codes (5 or 6 numbers) or the long string of text and numbers that you have to enter on the McDonald’s app? Once you get the real game code, it will prompt you to use your camera when you click add code at the top, you might as well allow camera, then you need to click the ‘enter code manually’ in yellow at the bottom. Then paste the code and enter.

I’m talking about the long stream of numbers you have to enter in the app. I enter the code, but it doesn’t seem to do anything after I submit it. How do I check if I won I’m anything?

It shows what you win immediately after entering it. On the bonus play, it will bring up a spin of prizes after clicking.

@yoregano said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

@briarycliffs said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

So you guys are getting email back? I requested twice and have received nothing, not in inbox or spam.

Yes, its’ working fine for me, getting instant responses. I’m using a Gmail address, fwiw. But it is a tedious, repetitive process to do the AMOE method five times. I did get the free 1-mo Peacock offer but that is useless to me as I already get Peacock free through Xfinity Rewards.

You should setup autofill forms on your phone. Add yourself as a contact, fill in your name, email, phone, address information. Then when you are viewing the AMOE form on your web browser, you can autofill the form with your contact information.

Otherwise this might cause a data entry error, like if you enter your information wrong in one part one day and then a different part another day, it will cause problems with sweepstakes administrators (especially for the major stuff like email, phone, and birthday for alcohol sweeps.)

@mrvietnam said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

I have a question. I go through the process and I get the two codes sent to my email and then I entered the codes but nothing happens. How do you find out if you’re a winner or not after entering the two codes that they sent to your email?

Did you register for Monopoly on the McDonald’s app yet? And are you talking about the verification codes (5 or 6 numbers) or the long string of text and numbers that you have to enter on the McDonald’s app? Once you get the real game code, it will prompt you to use your camera when you click add code at the top, you might as well allow camera, then you need to click the ‘enter code manually’ in yellow at the bottom. Then paste the code and enter.

@briarycliffs said in McDonald’s Monopoly game - 10 free entries everyday with AMOE:

So you guys are getting email back? I requested twice and have received nothing, not in inbox or spam.

Let me guess: AOL or Yahoo email, right?

Some email providers are very poor at letting through sweepstakes email from sweepstakes administrators, even major sweepstakes administrators like Merkle (formerly HelloWorld, formerly ePrize) and Don Jagoda.

But it’s too late to change your email now for the McDonald’s game, once you register on the app all of your prizes go through that email.

Main McDonald’s Monopoly page: https://playatmcd.com/
Official Rules: https://playatmcd.com/rules
FAQ: https://playatmcd.com/faqs

There is a 500 McDonald’s rewards points bonus for signing up for the Monopoly game on the McDonald’s app.

The app is required to play the game and redeem prizes.

There is also an AMOE (alternate method of entry) link in the official rules to receive a game code without making a purchase.

They’ve revamped the program quite a bit, there are still physical game pieces for many food and drink items, but this year they’re giving out digital game pieces for many food and drink items that often have deals (like the large McFrappe, which is usually $2 off bringing it down to half of the price of a similar Starbucks Frappucino.)

Cash prizes under $600 are paid out via Paypal or Zelle too this year, which gets rid of a pain point of having to redeem at the McDonald’s cashier.

Lots of instant win prizes like Best Buy gift cards. Lots of big prizes like Samsung OLED televisions, where you get a code to redeem at the Best Buy website (gets rid of another pain point of prize fulfillment.)

@my4mainecoons said in Ibotta Daily Drop - possibly free money - ends 11/30/2025:

I didn’t win anything again this cycle and actually read the “Sorry you didn’t win” email.
You can enter once every 24 hours until the program ends on November 30th, 2025. Enter again for your chance to win up to $20.
Doh. I won $15 the first time and $5 last time so I guess I’ve maxed out. Glad I’ve only entered twice this round

I think you misinterpreted win up to $20, I am thinking it means up to $20 each round.

You can make your own cold brew concentrate with a French Press, cold water, and an adjustable coffee grinder with a coarse setting.

If you really want to make your own barista experience at home: add in some milk to the concentrate, or use a frother for hot milk froth, or if you have heavy cream and a frother you can replicate the cold brew foam at Starbucks/Dunkin’. Torani syrup bottles for flavor. Torani caramel or chocolate sauce for topping.

(the actual cold brew concentrate is easy to make, it’s the rest of the add-ons that take a bit more YouTube expertise and figuring out)

Won $10 in period 3. This is up from $5 each in period 1 and 2.

@booksleuth reminder to enter period 3

Tagging @yoregano because he always says he never sees these promo codes in time.

@sonofzeus said in Kohl's Cash in-store giveaway ($5, $10, $15, $25 or $100) 9/3 through 9/7:

@ctujackbauer Ms SOZ and I just returned from Kohl’s Wheaton. She got $5. I got $10. I spent all but $.79. She used my $.79 coupon with hers. We have different last names/phone numbers/email addresses. Note: when did men’s imported men’s swim trunks get the inflation treatment?

I’m just quoting from the link I provided in the original post.

@sonofzeus said in Kohl's Cash in-store giveaway ($5, $10, $15, $25 or $100) 9/3 through 9/7:

If Ms SOZ gets $5 KCash And I get $5 KCash, can we combine on a single purchase?

One giveaway coupon will be distributed per household per day and only one giveaway coupon can be used in a transaction

https://www.kohls.com/ecom/details/ultimategiveaway_20250903_20250907.html

You likely have to be there close to when the store opens, though I doubt there would be too much of a line on a weekday versus a weekend.

Everyone wins a Kohl’s Cash certificate. You can combine with a percent-off coupon (Kohl’s Cash applies first, as always.)

You have to use the Kohl’s Cash the same day that you receive it.

Also, there’s already a class action lawsuit against Aven:

Fox 40 News article

Swigart Law Group - press releases

Mister C, there’s no nicer way to say this, but you learned the wrong lesson; you shouldn’t have given them your info in the first place. Plaid access to your checking account, Social Security numbers; address and homeownership information letting random companies the ability to open up HELOC by giving them enough credit information; none of that should have happened in the first place.

Deleting the account on Aven is putting a lot of faith in a company that has shown to act in bad faith, your data probably doesn’t get deleted.

At minimum:

• If you can’t revoke Plaid access to your checking account on your bank’s website, then you’ll have to open up a Plaid account (Plaid Portal) using the information you used to set up your Aven account (if you used a burner phone or secondary email that doesn’t match your bank account, this is going to be more difficult, you may have to setup multiple Plaid accounts) More information on the Doctor of Credit thread.
• SSN you already know you shouldn’t have given out.
• credit should already be frozen, freeze it if it isn’t
• if your local county has a title lock/warning signup, not all counties do, then I suggest signing up.

This fits in one of the stranger but definitely worrisome categories of FDA food recalls.

August 28, 2025, AquaStar (USA) Corp of Seattle, WA is recalling approximately 26,460 packages of Cocktail Shrimp 6oz (see photo), imported from Indonesia, because they may have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have become contaminated with cesium-137 (Cs-137).

Cs-137 is a man-made radioisotope of cesium. Traces of Cs-137 are widespread and can be present in the environment at background levels, and at higher levels in water or foods grown, raised, or produced in areas with environmental contamination. The primary health effect of concern following longer term, repeated low dose exposure (e.g., through consumption of contaminated food or water over time) is an elevated risk of cancer, resulting from damage to DNA within living cells of the body.

Walmart (FDA website recall link)

Kroger (FDA website recall link)

@dangeruss said in Ibotta Daily Drop - possibly free money - ends 11/30/2025:

@mrvietnam said in Ibotta Daily Drop - possibly free money - ends 11/30/2025:

@dangeruss said in Ibotta Daily Drop - possibly free money - ends 11/30/2025:

@mrvietnam said in Ibotta Daily Drop - possibly free money - ends 11/30/2025:

Any winners today?

How do you get the form to work? No matter what I do the submit button stays disabled.

There is a video you have to watch and 2 boxes you have to check.

Yep doing all the things and putting in my email, and button still not clickable.

There’s a captcha block. Use your smartphone’s browser.

@mistercheap said in IBOTTA: $4.25 back on Dunkin Cold Brew 31oz Bottles (in Refrigerated Case) Lim 2, at Target/WMT and select grocery chains:

@mtnagel said in IBOTTA: $4.25 back on Dunkin Cold Brew 31oz Bottles (in Refrigerated Case) Lim 2, at Target/WMT and select grocery chains:

@hbg1 said in IBOTTA: $4.25 back on Dunkin Cold Brew 31oz Bottles (in Refrigerated Case) Lim 2, at Target/WMT and select grocery chains:

Definitely pricey, but for what it’s worth, I see $2.50 back in Walmart cash (expires 8/16), which might make it a decent deal combined with the ibotta.

Pretty sure you can’t combine Ibotta with Walmart cash.

How would they even know you got WMT Cash for buying it? and unless it specifically restricts it, yes you can get both.

Both ibotta and Walmart Cash specifically restrict combining an ibotta rebate and Walmart Cash rebate. They know because you use the same email and the companies share info between themselves, like Checkout51 and Swagbucks/Tada.

In the linked article on ibotta’s website in the post by mtnagel, they even describe how an ibotta offer will be added to your Walmart account instead of your ibotta balance because you added the same offer in both places. The Walmart account takes priority when you add the offer in both places.

@mistercheap said in BK App Game - Impossible Whopper Memory Mix - Win Crowns or Prizes - Ends 8/15:

@ctujackbauer said in BK App Game - Impossible Whopper Memory Mix - Win Crowns or Prizes - Ends 8/15:

@mtnagel Impossible whopper is 750 crowns to redeem instead of 1,000 right now.

expiration date?

@mistercheap said in BK App Game - Impossible Whopper Memory Mix - Win Crowns or Prizes - Ends 8/15:

@ctujackbauer said in BK App Game - Impossible Whopper Memory Mix - Win Crowns or Prizes - Ends 8/15:

@mtnagel Impossible whopper is 750 crowns to redeem instead of 1,000 right now.

expiration date?

8/15. I didn’t notice the expiration date until you mentioned it mister c. It’s in the tiny print underlined terms.

@mtnagel Impossible whopper is 750 crowns to redeem instead of 1,000 right now.

@yoregano Breaking Topcashback’s piggy bank, $.50 at a time.

I played Cloud Float today and didn’t get a prize. I wondered why, but as it turns out I had already played earlier in the day.

ctujackbauer is getting senior moments in middle age.