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@rick505 said in Amazon Prime Membership Price Will Soon Increase To $139 (Up From $119). The change will go into effect on February 18 for new Prime members and after March 25 for existing members.:

I thought I asked this here but don’t see it. If my Prime renewal is march 7th, can I beat the increase for existing members (March 25) and still pay the $119 for one more year? I don’t want auto renewal to kick in with the higher price and have to fight them for a refund.

If your renewal is March 7th and the cutoff for existing accounts is March 25, I think you want to do automatic renewal this year, and not turn off auto-renewal until after you are charged. I believe it says in your Prime account information ahead of time how much it will charge you. It may not say the amount until closer to your renewal. My renewal isn’t until July and it still says $119, but I assume that will update later. I recall seeing specific information about how much and when it would charge close to my renewal date.
Before the price change you can buy a Gift of Prime for $119 and send it to yourself. Then next year before your renewal date you would turn off auto-renew, let your membership expire, and then use your Gift of Prime to restart your Prime.

I’ve never done this myself as I’m grandfathered with 4 family members’ accounts attached to mine, so until the point that they cancel this status I’m not touching anything on my account and will keep autorenewing. But I do have a Gift of Prime saved from a previous price hike to use at a later time. The good thing is that if you ever decide you’re not going to use it, you can turn it into a regular gift card.

Hope this helps.

The link above didn’t work for me - it gave a “sign me up” button instead of the free trial. I got a working link from the SD thread. I don’t know if there are affiliate links attached to it, so I’m not sure if I can/should post it here.
But thanks for the heads up.

I don’t do a lot of shopping at BB&B, but the 20% on everything online is helpful for things like wedding presents where I’m sending to them. In the store you can use expired coupons, so I can turn in unlimited “20% off one item” coupons, but only one coupon is accepted per purchase on the website.
Also, I’ve wanted to get a couple low-priced items from there, not available in stores (or not worth it to go for just one small thing), and the delivery fee killed it.
I figure it can’t hurt to get the trial now, and I will probably use it at least once some time this year.

I realized the page says I’ll get an email but I didn’t get one. Did anyone who got the $2 credit get an email acknowledgment with instructions? I purchased items sold by Amazon today and it didn’t automatically appear like some promotional credits do.

@mrvietnam said in FREE $2 Amazon Prime Day Credit for Prime Users - 1 per customer - 3,125 credits available per day - resets at 5pm PDT, 8pm EDT - exp soon:

At 5:18 pm PT, finally won a )2 credit. Wahoo!

Congrats. Did you get an email with instructions afterward like the page says you will? Just wondering if I need to chat with Amazon about mine.

@c3 said in FREE $2 Amazon Prime Day Credit for Prime Users - 1 per customer - 3,125 credits available per day - resets at 5pm PDT, 8pm EDT - exp soon:

@my4mainecoons said in FREE $2 Amazon Prime Day Credit for Prime Users - 1 per customer - 3,125 credits available per day - resets at 5pm PDT, 8pm EDT - exp soon:

Seems like a lot of work for $2 that can only be used on Prime Day…

Well, people have created threads here for less.

I got it today at almost exactly 5pm Pacific, but still no email 2 hours later. If I visit that page again, it says: “You have already obtained this reward, you will receive an email soon”.

That’s exactly what happened with me. It says it will send me an email but didn’t. I haven’t done anything because yes, $2 is probably not worth the effort. On the other hand, I thought it could be used before Prime Day, like the $10 for the 4 activities.
Anyway, thanks for confirming that your experience was the same as mine.

@mrvietnam said in FREE $2 Amazon Prime Day Credit for Prime Users - 1 per customer - 3,125 credits available per day - resets at 5pm PDT, 8pm EDT - exp soon:

@hbg1 said in FREE $2 Amazon Prime Day Credit for Prime Users - 1 per customer - 3,125 credits available per day - resets at 5pm PDT, 8pm EDT - exp soon:

@mrvietnam said in FREE $2 Amazon Prime Day Credit for Prime Users - 1 per customer - 3,125 credits available per day - resets at 5pm PDT, 8pm EDT - exp soon:

@hbg1 said in FREE $2 Amazon Prime Day Credit for Prime Users - 1 per customer - 3,125 credits available per day - resets at 5pm PDT, 8pm EDT - exp soon:

I’m not seeing it either. I should have known better than to rely on what I was told. Sorry.

It’s OK. I think this promo was definitely not worth the effort.

Agreed. BUT I just got the email, it had a claim button that supposedly triggered the $2 credit to be added to my account after I clicked. I tested, and it did appear at checkout as an Affirm credit, not combined with the $10 prime day promotional credit. Hope everyone else got it too.

Wow. That gives me hope I may still get it. What was the subject of the e-mail?

Your $2 Amazon credit from Affirm has arrived!

I’m not seeing it either. I should have known better than to rely on what I was told. Sorry.

@mrvietnam said in FREE $2 Amazon Prime Day Credit for Prime Users - 1 per customer - 3,125 credits available per day - resets at 5pm PDT, 8pm EDT - exp soon:

@hbg1 said in FREE $2 Amazon Prime Day Credit for Prime Users - 1 per customer - 3,125 credits available per day - resets at 5pm PDT, 8pm EDT - exp soon:

I’m not seeing it either. I should have known better than to rely on what I was told. Sorry.

It’s OK. I think this promo was definitely not worth the effort.

Agreed. BUT I just got the email, it had a claim button that supposedly triggered the $2 credit to be added to my account after I clicked. I tested, and it did appear at checkout as an Affirm credit, not combined with the $10 prime day promotional credit. Hope everyone else got it too.

@sonofzeus said in Fetch 100% back on Entenmann's Cake Truffles and Good Humor Vienetta:

@hbg1 said in Fetch 100% back on Entenmann's Cake Truffles and Good Humor Vienetta:

Entenmann

Have you tried this: https://www.entenmanns.com/en/store-locator

Thanks for the link. I did try that, but I wasn’t able to find the cake truffles on that page. Most stores near me have Entenmann’s in general, but the cake truffles don’t show up with the rest. I figure either nobody is carrying it, or they haven’t put it up on the websites yet.

I have a similar situation, a domain with no website and a very small number of email accounts. I’ve been using Zoho mail for free to host my email for many years now. It’s not perfect but for free I can’t complain. They have a 5 GB storage limit, which I’ve run into, but if you download all your email that won’t be relevant.

At this point all I pay for is the domain itself, and my domain host points to Zoho for email. You definitely don’t need to pay for web hosting.

I’m not positive, but I think the plan I’m on is in the left blue box if you scroll down on this page: https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html

Hi, I’ve checked my settings and I’ll try to answer your questions as best I can, but I’m not an expert.

1. The mail servers are zoho’s domain (like mail.zoho.com but it’s a different prefix).
2. It looks like the name server is my domain host’s, not the email host. DNS is a different setting. The MX records in the DNS are pointing to zoho.
3. If you are using Outlook or another program to download your email, I would think that the filters and address book would be stored in Outlook, and should still work. It’s possible you’d need to adjust the filters to look for something different, but I’m not sure. Do you have all that set up on the back end/current email host? I don’t use cPanel currently for anything, so I can’t really answer the rest. That may be something I don’t do on my account.
4. I haven’t had to contact support much at all, so it’s hard to say. I did have an issue downloading to Outlook a few weeks ago. I emailed the support email address and got an answer within a day. (Turns out they have a limit of 50,000 emails in the mailbox, and at that point POP downloading doesn’t work.) That said, my expectations of heavy tech support for a free account are low.
5. I’m not sure exactly what TLS is, but in my settings it uses “SSL/TLS”.
6. SSL certificates would only be relevant for websites and not email hosting as far as I know.
7. According to the sign-up page I linked to previously, they have a 25MB limit on attachments. I don’t usually have trouble with this limit.
8. A few years ago I had some issues with a few of my emails being rejected for spam/blacklisting, but that hasn’t happened for a long time. In terms of my incoming emails, their spam filter seems to be pretty accurate. I have my account set up to deliver all emails, and the ones flagged as spam go into the spam folder. So I don’t miss any that could be false positives (if that’s the kind of thing you were asking about).

I moved to Zoho about 9 years ago when the company that had been hosting my domain and email for free (a former employer) informed me that they were going to start charging quite a bit to continue hosting my domain. It’s possible you might be happier with a service that has a higher level of customer support available. But for me, this has worked out well so far. Hopefully that will continue!

Cuisinart Custom 14-Cup Food Processor $99 plus shipping, several colors available.
I hadn’t heard of this site before today, but I may be behind the times. Edge suggested the coupon code XOXO which took off $20 for me, but YMMV.
This is the model that is the recommended food processor by Cook’s Illustrated - https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/equipment_reviews/2194-food-processors?incode=MCSCD00L0, click “read more” for details.

https://morningsave.com/deals/cuisinart-14-cup-food-processor-5

@fivetalents said in Cuisinart 14-Cup Food Processor $99 (or less) plus shipping @ MorningSave:

@hbg1 said in Cuisinart 14-Cup Food Processor $99 (or less) plus shipping @ MorningSave:

Cuisinart Custom 14-Cup Food Processor $99 plus shipping, several colors available… coupon code XOXO which took off $20 for me, but YMMV.

So you get $20 off $99 ($79 AC), or is it $99 after the $20 off code?

It’s sold out now, sorry, but for me it was $20 off $99, with additional shipping plus tax. Total was $93.78.

You described exactly how I use S&S, and I have something sitting in my cart for the same reason - it wouldn’t let me add it to my next S&S order, it would only let me buy it immediately for 5% with the next one with my regular S&S order with potentially the higher discount. I’d had regular behavior with S&S items just a couple days before, and hadn’t tried any other items yet.

I’ve seen this type of behavior occasionally in the past, but I think then you were able to change to your S&S day in checkout. Not this time.

I just checked the item in my cart again. The price is a bit higher. Now, from the product page if I click the S&S option it gives me the ability to change to my next monthly delivery if I click on “change” by the delivery date.

So hopefully this is not signalling a permanent change in behavior in general.

@yoregano I’m not sure if you do or don’t see the “change” option like I have, when it forces you to purchase immediately for the subscription. Today I was able to use that link to force an item to go into my April S&S order instead of being delivered right away.

I went today to exchange a sodastream canister - my store tends to run out and I wanted to get it with the 20% while I still could. I checked my app beforehand and discovered I had $5.08 in credit. I’m not sure where it came from, but they were able to apply it at the register after they scanned my account code.

So before you go to spend your gift cards, if you joined their rewards program you may want to check for a reward or other credit to use up as well.

I got a $32.32 check in the mail today - I hadn’t even remembered that I registered for this, so it was a nice surprise. I also don’t recall choosing a payment method or any recent communication from them, so maybe they send a check if no other method was selected.

@mrvietnam said in Free a/IBOTTA: Duracell FOB CR2032 2ct pack $7.13 fixed rebate (RA, CVS, Wags, Target, WMT, Alb Chains, etc):

These are the size batteries that you put inside your car key for keyless entry.

As a data point, I discovered a couple weeks ago that my car key takes CR2016 batteries rather than CR2032. Lucky for me I’d gotten a pack of those on a Best Buy deal recently.

But I have other items that use these. Thanks for the info!

@mistercheap
They’ve actually been really nice when I call the Freshpass number. They’ve given me credits on my account to make up for the missing $5 coupons, and then some extra. That credit can’t be tracked on my end but I bought something yesterday and it was free except for tax, so it seems to work as expected.
I’m getting a bit frustrated that they can’t seem to fix my account though. I may call again towards the end of the month if I don’t hear back from them first (the last person said she’d call me back) to see about progress.
They can see right away that the coupons aren’t on my account, so that’s not the issue.

I used whichever one is available on the Ninite.com software page. If you’re not aware, Ninite is a great, safe way to load many kinds of free software all at once. I use it every time I get a new computer or need to load something on someone else’s.

Edit: looks like Ninite has open shell.

Isn’t April Earth month (or at least contains Earth Day). Seems a strange time to cancel a recycling program. Hopefully they’ll restart it soon in some form.

I recycled alkaline batteries a few hours ago and got the 1000 points already.

The people in the store, this time and last week when I recycled ink/toner, insisted that the tech recycling program never ended and will keep going (regardless of my telling them that it was clearly no longer on the website last week). So hopefully despite their apparent misinformation regarding what is being told to customers, it will continue beyond 4/20.