@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.
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.
It resets at 5pm PDT, 8pm EDT. I finally got the $2 credit last night. I think they run out pretty quickly, although I never remembered to try for it at the right time until yesterday.
This is the page I got the credit on (different than the link above): https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/1939607F-BA41-4A31-A69D-16E3396F0D74?tag=phtwllt-20
I got the same result, hopefully you’re right and it will start working at some point.
It may really be sold out now, but yesterday it was showing sold out in the morning, but it came back later in the day.
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 think I got a notification on my phone a few days ago offering me 50 cents to link my Walmart account. I also usually just enter receipts and don’t link accounts. Definitely not worth it to me for only 50 cents, so I ignored it.
@dangeruss
IKEA brand. Sorry I didn’t think to mention that.
Not to take away from this deal, but for those where it’s convenient, I’ve bought a pack of 8 of these at Ikea for about $3.50.
Thanks for the heads up.
Last time they did this, I had a choice between ordering at a store that printed them in-store, or another location where Walgreens printed elsewhere and sent it to the store for me to pick up. I chose the one that printed in-store, but they cancelled my order. I wound up chatting since of course the code was expired by then. They eventually gave me a credit so I could re-order for free, but bottom line, if all things are equal I’d recommend taking the safer option and doing ship to store.
@briarycliffs
I got the same. I really can’t complain about free stuff, but they spoiled me the first time I did this, with a backpack and a whole box of samples.
@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.
Even more annoyingly, they are actually fulfilling orders for some people and are delivering today.
@penguin110
Sounds fishy to me too. Obviously I’m biased, but I think they should honor the price rather than cancel the orders.
Dear Valued Staples Customer,
We would like to inform you that due to a typographical error, item 24471546 Ammex Powder-Free Vinyl Exam Gloves, Latex-Free, Large, 100/Box has been cancelled from your order. You will not be charged. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Thank you for choosing Staples.
Staples® Customer Service
In previous versions of the Kohl’s reward program, a return would take back from the rewards balance. In the past I had months with a negative balance due to this. I guess they decided not to do that in the current version.
@waldo1945
Out of curiosity, which purchase did you return first? I’ve also been burned by this in the past. In this situation I return the purchase that used the Kohl’s Cash first, and do it in a completely separate transaction than the second return. I think that would give you the full amount you paid back and restore the KC. Then the return of the original purchase would void the KC and give you back the full amount you paid for that purchase. Then again, they may have changed the system, and I am definitely not an expert.
@dangeruss said in US Government Treasury Security I Bonds paying 7.12% Interest:
@ctgolfer How do you buy the bonds? Only through treasurydirect? How old do you need to be to be able to buy the bonds?
This may not be the answer to what you were asking, but you can buy these as a gift for a minor and I believe it would count against their limit.
https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds/res_ibonds_ifaq.htm
@my4mainecoons
I saw some posts on SD where people were missing their KC similar to you, so it looks like there’s a problem. I checked my wallet and it’s the same as the email I received, so it’s not everyone. Good luck with getting it resolved.
@kimi
Thanks, that was helpful. I found the Events category on the website. The fries are there under Saturday Sampler for me, and I also saw that I have a free case of water, only available in a new store that opened close to me. I got a mailer last week that said new accounts only, but now I see it in my existing account, so thank you.
@kimi said in JUST4U chains: Saturday Sample free bag of Signature Select Frozen French Fries (various types) conf'd at Vons/Albts/ACME, clip by 11/28, use by 11/29:
No Saturday Sampler for me at Safeway. In fact, I have no freebies on my account. (Even the hand sanitizer offers have expired and haven’t been renewed.)
I found the free fries in my Safeway app under Deals > Categories > Frozen Foods. I always have a hard time finding the freebies in the app, but it helps to know what to look for. Where does everyone else find them?
Heads up, I have a $1.50 ibotta on the silk oat milk. YMMV.
Unfortunately my Safeway was out of both that and the popcorn. I’ve found that to be the case more often than not.
The trip was not for nothing though, I also had a $5 off $5 on my card that I used.
@briarycliffs said in P&G free water bottle with $30 worth of participating products in single transaction at limited stores 6/27/21 - 9/30/21:
Got my free water bottle from playing the games today via ups. If you get a ups notice from archway, this is it!
Hey, thanks for mentioning this. I think this explains the mystery package I got from P&G last week (via archway). I scored a Team USA backpack and some Tide pods and Crest samples (no water bottle though). Thanks for posting the original deal too!
@mistercheap said in OT: Fetch Rewards App- Anyone else having trouble with app?:
@hbg1 said in OT: Fetch Rewards App- Anyone else having trouble with app?:
I happen to have updated the app yesterday and scanned two receipts today before I saw this post. No problems for me.
Android or Apple?
Android. Sorry I didn’t think to specify.
I happen to have updated the app yesterday and scanned two receipts today before I saw this post. No problems for me.
@mrvietnam said in Safeway/Vons stores have changed gift card vendor and all gift card purchases eligible for rewards:
With this change, it makes getting the Am Ex Blue Cash Preferred Card (6% cashback on grocery purchases with a $95 annual fee) kind of a waste of money (due to the annual fee) unless your household buys an awful lot of groceries.
In the past I’ve downgraded from the Blue Cash Preferred card to the free version, which gives 3% on groceries. Then, after a year or so, they’ve offered me a free one-year upgrade to the Preferred card (plus bonus of $100 or more). I’ve done that and then downgraded again after the free period. I’m on at least my second round now. Just FYI.
@ukedog said in T-Mobile database breach affecting 100 million customers (Social Security, Driver's License, IMEI numbers, etc.):
@ctujackbauer Has anyone here (or even anyone known to anyone here) been contacted by T-Mobile regarding this breach?
I’ve read recently that T-Mobile has been reaching out to those affected…
I am not the account owner, but I believe the owner of the account my T-mobile line is on got a text about the data breach from T-mobile. If I recall, it didn’t say very much and didn’t tell them how to protect themselves and what T-mobile was going to do (McAfee coverage?).
I haven’t heard anything from T-mobile directly, but I assume I have been affected as well. So far I am not impressed at all at how they are handling this. Although I just opened the T-mobile app and now there is a banner there about the breach, linked to a page with more information and links, to McAfee coverage and how to add Takeover Protection Service to each line.
I had read an article last week that told how to turn on the protection service and did that already for all the lines on our account. I’m thinking about freezing my credit reports as well.
I’ve been getting a 403 Forbidden error from my cellphone (T-Mobile) today. Only once I got on my desktop computer was I able to confirm that it’s just my phone and not the site in general. I tried in two browsers on my phone, going from a link in a post-comment alert and also straight to the home page.
Thank you.
The promo code may be already applied and then you would get an error message. Checking out in a desktop browser will show whether the coupon is actually applied, if you aren’t doing that now.
Same here, my store was out too (but Sunday noon-ish). Also had tried to get Chobani cold brew at Shoprite on Thursday, but no luck there either. It’s a bit frustrating that Chobani has so many deals but so little stock.
I did get the lip balm, at least.
@orthros
I think I read elsewhere that these are mainly (only?) on Hilton and Delta cards, and still YMMV. I got $10 on Delta gold and $5 on my free Hilton card. Someone else I know with both card types got neither.
I didn’t get anything on my blue cash.
@dangeruss
No, no ad blocker, unless Edge has one built in. This is the new version of Edge. It had imported all my Chrome extensions when I started using it, and I just double-checked to make sure there were no ad blockers there.
In both Chrome and Edge the bottom Coupons link opens successfully but the coupons still don’t load in Edge, it’s just blank where Chrome gives a loading bar and then shows the coupons.
The “Coupons” link in the footer isn’t working for me using the Edge browser. It shows the phatwallet header and footer with blank space in between. It works in Chrome for me though.
I also noticed, but assumed it was due to all the shipping delays in general. If they are not currently guaranteeing 2 day shipping, they have no reason to give us incentive to receive the item later. I’m hoping the no-rush credits will be back at some point.
Heads up, they sent out another $5 today. YMMV as usual.
Also, if you missed using a certificate, you may be able to get it reactivated by calling. I didn’t do it but heard the option on the recording.
@hbg1 said in Official Kohl's Sales and Promo Codes Master Thread:
@sportsfan64 said in Official Kohl's Sales and Promo Codes Master Thread:
Bump for the 30% off that starts today through Oct 18. Note that Kohl’s no longer has free shipping with no minimum, unless you’re an “MVC” and spend at least $600/year.
Definitely bad news, I took advantage of that a lot. How about the workaround of ordering from a store parking lot (or inside the store)? Anyone know if that’s working these days?
To answer my own question, in case anyone else is wondering: It looks like you can still order from a store parking lot, in case you don’t want to go in (or as in my case one time, if the store is closed - especially with shorter hours now). I was at a store yesterday and did a test before I went in. The app showed that I was at a store and offered me free shipping, although I didn’t complete the purchase.
@sportsfan64 said in Official Kohl's Sales and Promo Codes Master Thread:
Bump for the 30% off that starts today through Oct 18. Note that Kohl’s no longer has free shipping with no minimum, unless you’re an “MVC” and spend at least $600/year.
Definitely bad news, I took advantage of that a lot. How about the workaround of ordering from a store parking lot (or inside the store)? Anyone know if that’s working these days?
@mrvietnam said in The 'cut the cord' discussion thread: Tips, tricks & advice to get rid of cable, still get the channels you want and save money:
@hbg1 said in The 'cut the cord' discussion thread: Tips, tricks & advice to get rid of cable, still get the channels you want and save money:
@mrvietnam said in The 'cut the cord' discussion thread: Tips, tricks & advice to get rid of cable, still get the channels you want and save money:
@hbg1 said in The 'cut the cord' discussion thread: Tips, tricks & advice to get rid of cable, still get the channels you want and save money:
Does it have to be a new email address/account every year, or can I alternate between two existing accounts? I’m planning on creating a second account for the next year, but I’d rather not do that indefinitely.
The discounted deal is for new customers only, so you would need a new e-mail address and use a new credit card each time you do this deal. I also put a different family member’s name on the new account, just in case one day they ask why I have 5 different Hulu accounts.
Thanks. It’s good to be prepared ahead of time. I was hoping it was like Sam’s Club where it just had to be inactive for a certain amount of time. Oh well.
To be honest with you, I don’t know How Hulu defines a new customer. You might try on an account you haven’t used for some time. It may very well work and you will have nothing to lose for trying.
Since this was my first year, I’m going to have to make a new account anyway in November. Last BF I activated the deal on my old Hulu account from when everything was free, and I’d never had a paid plan there. So you’re right, it’s worth a try after another year to at least attempt to reactivate my current account. Nothing to lose, as you said. Thanks!
@mrvietnam said in The 'cut the cord' discussion thread: Tips, tricks & advice to get rid of cable, still get the channels you want and save money:
@hbg1 said in The 'cut the cord' discussion thread: Tips, tricks & advice to get rid of cable, still get the channels you want and save money:
Does it have to be a new email address/account every year, or can I alternate between two existing accounts? I’m planning on creating a second account for the next year, but I’d rather not do that indefinitely.
The discounted deal is for new customers only, so you would need a new e-mail address and use a new credit card each time you do this deal. I also put a different family member’s name on the new account, just in case one day they ask why I have 5 different Hulu accounts.
Thanks. It’s good to be prepared ahead of time. I was hoping it was like Sam’s Club where it just had to be inactive for a certain amount of time. Oh well.
@mrvietnam said in The 'cut the cord' discussion thread: Tips, tricks & advice to get rid of cable, still get the channels you want and save money:
Also, during the Black Friday weekend, Hulu has some great deals on their standard service. Two years ago I got Hulu for 99 cents a month for a year. This past Black Friday they increased it by a dollar and the new annual deal was $1.99 a month for a year. Who knows what the price will be this Black Friday. They don’t make you pay in advance for a year, but they just guarantee that price when you pay month-to-month. The deal is only for new customers, so every Black Friday I make a new account with a different e-mail and credit card.
I did the $1.99 Hulu deal for the first time this year. After the first month I added a gift card I got at a discount, so that helped. (I hadn’t been planning on getting it at all or I would have been better off with the gift card from the start.) I want to do the same thing this year. Does it have to be a new email address/account every year, or can I alternate between two existing accounts? I’m planning on creating a second account for the next year, but I’d rather not do that indefinitely.
I also have a Fire Recast for antenna DVR, which I’ve been happy with after the initial adjustment, ever since Microsoft killed Windows Media Center last year, which I’d been running for a very long time before then. Plus Amazon Prime. Between all those I have way more things to watch than I have time.
I have a terrible internet connection - no FIOS available in my area - so any suggestions of good internet at a reasonable price would be helpful.
@MrVietnam
Glad it worked out for you. I hadn’t even started yet because I had no idea it was going to run out so fast, despite the language. Lesson learned for next month, like you said.