@my4mainecoons I expect to see many more apparel deals in the near future. Word on the street is they will downsize softlines in favor of hardlines like appliances and tools, which is likely the proper business decision for them to make. This past week, they have already laid off corporate employees who make apparel purchases from vendors for the company. I imagine they will continue to try to lower their existing apparel inventory, much like what they did with electronics about 4-5 years back.
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RE: SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread
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RE: SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread
Members get $10 CASHBACK in points when you spend $40+ on select items at Sears.com and select Sears stores. Points award next day after transaction and expire after 5 days of issuance. Max $10 in points per member. Offer Valid 1/20/2019 through 2/2/2019.
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@mrvietnam You can use it to buy a $15 Kmart item and $15 Sears item in the same cart. It will take off $30. Both can be for Kmart pickup (assuming the Sears item can ship to a Kmart).
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@mrvietnam said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
You can get $10 back in points on a $45+ purchase at Kmart, in store only. Offer ends 1/19/19. Points awarded 1/20/19 and valid through 1/26/19. Maximum $10 in points per member.
Sears has a similar deal, $15 back on $50, in-store only, with the same dates as the Kmart one. Of course I would hold off on doing this offer until it is clearer whether points will still exist on 1/20.
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@my4mainecoons Thanks for the report from the field. Do you know if the automatic 15% off is over now? I assume it is since the signs stated 12/24 end date. I’ve not been to a Sears since Xmas. I suppose everything will probably change tomorrow anyway since it’s a new week, but just curious if that awesome 15% off is definitely gone now!
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@my4mainecoons Last time it was some special Craftsman Club promo that prevented the RR deal from working. I know it works during F&F, I’m just not sure how exactly. A friend of mine has done it before but cannot recall whether she got a better deal because of a lower regular price or a lower sale price.
Nice deal on 904250! I ended up getting the hex key set you posted about using my $10 off $10 text coupon last week - paid $15.99 points, got back $16.50 GC.
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@my4mainecoons Excellent, thank you so much for the details on how F&F works with that!!!
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@zennuts said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
Also, I don’t see any 3rd party GC in the store at all and no one seems to know if they carry them anymore.
All Sears and Kmart stores were instructed to pull them from the shelves the Thursday before the filing. The issuer, Blackhawk Network, had prevented the cards from activating anymore at Sears Holdings locations. They were concerned they would not be paid. As part of Sears’s first-day motions, Sears received court approval to set aside an exclusive trust fund for Blackhawk. I was hopeful that would coax Blackhawk into resuming 3rd party GC sales with Sears Holdings, but alas, it’s been 2 months and I haven’t seen a return of any non-Sears GCs either. If anyone does ever spot them back, would love to hear!
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@couponclippen Interesting. I don’t suppose you know if they were pulled on October 11th and then returned at some later point, or if the associates simply never initially pulled them as instructed? Also don’t suppose you know whether they activate successfully at the register if purchased now? On October 11th, you could pay for them, but they’d print out a receipt saying they were denied. Thanks!
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@my4mainecoons said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
Back in October right after they declared Chapter 11 I did the following offers, payable in 3 installments. The last installments posted this week, Dec. 18.
$75/$75 Kmart
Maybe you did a different deal than me (there were quite a few $75/$75 Kmart deals around that time), but my last installment for that one isn’t due to post until tomorrow, 12/23.
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@midwestusdealguy I agree, I was surprised to hear too that there still existed a Midwest call center to shut down. I’ve only called SYW maybe 2 or 3 times since 2016, but I had gotten an offshore call center each time too. Prior to 2016 was always Wisconsin-based. But I had heard even in recent weeks that maybe if you asked for a “level 2” or something, they would transfer to U.S.-based…so maybe that was the center that just got shut down. The points issue I am having is much better explained if I can show screenshots (it was a flash deal for just a couple days last week on only a few specific appliances), so I am not sure if I can successfully argue over the phone with an offshore agent for the points instead of just returning this vacuum I was hopeful to get a good deal on.
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Looks like it’s F&F all week through next Friday. Also $25 back on $50 at Sears, both online and in store.
@my4mainecoons Do you know how F&F interacts with the RR tool deal in store? If the socket set is $24.99 pre-F&F (not sure if it is or not, last week it was actually $25.99, but let’s just assume $24.99 for now for simplicity), would I pay $84.99 at the register and get back $82.50? Or would I pay $99.99 at the register and get back $86.63? Or something else entirely? Thanks!
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@my4mainecoons said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
Not a discussion for this thread but Sears gc will probably still be valid at Hometown Stores.
I would be surprised if this becomes true. Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores is a completely different company at this point (and not doing so hot themselves either, for that matter). I imagine they simply have a deal with Sears Holdings where they get reimbursed for the GCs used with them. The Sears GCs are Sears Holdings debt.
When Sears Holdings spun off Lands End a few years ago, Lands End GCs stopped being usable at Sears, and Sears GCs stopped being usable at Lands End; prior to that, they had been interchangeable. Sears Holdings presumably maintained a deal that allowed SYWR points to continue to be accepted by Lands End for years later, which incidentally ceased just a few days before the bankruptcy filing.
If Sears Holdings liquidates, I would fully expect SHOS to stop accepting Sears GCs too. Which thread is better to discuss this in?
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@my4mainecoons Some of the Marketplace sellers are just drop shippers who order the stuff directly from an Amazon Marketplace seller after you order from them via Sears…so many levels of commission going on here. But it just depends on what items you’re looking to buy. There are a lot of items I want that I have never been able to get from Sears, but of course they are on Amazon. I may have to pay a 20% upcharge to the Sears Marketplace seller to order the items for me from Amazon, but I get points back so it ends up cheaper than buying from Amazon, and I can pay with my Sears GCs that will likely soon become worthless anyway. It beats dropping real money on Amazon instead.
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@my4mainecoons I do Swagbucks, but $25 Visas are actually cheaper to redeem for than Amazon GC and can be used anywhere. I actually do have plenty of Amazon GC too, but I would still consider those to be much safer and more valuable than the Sears GC I want to find some way to spend.
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Do y’all think the $250 back on $250 and $50 back on $50 will stack in-store the next 2 days for $300 back on $250?
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@mrvietnam There is a $50 back on $50 Sears offer, in-store only, 11/22 and 11/23 only. It’s in the ad.
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@my4mainecoons I was just going to do 3 tool sets. I could see it going one of two ways. Either they code it as $50 back if you spend anywhere between $50-$249.99, else $250 back if you spend $250+; or I’m hopeful it’ll just be $300 back on $250. Worst case I should still get at least $250, I’d think…but of course that is the much more annoying deal, with $25 back every week for 10 weeks. If they won’t stack, I’d really rather just do the $50 back on $50 and call it a day.
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@my4mainecoons In my experience, when you do a RR tool deal, you can’t return it. Maybe it’d work if you pay back the GC amount in cash/CC, but I refuse to do that. A return won’t go through otherwise. A post void works, but it’s always hit or miss whether I can find a cashier who knows how to do that.
I decided I didn’t want to bother with weekly installments either and ended up only doing the $50 back on $50. Worked fine FWIW.
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@my4mainecoons said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
@Lo $20 back on $20 in Home in store only. Online is $25 back on $25 so different offers. I found a clearance Verage wheeled duffle for $15.99 and added candles to reach $20. Gray or green duffles are $15.99, blue is $54.99. Rang up $23.99, did P M to website.
I finally made it to my store today and they actually had $30 back on $60 for home. Looks like Sears is back to having store-specific deals again (it was like that during the summer, but for the last few months, the store deals seemed pretty universal). The plus side to store-specific deals is that I found out during the summer that if you have access to 2 different stores running promos with different denominations in the same week, you can actually do both deals on the same SYW account.
@my4mainecoons said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
Members get $100 CASHBACK in points in 5 Weekly installments when you spend $100 or more on qualifying Auto purchases at select Sears stores and Sears.com. First $20 in points issued next day after transaction and valid for 7 days. Subsequent 4 payments of $20 in points issued starting on 11/25/2018 and ending on 12/16/2018 and subsequent points are valid for 7 days. Offer Valid 11/04/2018 through 11/17/2018. Max $100 in points per member. Exclusions apply.
I have been wondering about this deal. Has anyone tried getting service done at the auto center? Pondering if that would qualify or if it’s only for products/parts and not labor.
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@lo said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
@my4mainecoons said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
Transaction #2:
Socket set scans for $29.99. Add in a bottle of hand soap for $1.
I have a $15/$100 coupon.
Tell cashier I want to pay full price. New total $100.99
Apply coupon. New total $85.99.
Pay with points. Receive additional $77 on gift card.I paid $132 w/ gc and I’m putting $154 back on to the gc.
They can add funds to gc’s so I keep using the same gc until the stripe wears out.Hi, I was wondering if you could elaborate on how to apply the coupon in this situation. I had a $20 off $100 coupon loaded on my account, but it didn’t come off for me on a regular-priced $99.99 socket set and $0.99 keychain filler. If I ask the cashier to go back and scan the physical coupon, the socket set reverts in price to $29.99 so I’m nowhere near the required threshold of $100. This scenario works fine for me if I have freecash, but I can’t figure out how to do it when I have a coupon off of $100. Thank you!
Hi, @my4mainecoons, I asked this a couple months ago but not sure if you noticed my post as I don’t believe I saw a reply. I have a $20 off $100 coupon again loaded on my account, but I still don’t know how to apply it to the regular price of a socket set. It sounds like you had previously done it with a $15 off $100 coupon, so just wondering what steps you took. Thanks!
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@my4mainecoons Thanks, you had mentioned the word “coupon” when speaking of your $15/$100 several months ago, so I thought I was just missing something. Yes, what you just outlined has been my experience as well. Freecash works fine off of RR of course, but the coupons only work off the sale price. I thought perhaps it’d be different if the coupon was already loaded/clipped to come off automatically, but I guess I can only confirm that that did not work either. Thanks for the reply!
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@sportsfan64 said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
Well I went back to my store today and they’d taken down all the $50/$50 back signs and replaced them with 10-30% off liquidation signs. I guess they’re closing sooner than I thought. I was able to use surprise points/freecash on my clothing purchase. The rep did not know when the store would be closing.
Same here, so sad. Looks like Friday was the day. I had just been there Thursday night too and spoke at length with one of the long-time associates, and at that point he still didn’t know when the liquidators would be arriving. They really don’t tell them anything.
Just for fun, I scanned a socket set to see what it came up as now. $74.99 sale price, lol. It had been $24.99 the day prior.
I would be curious if anyone knows whether the RR tool deal still works at a store in liquidation. I know from past Kmart liquidations that coupons may still work if the cashier wasn’t instructed to not take them. The socket set would be a dud now of course, but I wonder if there are other items that’ll end up being a good deal if the register still prompts for the RR promo. Perhaps I am being too optimistic. I am probably just going to have to lug myself to my next closest store, which is much farther and in a high-crime area…
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@my4mainecoons Tools are $50 back on $100 this week, same in-store. There are probably other department deals in store too, though I didn’t have time to wander into every department to check yet this week.
As I mentioned, I am pretty sure those 3 $75 back on $75 deals are all separate deals too. There is also $60 back on $60 for shoes. Not to mention $30 back on $30 for Marketplace jewelry and $40 back on $40 for the Bestselling Marketplace vendor.
So just off the top of my head, that’s at least $545 worth of “free” stuff you can get this week between Sears, Kmart, and Marketplace. One would never get done shopping (and using up all the points) if maxing out every deal this week.
Sad thing for me personally is that I’m in need of some toy and electronics items. I did buy my toys via the Kmart deal, but my electronics item fell off the site while I was waiting for a “free” deal on it.
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@ukedog Remember this? https://phatwalletforums.com/topic/7406/sears-beat-the-heat-promotion-bookie-bet-on-free-room-a-c-or-freezer-over-199-depending-on-july-4-temperature-at-reagan-dc-airport
Back then, I did a search on usual temp at Reagan on the 4th of July…it was nowhere near 100 degrees.
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@my4mainecoons Ibotta has 10% back through 7/19, but you’d have to purchase through their app on a mobile device.
I noticed RMN finally quit having a cashback offer for Sears, which is a huge bummer. It was the only site that didn’t say the offer excluded stuff like electronics, home, and Marketplace. Has anyone had success getting credit for Marketplace orders from any cashback sites besides RMN? I know for sure that BeFrugal and TCB really do exclude items from Sears’s home department: on both of those sites, I tried purchasing home items along with apparel items in the same order, and I was credited cashback only on the apparel portion of those orders.
Current “free” Marketplace deals include $40 back on $40 from HomeSquare (through 7/16), $40 back on $40 from VMInnovations (through 7/21), and $30 back on $30 from a bunch of different jewelry vendors (through 7/23, click the link on Sears’s home page for a list of vendors). So I’m wondering if I can get cashback from any site for purchases from these Marketplace vendors. Thanks!
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@lo Well, never mind! RMN has $20/100 now for Sears!
I ordered $30 Sears, $40 HomeSquare, and $40 VMInnovations; spent $110 + tax on the Sears item, got back just over $110 points and will hopefully receive $20 from RMN. Sweet.
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Perhaps I’m simply worrying for no reason (hope that’s indeed it), but frankly it makes me glad to hear I’m not the only one with no tracking yet on 9/3 orders, so thanks UkeDog. Yes, I think we all know there’s no point in contacting RMN before 15 days are up. But now I think there’s high likelihood that I’ll need to remind myself to make that contact 9 days from now. As I noted, past Sears purchases generally tracked within 1-2 days. My 9/8 purchase has already tracked too, so it is strange for 9/3 orders to not have yet. Again, hope I’m simply wrong. I’m just a bit annoyed because I placed orders I definitely wouldn’t have if not for the RMN offer, and they’re not even orders that can be easily returned (3rd party Marketplace).
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@sportsfan64 said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
I visited my closest remaining Sears today (3/7/20). In the clothing dept, they had signs up for $30 back in points when you spend $30 on Fall and Winter Clearance Apparel & Accessories. Points issued on 4/12/20 and are valid until 5/9/20.
Kmart has the same deal by the way (in-store only as well). Ends 3/14.