@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.
@mrvietnam You can’t use points online on grocery items anymore, but you can use them in-store on grocery items. Clearance is no problem. You can no longer use bonus points (i.e., large amounts of points earned from various promotions, as opposed to the base points earned from 1% of spend) at Hometown and Outlet stores.
@my4mainecoons Honest question - if you convert GC into points and then points back into GC, how do you cash out the GC? This is the conundrum I constantly have. I’ve already lost my Kmart, and I’m soon losing 3 out of the last 5 Sears within any sort of reasonable driving distance (<60 miles).
@briarycliffs said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
Something weird happened with Sears Hometown. I had points to use and went to Hometown to do the pay extra and get a gift card thing. Screen popped up and said I only had $2+ in points to use, when I had $11+ that was expiring. The owner couldn’t do anything about it and I went to Kmart and blew the points. Now my points screen on syw site shows I still have the $2+ to use at Sears Hometown and $25+ to use at sears, kmart, or syw. Eddie bought back hometown, so that might have affected things, but it appears any new points I earn (even the tire points that I still get for another month), I can’t use them at hometown. I haven’t tried to order anything from sears, to pick up at hometown. They are out of everything I really need and are having trouble getting anything from the warehouse.
Check my post upthread a bit (May 29). Bonus points earned from Sears/Kmart can’t be used at SHO anymore - including installment points that are still crediting from past purchases. Not the first time Sears has effectively changed the terms retroactively like that. Grocery items can’t be purchased online with points anymore either.
I know some of y’all only really have access to Hometown stores - be forewarned that changes seem to be coming, and it appears that most points (i.e., bonus points) won’t be redeemable at Hometown stores anymore. The SYW site already has a separate section showing how many points you can redeem at Hometown vs Sears/Kmart (although it is glitchy), and this was added to the FAQ:
There are 3 types of points:
Shop Your Way Points: Members earn a base 1% back in points on every $1 spent at all Redemption Partners
Current List of Redemption Partners: Sears, Kmart, SHOBonus Points powered by Shop Your Way: Members earn varying points from Redemption Partner specific offers and promotions. Members can earn these points after a transaction is made. Bonus Points are only redeemable at the Redemption Partner where the points were earned. Bonus points can be combined with Shop Your Way points when redeeming where the Bonus Points were earned.
FREECASH powered by Shop Your Way: Members can earn even more from Redemption Partners with FREECASH offers. FREECASH are limited time offers that have specific requirements, like a minimum purchase, a quick expiration date or a certain category of items to redeem them on. FREECASH are only redeemable at the Redemption Partner where the points were earned.
@ukedog said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
So when I ask my PS to order a single $2.99 t-shirt from Kmart, all paid with SYWR points, should I expect some pushback?
I’ve never done it myself, have merely heard from others (though I do have a PS since they had offered $10 bonus points a while back for signing up - and even my PS has sent me emails in recent weeks encouraging me to order through her because she can provide free shipping with no minimum). But from what I gather, there shouldn’t be any pushback as long as you’re not doing it extremely frequently. Once every week or two is likely no problem. I’ve heard that if you try to “overuse” your PS though, you might have to start calling them instead of chatting/emailing. The person who mentioned that to me was vague about it though, so I’m not exactly sure what happens if you “overuse” the PS…like do they just stop responding to you? 
@ukedog said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
No stores left near me, and I’m tired of having to pay out-of-pocket for shipping (can’t use points)–and I don’t mean the $59 free shipping either, but all shipping takes actual money. Sort of takes the luster off getting items “free” by paying with points…sigh.
Personal Shoppers let you order anything with free shipping, even cheap items paid for entirely with points. The caveat is that they only work M-F 9-5:30 CT so you’d either have to catch your PS during that time period via the app chat or phone, or I guess maybe email them and hope they can place your order before the price goes up or something. It’s a free service, you just have to sign up for a PS and be willing to interface with a human to get your free shipping.
@my4mainecoons said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
@briarycliffs Were you able to pay for a 3rd party gc w/ points?
We’ve never been able to buy 3rd party GC with points (other than prepaid phone cards), but I would be interested to hear if anyone manages to buy a 3rd party GC with Sears GC. To my knowledge, they never shut off the ability to do that, only the ability to activate 3rd party GCs at all from their POS (and it wasn’t up to Sears, it was the 3rd party GC processor who did that)…so honestly I would be interested to hear even if anyone manages to buy a 3rd party GC with cash! This report makes me super hopeful, thanks briarycliffs!
Offer valid 4/7/19–4/20/19. Members spend $70 or more on items sold by Kmart in grocery, drug or health & beauty items at kmart.com and get $70 CASHBACK in points in 7 installments. First $10 in points issued within 48 hours of transaction and valid for 7 days. Subsequent payments of $10 in points issued every Sunday starting 4/28/19 and are valid for 7 days each. Maximum $70 in points per member.
(Would be interested to know whether anyone sees this available in store too, but based on the wording, I am guessing it is an online-only offer.)
Offer valid 3/24/19–4/6/19. Members get $20 CASHBACK in points when you spend $20 or more on qualifying clothes purchases at select Sears stores and on items sold by Sears at sears.com. Points issued within 48 hours of purchase and valid for 7 days. Maximum $20 in points per member. Limit one CASHBACK in points offer per order. Limit one per member.
Offer valid 3/24/19–4/6/19. Members get $60 CASHBACK in points in 6 weekly installments when you spend $60 or more on qualifying purchases at select Sears stores and on items sold by Sears at sears.com. First $10 in points issued within 48 hours after purchase and are valid for 7 days. Subsequent payments of $10 in points issued every Sunday starting 4/14/19. Maximum $60 in points per member. Limit one CASHBACK in points offer per order. Limit one per member.
Different set of fine print says:
Members get $60 CASHBACK in points total in 6 weekly installments when you spend $60+ at Sears. 1st set issued same day, then every Sun starting 4/14. Points valid for 7 days. Limit 1. Cannot Combine
So it’s not clear whether the first installment comes same day or in 2 days, but I guess that’s a relatively minor thing anyway. I like this one though. The points will stack on top of all the other 10-week deals I already did in the past, but since this is a 6-week deal, I’m not pushing forward the end date of my weekly commitment to Sears yet again.
@my4mainecoons said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
@lo When we were getting 100% back in pts last year my points did not post until I picked the item up at the store. Based on your post I checked the accts and found points had posted to both accts and will expire tomorrow! None of the items were available in the store.
Ship-to-store Sears items do not require pickup to post the points. They will post points within an hour of ordering, even if you never pick up. Sears items that are available in the store do require pickup to receive the points. Likewise, all Kmart items (whether available already or ship-to-store) ordered to Kmart will require pickup to receive points, but Kmart items shipped to a Sears will post points when the item is shipped. So if your previous items didn’t post points until you picked them up, they were simply ordered a different way - either as already-available items, or they were Kmart items picked up from Kmart. (Note though that Sears items shipped to Kmart actually post within an hour of ordering too. I think I’ve covered all the possible combinations now!)
In summary, this is when points will post:
Sears item already available at Sears: when you pick up
Sears item shipped to Sears: within an hour of order submission
Sears item shipped to Kmart: within an hour of order submission
Sears item shipped from authorized supplier/warehouse to home: within an hour of order submission
Sears item shipped from Sears store to home: when the item is marked ready for shipping (usually shortly before you receive the shipped email)
Kmart item already available at Kmart: when you pick up
Kmart item shipped to Kmart: when you pick up
Kmart item shipped to Sears: when the item ships
Kmart item shipped to home: when the item ships
Any Sears or Kmart Marketplace item: within minutes of order submission
If there’s an additional modifier like points not becoming available until “next day,” then the points become available according to the above schedule OR the next day after you order (at midnight Central), whichever of the two is later.
Yes, if you have $30 points and $10/25 FC, a $40 item will use them all up.
@my4mainecoons said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
How do you think my points will post? Will I have $30 to spend and then $15?
I’m supposed to receive an order tomorrow so I presume pts will be available as soon as UPS marks it as delivered. That will be March 20. Do you think the 2nd installment will post on March 21?
Another order is supposed to be available for pickup at the store on Thurs March 21. Pts should be available the day after I pick it up. Can’t pick up until Friday March 22. So pts should be available on Saturday March 23. Will the following week’s pts post on March 28?
Umm, based on how you’ve described your orders, both should have already given you the first installment. Ship-from-store Sears items post points when the order is shipped, and Sears authorized supplier items post points within an hour of submitting the order. Delivery has nothing to do with points posting, regardless of what Sears’s emails or CSRs say. For the second order, Sears ship-to-store also posts points within an hour of submitting the order. Again, regardless of what Sears’s emails/CSRs say, pickup has nothing to do with points on ship-to-store orders (although it does have relevance on items that are already available from the store). If you haven’t already gotten your first installment on both of those orders, it seems like something is wrong.
(To clarify, when I’m using the term “post” here, I am referring to the points being shown as earned, not that they are necessarily available for use yet. Since the first installment was supposed to become available “next day,” the points for the second order should have been available the day after you ordered. On the first order, if it was an authorized supplier item, then those points should also have been available the day after you ordered. If it was a ship-from-store item, the points should have been available when the item shipped, unless that occurred the same day as the order, in which case the points should have been available the day after you ordered. In my experience though, Sears stores don’t tend to sit on orders for longer than a few hours (so if they are sitting on the order for more than 2 days, that is unusual too), so in all likelihood, even on the first order, the points should have been available the day after you ordered.)
Did you order more than one item per order? If so, depending on the source of each item, the orders may have gotten “split” and therefore not credited the points properly. That would likely need an email or phone call to SYW to sort out, but on the plus side, they’d probably just give all 3 installments in a lump sum.
@my4mainecoons Ibotta is via portal for online purchases. Occasionally they have had receipt uploads for Sears in-store purchases, but not often (and not currently). Ibotta’s online Sears exclusions include hardline and softline home though. So if you are wanting to do the $45 back on $45 home deal, RMN may be best anyway as most portals exclude Sears home for some inexplicable reason.
@mrvietnam said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
No Kmart 100% back deals these days?
Not that I’ve seen. Kmart seems to be a real afterthought nowadays. This is the only points offer I know of that’s going on at the moment for Kmart, and it’s for the entire month so I probably wouldn’t even expect anything new until April:
Get $10 CASHBACK in points for every $50 you spend. Max. $30 in points per member.
Offer valid 3/3/19–4/6/19. Members spend $50 or more at Kmart stores and kmart.com and get $10 CASHBACK in points. Points credit to account within 24 hours and are valid for 7 days. Maximum $30 in points per member.
@my4mainecoons said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
@lo stack with SPRING for additional 10-15% off. I also had $10 in FC for spending $40 in Home.
Be careful with trying to use FC along with a coupon code like SPRING. It seems like the cart pretends it will let you use both, but then after submitting the order, it will just deduct from your actual points balance instead of the FC. Best to avoid applying any coupons if you intend to use FC.
Anyway, there is a new $150 back on $150:
Offer valid 3/10/19–3/23/19. Members get $150 CASHBACK in points in 10 weekly installments when you spend $150 or more on qualifying purchases at select Sears stores and on items sold by Sears at sears.com. First $15 in points issued within 24 hours after purchase and are valid for 7 days. Subsequent payments of $15 in points issued every Monday starting 3/25/19.
I personally caved and started just doing all of these offers to stack up the installments each week. I’m already getting $40 a week right now, so it’ll be even better to bump that up to $55 a week. 
There is a new $10 back on $40 too:
Offer valid 3/10/19 - 3/16/19. Members get $10 CASHBACK in points when you spend $40 or more on qualifying purchases at select Sears stores and on items sold by Sears at sears.com. Points issued within 24 hours of purchase and are valid for 7 days. Maximum of $10 in points per member.
Members get $45 CASHBACK in points in 3 weekly installments when you spend $45 on Home at Sears.com. First $15 in points issued next day after transaction and valid for 7 days. Subsequent payments of $15 in points issued every Thursday starting 03/21. Offer Valid 03/03/2019 through 03/16/2019. Max $45 in points per member.
Members get $15 CASHBACK in points when you spend $15+ on apparel at Sears.com. Points awarded next day, valid for 7 days. 1 time per member. Cannot combine. Valid through March 04, 2019 11:59 PM CST
Members get $15 CASHBACK in points when you spend $50+ at select Sears stores and Sears.com. Points award next day and valid for 7 days. Max $15 in points per member. Cannot Combine. Valid through March 09, 2019 11:59 PM CST
Members get $150 CASHBACK in points total over 10 weekly installments when you spend $150+. 1st set issued same day, valid 7 days. Remaining awards issued Sat starting 3/16. Limit 1. Cannot combine. Valid through March 09, 2019 11:59 PM CST
Members get 100% CASHBACK in points in 50 weekly installments on select items. 1st set issued same day, remaining on Sun starting 3/10, valid for 7 days. Max $619.99 in points and 1x. Cannot Combine. Valid through March 02, 2019 11:59 PM CST
Members get $10 CASHBACK in points when you spend $30 or more on a Grocery, Drug, Beauty and Health purchase at select Kmart stores and on items sold by Kmart at Kmart.com. Maximum $10 in points per member. Points credit to account next day after transaction and valid for 7 days after issuance. Expires on 03/02/2019
Omg…and Kmart has this ridiculous one:
Members get $100 CASHBACK in points total over 20 weekly installments when you spend $100+ at Kmart.com. First set issued same day, valid 7 days. Points issued Monday starting 2/25. Limit 1.Valid through February 17, 2019 11:59 PM CST
Judge Drain approved the sale today, and I guess Sears is celebrating now. Midnight Madness (5-20% off nearly everything) is going on until 7am CST, and there is a new $500 back on $500 deal:
Spend $500+, get $500 CASHBACK in points total in weekly installments.
Offer valid 2/7/19–2/9/19. Members get $500 CASHBACK in points when you spend $500 or more at sears.com on items on items Sold by Sears. First $10 CASHBACK in points issued next day after transaction and are valid for 7 days. Subsequent payments of $10 in points are issued every Sunday starting 2/17/19. Points expire 7 days from date of issuance. Offer cannot be combined with other offers. Limit one per member. Maximum $500 CASHBACK in points per member.
@briarycliffs The site still says that, but that is not the actual deal attached to those items. The $100 back on $100 is.
@ukedog There is a Kmart about 2 miles down the road from my closest Sears (actually, technically that Kmart is actually closer to me than the Sears is), but they really don’t sell anything anymore that I can use. I used to buy things from there like milk, eggs, butter, cheese, and bacon, but they have lost all their vendors for those products. Sears is much more viable to me for blowing points.
Once a final order is confirmed this week, I don’t see why this would be a gamble at all. I highly doubt that Transform will fold within 10 weeks. The only question right now is whether the judge will overrule all the objections. We’ll know later this week.
@my4mainecoons said in SYWR Points Back with Purchase Offers Thread:
@lo I might be tempted to do this one… Sold the last of pliers sets this week.
I haven’t been in store for a month.
Are utility knives, penlights, etc. still behaving?
Sorry, I don’t know. I normally buy pricier tools because I don’t want to deal with so many transactions, especially now that my closest store is 25 miles away instead of 8 miles and I’m also not regularly getting small $5 or $10 freecash offers anymore. Plus there are only so many penlights one can use…I mean, they are pretty useful and I keep one in pretty much every drawer or glove compartment, but I still have many dozens of them in a box somewhere.
Anyway, I just realized this was the end of Sears’s fiscal year. One thing I have already noticed is that several previous long-standing promos/offers have suddenly ended. I had a VIP points back coupon that had been good for months that is now showing as expired. And the bonus points offers for VIPs linking an Uber account or placing an order through the SYW app are gone too. So it wouldn’t be a stretch to think that there could be other good things that have ended too, especially with Transform wanting to close on the sale of the company within the next week or two. If anyone else notices something that has changed, please report!
By the way, the $100 back on $100 deal is now being heavily advertised on the home page, but the terms are a little different than the details I previously posted (which confusingly are still the same on the item pages as what I posted previously). These are the new advertised details:
Online Only! Members get $100 CASHBACK in points in 10 Weekly installments when you spend $100
or more on qualifying purchases at sears.com.
First $10 CASHBACK in points issued same day after transaction and valid for 7 days. Subsequent
payments of $10 CASHBACK in points issued every Wednesday starting 3/6/19 and are valid for 7 days.
Offer valid 2/3/19–2/24/19. Maximum $100 CASHBACK in points per member. Excludes Lands’ End.
Items must be Sold by Sears. Purchase requirement before taxes and after other discounts and must be
made in a single transaction.
So will the 2nd installment come Thursday 2/14 or Wednesday 3/6? That’s a pretty big difference. If it’s really going to be 3/6, then I’d personally hold off on doing the offer until much closer to that date. If it’s going to be 2/14 but the offer is good through 2/24, maybe it could mean there might be a new offer every week for 3 weeks? They did something similar around Black Friday (the $250 back on $250 then had multiple iterations with slightly different timelines each, even though the advertising for it didn’t make it obvious that each iteration was a different deal). If there will really be multiple offers, then it’d be a good opportunity to have more points stacked up each week. I’m not really interested in having to go to Sears weekly just to get rid of $10 in points, but if it were, say, $30 a week, I’d be more inclined. I didn’t manage to do that Craftsman 100% deal before they switched it over to this current $100 back on $100, and now I kind of regret it because if I’m going to have to go to Sears every week anyway, I might as well be doing it with more points to blow…
@ctgolfer Are you asking about the stores that have already been announced to be closing? (Should be 80-something at this point - the first 182 since the filing should have already closed, and the 80 most recently announced are closing in March - plus there have been a handful of additional stealth closings since.) No, closed and closing stores are not staying open; they will still be closed on the previously announced timelines.
If that was merely commentary on the fact that Sears has been advertising their deals since the New Year as a “blowout sale” and reducing associate hours as expected since the holidays, then yes, most of the existing open stores will remain open for now - should number 425 of them minus the few recent stealth closures.
Seems they’ve prematurely replaced that Craftsman offer with this (which is valid on all items):
Members get $100 CASHBACK in points total in 10 weekly installments when you spend $100+. 1st set issued immediately, valid for 7 days. Remaining awards issued Thursdays starting 2/14. 1x per member
By the way, there doesn’t appear to be a limit to how many of those 100% Craftsman items you can buy. So if you buy, for example, 3 of them, you could use a $35 off $300 and get nearly $60 a week in installment points. It’s tempting, but I’m just not sure I need those items enough…
So true, in hindsight I wish I had done even more of the installment deals! I did do the majority of the ones that came up but often sat out some of the bigger ones like $400 back on $400 or anything that came in weekly installments instead of biweekly or monthly…but of course, as it turned out, I ended up at Sears pretty much every week anyway. And I’d forgotten about the automotive stuff too - outfitted a few different cars in new tires and batteries as well. Also got several sets of major appliances over the past couple years since I was shopping for a couple households - 2 fridges, 2 washers, 2 dryers, and a dishwasher. Went all out on my own fridge too and got a counter-depth French door with slim in-door icemaker…I’d only ever had white top-freezer fridges before. Sears has been good to me. If I’d known exactly how everything was going to go down, there are some things I would have done differently…but quite frankly, I probably would’ve bought less if I’d known the company was that close to insolvency already, and really I now wish I had bought more!
@mrvietnam I’m winning so far, aren’t I? 
When they filed for bankruptcy in mid-October, I had about $5000 “invested” in Sears in points, future points installments, and gift cards. I kicked myself heavily for having done so many installment deals and not having tried to cash out the gift cards earlier (they removed 3rd party gift cards from all stores 2 days after the WSJ article reported the impending filing, and I wasn’t able to get out to a store the 1st day). But then I continued to do the offers that came out, and I look at all the stuff I got for “free” even since the filing, and it’s a lot! If I’d quit before that, sure, I would’ve been less stressed out, but I also wouldn’t have all this nice stuff I’ve gotten since. I also realized that if I hadn’t done the installment deals I’d already done, then I wouldn’t have gotten all the nice stuff from those deals either and probably would’ve just been holding even more in gift cards. I haven’t done any long-term installment deals since the bankruptcy (they haven’t even existed for that matter - the company knew nobody would do them), but all of the future points installments I’m still waiting on are from offers months before the filing. I’ll be done with them in June if the company lasts that long. And even if they don’t…I moved to a new house a couple years back and all my appliances, furniture, housewares, decor, and tools for working around the house are from Sears. All the clothes I wear are from Sears too. I think I got plenty out of it.
@my4mainecoons I suspect it’s $18 per week on most of the items (at least one of them would be less since it is $89.99 now), since $10 of the points are from the $10 back on $40 offer. If I were to do it, I’d probably get a C3 kit just to have a spare battery and charger for my existing C3 stuff. But I’m really not a fan of weekly installments, plus I’d like see how the court hearing goes next week before investing in any more future installments. I still have nearly $1000 in future points owed to me from stuff I bought dating back to last March.
Members get 100% CASHBACK in points on select Craftsman items in 5 equal weekly installments. 1st installment of points issued next day after transaction and expire after 7 days. Following 4 subsequent installments issued every Monday starting 2/11/2019. Points valid for 7 days after issuance. Offer valid 1/29/2019 through 2/2/2019.
But they appear to be using the $10 back on $40 as part of the 100% back. I already did that offer, so my account only shows $90 back on a $100 item, not $100. 
50% CASHBACK on Winter Clothing and Jeans
Expires Jan 26, 2019
Members get 50% CASHBACK in points on qualifying apparel and footwear purchases on Sears.com. Points credit to account next day and expire 7 days of issuance. Offer valid 1/23/19 through 1/26/19. One time use per member. Excludes Lands’ End, Levi’s, and work boots. Items must be sold by Sears.
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.
@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.
Ummmm, there is this deal on Kenmore Elite washers/dryers:
Online only. Get $100 CASHBACK in points to use on Apparel. Items sold by Sears
Members get $100 CASHBACK in points to redeem on Apparel when you purchase select Laundry items at Sears.com. Points awarded next day after transaction and expire 7 days after issuance. Max $100 in points per member. Online only. Offer valid 1/18/19-1/19/19 11:59pm CST.
Can they really give points only valid for a specific department now? I’m skeptical, but I’m hoping this isn’t a harbinger of things to come.
Around 30 fairly random items are giving anywhere between 8-30% back in points, online only, ends Sat: https://www.sears.com/search=00880509000P|00888919000P|00829672000P|00829672000P|00889208000P|00840708000P|A019328003|A019328002|A028690496|A028691273|A028691198|A028691137|A028691137|A028691137|A028691137|A028691137|A028691137|A028691137|A011908869|A011993818|00915495000P|00615962000P|A029113551|A013204652|A010787546|A010786129|A010786128|00625231000P|00621917000P|A027530923|A027540268|A024986115|A028209166|067VA87539212P|A025512330|067VA98390012P|067VA99418112P&adcell=hp_PopUpPoints_Banner
@mrvietnam Career SHC critic, Brian Sozzi, had a cute quote recently: “Sears is like a cockroach right now. You just can’t quite stomp on it and kill it.”
$30 back on $30 for winter clothing has re-upped:
Members get $30 CASHBACK in points when you spend $30+ on select Apparel items at Sears.com. Points award next day and expire 1/19/2019. Max $30 in points per member.Valid through January 17, 2019 11:59 PM CST
@my4mainecoons At least on the deals page, those offers are denoted as online only, but I guess you never know: https://www.sears.com/deals/center/hot-deals.html/dealGrid?event=Members Only
@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.
@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).
My Sears had apparel at basically 97% off today (80% off first and then an additional 85% off that). But it was pretty difficult to find anything that fit or was desirable at all. I pulled one shirt off the rack and discovered it only had one sleeve. I bought a plain white shirt (pretty much the only thing I could find that wasn’t ripped/hideous or XXL) for 30 cents, lol.
I’m not even sure what the other products were priced at because there was barely anything remaining…most non-apparel items were either broken or untagged (or rugs, of course). There was a box of Craftsman single wrenches, all the same size, like hundreds of them. The sign next to them only said 50% off (don’t know if true or not, but I’m guessing that’s why they didn’t sell). By the way, the rugs never got majorly marked down either. The ones that had been $165 on Friday were $150 today.
Sometimes I just wish I were…bigger. Probably some really good deals to be had in XXL sizes. 97% off is pretty insane, no matter the retail price. At least I got to say goodbye to a couple more associates I didn’t see the other day. Found out they’re headed to area stores too. I’m going to be so sad for them if those stores all end up on the chopping block later this week.
@my4mainecoons Fascinating. I had even considered heading back on Sunday to potentially pick up a rug (only because I would be able to use points/Sears GCs to pay, whereas I wouldn’t be able to do so at a real rug store), but in light of that info, I am guessing there is no real deal to be found in those rugs. Come to think of it, during my lifetime, I have also seen a disproportionate number of liquidations involving rug stores and even at some point vaguely thought to myself, “Poor rug stores, they never seem to survive.” Seems this is all part of their survival tactic to begin with. How truly bizarre. I wonder what it is about rugs that would make this type of scam work better for them than other lines of products.
I agree, the best deals remaining are probably just in the apparel, if you have the patience to paw through everything to find something that fits.
My Sears is closing this Sunday. They still have big signs up saying they accept points, just not freecash/coupons. The original associates are still there (I dropped by today just to say goodbye to them 
, and all of the ones I was hoping to see were there - I was glad to hear though that most are actually moving to other area stores, so I may still see them again), along with a few new ones whom I assume were either brought in by the liquidators or were hired “seasonally” due to the uptick in customer traffic that the liquidation brought in.
Notably, my store has a huge selection of oriental rugs, which they never sold prior to liquidation. I assume the liquidators last worked a big rug store. But seriously, around half of the inventory that my store still has (used to be 3 floors, now down to about half the 1st floor) is oriental rugs now, and nobody is interested in them. (They are marked as being 80% off with an additional 20% off in the final days, but they kind of started at $1000+ original prices…) I also noticed that the employees manning the rug area are all ones I don’t recognize, so it truly feels like they are just renting out half the store to some failed rug store.
I had dropped by on Tuesday too, and I believe the max discounts were 75% then. Today they were 80%. But a lot of larger items like fitness equipment and furniture had tags on them that were more discounted than that. For example, I saw a big patio table that was reg $499.99 marked down to $25 (not sure if it was a display model possibly - when I saw it, it was in a box, but it had a sold sign on it already). I have heard that on the final day, they may go to 90%, but possibly not at open - it might only happen a few hours into the day, and they might close earlier than expected too. But my store really doesn’t have a lot of quality merchandise remaining, and I don’t think those rugs will be any good even at 90% off.
Totally random story: one of the associates who’s been working at my store for nearly two decades is around 80 years old. I had figured with the store closing, perhaps he could finally enjoy a peaceful retirement. Today when I went to wish him well, he wanted to show me the big orange “sold” sticker on his name badge. The “buyer” is listed as another area store - he will be starting work there next week! I truly loved interacting with some of the associates at this store over the years; some of them certainly had great senses of humor!
Members get $20.19 CASHBACK in points when you spend $20.19 or more on qualifying purchases at Sears.com. Points credit to account next day after transaction and are valid until 1/6/2019. Offer Valid 12/31/2018 through 1/1/2019. Max $20.19 in points per member. Offer Valid 12/31/2018 through 1/1/2019.
@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!
@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.
