@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

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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.

@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.