@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?

There’s no additional $3 back. Those are just your $3 freecash you get each month from SYW Max.

FYI, Sears seems to have a deal going on for $10 back in points on $10 of anything for store pickup. I didn’t see it advertised anywhere (yet), nor have I tried the offer, but $10 points show up in my cart if I have anything $10+ set for store pickup.

@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.

@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.

Do we know what all the Marketplace points offers are this week? I think $40 back on $40 for Bestone, Topselling, Wondershopping, Exacme, Appliances Connection, and various jewelry vendors are all ending 12/1. Did I miss any?

(Of course, maybe nobody cares anyway because nobody else ever seems to do these Marketplace deals. I’ve done a lot of them over the months, and I actually really like them: the points credit reliably and relatively quickly (7 days, all in one installment), and many vendors don’t even charge sales tax. A minority of times, the vendor would ship me the wrong product or never ship me the product at all, but we all know that happens with Sears directly too. Either way, any time something’s gone wrong for me, contacting the vendor about it has usually corrected the problem; the two times that a vendor was unresponsive to me, I was able to get Sears to step in and refund me without much hassle. The majority of times, I get what I ordered at a fantastic price (due to the points back effectively making it “free” or heavily discounted), and this expands the product selection far beyond what Sears offers. Can’t pay with points of course, but GCs work fine, so I don’t view it as much different than doing a Sears/Kmart points offer, other than I can’t return the product in store, I guess…but I very rarely return stuff anyway.)

@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.

@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.

@mrvietnam There is a $50 back on $50 Sears offer, in-store only, 11/22 and 11/23 only. It’s in the ad.

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?