Posts made by yoregano

Round #2, coming tomorrow!

Thanks for the tip, but I don’t seem to have it, so must be regional availability.

Get ready, starts tomorrow.

Seems like a good deal, and when I checked today, the price has now dropped to $24.

As always, gift cards are a good way to take advantage of this promo. They process and track very quickly in my experience.

Expires today. Great deal, use it if you got it.

Several good offers this month for getting free drinks with cheap sub-$2 eats like donuts or munchkins. As a bonus, you can get add-ons that normally cost extra like cold foam, shots, or almond milk for free with the free drink offers. The biggest bummer is that the long-running 100 point bonus for Monday mobile orders is gone.

They really ought to change the name/description of their batteries. I can see in the full description that these are alkaline but including “heavy duty” in the description implies an old, outdated and far inferior battery type.

@angryeyebrows said in Wendy's App Offer: get a FREE Dave's single with purchase, exp. 9/21:

EXPIRED

Yeah… this thread was from several months ago.

So anyway, while looking around and attempting to set up S&S orders for my May delivery I discovered… all the original problems remain/have returned. Items only process as proper S&S orders (as opposed to immediate orders) when trying to check out depending on which tab/section I try and order from. Pretty frustrating that Amazon still hasn’t fixed this.

@ctujackbauer said in 20% Cashback on Select GC's at SWAGBUCKS (Red Robin, Gap, Build A Bear, Etc) Unk Exp:

Be sure to print your e-gift card to a PDF file to save on your computer, or even a paper copy (most cashiers know how to scan paper copies or input the numbers) because the link to your gift card sent by email dies after 30 days. MGCP has an option to resend the email on every gift card, but I haven’t tried that for gift cards purchased more than 30 days ago.

I have had no problems accessing gift cards older than 30 days, even going back several months.

It’s good to check MyGiftCardsPlus every week or so. A handful of different cards are always on sale, and those do change and rotate periodically. Discounts are typically 10-20%. Note that MGCP is a Prodege company and works with all their brands and you can get cash back at different accounts, not just SwagBucks, but also MyPoints, InboxDollars, Tada, and UPromise. You can change your cash back in your MGCP settings if you have accounts at one or more of these companies to get credit at any or all, but only one per transaction.

Yep, good deal. Nice drink and a donut for less than $2.

Oh, the cards at dollar stores are cheap in all ways for sure. But so am I.

But is any non-card stuff at Hallmark worth any trouble or is it all overpriced trinkets? Haven’t been to one in a few years.

Is there anything really worth spending $10 on at Hallmark? For occasions where I feel obligated to buy a greeting card of some kind, I get them 2/$1 at Dollar Tree.

@dangeruss said in Amazon Subscribe & Save - Anyone else notice the change?:

@dangeruss said in [Amazon Subscribe & Save -Anyone else notice the change

During the S&S process there’s supposed to be an option to use the GC balance and it’s set to No by default.

Just tried placing a S&S order, was signed in to the wrong account, S&S order page looked good, was able to add the additional coupon and use GC.

Switched to the proper account, the order page sucks and nowhere to put in coupon or use GC. Contacted CSR they said they will have a dedicated team look into it and fix within 24-48 hours.

That’s a new one. I’m always logged into the same account, so I haven’t encountered anything quite like this. It seems like there are just plain a lot of bugs Amazon needs to sort out with ordering in general.

@dangeruss said in Amazon Subscribe & Save - Anyone else notice the change?:

@yoregano said in Amazon Subscribe & Save - Anyone else notice the change?:

S&S orders still working properly for me, but a different glitch remains. I have a gift card balance, and I don’t see a way to use the GC as a default payment. So, when I place the order, I immediately go to order status where it says I have an available GC balance and I can click “apply” to then change the payment method. This is fine—as long as I remember to do this.

During the S&S process there’s supposed to be an option to use the GC balance and it’s set to No by default.

Yes, but there’s still a glitch. This has actually been going on longer than the original problem I had when I first made this thread. I can set gift card balance as my default payment method in my S&S account settings, but it just does not stick. When I try to make an S&S order, it shows one of my linked credit cards as the payment method. If I try to change the payment method on the checkout page (before submitting the order) by clicking “change”, it shows my credit card(s) available as other methods of payment but does not show my gift card balance. So, I go ahead and place the order but then have to go to my order status and it is there that I then can apply my gift card as payment. I suppose I could try deleting all my linked credit cards and see what happens, but anyway.

Not exactly a major issue, but a glitch and annoyance nonetheless.

S&S orders still working properly for me, but a different glitch remains. I have a gift card balance, and I don’t see a way to use the GC as a default payment. So, when I place the order, I immediately go to order status where it says I have an available GC balance and I can click “apply” to then change the payment method. This is fine—as long as I remember to do this.

I used up a very old BB&B gift card this week at my local closing store this week. My store was actually more recently added to the closing list. Most (still overpriced) items were 40% off. Nothing amazing in terms of value or quality to be found, but, good to get rid of the GC. It’s just as sad to see another retailer going under as it is to say that I don’t think I’m really going to miss it. They no longer had much worthwhile to offer.

@mtnagel said in Amazon Subscribe & Save - Anyone else notice the change?:

And now it’s back to working correctly for me - I can add the gum linked above to my May S&S order with the coupon and 15% off. Although it took my directly to the cart without showing me the normal S&S confirmation screen but at least the savings are correct. So it looks like it’s a 2 day period where I was affected by this.

Same for me. I’ve added some S&S orders the last few days and they all seem to be processing normally now. Though the original problem I described had been going on for me longer than a couple days. Regardless, glad the glitch seems to have been resolved.

@fivetalents said in Top Cashback offers 10% bonus on select gift card redemptions, Exp 03-31-2023:

@yoregano said in Top Cashback offers 10% bonus on select gift card redemptions, Exp 03-31-2023:

Heard back from TCB support. They acknowledged a technical error on their part, and resolved it by refunding my CB to my account. However, this is frustrating since the 10% bonus is expired, so now I can’t get the bonus by redeeming again.

They should have offered you a courtesy credit of 10% on your next redemption up to $2.50 to $3 since they give that amount as bonus cash back regularly.

I replied back and they manually added 10% to my account CB total, so all good. I will say I’m pleased with their responsiveness.

Heard back from TCB support. They acknowledged a technical error on their part, and resolved it by refunding my CB to my account. However, this is frustrating since the 10% bonus is expired, so now I can’t get the bonus by redeeming again.

Ah, nostalgia. I used to go on free cone day for several years but B&J’s gradually closed up shop near me and there are only two left in the greater Chicago area, neither of which are close.

Anybody redeem for a Walmart gift card but then encounter a problem? My wife and I both did, and both of us have been unable to redeem the card. Clicking the redemption link takes you to the Cashstar site, but gives an error message. Both of us are able to click previous redemption links for Walmart cards and those display properly. We’ve submitted support tickets and are awaiting a response.

Thanks all for the good discussion and help in troubleshooting. I thought of a scenario that is still a potential problem with the workaround of placing an order and then cancelling it immediately to just use S&S: when an item has a discount (separate from the S&S discount) from a clicking a checkbox on the item page that is only applied to the first order. I suspect if I try the order-then-cancel approach, I would lose that extra discount. I may have to experiment if I can find an item I don’t really care about with an extra discount and see what happens.

@mrvietnam said in [Walgreens moneymaker spend $2 ac for $4 rewards

I think I will just buy something for $10 and pay with Wags Cash and then return it tomorrow and get a store credit. Has anyone tried that before? Nothing particularly exciting this week (besides the two MM toothbrushes). I probably should buy something I don’t mind keeping, just in case the return doesn’t go as planned.

Everybody has their preferences, so dunno what you like, but I often get Scott Comfort Care toilet paper with the $1.25 coupon applied, makes it $3.75. I also got this week Arm & Hammer laundry detergent buy 1 get 2 free, so it’s three for $7.49. (Prices for me in IL, maybe prices are higher for you out in expensive LaLa land.)

@c3 said in Walgreens moneymaker spend $2 ac for $4 rewards // 2x Vivid Whitening Manual Toothbrush, Free Ship To Store:

@yoregano said in Walgreens moneymaker spend $2 ac for $4 rewards // 2x Vivid Whitening Manual Toothbrush, Free Ship To Store:

Is it six months or a year from earning that they expire if not redeemed?

1 year. 6 months is for activity.

I have plenty of activity and I still get expiring rewards notices almost every month, so I think time and not activity is the only factor, regardless of what the terms may say.
Edit: I guess I could have read the terms MrV posted above, yeah, that’s basically what I’m saying: Earned rewards expire one year after they are earned unless redeemed. For me, I typically have around $2-$5 about to expire, sometimes more. It’s not as much as it used to be since Wags discontinued the Healthy Choices way of earning extra rewards.

@mistercheap said in [Walgreens moneymaker spend $2 ac for $4 rewards

Wags cash expires 6 months after earning if you have no Wags cash activity in that time. --NOT QUITE RIGHT

Is it six months or a year from earning that they expire if not redeemed? Whatever the case, they will expire regardless of your activity, as I have expiring rewards to contend with almost every month. I usually get an email telling me the amount of rewards that will expire each month, and I can see it if I open the app and go to my rewards tab/area.

FWIW, it looks like the shipping options changes when I ordered just now, there was no ship-to-store option for me. I did an in-store pickup order, but had to add some other stuff to reach the $10 minimum.

@hbg1 said in Amazon Subscribe & Save - Anyone else notice the change?:

@yoregano I’m not sure if you do or don’t see the “change” option like I have, when it forces you to purchase immediately for the subscription. Today I was able to use that link to force an item to go into my April S&S order instead of being delivered right away.

Thanks, I’m still futzing around and trying to make sense of it all. Using fivetalent’s tip/trick, I may have gotten it to work By making sure that my April S&S delivery setup has at least 5 items/orders in it.

@fivetalents Thanks for the suggestion, this seems to have solved the issue. I experimented again with the cotton swabs and when I start from my Subscriptions page to set up a S&S order, the checkout screen is now like what mtnagel showed in an earlier post.

So that is the key—I need to start from my S&S tab in my account settings and not from a regular product page. Good to know, but Amazon shouldn’t be mucking around with the order process giving different results depending on how you start the process.

UPDATE: I’m still getting inconsistent results depending on how a product shows on the page and whether I can add it to my April S&S order or whether it makes an item an immediate order. If I click on a recommended item (that Amazon shows me based on previous order history or something), a yellow “Subscribe now” button shows and adding items this way will go to my monthly order with a longer lead time before shipping. But if I try and search for an item and just go to the general product page, attempting an order this way results in the issue that I first described, an immediate order with the subscription being created for a future order.

The overall situation here is still something of a confusing and frustrating conundrum.

@dangeruss said in Amazon Subscribe & Save - Anyone else notice the change?:

@yoregano said in Amazon Subscribe & Save - Anyone else notice the change?:

Sounds like you clicked add to cart and went to checkout. Go back to the product page and chose S&S

No, you still aren’t getting what I’m saying since it seems to be working differently for you. If I go to any S&S-eligible product page, click the radio button for S&S, specify the delivery interval (1 month or whatever), and then click the yellow “Set up now” button, it then takes me to a checkout screen like I showed with my screen shot in the earlier post. My only options at that point is to place an immediate order (with only a 5% discount applied) and then have the item set up for future S&S deliveries, or I can uncheck the box under S&S and it then just becomes like any other non-S&S order.

Again, I have been using S&S for many years; I know how it works, or at least how it used to work. It just doesn’t work that way anymore for me. The questions now are: Why is this change affecting some users and not others? - and - Is this ultimately going to become a permanent change for everyone?

I suppose I could try and contact customer service and try to find out what’s going on but I doubt it would change anything anyway, so probably not worth the hassle.

@dangeruss said in Amazon Subscribe & Save - Anyone else notice the change?:

Uncheck the checkbox for the 5% and it will work normally. That’s an option to get the item immediately at 5% discount while also adding the subscription.

Nope. Unchecking the box just turns it into a regular order with no S&S or discount applied.

@hbg1 said in Amazon Subscribe & Save - Anyone else notice the change?

@yoregano, do you have the “change” link on the product page before you add it to your cart?
Either way, they are definitely messing with the options. I am currently waiting for my March delivery and did go through my subscriptions last week and removed some, so they may not like that in general.

Yes, I can change my delivery date, but my shipping options are like what I get with regular orders and are all of a relatively immediate nature and not like what used to be typical for a monthly S&S setup.

Hmm, you got me thinking with your last sentence. The last couple months, I haven’t had any S&S orders set up. (I simply didn’t find five items I wanted, so I’ve gone a little while without S&S orders.) Since I currently don’t have any S&S orders pending, I wonder if that is affecting the situation.

@mtnagel said in Amazon Subscribe & Save - Anyone else notice the change?:

@yoregano said in Amazon Subscribe & Save - Anyone else notice the change?:

@fivetalents said in Amazon Subscribe & Save - Anyone else notice the change?:

1. I never place S&S orders through the cart…

I never used to set up S&S from the cart/checkout, either, but that seems to be the only way it works now. I used to just set up a S&S order and it wouldn’t process immediately, it would show in my monthly S&S setup and show the number of items/orders I had placed and say when my ship date would be and that is when the order would actually be placed, instead of how it is now, which seems to be an immediate order.

So when you go to these cotton swabs, you don’t have the “set up now” button under the S&S on the right side anymore like I do below? You only have the option to add it to your cart, and then set up the S&S (which I also have as well).

No, I do have the S&S option on the product screen, same as you have shown, but when I choose that, I still end up with a regular-looking checkout screen like I showed in my previous post. That’s the issue now, unlike how it used to be. I no longer see the ability to set up multiple orders for a single, monthly, combined S&S. They all now process only as individual, immediate orders.

@fivetalents said in Amazon Subscribe & Save - Anyone else notice the change?:

1. I never place S&S orders through the cart…

I never used to set up S&S from the cart/checkout, either, but that seems to be the only way it works now. I used to just set up a S&S order and it wouldn’t process immediately, it would show in my monthly S&S setup and show the number of items/orders I had placed and say when my ship date would be and that is when the order would actually be placed, instead of how it is now, which seems to be an immediate order.

@mtnagel said in Amazon Subscribe & Save - Anyone else notice the change?:

Maybe I’m missing something but it seems to be working as expected for me.

If you look more closely at my screen shot, notice the difference on the left side under the Subscribe & Save details. Yours talks about auto-delivery starting on April 6. Mine says, “Save 5% today; save up to 15% on future auto-deliveries.” I don’t have as long of a lead time to potentially add more items to the auto-delivery, mine results in an order immediately placed with delivery within the next few days. I always used to be able to add more orders and it would say something to the effect of, “Your S&S ship date is April 15. You have until April 8 to add, change, or modify your S&S delivery.” My S&S setup would also say something like, “You have 2 orders setup for for S&S delivery. Add at least 3 more orders to receive a 15% discount.” (I’m going off memory here, I don’t remember the exact verbiage, but this is the gist of it.)

It seems like @hbg1 is seeing what I"m seeing, so at least I know I’m not going crazy, and that some users are experiencing the same thing that I am.

Hmm. Well, something is definitely different for me than the way it used to be. No matter what I try, I no longer see a way to add multiple items to a specified S&S collective order with a specified ship date. I essentially have to place an immediate order and thus get the minimum 5% discount now and would only get 15% in the future when five or more items are set up. See screen shot for example.

Yeah, it’s not as good as it used to be in terms of earning free drinks as often, but it’s still been pretty good. I find there are more deals and discounts each month than there used to be and overall, I can still get drinks relatively inexpensively compared to most other chains.

For the longest time (years and years), I used S&S mainly to get specific things at a discount and would then cancel the subscription. That is, I’d make sure I found at least five items to get the max 15% discount in a single, collective order on a specified ship date each month but never really used the service as a recurring, regular subscription. Recently, Amazon has changed the way S&S works to close that loophole to prevent cheapskates like me from doing this to get the max discount. Now, when one makes an S&S order, it creates an order that must be placed immediately (and thus with only a 5% discount) while setting up the subscription for future orders at whatever interval is specified. So, one would have to place five individual S&S orders in a single month with the same subscription interval to be able to get the max 15% discount but only on future orders. This, or course, is not necessarily a great way for bargain hunters like myself to get great deals. Oh well, it was fun for the long time it lasted.

@chryslerguy said in Burger King App "Meltness" Game, earn a minimum of 30 crowns a day and possible instant win prizes to 3/23:

Anyone get an instant win? Seems impossible to get a basket.

This is surely another one of those games where the results are random, I don’t think there is actually any trick to be able to get a basket. Like those digital “spin the wheel” games where they make it look like it’s an equal chance to hit the jackpot space as any other but really, it’s not.

Nothing bu crowns so far for me. And boy, the app/game can be glitchy. I’ve played multiple times today, way more than three, but it’s not recording all my plays and I haven’t reached my max 30 crowns for the day. Guess I’ll come back later and see if it has sorted itself out.

Thanks for the tip. I logged into my rewards account, and it’s actually a $15 reward for me. You get a unique code to redeem for a Barnes & Noble E-card.

Yeah, bummer. Not surprising since these bettered the current everyday $7.99 deal for only one topping.

@vegasvegan said in Free Proper Good Meal from Walmart (rebate via Venmo or Paypal):

@sonofzeus said in Free Proper Good Meal from Walmart (rebate via Venmo or Paypal):

If our WMs have anything other than the oatmeal, we’re in 4 2.

If you do, just do one first and then you can get $5 off your next one by referring this offer to someone else. Got this text after doing mine

"You just unlocked our refer a friend system! Share our FREE Proper Goods offer with your friends to get $5 off your next purchase! Here’s how it works:

1. Share your link with your friends
2. Once your friend submits your receipt, we will send you another $5 offer
3. Purchase another Proper Goods meal from Walmart to redeem

Here’s your link: discover.gotoaisle.com/referra…"

Thanks for the tip. I referred my wife, and then got a text with the new $5 offer immediately after she submitted her receipt.

Log in to your Dunkin’ account or register to play.
https://www.dunkinfun.com/#/login

REMINDER: This offer expires today.

Maybe they’re on to us when using this offer to buy gift cards. I had been typically buying DD gift cards with this offer. You can get either a $10 or $20 card, but not $15, so I’d have to get $20 in cards for this offer. Still better than all of the other store choices I looked at—those are a minimum $50 card. EDIT: I see Kohl’s has a $10 card, too.

These are still good for getting discounted gift cards. But did you notice, it now requires a $15 purchase? The previous two times only needed a $10 purchase. And the $4 bonus on $10 from last Fall was even better.

If you can’t see the offer at your local store, apply coupon code 5177. Alternatively, you can get a large 2-topping pizza for $7.99 with code 5173.

Got it this time. Saw the code entry offer for last month too late and it had expired.