As of 5/18/15, this offer is no longer available…
Archives for April 2015
April 15 – May 12 (12-4pm daily): 50% off Javiva
At Peet’s Coffee stores, between April 15 (tax day blues/parties) and May 12 in 2015, and only during the 12pm to 4pm local time hours, you can get 50% off their Javiva drinks. Javiva is a rebooted name for what they used to call Freddos, and some may know with the Starbuck-esque name of frappuccinos. Anyway, during this promotion, you just mention it to the baristas or worse come to worse, show the email informing you of this promotion, and you’ll get 50% off your Javiva drink. In most cases, the baristas will do this automatically since this offer does not require a coupon code from the consumer’s perspective.
This works with any drink size and any flavor, so you don’t have to get a tiny or a giant drink to get the half off discount. Unlike the previously mentioned Starbucks offer, you can use this as many times as you like during this promotional period. Remember though, this is only good between 12-4pm local time.
April 14-20: 50% off Breakfast Sandwich with Promo code (SBUX)
At Starbucks, between April 14-20 in 2015, you can get half off a breakfast sandwich if you received an email or app inbox message from Starbucks telling you you are eligible for this offer. You show the barista the 4-digit promo code that activates the promotion. This promotion can only be used once during this promotional period. Since they recently added a couple of new breakfast sandwiches, this is a lower risk way to try them out without using up your earned Rewards on them. Save those for things you already know you like 🙂
Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Bluetooth Mouse for $20
If you are fond of Microsoft’s new direction in ergonomic mice, the Sculpt Comfort Bluetooth Mouse, model H3S-00003, is currently on sale for $20 each, with a limit of five per customer, at Amazon.com by Amazon actual. This mouse doesn’t have a tail, so it may feel safer from cats 😉 It averages 4 out of 5 with 1300+ customer reviews. If you are curious about it, it has over 200 questions answered by Amazon users.
HP Stream 13 Laptop with T-Mo 4G cellular for $229 [W8]
The 13.3″ HP Stream 13 Windows 8.1 laptop with T-Mobile 4G cellular is currently on sale for $229 with free shipping, with a limit of three per customer, at Amazon.com by Amazon actual. It may look Chromebook-ish but it’s really a Windows 8.1 laptop with 32GB on-board solid state storage, not a spinning hard disk. Other specs include 2GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics, the obligatory Windows laptop 1366 x 768 screen resolution, and such.
It comes with a variety of freebies as well. For the life of the device, T-Mobile gives you 200MB of data per month. Not a lot of data but free is free. You can optionally sign up for a T-Mo data plan, but you don’t have to. This is not a contract laptop.
The other freebies include a $25 Microsoft Store app credit (a smart idea to get people buying Metro apps), and for one year you get 1TB of OneDrive and Office 365. After the one year, the OneDrive goes back to the default free service levels, and you no longer have access to Office 365.
New $30/mo Boost Mobile plan with 2GB high-speed 4G LTE data with Auto Pay (but Video at 3G speeds)
Boost Mobile has a new plan that is user-friendly for data hungry users! You get 2GB of high-speed 4G LTE data, plus unlimited talk and text for $30 per month. There are a couple of catches: if you are big fan of streaming video, this may be a deal killer, their terms state “Video streaming limited to 3G speeds”.
Free Prime Pantry shipping if you buy 4 items from list of 100+ options
If you are Prime member, want to try Amazon’s new Prime Pantry service, and need some spring cleaning type of household supplies, Amazon has a limited time offer, if you purchase four or more of the spring cleaning products shown on this page, you will receive a $6 off discount, which is what the Prime Pantry shipping fee is.
This is a limited time offer but they do not specify the expiration date, so YMMV…
40pk Bigelow Green Tea (pack of 6) for $19
If you are fond of the Bigelow Green Tea, there’s a reasonable of it at Amazon if you need it in big quantities, you can buy a six 40-count boxes for $19 total. That’s 240 tea bags for $19, it comes out ot about 12 tea bags per dollar. You can save some more (5% off more) if you select Subscribe and Save. These are very popular with shoppers, with over 2500 customer reviews they average 4.6 out of 5.
Note that these are 40-count boxes, not the more common 20-count boxes found in most grocery stores.
13.3″ ASUS Zenbook UX305FA-ASM1 for $700 [SSD]
If you like SSD-only laptops, and the $600 price range, the 13.3-inch ASUS Zenbook UX305FA-ASM1 is currently on sale for $700 with free shipping, with a limit of three per customer at Amazon.com by Amazon.
This has a 1920×1080 resolution with a 170-degree viewing angle, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD storage (no spinning hard disk), Intel HD Graphics 5300, eight hour battery life estimate, three USB 3.0 ports, 2.6 lbs weight, and such. To achieve lightness and slimless, it uses the fanless Intel Core M 5Y10 processor. It averages 4.2 out of 5 based on 57 customer reviews and if you are curious abut it, it has over 100 questions answered by your internet peers.
April 10-13: Free HBO and Cinemax Preview
Just in time for Episode #1 of season five of the Game Of Thrones blockbuster TV series, Uverse and select other cable systems will be offering a free 4-day weekend preview of HBO and Cinemax. The free preview runs April 10 (Friday morning) through April 13 (Monday night). You don’t have to do anything, the various HBO and Skinemax channels will get automatically unblocked (and then reblocked) by your cable box.
The time of this is perfect because many will try to sign up for HBO Now, and in case there are issues and problems, you can always fall back to the free preview on cable (assuming you have a cable system that is running this promotion).
11.6″ Acer Chromebook for $130
The Best Buy has a two-day sale ending Saturday night (April 5) that includes the 11.6″ Acer Chromebook for $130 with free shipping. This is available in the Moonstone white color scheme. Its official name is CB3-111-C8UB.
It has the basic budget specs of Chromies, 1366 x 768 resolution, no touchscreen, 2GB RAM, 16GB on-board storage, 2.4 lbs, one USB 3.0 port and one 2.0, HDMI output, card reader, and such.
April 5-11: Buy $50 iTunes Gift Cards, get $10 Walgreens Gift Card
Per the Walgreens Weekly Ad, for the shopping week running April 5 until the close of business on Saturday April 11 in 2015, if you purchase two $25 iTunes Gift Cards at Walgreens B&M stores, you will receive a $10 plastic Walgreens Gift Card. Limit two offers per customer, except for the lovely state of New Mexico where there are no limits!
April 5-11: Buy $200 Nordstrom Gift Cards, Get $15 VISA Prepaid by mail
For the week of April 5-11 in 2015, at Staples brick and mortar stores, if you purchase $200 or more in Nordstrom Gift Card, you can receive a $15 prepaid VISA gift card by mail after submitting an Easy Rebate. The Easy Rebates are submitted online, so you don’t have to mail anything or cut bar codes and such. Since store gift cards don’t have activate fees, it’s essentially a $15 profit for you.
PS: the prepaid VISA, Mastercard and American Express gift cards do have activation fees.
Buy Nexus 6, get 6 months of Google Play Music
The Google Store has a new limited time offer. If you purchase the Nexus 6 smartphone, you can receive a free six month subscription to the Google Play Music All Access subscription service. After the six months, the service is $10 per month. You must buy the Nexus 6 by 4/30/15 and redeem the offer by 5/31/15. The offer is not good if during the last 12 months you had a paid or free trial subscription. These are the Terms and Conditions per Google.
New $150 Chromebook from Haier with 11.6″ screen
Chromebooks are striking back in the laptop price wars! Available right now for pre-order at Amazon.com for $150 is a new 11.6-inch Chromebook from Haier, model HR-116R.
The specs are familiar, 2GB RAM, 16GB on-board, microSD slot, two USB ports, HDMI, headphone jack, 2.4 lbs weight, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 2×2 (MIMO) a/b/g/n/ac, etc. The battery life estimate is up to ten hours. The processor is the Rockchip RK3288 1.8 GHz (Cortex A17).
It looks like this does not have a touch-screen, which is not a surprise considering the price. I could not find the actual screen resolution other than “HD” mentioned in the description. As usual, it comes with two years of 100GB Google Drive cloud storage.
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