Archives for August 2015

T-Mobile 3-in-1 Prepaid Plan SIM for 99c with coupon

If you are interested in a T-Mobile prepaid plan, or you may become interested later, or you want to have a couple of extra/backup SIM cards for experiments or used phones, for a limited time only, the T-Mobile website is offering the Prepaid T-Mobile SIM 3-in-1 kit for just 99c after you enter coupon code SIM99 over there. I don’t know when the coupon expires…

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The nice thing with a 3-in-1 kit is that you don’t have to worry about having the right size SIM card or grabbing razors or other things trying to cut it down on your own based on some random YouTube video.

PS: It comes with standard free shipping! (I just placed an order).

August 6, 2015 Filed Under: smartphones Tagged With: ,

Evernote Premium members: PostIt 11×11 inch BigPads Evernote collection for $5.21 AND One Month of Free Premium

If you are an Evernote Premium member, you may be interested in this promotion. The Evernote Collection version (in the limeade green color scheme only; not the other colors!) of the 11×11 inch Post-It Big Pad is currently going for $5.21 at Amazon.com. You can buy up to thirty per order. This is part of the Add-On program, so you need a $25+ order otherwise the system won’t let you buy it.

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August 6, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

Nokia Lumia 635 (AT&T) for $30 to $40

IF you are looking for the AT&T GoPhone version of the Nokia Lumia 635 Windows Phone, you nay get lucky and find it on clearance at a local Walgreens store for $30. This is a big YMMV since there’s no way to check inventory online and they don’t sell this on their website.

Regardless though, you can still get it at a nice price online, it is on sale for $40 with a limit of three per customer at Amazon.com. This is locked to AT&T but it is a no-contract prepaid (GoPhone) phone. You can just use it as a Wifi-only device. You don’t have to jump through hoops to do this like Verizon. This already improves upon the previous Lumia 520 which was not a bad introductory Windows Phone.

If nothing else, you can get this to explore Windows Phone or use it as a general purpose device around the home (remote control, music or audiobook or podcast player, etc). It averages a very solid 4.4 out of 5 based on 1500+ customer reviews over there. Main specs are a 854 by 480 IPS display of 4.5-inch diagonal, 512MB RAM, 8GB on-board, microSD slot, quad-core processor.

August 6, 2015 Filed Under: windows phone Tagged With: , ,

64GB iPhone 6 Plus (factory unlocked) for $800

If you want the current leader of the iPhone pack, among the latest eBay offers, you can get the new condition factory unlocked 64GB iPhone 6 Plus for $800 with free shipping, with a choice from three color options and a limit of two per customer. No contract! The seller of this offer is Yapper_Wireless (98.1%) which offers 30-day free returns per the subtitle of this eBay listing. The various bands are listed over there.

August 4, 2015 Filed Under: iPhones Tagged With: , ,

New-Other Samsung Alpha G850A (unlocked GSM) for $250

If you are not a gear-condition perfectionist, eBay seller MobilePros1 (97.5%) is offering in “new – other” condition the Samsung Alpha G850A smartphone (32GB, unlocked GSM, former AT&T phone) for $250 with free shipping, in the gold color scheme (the other two sold-out) with a limit of five per customer. No contract – you own it!

August 4, 2015 Filed Under: android Tagged With: , , , , ,

[DEAD] Wedn: refurbished iPhone Sale ($170 to $800, 4S to 6 Plus)

This daily deal expired…
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August 4, 2015 Filed Under: iPhones Tagged With: , ,

Aug 4-10: Spend $10+, Get 4 Bonus Stars (Starbucks Rewards)

Starbucks has sent out an email with yet another offer for its Rewards members. This promotion runs between August 4-10 in 2015 and you can use it as many time as you like. For every transaction of $10 or more, you will earn 4 bonus stars (in addition to the standard star). The $10+ amount has to be on a single transaction, not over time. So in the next few days, a lot of coworkers will be “volunteering” to make a Starbucks run 🙂 You have to be targeted for this offer, check your email or Starbucks app to see if it is there. It looks like this:

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August 3, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

Aug 3-18 after 12pm: 50% OFF Cold Beverages at Peets with coupon

Coupon action of the coffee shop variety now. Peet’s stores have a new coupon for their brick and mortar stores, between August 3-18 in 2015, if you visit the store after 12pm local time, and purchase any cold beverage (iced or Javiva (artists formerly known as the Freddos) Blended drinks), and show the coupon, you can get 50% off the drink. This applies to any size and any combination of add-ons. So if you want to go big, or try different flavor combinations, this coupon is your enabler 🙂

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You can show the coupon to your barista from your smartphone or tablet or even laptop. You don’t have to print it. You can even send it to your e-book reader (take screenshot, email it to your Kindle e-mail address, and it will appear there) if you like to read at coffee shops, so you don’t need to take anything else with you.

August 3, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

[DEAD] The Outlander Book Series for $2 total (over 7000 pages, ebooks)

This didn’t last long. The sale (or price error or price-match) ended… It is back to the regular price range now…
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August 3, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With:

Samsung Kindle eBook Freebie Choices for August 2015

If you have an eligible Samsung Galaxy device, and you install the Samsung Galaxy App store, and from there you install the Amazon Kindle app, you are eligible for a Samsung monthly e-gift. Every month, on the first, four new e-books are shown in the Samsung version of the Kindle app. You can get ONE of them for FREE. Make sure the price shown is $0 before you pick a book. If it’s not $0, you will be charged (you can always cancel the order quickly on your own via amazon.com/myk). If you just installed the app, give it a few minutes to settle in and sync and wait for the $0!

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August 1, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

Kindle First for August 2015 has six choices

The Kindle First program has a new tweak for August 2015. You have six pre-release ebooks to pick from instead of the usual four. So if you are a Prime member, you can get one of those six for FREE and start reading it right now, a month before it gets released for the rest of the world. If you like more than one, the rest will become available September 1st in 2015. The six choices are:

  • “The Girl from Krakow” by Alex Rosenberg in Historical Fiction
  • “City of Echoes” by Robert Ellis in Mystery
  • “Young Babylon” by Lu Nei and Poppy Toland in Modern Fiction
  • “The Hundred Year Flood” by Matt Salesses in Lit. Fiction
  • “About that fling” by Tawna Fenske in Romance
  • “The Good Neighbor” by AJ Banner in Psychological Suspense

You can see all the choices and pick one between August 1-31 in 2015 at the Kindle First page. After August 31st, a new set of choices will replace them.

TIP: if you are not certain which one to pick yet, wait for a few days for more reviews to get posted on them. These could be helpful in deciding which one to get. You have until August 31st to pick one of these six but don’t wait until 11:58pm on that day 🙂 Happy reading!

August 1, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,