Archives for February 2016

Surprise Teavana coupon: $15 off $50

The Teavana website launched a surprise coupon, you get $15 off an order of $50 or higher when you enter coupon NOSHADOW over there. You also get free shipping with orders over $50 but I don’t know if that is before or after coupon. If you are going to be in the $50+ range, coupon code DELIGHT gets you a chai sample. The offer ends 2/4/16 at 3am eastern time.

EXCLUSIONS: you can’t use the coupon on Sale items, you can’t use it on Breville branded items, and you can’t use it on subscriptions.

CAUTION: in preparation for Valentine’s, their website is using a blinding magenta and red color scheme. If you are reading at a big screen, prepare for magenta immersion 🙂

February 2, 2016 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

Feb 3-9: Earn 3 Bonus Stars with Mobile Order (SBUX Rewards)

This is perhaps the easiest way in the history of the Starbucks Rewards program to earn three bonus stars. All you have to do (if you are eligible for this promotion – check your email/inbox) is place one mobile order between February 3-9 in 2016 using the Starbucks app. That’s it. Almost everything they have in store can be ordered via the mobile app, with a few exceptions. Also some of the customizations (eg cream cheese on a bagel) are not yet available. But most orders should be fine. You can only use this offer once during the promotional period.

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Unlike most offers, you can only pay with the Starbucks app because you prepay the mobile order when you place it. You can’t pay after you pick it up. This is partially so it can prevent the “1000 pizzas” telephone orders, but on a more practical level, you can be on your way faster when you prepay. You just pick up the items and go, no need to wait in line.

You don’t even have to be “far away” to place a mobile order. You can do it from the parking lot, or you can even do it while you are waiting in line. Mobile orders print almost immediately at the register, and get placed in the drink queue as they arrive. So that’s one sneaky but “legal” way to cut in line at Starbucks 🙂

February 2, 2016 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

YMMV: Audible Cancellation Offers: The Light Listener Plan

So I was on an Audible membership plan that was about to expire. I didn’t need any additional audiobooks, and nothing new is on the horizon for me, so I used their website to cancel the service. Before I was able to cancel, their system offered me two separate offers.

First up, was an offer to continue for an additional three months at half price of the regular monthly fee. Screenshot below:

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February 1, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With:

Plenti Rewards: Earn 2x points at Exxon-Mobil during February 2016

If you are participating in the Plenti Rewards program, a new automatic offer has gone live on your account (double check to make sure since I can only check my own account). It gets you 2x points on purchases made at participating Exxon-Mobile gas stations. You typically earn 1 point per gallon, but with this offer, you get 2 points per gallon.

(An Automatic Offer in this case means you don’t have to manually opt-in for it, it goes live on its own).

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With gas prices being where they are now, this is only 0.5% cashback (assuming $2 per gallon), however, this is an addition to any other rewards you earn on your purchase by paying with a credit card. Both Discover and Chase offer 5% rewards in Q1 on gas purchases (up to $1500 per credit card for the quarter).

Speaking of Plenti points, don’t forget, you have until the close of business on Saturday 2/7/16 to take advantage of the 500 points on $25 Google Play Gift Card with a limit of two per customer. This is essentially a virtual 20% off discount on anything you buy with the purchased gift card.

February 1, 2016 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

February Kindle First options: pick one from six

It’s February already, and with it, we have the Superbowl and Valentine’s but also, if you are a Prime member, you get one FREE pre-release e-book from a choice of six options. The one you get for free, you can start reading immediately. The rest of them will become available for purchase to everyone on March 1st, and they will also be added to Kindle Unlimited (if you are a subscriber).

If none of the ebooks below speak to you just yet, you may want to wait for a week or so for more people to read them and write more reviews. Often (but not always) the reviews can be helpful in figuring out which one to get. You have until February 29 (2016) to make a choice:

  • “Little Sister (A James Palatine Novel)” by Giles O’Bryen in International Thrillers
  • “Winter Men” by Jesper Bugge Kold, K.E. Semmel in War Fiction
  • “All the Lasting Things” by David Hopson in Literary Fiction
  • “The Last Girl (The Dominion Trilogy Book 1)” by Joe Hart in Thrillers
  • “North of Here” by Laurel Saville in Contemporary Fiction
  • “Ghost Gifts” by Laura Spinella in Romantic Suspense (similar author names but not the same person!)

You can see all the selections at the Kindle First page. Keep in mind, the selections change at the 1st of every month, so if you are reading this in the future, you will see a different list of ebooks over there.

February 1, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,