Archives for October 2016

T-Mobile Tuesday freebies for October 4: ESPN Magazine, Wendy’s and Lyft

UPDATE: the ESPN Magazine is actually a print subscription delivered by mail. It is not a digital subscription!

ORIGINAL POST
October 4 in 2016 is when Google is planning a big announcement, but don’t let that distract you from another T-Mobile Tuesday! This round has three offers, headlined by a 1-year subscription to ESPN Magazine. Previous magazine offers (GQ, Wired, Bon Appetit, Allure) were all digital subscriptions, so presumably this one will be digital too.

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The other two offers are returning regulars:

  • free Lyft ride (up to $15)
  • free Wendy’s Frostie (remember, this requires instant redemption at the cash register, you can’t do it ahead of time)

With the new Fall 2016 TV season under way, this would have been a great time for the Vudu credits (eg to get Season Passes), but unfortunately this is the second week in a row without Vudu participating.

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

Transfer AMEX Points to Plenti Rewards, Get 50% More

For a limited time, the Plenti Rewards program is offering y’all an incentive to transfer your existing American Express Membership Points to Plenti with a 50% bonus. If you transfer 500 AMEX Points, you will receive 750 Plenti points while this promotion is running. Check your Plenti emails to see if you qualify for this promotion. They send it by email, I did not find it on their website.

Once you click through the email, it takes you to a page where you can calculate the numbers. Points must be transferred in 500 AMEX Rewards increments. They have a handy calculator there, as you can see, I entered 2000 AMEX Rewards points and it told me I would be getting 3000 Plenti points. The offer is good until 12/31/16.

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Considering that it is not easy to directly convert AMEX Membership points to cash or cash-equivalents at a 1:1 ratio (even paying with them at AMEX has an unfavorable conversion ratio), being able to transfer them to Plenti with a 50% bonus is a big plus ASSUMING you have no problem spending the Plenti points at Rite Aid or Macy’s or Exxon-Mobil or any of the other places that participate in the program.

Remember, Plenti [explainer post] is run by American Express, which is why they are able to rearrange the point chairs 🙂

PS: this only works with actual Membership Points. It does not work with the Blue Cash program.

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

Kindle First choices for October 2016 are up: pick one from six

Time flies dear old friends, we are just three months away from 2017 already. But one of the benefits of time flying is that we have a new month, it’s October 1st, which means a new round of unreleased e-books are offered up on Kindle First. Prime members can select one of the six options for FREE and read it right now (instead of the official November 2016 e-release date). Non-Prime members can purchase one of the options for $2 and read it right away.

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And the choices for October 2016 are *imaginary drum roll*

  • “Wake in Winter” by Nadezhda Belenkaya, Andrea Gregovich in Literary Fiction
  • “It is Well: A Novel” by James D. Shipman in Historical Fiction
  • “The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds (The Malayan Series)” by Selina Siak Chin Yoke in Historical Fiction
  • “Before You Leap” by Keith Houghton in Thrillers
  • “Evelyn, After: A Novel” by Victoria Helen Stone in Psychological Suspense
  • “Venom and Vanilla (The Venom Trilogy Book 1)” in Shannon Mayer in Urban Fantasy

As usual, if none of these strike your fancy immediately, you don’t have to rush. You have until October 31st in 2016 to make a choice. They won’t run out since these are digital e-books 🙂 Their review profiles will fill up in the next few are more of the voracious readers go through them and post their reviews. Having said that, don’t wait until 10/31/16 at 11:58pm to decide 🙂

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