Archives for May 2017

Complete Series on DVD: Key and Peele for $24.51

One of the most underappreciated comedies of this century so far is the Comedy Central Key & Peele series (yes, the MadTV alums). If you missed out on it or want to watch and rewatch it, it is currently on sale as a DVD set for $24.51 at Amazon by Amazon actual. Limit one per customer during this sale. It is not however a lightning deal.

You get a total of 10 discs. The show ran for five seasons. You can get an episode list and airdates at the very useful and fast-loading epguides.com, a must-bookmark website if you are interested in TV shows!

May 16, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

Prometheus for $5 to own in digital HD

If you like to digitally-own movies, you can get the Prometheus movie in HD (without ads) for $5 at Amazon Instant Video. This is not a rental but “digital ownership”. You can watch it as much as you want as long as you want. But you can’t sell it or give it away to other people like you can with a DVD or Blu-Ray.

This is a limited time sale, but it’s not a lightning deal.

May 16, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With:

BLU Advance 5.5 HD for $76 (Unlocked, GSM, Dual SIM)

You can get plenty of smartphone for under $100 these days, although, as always, with apps and OS and the mobile web bloating up, you can almost always get a better experience in the $200+/300+ price range. But if $76 is all you want to spend…

… then you can get the new condition BLU Advance 5.5 HD for $76 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon actual with a limit of up to three per customer. As with all BLU phones, this is GSM unlocked, without any contract obligations. It is a dual SIM.

This is not part of the Amazon Prime Sponsored ads program, only the BLU R1 is under that program. As the model number hints at, this has a 5.5-inch display, with the Mediatek 6580 quad core processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB internal memory, and a microSD slot (takes cards up to 64GB).

1GB RAM is not a lot these days, but BLU has little bloatware compared to carrier phones (they seem to have fixed the “China phone home” problem with some of their models), so if you are vigilant about which apps you install and allow to run in the background, it’s still usable. I have an older one like that, running Lollipod. I can free up about half of the RAM by paying attention to Task Managers.

This one though is running Marshmallow (Android 6.0). They only mention “HD” as screen resolution, which means it is 720p, which “computers” given the current price 🙂

As usual, double check to make sure it works with your carrier(s) of choice. There are many reviews and answered questions, and both are searchable when you drill further down the ever-growing Amazon website.

May 15, 2017 Filed Under: android Tagged With: ,

AMEX Offers: Spend $15+, Get $5 statement credit

The battles for cordcutters are heating up as more and more companies are offering LIVE TV plans now. Once upon a time, this was thought of as unthinkable. Now it’s raining options. One of the options, one of the first in the game, is SlingTV, having the lowest entry price for a basic plan ($20/month). And they are participating in the American Express offers…

If you spend $15+ on SlingTV, paid with your AMEX card of course, you will receive a one time $5 statement credit. So to get this offer, all you need to do is paying for a month of the service. As usual, you have to first activate the offer by adding it to your card (see screenshot above). And needless to say, the AMEX Offers website must needs offer this option to you, because some of this offers are targeted or YMMV or limited activation quantity.

May 15, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , ,

Big 5 mailer coupon: $10 off $40+ (B&M only)

In the weekly mailers, those blue envelopes, you may find a BIG 5 coupon good for your local brick and mortar stores only, not their website. The coupon I found in mine is a $10 off a $40+ order, and it expires 5/29/17. So before you recycle that envelope, fish for this coupon if you are a BIG 5 fan!

As usual, be sure to read the terms and conditions at the bottom of the coupon!

May 14, 2017 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

Free 2.83oz M&M Caramel bag after Register Rewards (Walgreens)

UPDATE 5/17/17: YES! you can do multiple ones per week using your Walgreens rewards card. However, I haven’t tried paying for it using the previous $1.25 Register Rewards. I don’t want to wear out my welcome 🙂

ORIGINAL POST
Good until May 20 in 2017, at Walgreens brick and mortar stores, you can get a “share size” 2.83oz bag of the brand new Caramel M&Ms for FREE in the way of Register Rewards. You pay $1.25 at the store, and the cash register will print a $1.25 register reward, which you can use in a future purchase at Walgreens.

Since this is a Register Reward promotion, I do not know if you can keep going back and getting more. I haven’t done a promotion like this in recent months, so I don’t know if they change how ti works. From what I recall, you cannot use the Register Reward for this product to buy another similar product, and still get a new Register Reward. So if you are going to try to stock up, you may want to use “new money” to pay for these.

May 14, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: , ,

Buy TWO Amazon ECHO devices for $280 total

If you are sold on the Amazon ECHO devices (not the new one with the touchscreen), you can use coupon code ECHO2PACK to get $80 off the purchase of two Amazon ECHO devices. They currently go for $180 each, so the coupon makes it $280 total instead of $360.

BUT if you are sold on the new “Echo SHOW”, and you are willing to buy two of them, coupon code SHOW2PACK cuts $100 off the order total. So it drops from $460 ($230 each) down to $360.

May 14, 2017 Filed Under: tech Tagged With: ,

Zojirushi EC-YSC100 Coffee Machine for $76 after coupon

Pour-over fans, close your eyes 🙂 This is a fancy digital coffee maker but at a reasonable price, it is the Zojirushi EC-YSC100, currently going for $76 after you apply the $20 off Amazon clip-on coupon you see on the product page. The price of the coffee maker can change, because the coupon is a flat $20 off, the coupon does not fix the price.

The benefits of this thermal carafe brewer is that it has a detachable water reservoir, so you can fill it up and CLEAN it separately from the coffee maker. A thermal carafe is nice too, since the coffee will stay warn longer, handy for a long work or reading session or if you are entertaining friends and slowly drinking coffee along. You don’t want people in your book club to get overly coffee-hyped 🙂

It averages 4.2 out of 5 based on over 500 customer reviews and has over 100 questions peer-answered for this programmable coffee maker. Note however that it does NOT grind coffee beans.

As usual, this is a limited time offer, but a specific expiration time is not known ahead of time. Happy coffee drinking 🙂

UPDATE: but if you need a grinder to go with it, this Mr Coffee IDS77 programmable grinder is currently on sale for $12.38 (limit three per customer at the moment).

May 12, 2017 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , , ,

(Up to) $30 off select Philips Sonicare Electric Toothbrushes and Heads

If you are on the electric toothbrush bandwagon, or if your dentist or hygienist recommended using one, as part of the Mother’s Day sales, Amazon has an up to $30 off coupon on select Philips Sonicare Electric Toothbrushes. This includes a variety of models, including their “connected” (bluetooth) models, along with the non-connected ones. Also eligible for the promotion are brush heads, which are necessary, since they are still toothbrushes that wear out 🙂

The coupon is “up to $30 off”, meaning the more expensive models get $30 off, while lower priced models get a smaller discount. For example, this $35 model gets a $10 off discount.

If you haven’t used these type of toothbrushes before, they take a few weeks to get used to them. Don’t give up on them! They can provide brushing benefits that the human hand cannot compete with (eg rotating/vibrating the cleaning head non-stop).

These are clip-on coupons, all you have to do is click the green “Clip coupon” button individual product pages at Amazon. The coupons only work if Amazon actual is the seller. IF marketplace sellers offer these for sale, Amazon’s own clip-on coupons don’t work. But marketplace sellers may have their own coupons under the “Special offers and product promotions” section of a product page.

May 12, 2017 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

AMEX Offers: Spend $200+, Get $20 back on Car Rentals

If you have an American Express credit card, check the Offers section (below the activity summary page when you login to your account). There is a new offer that gets you $20 back as a statement credit if you spend $200+ at car rentals. These have to be booked directly with the car rental companies, not through agents/intermediaries. The good news is that three different companies are eligible for this, so you have more flexibility if you have particular preferences: Alamo, National, and the non Star Trek Enterprise 🙂

Make sure you pay attention to the deadlines. Also note that registration is limited, so if you are potentially interested, do the “Add to Card” thing to register the offer to your account. Registration may close before the offer expires. But once you register your card, you have until the expiration date to use it.

May 12, 2017 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

Pay $65, Get $100 in Amazon Coins

If you are a fan of the Amazon App store ecosystem (eg you have a Fire tablet), and you spend a lot of money there, good until May 25 (2017), Amazon has a new promotion, you pay $65, and get $100 in Amazon Coins. The offer is good for new App store customers.

Note that the coins can only be used within the Amazon app store (eg games and apps). You cannot use it to buy music or books or movies or physical goods at Amazon.

May 11, 2017 Filed Under: services Tagged With:

T-Mobile Tuesday freebies for 5/16/17: Vudu $5 credit, Pet Bandana at B&M

There’s a pretty good duo of freebies on Tuesday May 16 (2017) for T-Mobile customers as part of their Tuesdays promotion. The best freebie perhaps is at their brick and mortar stores, you will get a free pet bandana. The text of the promotion even encourages you to bring a friend along, and that friend will get a free bandana too ~ I’m assuming that friend will also be politely asked if they want to transfer their account to T-Mobile 🙂

The other nice freebie is the return of the $5 Vudu store credit, which can be used towards the purchase or rental of movies, or the purchase of TV episodes or seasons. This can be combined with any other store credits you may have on your account.

The other two offers are coupons, $7 off at Petsmart, which is not bad if you are a regular shopper there. The last one is a meh, $25 at Restaurant.com, but restaurant.com is SAD.

May 11, 2017 Filed Under: services Tagged With: ,

Used iPhone 6 PLUS for $200 (Virgin Mobile)

If you want to get a more powerful iPhone without breaking the bank, $200 will get you a pre-owned 16GB iPhone 6 PLUS smartphone, with free shipping at Virgin Mobile. This is locked to Virgin Mobile, so you can’t use it on GSM networks or Verizon. I don’t know if it can be used on other Sprint networks.

This is available in three color options, and there is a limit of two per customers. While with some Android phones you can pay with an account balance, for iPhones, Virgin Mobile won’t let you pay with an account balance. You have to use “fresh money”, eg credit or debit card or PAYPAL.

Per the listing, you get a 90-day warranty on the used phones.

May 11, 2017 Filed Under: iPhones Tagged With: , , ,

$25 off a $100+ AmazonFRESH order with new 30-day FREE TRIAL

This may be a regional promotion, so you may or may not see if when visiting the AmazonFRESH page. If you start a 30-day FREE TRIAL, you can get $25 off your first order totaling $100 or more over there. If you don’t cancel the membership before the free trial expires, you will be automatically charged $15 per month for the AmazonFRESH membership until or unless you manually cancel it.

Note also that despite the membership fee, you DON’T get free shipping/delivery on FRESH orders UNLESS your order total is $40+. One bonus of the FRESH orders is that you can score some extra bags. In theory you have to return them with future orders, but they don’t ask for them or charge you for them 🙂

May 11, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: ,

May 2017: Buy $50 Panera Gift Card, Get $10 Bonus for June

If you are a regular Panera fan, for the whole month of May 2017, they have a promotion at their B&M stores and their website. For every $50 in gift cards you buy, you will receive a $10 bonus gift card. The bonus gift card can only be used in June 2017. You can buy as many as you like, but keep in mind, the bonus $10 gift cards will all have to be spent in June 2017.

May 10, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: ,