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If you are going to be near a Peet’s coffee shop on Friday May 12 (2017), between 1-3pm local time, they will be offering a FREE coffee beverage of your choice. Limit one per transaction. This is good for all the hand crafted beverages, but not premade bottled beverages. Needless to say, expect long lines unless you know of any Peets stores that are more quiet or out of high traffic areas.
If you are near a Lucky’s store, and you like buying gift cards, they have a new promotion running until May 16 (2017) at their brick and mortar stores. If you buy $50 in participating gift cards, their cash register will spit out a coupon that gets you $10 off your next purchase at the Lucky’s B&M stores. You can buy up to $200 in gift cards per transaction.
Gift cards in this promotion are a mix of restaurants (Chilis, Applebees, Olive Garden, etC) along with major retailers (Sears, Kohls, Macy’s, GAP, etc).
If you are a fan of Earl Gray loose leaf tea and drink a lot or like to share it with friends and family, there is a 25% off clip-on coupon at the moment at amazon.com that drops the price of a 1 kilo (2.2 lbs, aka 35.3 ounces) from $36.57 to $27.43. This is sold and shipped by Amazon actual, so you get Prime shipping if a member, and the protections of an Amazon purchase.
This is a crazy price, that’s under $1 per ounce, more specifically 78 cents per ounce. You can open your own pop-up tea shops with this price 🙂
Lord of the Rights time! If you like the theatrical editions of the trilogy, and you like the BluRay format, you can get those three movies on a BluRay set for $10 total at Amazon by Amazon actual. Limit three collections per customer during this sale. These are not the Extended editions with the bonus footage Petyr Jackson added later on. This is the version of the movies that was shown in the movie theaters (thus the “Theatrical”).
That’s almost 400 minutes, that’s almost a shift at work 🙂 So you are getting 40 minutes per $1, a pretty good value if movies were sold like food by the pound 🙂
A new month does not just mean a new Kindle First ebooks (free for Prime members), it also means a new free ebook from publishing house Tor which specializes in SFF (call it fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction).
Unlike Kindle First, the Tor freebies don’t have a preset date, and once they are active, you only have about one week to claim them. But you don’t have to be a Prime member (all you have to do is enter your email address), and you can get the book DRM-free in either (or both) ePUB and MOBI (for Kindle reading) ebook formats.
The May 2017 ebook choice is “A Fire Upon the Deep” by Vernon Vinge. You can grab it at the Tor eBook Giveaway page. It is over 600 pages, so it’s not like you are getting a novella. It’s a “real” book 🙂
This is the first in a series of four under the “Zones of Thought” banner. Multiparters are often favorites in giveaways, to get you hooked on the whole series 🙂 This book averages 4.1 out of 5 based on 520+ customer reviews at amazon.com.
This is one of the more common Starbucks Rewards promotions, the “After 2pm Dash”. Just like before, you have to first manually activate the offer, assuming you had been offered this. Check your email or Starbucks app to see if you have. Once you activate it, the promotion runs between May 9-15 in 2017. A whole week. If you make six purchases after 2pm local time, you get 50 bonus stars. If you make eight (or more), you get 100 bonus stars. In other words, once you reach the six, it only takes an extra two for an equal bonus.
50 bonus stars are 40% towards a reward. So doing this promotion is 80% towards a full reward. In addition to the stars you earn on the actual purchase amount.
I believe there is an overlap between this promotion and the Frapuccino Happy Hour, which runs 3-5pm (or 6pm for Rewards members). So you can score a frapp at half off and get strikes towards the Dash. I forgot how long the half-off frapp offer runs, but it finishes before the 15th for sure.
If are a T-Mobile customer, Tuesday’s can’t get here fast enough, although the May 9 (2017) offer group is nothing to write home about. You get a 1-night game rental through Redbox (remember, this is one freebie per line, not per account, so claim it on all your lines ~ if you have multiple lines).
The other two freebies are glorified coupons, you get 30% off at 1-800-FLOWERS (the Mother’s Day theme), and you get a two months membership to the “Boxed Bold” bulk buying service. I’m not even sure what this means since Boxed doesn’t charge for a membership anyway. The FAQ section at the Boxed website says you get 3% rewards instead of 1%. The FAQ page there also notes that if you are an American Express member, you get Boxed Gold until 8/10/17, before everybody else (except for T-Mobile Tuesdays participants of course) can get it.
Unrelated to T-Mobile Tuesdays, but of interest to Boxed shoppers, if you search for “Boxed Bold” using the search box on their website, you will be shown the Boxed Gold Coins which promise $3 discounts on future Boxed orders. I’ve never ordered from Boxed, so I don’t know how any of this works 🙂
If you are Prime Pantry curious (you haven’t placed an order with them before) AND you are a Prime member, Amazon is trying to tempt you some more to place your first “Prime Pantry Box” order with a coupon! Coupon code PANTRY10 gets you 10% off if your first order has 10 or more items in it. This is a good opportunity to stock up on consumables, be it food or kitchen or bathroom. You can find the promotion details at the coupon’s page.
You have to pay a $6 flat shipping fee for every Prime Pantry box you order, but there are two ways to make up for that:
May 2017 is here, and if you are a Prime member, this means you can get another brand new pre-release e-book for FREE! If you are not a Prime member, you buy one of the choices below for $2. The rest will become available June 1st and most likely will all be in Kindle Unlimited, so if you are a member of that program, you can just wait until June 🙂
So without further delay, here are the Kindle First choices for May 1st until the end of day on the 31st:
My pick for this month is…
Book #2 is already scheduled to come out in September 2017, so you don’t have to wait for it like “The Winds of Winter” 🙂
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