Lucky Rewards: FREE 15~oz Tostitos Salsa (claim by 9/8/15)

The Lucky Rewards program is kinda rewriting the rules on how to run a Rewards program. If you are a member, check your emails! Another freebie offer is ready for you to add to your card. You have to manually click through from the email to add it to the card, but that’s all the “work” needed. This came with today’s email. We even have a choice between the 15.5oz Chunky Salsa or the 15oz Salsa Con Queso. The offer expires 9/8/15, so be sure to redeem it by then!

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The continuing stream of freebies is really the best part of their rewards program. The actual points are on the meh side of things, they are essentially 1%, and they expire fairly quickly, so these are probably more useful to big shoppers or people who buy all their groceries and supplies from Luckys.

Further Reading: our earlier post on what to expect from the Lucky’s rewards program.

September 2, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

Free Pre-orders for a limited time: Troubadours mp3-LP and Dr Who e-book (Harper Collins)

For a limited time only, the pre-orders of the following mp3-album and e-book (they will be are paid products eventually) are offered for free for you get e-grab. They are:

  • self-titled mp3-album by The Turnpike Troubadours at Google Play (12 tracks, Sept 18 release – remember new music releases are now out on Fridays)
  • “Doctor Who – the Time Lord letters”, a Harper Collins e-book by Justin Richards on the Kindle (September 29 release)

Remember, these are free only for a limited time. The expiration date of the promotions is not mentioned.

Free “In-Stock” Digital Items as well
A few more free for a limited time offers have surfaced on the interwebs. These digital items are available right away, not pre-orders:

August 20, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With:

Lucky Rewards Members: Free 1lb of Driscoll’s Strawberries (redeem by 8/18/15)

IF they give awards for Rewards programs, perhaps Lucky’s deserves to win one! We have yet another unconditional freebie offered to Rewards members. Check your emails! You must click on the big round link to add the offer to your Lucky’s account. This offer gets you 1 lb of Driscoll’s strawberries! Once you add the offer to your rewards account, you have until 8/18/15 to redeem it, but don’t wait until the last minute, because we humans specialize in procrastination and you don’t want them to be out 🙂

The other nice thing is that their checkout registers (cashier or self-checkout) automatically picks off the free offers in your account – you don’t have to enter any coupons and neither does the cashier. So as long as you get the correct freebie, it works frictionlessly.

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August 12, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , , , ,

Watch for FREE: two new Amazon pilots

If you like to watch pilots of TV shows before their fate is decided, Amazon has two more new ones waiting for your evaluation. You can watch them for free regardless of Prime membership status. Both are hourlong dramas, the Sneaky Pete (which has an early twist), and the more adult/mature Casanova (yes, that Casanova). You can submit feedback over there using the various buttons and/or post a star rating or even a text review.

August 8, 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: , ,

Google Play: Free Country Sampler (also $2 Gravity by Big & Rich)

It is country music time at the Google Play promotions. For a limited time only (these typically last a week but they don’t give exact expiration dates most of the time), you can get the 10-track “Play: Country Hits” mp3-album for FREE. This was just released yesterday. In parallel, for $2, you can get Big & Rich’s 2014 mp3-album “Gravity” (11 tracks, 40~ min play time). Enjoy 🙂 Keep in mind, these are limited time offers!

July 31, 2015 Filed Under: music Tagged With: , ,

Luckys Rewards members: Free 12-pack Sunny Select Soda

The Lucky grocery stores are upping the ante in reward member freebies! A new offer that just got sent by email gives you a 12-pack of Sunny Select Soda (the flavor of your choice) for FREE! You have to click from the email to add the freebie to your Luckys rewards account, and then you can claim it in the store. Offer expires 8/4/15, so don’t sleep on it! You still have to pay taxes if applicable to your state/county. Screenshot below (you have to add the offer from your email, not this blog):

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For more on their rewards program, check our earlier post.

July 29, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

Google Play Content Deals: free Wilco LP and Tom & Jerry movie rental, 99c album and HD movie rentals

In addition to the previously mentioned free TV pilots, Google Play has some more limited time deals on digital content, starting with a free movie rental in HD, it is the October 2005 movie Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry (wink wink Fast and the Furious) with a 74 minute runtime. Once you scoop this up, you have 30 days to start watching it. If you don’t do so, it will simply expire.

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July 17, 2015 Filed Under: music, shopping Tagged With: , ,

Free TV pilots: Powers, Sex Drugs and Rock, Strain S2 and more

There is really no break in the TV seasons any more. New shows are rolling out all the time in all directions. IF you like to check out the pilots of new shows for FREE and commercial-free at your own leisure, not the network’s time slot, for a limited time only, you can digitally-own the following pilots, and watch them at any point in time in the future you want to. They are:

Keep in mind, these are offered for free for a limited time, but once you get them, you can watch them forever and commercial free too!

July 17, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

Kindle Samsung users, Free ebook selections for July 2015 are up

If you have a Samsung mobile device (smartphone, tablet), and you are willing to install the Samsung app store (the current name du jour is Galaxy Apps), and install the Samsung version of the Kindle app, then every month you can get a free e-book from a choice of four options. You login to the Kindle app with your regular Amazon account after you install it. The free choices are shown in the menu, under “Samsung Book Deals”. You can get your freebie at any time during each month, just don’t wait until 11:59pm on the last day of the month 🙂

The four choices for July 2015 are:

  • “The Shuddering” by Ania Ahlborn (373 reviews)
  • “The Laws of Gravity” by Liz Rosenberg (307 reviews)
  • “Flee” by JA Konrath and Ann Voss Patterson (226 reviews)
  • “Sleeping with Paris (Book #1) in Romance (258 reviews)

All four of these are in Kindle Unlimited, so if you find more than one of the above interesting, you can scoop them up via KU ($10/month Netflix-style subscription).

A trio of tips on how to make the most of this after the break…

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

Free in HD: AMC’s new Humans Pilot episode

You may have heard the type, the collaboration between AMC and Britain’s Channel 4, the new sentient robot TV series “Humans” that has just began on AMC. And you can sample it without being bombarded with commercials. The pilot episode is now FREE in HD at Amazon Instant Video. This is a limited time offer, so if you are potentially (or even remotely) interested in it, grab it since it costs nothing. This has adult themes and content, probably not for the youngsters.

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

Kindle First options for July 2015 are up: pick one from four choices

July is here and this means a new round of Kindle First options have gone live. For the whole month of July 2015 (1st until the end of day on the 31st, but don’t wait until the last minute), if you are a Prime member, you can pick exactly one of those four pre-release e-books for FREE. If you are not a Prime member, you have to pay $2 for it. If you like more than one, you have to wait for their general release (August 1st) to purchase them at their regular $5 price, or pick them up from Kindle Unlimited or Prime Lending library if they are available through that.

So, without further delay, here are the four options for July 2015:

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

YMMV: MGo $2 promotional credit

If you have an M-Go account (an entertainment industry funded digital movie and TV seller and renter), you may have received an email notifying you that they added a $2 store credit to your account. You have one month to use it on purchases or rentals (except where prohibited – some movies/studios place restrictions of this nature), so pay attention to the expiration date.

NOTE: earlier in the year M-Go abruptly played a switcharoo by changing their rewards system from earning points toward free points, to earning points that get you discounts on future purchases. A pretty nasty move from a consumer perspectiev but very few people use M-Go that much, so it didn’t get a lot of national attention. Not a classy move M-Go!

June 28, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

Free Gift for Google Play users: Night at the Museum in HD

IF you have a Google Play account, check your emails! There is a specially coded email there that gets you the movie “Night at the Museum” (the first one from 2006) for FREE in HD. All you have to do is click the link there, and it will take you to Google Play where you can add it to your library for free. You have to be logged on to your Google Play account that received the email offer. You have until July 5 (2015) to do this, but don’t wait until the last minute. Sometimes things like this may end earlier.

NOTE: this is not free if you try to buy it directly from Google Play. You have to use the Google Play promotional link.

June 28, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,