Nice freebies for the August 22 T-Mobile Tuesdays

Rejoice T-Mobile users! The August 22, 2017 is a pretty good mix of actual freebies! Four out of the five items are actually good, a pretty good percentage!

The freebies are:

  • a FREE Basic Oil Change at your Meineke (cars and light trucks only)
  • FREE 1-Month of Drama Fever streaming service
  • $10 off at Lids, online or in-store
  • 30% off a Local Groupon (see terms for restrictions)
  • 25% off at HotelStorm

The other carriers have been rebooting their rewards programs to bridge the gap between them and Tuesdays, but they are not making any dent. Especially sad is AT&T’s attempt at a reward program ๐Ÿ™‚

T-Mobile Tuesday for 8/15/17 include $100 Postmates Delivery Fee Credit and more

The freebies for the August 15 (2017) of the T-Mobile Tuesdays have been revealed and there are two brand new freebies coming! You will get a $100 delivery fee service credit at Postmates, and a FREE Sonic CD Steam game.

If you are not familiar with Postmates, this $100 credit only covers their service fee. Not the purchase price of products of services. So it’s not $100 to spend at Postmates, but $100 worth in covering the Delivery Fee part of the Postmates bill.

The third item is a coupon really, you can watch the new movie Hitman for $4 per ticket. This is a recurring offer that features different new movie theatrical releases.

T-Mobile Tuesday Freebies for 8/8/17 include 1-Day Redbox Rental and 1-Year Digital Magazine Sub

It is a mix of freebies and coupons at the T-Mobile Tuesdays for August 8, in 2017, as the cellular provider rewards are starting to heat up, with both Verizon and AT&T rebooting their rewards programs to counter the overwhelming success of T-Mobile Tuesdays.

For August 8 in 2017, the two freebies are a 1-day Redbox rental (your choice of game, DVD or BluRay), along with a 1-Year digital subscription of Men’s Health or Women’s Health. Since these offers are per line, if you have more than one line, you can get both magazines and multiple 1-day rentals. The 1-day rentals cannot be stacked on the same rental, Redbox only offers coupons on the first day.

Of the two coupons, one is potentially interesting (but price-check to be sure), you get 25% off Mophie at T-Mobile’s website or brick and mortar stores. The other coupon is utter meh, a $25 “credit” to Restaurant.com.

Free University of Chicago eBook for August 2017 [with DRM]

If you don’t hate DRM in ebooks and you don’t object to using Adobe’s Digital Editions DRM software and licensing technique, August 2017 brings us a new e-book freebie from the University of Chicago (the publisher). Their latest freebie is the 220-page e-book “Wallisโ€™s War: A Novel of Diplomacy and Intrigue” by Kate Auspitz, published in 2015.

You have to enter your email address to get the freebie. Then you receive an email with a BiblioVault download link. You follow that, and then you can either download it or read it online. Because of the DRM-ness of it, either option requires some kind of a login/authentication.

I’m sure I’m not saying anything groundbreaking here in that I hate DRM, especially the way Adobe does it. It is invasive and inconvenient and unnecessary. Its most practical effect is to irritate legit readers.

Kindle First choices for August 2017 are here

It’s that time again, a new month is born (August 2017), and that means, among many other things, that a new selection of ebooks are available as part of Amazon’s Kindle First program, another one of the many Prime Benefits.

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Good freebies on August 1st for T-Mobile Tuesdays

If you are a T-Mobile customer, make sure you remember to scoop up the freebies on Tuesday August 1st in 2017! You get two digital subscriptions, and one free B&M food, along with two coupons!

The three real freebies are:

  • Free Small Slurpee at a local 711 store
  • Free 3-month subscription to IndieFLEX (indie movies and documentaries; ad free; this is pretty good for FREE!)
  • Free subscription for soccer fans to the Bayern TV Plus (German football team)

And then we have two coupons, 50% off a local Groupon but the discount is capped to $10 (obviously, but still good). And the return of the Shell gas coupon.

T-Mobile Tuesdays for July 25 include a free Towel (!)

T-Mobiles plans, prices and attitude may be becoming more and more like AT&T and Verizon, but their T-Mobile Tuesdays continue! Their July 25 (2017) includes actual towels, with giant T-Mobile Tuesdays verbiage on them, and you can pick these up at your local brick-and-store T-Mobile stores.

The other freebie of this week is a free Disney e-book from Story Central.

The other three offers are “coupons”. The most interesting one is a brick and mortar one as well. You get 25% off select Samsung accessories. You are limited to the inventory available at your local store and by what items are participating in the promotion. Still, if you are part of the Samsung ecosystem, and you want to buy an accessory that has more or less similar prices everywhere, this is a good opportunity.

The other two coupons are returning from previous weeks, 25% off at Papa Johns pizza, and at a hotels website.

How to get your first FREE drink by installing the Peetnik Rewards app [updated]

It didn’t take long! As I mentioned earlier, Peets has now widely launched their Peetnick Rewards program, with a GooglePLAY app too, not just the initial soft launch that was iOS-only.

To encourage people downloading the app, they are offering a free drink when you install it for the first time. Here’s how to get your free drink:

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Peets Launches Peetnik Rewards app more widely with GooglePLAY and iOS

Some Peet’s Coffee region were already beta-running on their new Peetnik rewards program, but now there is a wider launch of this new program, and better yet, apps are available not only for iOS (that was the initial launch) but also GooglePLAY. Their Android app is developed by Paytronix judging by the app ID in the url ๐Ÿ™‚

The rewards program is closer to the original Starbucks reward. You earn rewards with check-ins, not the purchase amount. Fifteen check-ins get you a FREE beverage. But more importantly, to celebrate the launch, you earn a FREE drink immediately after your first check-in. This is a one time bonus to encourage everyone to install the app and use it. Good idea ๐Ÿ™‚

You also get one free every year unconditionally, on your birthday! I haven’t used it yet, more details on this after I install and use it ๐Ÿ™‚ Here’s an annotated explainer of the benefits from their email; I am highlighting the important parts:

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Free until July 19: Kushielโ€™s Dart fantasy e-book

If you like free, you have until Wednesday night on July 19 in 2017 to grab a DRM-free copy of Jacqueline Careyโ€™s epic fantasy book, “Kushielโ€™s Dart” through the Tor eBook Club. All you have to do is give them your email to download it.

You can download it in DRM-free ePUB and MOBI. You can download one or both formats. MOBI is for Kindles, ePUB for everything else. This is book #1 in a series, it is not a stand-alone story, so keep that in mind if you prefer stand-alone books. You are definitely getting your money’s worth, it is over 900 pages long ๐Ÿ™‚

It is free and you have nothing to lose by getting it, but if you want to read reviews first, it has over 760 of them at amazon.com where it averages 4.3 out of 5.

I haven’t read this yet, so I know nothing (Jon Snow) about it.

T-Mobile Tuesdays have a good set of actual freebies for 7/18/17

They are back in form! The T-Mobile Tuesday offers for Tuesday 7/18/17 have actual freebies! This is a good set of freebies too! You get the returning $5.50 Vudu store credit, which you can use any which way you like – you can rent movies, or buy TV shows or movies. This is an actual credit, so if they have a 10c sale on movies (which they often do these days to celebrate their 10 year anniversary), you can rent them all and still have credit left for other purchases or rentals. This is very nice, unlike the FandangoNOW credit which can only be spent on a single item. Good on Vudu!

But wait, there’s more good freebies! Using the Bookshout e-book service (this is a promotional type of a website that is designed for giveaways ~ it seems) you can get an e-book on the lovely National Parks. And this is a brand name ebook, by National Geographic which is also sponsoring some of the prizes of the day.

And there’s more! The aptly named FreePrints app is offering a dozen free prints and more importantly, they come with free shipping too. Ten of them are the standard 4×6 size, while two are the larger 5×7 inch.

Rounding out the action are two coupons, 25% off at Papa Johns (better ingredients [allegedly], better pizza [allegedly]), and 25% off at a hotel booking service.

Friday 1-2pm Local Time: Free 12oz Tall Iced Tea Infusion

If you have flexibility with your lunch schedule on Friday July 14 (2017), and if you are gonna be near a Starbucks store, you can score a FREE 12 oz (Tall size in Starbucks speak) Iced Tea Infusion. These are new drinks, a blend of iced tea with slightly sweetened summer-y flavors (peach, pineapple, strawberry, etc). All you have to do is show up in store between 1-2pm local time. If you have multiple stores near by, no one stops you from visiting them all ๐Ÿ™‚

Samsung Book Deals choices for July 2017 are up

If you have Samsung hardware device that is participating in their lesser known “Book Deals” program (Samsung it survived the regular purge of Samsung’s never-ending stream of projects), and if you have installed the Kindle app from the actual Samsung app store (it has S-Pen support after all), then every month, either for the lifetime of your device or for a preset number of months, you can receive a free ebook every month from a choice of four.

Almost all these books are part of Kindle Unlimited, so they have lots and lots of reviews, which can help you device which one to get or which ones to avoid. This unlike Kindle First which offers pre-release ebooks, so you have to wait for a few days before they build up a review profile.

The choices for July 2017 are:

  • “Crow Hollow” by Michael Wallace
  • “The Gift” by Dave Donovan (alien invasion type)
  • “What doesn’t kill her” by Max Allan Collins
  • “Heart of a Highland Warrior” by Anita Clenney (romance)

Happy reading ๐Ÿ™‚ I am leaning towards the “The Gift” because one can never read enough alien invasion stories ๐Ÿ™‚

One more thing, once you get your freebie, a lot of these ebooks have an audiobook co-promotion. You can add the audiobook for $2 or so.

Kindle First Choices for July 2017 are up, pick 1 out of 6 as usual

It’s a new month, July 2017 is here! We are exactly at the half-way point towards New Year 2018! That’s right folks, time flies! This means, among many other things, a new selection of pre-release e-books have been loaded at the Kindle First page. As usual, Prime members get one FREE e-book from the choice of six, and you can read it right now.

All six e-books will be released August 1st, so if you like more than one, you can get them then. Almost all of these will be part of Kindle Unlimited, so if you are part of that program, you can read them for free when they get there.

So without further ado, here are the six options, one of which is a “Kindle in Motion” format which includes all kinds of multimedia but can still be read with ereaders (obviously without the features that require a touchscreen):

  • “Kings of Broken Things” by Theodore Wheeler in Literary Fiction
  • “A Beautiful Poison” by Lydia Kang in Historical Fiction
  • “Little Boy Lost” by J.D. Trafford in Thrillers
  • “Secondborn (Secondborn Series Book 1)” by Amy A. Bartol in Scifi
  • “Mrs. Saint and the Defectives: A Novel” by Julie Lawson Timmer in Contemporary Fiction
  • “The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed” by Scott Parazynski, Susy Flory in Memoirs – this is a “Kindle in Motion” multimedia format

T-Mobile Tuesdays freebie for 4th of July is a Redbox Blu-Ray

A little bit on the light side are the 4th of July T-Mobile Tuesdays freebies, perhaps because of the holiday. There is really just one freebie, a 1-day Blu-Ray rental at Redbox. Everything else is a coupon, the usual Shell 25c off per gallon, 25% off at Papa Johns pizza, and the debut of a new offer, you pay $20 for a 1-year subscription of Ever Plus. You also get a free 3-month trial. Still a coupon, not a true freebie ๐Ÿ™‚