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If you are a fan of Major League Softball (okay, Baseball, but it’s sports smack week) and you are a T-Mobile customer, make sure you don’t miss the Tuesday April 4 (2017) freebies, because one of them will be a 1-year FREE subscription to the MLB Premium At Bat streaming package. This is a season-long subscription, just like last year. The usual exclusions apply, regional blackouts and the like.
They have an official teaser at the Tuesdays websites (see screenshot below):
UPDATE: the free pizza promotion (for the remaining customers (lines) who didn’t get it before) was not mentioned in the app teasers, but it appeared to the lines of everyone who should have, it will look like this in your Tuesdays app:
Media is the theme of the Tuesday March 7 (2017) for T-Mobile customers. It is a mix of digital freebies and real-world coupons. The good news is that the FandangoNOW offer has been improved. Now you can also use your $5 credit towards the purchase of TV shows. You can still use it towards a movie rental. Unless they changed something (to make it like the much better Vudu offer), you can only rent one movie, even if it costs less than $5. We’ll have to wait and see on Tuesday! I’ll test it out and post an update as soon as I can.
The other digital freebie is a one month ad-free subscription to the Slacker music streaming service. Slacker is also part of the prizes (the ones without the magenta gift icon on the left side), so you may want to play those silly app and web games if you want to have a chance at winning a bigger Slacker prize.
The other two offers are coupons. You can get 50% off George Strait concert tickets, and the usual 25% off at Papa John’s pizza.
Not shown in the teaser of the time of writing, but it should be there according to previous Tuesday postings is the last round of FREE Papa John’s pizza. This is on a line by line basis, not by T-Mobile account, so be sure to check all your lines!
T-Mobile Tuesdays end the month with a mix of freebies and coupons. For February 28 in 2017, current T-Mobile customers will receive:
In addition to the above, about 1/4th of T-Mobile Customers (or T-Mobile lines – I don’t know if they do this by line or customer, neither of my lines got free pizza so far) will receive a free large Papa John’s Pizza.
The freebies for the 2/21/17 T-Mobile Tuesdays are not as good as the Valentine’s bundle of last week. It looks like T-Mo is saving some of the best freebies for special holidays and events 🙂 The freebies for this week including another FandangoNOW movie rental (single movie, price up to $5) and two coupons, 25c off per gallon of gas at Shell (great for anyone who already refills at Shell; meh for everybody else), and 25% off a Papa John’s pizza.
But the best deal is the free pizza, which is going to be available roughly to 1/4th of the T-Mobile customers each week until March 7th. T-Mobile is rotating the customers who get this freebie (check the Tuesdays official app every Tuesday), to prevent what happened a few months ago when Domino’s pizza stores got overwhelmed with hungry Tuesday guests.
UPDATE 2/14/17: here they are! The store I went to was well stocked and was not busy, so if you are worried about crowds – don’t – go and grab the freebies 🙂 There are two color options, the black-white-red (below) and a white-red-black.
T-Mobile has planned one of their best freebie Tuesdays for Valentine’s Day, February 14 in 2017. There is a brand new freebie, a pair of T-Mobile branded Valentine-themed socks you can pick up at your local T-Mobile store. This is the second time they are doing an offer of this type, they had previously offered gloves and beanie hats. Both stores I checked had plenty of stock, and socks are less of a “sexy” freebie than hats and gloves. The offer is one per line, but some stores may only give one freebie (one freebie is _two_ socks) per person, so you may want to visit more than one store if you have two personal lines.
From there on, we have two returning offers, a free movie rental (up to $5 in value) at FandangoNOW. The $5 amount can only be used towards one rental. You can’t use it to rent five 99c movies. If the movie rental amount is more than $5, you have to pay the different out of your own offer.
The other two offers are the usual Lyft ride coupon (up to $15 per ride), and a new 25% off coupon at Papa John’s pizza.
The above offers are available to all eligible customers. In addition to that, about 1/4th of T-Mobile customers (or Lines to be more specific) will be getting a free large Papa John’s pizza with online order and carryout. The offer will run for four weeks, with 1/4th of customers getting the freebie each week. The Tuesdays app will tell you whether it’s your turn. More details on our explainer post.
UPDATE 3/4/17: It turns out the Papa John’s locations near me are closed, so I can’t do this promotion. But I took the screenshots for you. When it’s your turn, you will have an extra block in your Tuesday freebies announcing that it’s your turn. This is per line, so be sure to check all your lines!
As you can see in the screenshots below, you have the whole seven days to redeem this, you don’t have to rush on Tuesday like the crazy old Domino’s offer when the Tuesdays program launched.
Here is a close-up of the terms and conditions and nuances. Unfortunately I can’t do this offer, so I have no further insight:
UPDATE 2/28/17: it looks like the FREE Pizza is randomly offered on a per line basis, not a per account basis. One of my two lines got a free pizza, the other one didn’t. I will update with screenshots and details after I redeem the offer later on. The other nice thing about the free pizza is that you can redeem it throughout the week, in this case until 3/6/17. So by doing this, they are avoiding the chaos that befell Domino’s when every single T-Mobile customer got a free pizza on a single day. With this approach, it is spread out over 28 days.
Very smart move ~ because if it works well for all parties, they will do more. Domino’s got scared out of it and stopped doing it.
T-Mobile has a new twist in their Tuesday freebies. Instead of everybody getting the freebie on the same date, T-Mobile customers will be randomly split into four groups. For the next four Tuesdays (February 14, 21, 28 and March 7), about 1/4th each week will get a free Papa Johns pizza. You have to check the app every Tuesday to see which one is your Tuesday.
The freebie is pretty good, a large one-topping or pan pizza, with online carryout and online order placement. I am assuming this freebie is one per line, and if so, you may want to check all your T-Mobile lines if you have more than one line in your account.
This is the first time they split the offer in four, so we are in new territory. This is however a good idea, because the previous times they tried a pizza promotion (with Domino’s), the pizza company complained they were getting overwhelmed by hungry T-Mobile customers. So hopefully the 4-part split will make things easier for all parties involved (easier for us to get the freebies too!).
It’s a Valentine’s theme for Tuesday February 7, 2017 offers for current T-Mobile customers. It is a trio of offers, all three of them coupons really. The centerpiece is $15 off and free shipping at 1-800-Flowers. Then, the date continue with a $25 off coupon at restaurant.com (mostly useless), and a $2 movie-theater ticket through the Fandango proper service (not to be confused with their TV/movie FandangoNOW service which is M-Go rebranded).
Overall, a rather meh Tuesday – in my opinion that is 🙂
Lunch or dinner is on T-Mobile with the Tuesday 1/31/17 rewards for customers participating in their Tuesday freebies. The headliner is a small entree of Firecracker Chicken at participating Panda Express locations. This is a spicy chicken with some veggies. You get it for free. You don’t have to buy anything else. This is above medium in terms of spiciness, so make the necessary preparations. One way to turn this into a meal is to throw it on top of a bowl of rice! This is one per line but apparently the code is generic, so some others in the deal forums who are not customers are taking advantage of it (by placing mobile orders since they don’t have the T-Mobile Tuesdays app to use it in-store).
The other two offers are a coupon ($20 off at Fanatics sports fan-gear), and another free movie rental at FandangoNOW. You get a $5 credit towards ONE movie rental. Any unused amount (eg if your movie rental is $2.99) is forfeit. You don’t carry it forward. This offer is one per FandangoNOW account per week, so the restriction is not on the number of T-Mobile lines, but the FN accounts.
T-Mobile is launching a new twist with some of the “Tuesday” offers. Two of the offers in the Tuesday 1/24/17 group are not only good for you, but you can also send them to a friend. You still get yours, regardless of whether you send to a friend or not. The two offers that have this feature are the FandangoNOW movie rental (rent one movie up to $5), and a 25c discount per gallon on a Shell gas station fill-up (this is really a coupon, not a freebie).
The other offer that is running (and cannot be sent to a friend) is a $15 off discount on a Lyft ride. With Uber getting more customer and mindshare and almost becoming a verb, Lyft has to find other ways to get more people in the door (so to speak). One thing that works well for challengers to the #1 is letting people try your products or services for free or heavily discounted. Hence this 🙂
The gift cards mentioned are NOT freebies
When look at the website there, you’ll see something about gift cards. These are NOT freebies. The gift cards ar part of the prizes. To win prizes, you have to punch that magenta wall. You get one punch per line, not per customer. You have to be logged on to that particular line per punch. Most of the time you “win” the freebies but some people (presumably) win some of the prizes. So the following $5 and $10 gift cards are not freebies for all, but only prizes!
As you can see in the screenshot below, the freebies have that magenta gift next to their name. The gift cards are prizes, there is no magenta gift logo next to them:
Time flies faster and faster these days, which means another T-Mobile Tuesday is almost always just around the corner. The Tuesday January 17 (2017) lot is not a bad one, two freebies and two coupons! Here’s a screenshot followed by a summary:
The two freebies is a 1-year digital subscription to Vanity Fair (like other magazines and digital publications they expand their coverage, in a way, it’s almost as if every magazine covers everything these days), and one digital movie rental at FandangoNOW. The movie rental amount you get is $5, so if you want to rent newer movies that cost $6, you have to pony up the extra dollar). Sadly, unlike Vudu that gave us an actual credit to do as we pleased, FandangoNOW’s freebie can only be used towards one movie rental, so if you rent a 99c movie, you use up the coupon, you don’t have a $4.01 balance to rent more like you would with Vudu. Vudu is pretty good 🙂
You also get two coupons. One is $20 off at Express (no, they did not close – the “The Limited” closed). You also get two $10 off coupons for Lyft. Lyft is trying to catch up to Uber which is more famous and popular, which is probably why Lyft keeps on offering T-Mobile Tuesday promotions 🙂
The Tuesday January 10 (2017) T-Mobile freebies, the first ones after another fiery “Uncarrier Streaming Event” (this one at CES 2017) is a media-centric promotion with three offerings:
The Bookshout promotion is ONE free e-book from a choice of ten. Eight of them are fiction, the other two are “new year, new you” type of books (diet and beauty tips). You can read these ebooks with a web browser or using the BookShout apps. Note that Bookshout is a “social media” type of app, it creates a profile for you automatically, so if you hate that kind of nonsense, go through the account and adjust things appropriately.
The $2 movie ticket is as it says, and you redeem it using the Fandango service for a movie theater ticket (the OG Fandango, not the M-Go FandangoNOW). The movie MUST be watched on Tuesday 1/10/17, so it’s kinda restrictive, but that’s why there’s a discount, Tuesdays are not exactly blockbuster movie nights 🙂
Last but not least, it’s a 3-month free subscription to movie streaming service IndieFlix. They typically offer a free 14-day trial, so with this promotion, you are getting a 90-day free trial. It is a for-pay service, $5/month or $40 per year prepaid. As the title suggests, they focus on indie films (think Sundance, Canes, etc) along with other randomness they are able to procure 🙂
We have our first T-Mobile Tuesday of 2017, coming on January 3, and just like stereotypical clockwork, it has a “New Year Resolutions” cliche theme 🙂 A total of four items are offered, three freebies and a coupon. The coupon is $20 off of juice cleansing at “JUS by Julie” or something like that.
The three freebies have one returnee, a FandangoNow movie rental. You can rent a movie up to $5. Unlike the Vudu offer that gave you a balance and you could use it any which way you like, FandangoNow’s credit can only be used on a single movie rental and nothing else. Also note that this is not the more well-known Fandango service, but rather the service formerly known as M-Go that got purchased by Fandango. So that “Now” is important in the name 🙂
The other two freebies are digital and first timers. You get a 1-year digital subscription to the “Shape Magazine”, and you get a 1-month service to the fitness app “Aaptiv”. Apparently now companies go for two “As” in the name to be shown first in alphabetically-sorted results 🙂
Last week was perhaps the best T-Mobile Tuesday of the year (perhaps they saved it for Christmas), but the Tuesday December 27 freebies are not bad either. You get the option to buy a $2 Movie Ticket, which is pretty good considering it’s double figures now for a movie ticket. They also have two returnees, the Wendy’s small Frosty, and a free Lyft ride (up to $15). With Uber being the dominant service, it makes sense for Lyft to be aggressive offering with free rides to get people to try/use their service.
Interestingly, earlier in the week, their teasers had a fourth option, a $10 Restaurant.com credit, but Restaurant.com is such a gimmick, I am actually happy it got pulled because it’s such a baloney service. Here’s a screenshot from before it got cancelled:
I have complained for some sub-par T-Mobile Tuesdays the last few weeks, but we have good news! There’s a pretty good haul planned for Tuesday December 20 in 2016! Four solid and tangible promotions! One of them is to be picked up at your local T-Mobile store, so be sure to map out locations and opening hours since supplies are limited. You get either a pair of touchscreen gloves or a beanie hat. I do not know if it is one per line or one per account. Time will tell when it goes live, and it may also be at the discretion of each individual store depending on their inventory.
The next offer you can get, a 6-inch Subway sandwich. Can’t argue with free food, starch and carbs and all 🙂
The other two offers are online, a $25 off discount at the Zappos website, and a $10 off discount on $20+ in purchases of Pepsi products at the Boxed website. These two are first time offers, so I do not know if the limit is per line or per account. This distinction is important if you have multiple lines per account 🙂
The freebies for Tuesday December 13 in 2016 for T-Mobile customers, as part of the “T-Mobile Tuesdays” weekly promotions are split evenly. Two actual freebies and two coupons. The freebies are returning offers, a free FandangoNOW digital movie rental (this is the former M-Go service, not to be confused with the more well-known Fandango movie serivce) and the good old Wendy’s small frosty.
The other two are coupons. We keep it real here, we are calling a spade a spade 🙂 You get 25c off per gallon at Shell gas stations, and the other coupon is $10 off at SpaWeek.com.
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