UPDATE 8/23/16: Indeed, the Harper Collins e-book offer is one e-book per line, and the service delivering them is BookShout, the same e-book service T-Mobile used for their previous free e-cookbook. If you have more than one line on your T-Mobile account, you can get more than one free ebook per Bookshout account.

ORIGINAL
This post contains SPOILERS about the August 23 (2016) freebies that are part of the T-Mobile Tuesdays for their paying customers. Okay, this is not a TV show, so the spoilers are a joke, but the offers are not…

The scheduled offers feature the return of the Vudu $5.50 store credit, which is added to your account, and must be spent before Monday night of the next week, otherwise it evaporate in this air. You don’t have to use it for a movie rental, you can use it toward the purchase of a movie, or a TV episode or a TV season. It’s a store credit. The limit is one credit per Vudu account, so even if you have multiple T-Mobile lines, you can only add one $5.50 credit per week (when it is offered).

The new offer of the lot is Harper Collins books (presumably e-books since they are a lot cheaper to deliver). Per the teaser, we get one free book from a choice of ten. The previous time they did an ebook offer it was through Book Shout but I don’t know if Harper Collins will offer them through that or otherwise. I’m assuming you can pick a different ebook per line if you have multiple lines.

The other two offers are returnees as well, the $15 Lyft ride, and the small Wendy’s frosty. I haven’t done the Frosty in a while, all but one of the previous times I tried to redeem this, the cashier was utterly confused on what to do, and I felt bad for them, so I stopped trying to redeem it 🙁

PS: unless they were instructed by management to play dumb to discourage redemptions 🙂

The T-Mobile Tuesday freebies for existing customers have been revealed for Tuesday August 9 in 2016. We get FIVE freebies this time, instead of the usual four. And we have a return, the Vudu $5.50 Credit is back! Here’s a screenshot, with the list below:

• Cookbook in eBook format: “Claudia’s Cocina” from Bookshout (the ebook service)
• Vudu Movie Rental = $5.50 credit not just for rentals, you can use it on TV and movies, rentals or purchases
• Wendy’s small Frosty is back too
• Free Lyft Ride (up to $15 credit)
• 1-Year of Pokemon Go data (until end of August 2017; NOT stackable, once per line)

Furthermore, one of the grand prizes is something actually useful, a Samsung Galaxy Note 7! I’m assuming this will be the T-Mobile version, not factory unlocked, but if I win it, I won’t say no, I will say nom-nom-nom-nom 🙂

UPDATE: they have now updated the page/app with the full teaser for Tuesday 8/2/16, it is (as I speculated) headlined by Suicide Squad movie tickets. We also have the return of the small Wendy’s frosty (remember this one has to be redeemed in-store within a 2-minute window as you are placing the order). The other two offers are returning from last week, 1-year of Pokemon data, and $15 Lyft ride credit. Here’s the screenshot:

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The time is almost upon us once again MagentaHeads! A new Tuesday is upon us, and the teasers at the T-Mobile Tuesdays app reveal the freebies for July 26 in 2016. You can see them in the screenshot below, and in text form after that:

The Pokemon promotion returns in case you missed it last week, or forgot to add it to all your T-Mobile lines. With this offer, which you just have to claim through the app or website (no other action needed), you get free Pokemon Go data until August 2017. This offer is not stackable, if you already claimed it last week, it won’t add any additional time since it has a specific expiration date, 8/31/17.

Lyft returns again with another ride credit up to $15, while the other two offers are brand new. You get a 1-year digital subscription to Conde Nast’s Traveler magazine (these are claimed through the publisher and can be viewed using various newsstand app (eg Google Play Magazines)). Last and probably least, you get a $30 off at Hotel Tonight which sounds more like a coupon-ad than an actual freebie. We give you hard truths here 🙂

What’s missing? No more free frosties at Wendy’s and no more $5.50 credits at Vudu 🙁 The offers that got pre-empted last week for Pokemon Go that includes a free T-Mo t-shirt are not part of this week either.

Time flies faster and faster, a new Tuesday is almost upon us, and T-Mobile is teasing the upcoming Tuesday July 5 (2016) offers on their app. As you can see from the screenshot below, we have one new offer and three returning promotions.

The four freebies are:

• $20 Stubhub Concert credit
• $15 Lyft ride credit
• $5.50 Vudu credit (buy or rental TV/movies)
• Small Wendy’s Frostie

All but the Wendy’s can be redeem as unique promo codes you have to use. The only one that requires immediately redemption in-store is the Wendy’s frostie. You don’t get a unique code, you just have to press the option in the app when you are at the Wendy’s cash register ~ and hope the Wendy’s cashiers were trained on how to do this.

The other thing to note is that Vudu’s credit expires earlier than the end of day on Mondays. So if you plan to use it, make sure you use it before Monday. This six day window is only on using the credit. Once you use the credit, the purchases/rentals follow the standard Vudu terms (30 day window for rentals, “forever” for digital purchases).

UPDATE on the Bon Appetit Offer
This is a 1-year digital subscription but to get started you need to provide name, email, and mailing address. You can select whether to receive any emails from Bon Appetit or not. Once you do that, you get an account number and then you can get your digital subscription on iPad (iOS) and Android (Google Play) and Nook (using Barnes and Noble account) and Kindle Fire (Amazon account).

UPDATE Tue 6/28/16 at 3:52pm ET: things are more stable now, but yet another way to get the Rewards faster is to use the text message that T-Mobile sends you to your registered phone numbers. It uses a live T-Mobile subdomain and gets you all the promo codes in one page. This works for three of the four offers, Wendy’s can only be redeemed in-store when you are facing the register.

UPDATE Tue 6/28/16 at 2:30pm ET: technical difficulties continue… Remember the offers expire at 5am ET on Wednesday so if you try late at night, you can still get them. This does not help with Wendy’s though since that has to be redeem “LIVE” at the cash register in Wendy’s stores… Hopefully they’ll extend the offers until Friday like they did last week…

ORIGINAL POST
Another week is here, which means if you are a T-Mobile customer, a new round of freebies arrives on Tuesday June 28, 2016. The freebies have been teased on the T-Mobile app (which requires an upgrade if you are on Google Play, so do it NOW, before the Tuesday madness begins).

They are, as you can see in the screenshot below:

• 1-year Digital Subscription to the magazine “Bon Appetit” (does not say how the digital subscription will be delivered)
• One Movie Theater ticket through Fandango
• A $5.50 store credit for Vudu (returning offer)
• A small Frosty at Wendy’s (returning offer)

CAUTION for VUDU CREDITS: they expire SOONER
For some reason Vudu voids the credits BEFORE the end of day on Monday. I just checked now on Monday before 5pm ET, and my credit disappeared. So my suggestion for Vudu is to use the credit as soon as possible. Do not wait until after the weekend!

Freebies time! The T-Mobile Tuesdays app has revealed the four freebies’ for Tuesday June 14, 2016. Three of the four freebies are the same as last week, perhaps giving people a chance who missed out on the first giveaway to get them again.

Here’s a screenshot of the freebies with their names annotated on the page. The new freebie is a Lyft ride up to $15. It replaces the Fandango “Warcraft” movie ticket. The other three are the same. The Dominos medium 2-topping pizza and Wendy’s small frostie should work fine, the only question is whether the Vudu movie rental offer is good even if you took advantage of last week’s. Last week’s Vudu code expires Monday 6/13/16 night, so you can’t stack them.

Even though the offers are one per line, last week, you could only have one Vudu movie rental credit per Vudu account. The movie rental credit can also be used for purchases of movies or TV shows. It’s really a $5.50 Vudu store credit 🙂

PS: if you are not familiar with how these work, check out our T-Mobile Tuesdays Explainer post.

UPDATE #4: the Weekly promotions are offered per T-Mobile line, so if you have multiple lines on the same account, everyone gets the freebies. The exception so far is the T-Mobile share, only the primary account holder gets that. The other restriction is that for some things, like Vudu credit, you can only add one credit per Vudu account (an issue only if one person has two lines).

UPDATE #3 on 6/7/16 at 8:32pm ET: both the Website and the Android app are working again, so you can redeem any of the offers you may have previously missed! The four offers available are Domino’s (free 2-topping medium pizza), Wendy’s (small frosty), Vudu ($5.50 credit for use at their website), and Fandango (free ticket for the new “Warcraft” movie to watch this weekend).

You must claim/redeem these by 5am ET on Wednesday 6/8/16…

UPDATE #2 on 6/7/16 at 2:46pm ET ~ it is #FAIL everywhere. The apps, the website, the offers. It is Day #1 but still, when you are supposed to be “getting Thanked” and instead you waste your time trying to get a freebie and you get nothing, so you end up with a net negative.

UPDATE #1: You don’t have to use the iOS or Android app, there is always the T-Mobile Tuesdays website where you can login with your T-Mobile account. It has the same user interface as the mobile apps.

ORIGINAL POST (6/6/16
If you are a T-Mobile customer, starting tomorrow (6/7/16), you will get FREEBIES from T-Mobile every Tuesday. This was announced as part of the Uncarrier 11 event (see YouTube Stream, advanced to the 18 minute mark of the raw footage).

The benefits will change every week. You have to grab them on that particular Tuesday by adding them to your account. If you miss a particular Tuesday haul, it is gone, but they will have new ones every Tuesday (as long as the program continues).

For the first launch Tuesday (6/7/16), you will get four freebies without any strings attached to them, a Domino’s pizza, a Wendy sugar frostie thing, a movie rental from Vudu, and a movie ticket to the brand new movie Warcraft (based on the popularly addictive game).

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