For those who are not familiar, I started a series a while back called Turnover Tuesdays. Every Tuesday I like to highlight one item that I have resold. This will include profitable and non profitable sales. I hope that there is always something to learn.
Showing posts with label Walgreens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walgreens. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Friday, November 28, 2014
Raise, Top Cashback and Black Friday - Extra 10% Cashback on Discounted Gift Cards
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Raise.com sells gift cards to retailers at a discount, but they are having a special sale for Black Friday on 50 brands of gift cards.
Use Coupon code BLKFRI5 for an extra 5% off the already discounted prices.
Start your purchase from Top Cashback and get an extra 5% cash back as well.
Most interesting brands to me are Dunkin Donuts (Base price is 15% off), Walgreen's (Base price is 9% off)
With the 5% cashback, you will pay $80.27 right now for a $100 Dunkin donuts gift cards. Then you will get another 5% cashback from Top Cashback. Not too shabby!
Keep in mind that the base price for the gift changes with inventory so I will list its current price, but it might not be the same if you try to buy it. The prices have changed significantly in the past few days.
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Raise.com sells gift cards to retailers at a discount, but they are having a special sale for Black Friday on 50 brands of gift cards.
Use Coupon code BLKFRI5 for an extra 5% off the already discounted prices.
Start your purchase from Top Cashback and get an extra 5% cash back as well.
Most interesting brands to me are Dunkin Donuts (Base price is 15% off), Walgreen's (Base price is 9% off)
With the 5% cashback, you will pay $80.27 right now for a $100 Dunkin donuts gift cards. Then you will get another 5% cashback from Top Cashback. Not too shabby!
Keep in mind that the base price for the gift changes with inventory so I will list its current price, but it might not be the same if you try to buy it. The prices have changed significantly in the past few days.
Don't have a Raise account? Sign up free
Don't have a Top Cashback account? Sign up free
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Walgreen's - Coupon Code Didn't Work? Ask for Discount in Person
Snapfish gives you the option of shipping or picking up the pictures from Walgreen's. The problem is that if you choose the option of pick up from Walgreen's, your coupon code is nullified. You either need to pay for shipping or full price for the pictures.
Enter Walgreen's. Instead of uploading pictures, you can upload directly to Walgreen's website. Walgreen's uses Snapfish's software so you don't even need to get used to a new system. They post their coupon codes directly onto their site, (for example right now you can save 40% off a $10+ order with code PRINTS2LARGE). The best part is that you can pick up your photos with no shipping and the coupon code will still work.
Every once in a while a coupon code doesn't work. This happened to me last Saturday night. When I got to Walgreen's I asked politely, "I tried to use a coupon code online that I saw on the Walgreen's website and it said it doesn't work. Is there any way that you can add the coupon manually?" He asked me how much it was, I told him 30% and he instantly took a couple dollars off.
I am not gutsy enough to demand the discount to be added, but I have enough guts to ask for the discount I know that I was supposed to get. Usually, if you ask nicely, they will happily give it to you.
Do other people use different photo companies? Anything really good and cheap I should look into? Leave a comment if you have a suggestion.
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Using the Final Balance of your Visa Gift Cards
Manufactured Spending with Visa Gift Cards
One of the usual methods of Manufactured Spending when Vanilla Reloads aren't available is to use Visa Gift Cards. It is quite simple to extract the money from a Vanilla Reload card back into your bank account online without any extra fees.
Visa Gift Cards, however, while they are getting easier to liquidate with methods that treat them as true Debit Cards (see Evolve, for example), are still more difficult to unload without fees. You can always bring them to Walmart to load to Bluebird for free, but that is time consuming and can be a pain especially if Walmart isn't close to you. You also have to deal with the People of Walmart.
One method to unload them is to spend them, Heaven forbid. The obvious drawback is that you aren't using your other credit cards so you aren't generating any new points. That being said, this method keeps things simple and some people aren't quite ready for that level of complexity yet (Your day will come, JF, we just aren't there yet).
Spending the Final Balance
The problem is what do you do with that final $1.37 when you keep getting rejected for insufficient balance? Such a pain. You can try to ask the store to split up the transaction, but sometimes it's hard to remember which card has $1.37 and which one has $0.52 on it.
Here's what I do: After I am rejected, the Visa Gift Card goes into a pile of cards that don't have much money on them. I keep a few of them in my wallet at all times.
There are stores that will automatically remove the balance from that card and you don't have to know your exact balance. If my purchase is $4.50 and my balance is $1.25, I swipe and the price goes down to $3.25 automatically. This is not an exhaustive list. I just know that these three work.
Dunkin' Donuts
Walgreens
7-11
Starbucks
Ralph's
Walgreen's is perfect for me because I can spend $4 on prescriptions every month and spend down my gift cards.
Do you know of others that work too? Leave a comment and help everyone out!
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