Soda Stream $40 from The Home Depot After Rebate?

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Soda Stream starter kit is $80 from The Home Depot.

Use coupon code GIFT4DAD and save 20% for a final price of $64 with free shipping

$25 Rebate available if you buy a sodastream between June 11th and June 20th

The rebate says it is not available with any other coupons so you may not be eligible for both.

Sign up for an email subscription to Home Depot and save $5 off your next in store purchase of $50 or more

How to Pay for it

• Start shopping at the Shop Discover shopping portal and pay with your DISCOVER IT™ card and you will get 15% cashback.  10% for Shop Discover and 5% because Discover offers 5% cashback at Home Improvement stores through the end of June.

• Start your purchase from Ebates instead of Shop Discover and you will get 5% cashback as well.  You will still get your normal cashback from your credit card as well. Don't have ebates?  Sign up here for free.  You also get a $10 gift card to Target, Barnes and Noble, Home Depot or Magazines.com after your first $25 purchase 

Starbucks eGift Card 20%+ off

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Raise.com is currently offering up to 17.5% off Starbucks eGift cards.  The larger the denomination, the more you save.

Use Promo Code RAISE75AF and save $5 if you spend $80 or more.  Promo code expires at the end of June.

The best deal is to buy two $50 Starbucks cards for $42.50 each which is only a 15% discount, but the final price goes to $80 after the promo code for a final discount of 20%.

These are eGift cards and can be added to your current Starbucks card on your phone or physical card. The eGift card should arrive the same day you buy it.

Don't have a Raise account?  Sign up here and thanks for the referral

Start your purchase from Top Cashback and get 2% back as well!

Don't have Top Cashback?  Sign up here for free.   They usually have the best cashback percentages although it take a little longer to get your money.

Maximizing Starbucks Purchases

A couple of tricks for Starbucks.

• Bring in your own mug
• You save 10 cents per cup if you bring in your own reusable cup.

• Share your Account with Your Spouse or anyone else
• Starbucks rewards are based on how many purchases you have with your registered Starbucks card.  If you both have smartphones you can use the same account, but you have to sign in to your account every time.
• After 5 purchases you get free in store refills (studying anyone?)
• After 25 purchases you have Gold status and you get a free drink for every 12 purchases.

Thank you AH for your help on this one.

PNY 128GB USB Flashdrive - $60

Disclaimer: I receive a referral commission for the following link(s):  Top Cashback and Best Buy (only if you don't use Top Cashback - which you should)

Update: Price is back up to $150.  Congrats to those who got it at $60.

My general price target for a USB flash drive is $.50 or less per GB.  For example, you would want to pay $16 or less for 32GB of storage..  Also, as you get more storage, it is more difficult to find that price target.

This USB fits the model.  128Gb for $60 is slightly less than $0.50 cents per GB and 128GB is very larget for a USB flash drive.  Search "5577085" at Best Buyfrom the link to find the model.





Sign up for Best Buy Rewards Zone and you will get a $5 Best Buy Gift Card for every $250 you spend at Best Buy (2%) in addition to all your other savings.  Reward zone gift cards can be redeemed for Amazon gift cards, which I consider the same as cash.


Start your purchase from Top Cashback and get 4% back as well!

Don't have Top Cashback?  Sign up here for free.   They usually have the best cashback percentages although it take a little longer to get your money.

Secure Messaging Your Way to More Miles

I signed up for the Chase United MileagePlus Explorer credit card for my wife a couple months ago.

The current sign up bonus, which is the one I signed up for was 30,000 United Miles if you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months.

In addition, you get another 5,000 miles if you add an authorized user within 3 months for a total of 35,000 miles

I had read online that there was an offer for the same card with a 50,000 mile bonus (55,000 when you add an authorized user), but I hadn't signed up for it.  I also read about possibly getting a $50 credit as well.  Not surprisingly, when I spent $1,000, 30,000 miles were credited to my wife's United account.

I wanted the extra miles so this is what I did and you can do it too whenever there has recently been an available offer that's higher than your bonus.  I have done it with Chase and Citibank.  I don't know if it works with American Express.

Send a Secure Message

• Log in to your account at Chase.com
• Click on "Secure Message Center"

• Then Click on "send a secure message"
• Choose the credit card and the category of message you want to send and send you message.

It doesn't need to be complicated.  This is what I sent:

After I signed up for a 30,000 mile sign up bonus I noticed that there was a 50,000 mile sign up bonus with a $50 statement credit. Can I please be matched to that offer? Thank you very much.

I got the following response from Chase within 1 business day:



         Thank you for contacting Chase regarding your United 

MileagePlus® credit card account.

We are pleased to inform you that we have honored your 
request and added an additional 20,000 bonus miles and a 
$50.00 statement credit to your account to match our 
latest offer. These adjustments will be reflected on your
next billing statement.

If you have any further questions, please reply using the 
Secure Message Center. 

It only takes a minute and your results can be great.  As you see, I didn't even send a link or a screen shot of the available offer.

Last Week to Sign up for Chase Freedom Q2 5% Categories

You have until June 14th (Friday) to sign up for 5% cashback on Quarter 2 (April-June).

Activate 5% Categories Here

When you sign up, you will get 5% cashback retroactive to the beginning of April on Restaurants, Movie Theaters and Lowe's up to $1,500 in purchases.

Not sure if you signed up?  Check here

Starting June 15th, you will be able to activate 5% for Quarter 3 Categories, which include Gas, Kohl's and Theme Parks.   There will be a separate post about that.

Related
Save 15% off every Lowe's purchase until the end of June with your Chase Freedom or Discover it Cards - I have needed to spend a lot money at Lowe's and I will probably get over 10,000 points for it just from this quarter.  80,000 miles is a free roundtrip to Israel so that's not too shabby!  I hope to show the full calculations later.

Buffalo, I Will Miss You and Your Easy Free Money Way!

I just got back from my daily "errands".  I cashed out $1,000 of Chase gift cards on my Bluebird with no fees for 1,000 Ultimate Rewards points at Walmart which is 5 minutes away.  80,000 Ultimate Rewards points is equivalent to a free rountrip ticket to Israel on United.

Vanilla Reloads are abundant at the local CVS and $200 Visa gift cards at Office Max, while not quite as abundant as VRs, were certainly more than I needed.  I bought 4 because they have to be on separate transactions and I felt like I would be too much of a pain to them if I bought any more.

If you are curious, there are still 9 $200 visa gift cards at Office Max on Maple Road in Amherst as of this morning.  I will be going back tomorrow to get more (on a different credit card), I hope they restock, but I have a feeling that they won't.


I bought the 4 cards on my Citibank AAdvantage card since I get double miles on up to $750 each month which is why I bought four.  After the second one, I got a text message from Citi's fraud department asking if I had spent the money.  Oops!  No harm done, I replied that I did and the rest went through.  My haul = 1,878 American Airlines miles (1,500 miles for the first $750 and 378 for the next $37.80).  90,000 American Airlines miles will get you a free rountrip ticket to Israel on American Airlines.

Staples - $10 eGift Card with $50 Staples eGift Card

Staples is offering a $10 eGift card when you purchase a $50 staples eGift card.

6/9-/6/13

The gift cards are not offered directly from Staples.  They are offered from a third party website so you will likely not get any extra money from Shop Discover or Top Cashback, but it can't hurt to try.

The purchase probably also won't be counted as an office supply purchase for Chase Ink cards, but who knows.

Google Nexus 7 $180 + $20 Staples Gift Card

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Google Nexus 7 costs $200 from Google.  You can buy it for now for $180 from Staples after coupon code 24591 which takes off $20.

In addition, you can fill out a rebate for a $20 staples gift card (the second rebate on that page) to use on a future purchase at staples for a final price of $160 or 20% off.

Best Payment Options

Start shopping from Shop Discover online shopping portal and you will receive 5% back as well when you pay with a DISCOVER IT™ Card.  You will still get your 1% cashback for everyday spending for a total of another 6% back.

I buy $25 Bed Bath and Beyond gift cards for $20 of Discover rewards so I consider their rewards worth 1.25x their stated value or 7.5% in actual value for this purchase.

Don't have a Discover it?

1) Apply for DISCOVER IT™.

2) Start your purchase from Top Cashback and get up to 3% back as well, depending upon what you buy!  You will still get your regular rewards from your credit card.


Don't have Top Cashback?  Sign up here for free.   They usually have the best cashback percentages although it take a little longer to get your money.


Pay with Chase Ink Bold, Ink Plus, Ink Classic or Ink Cash and you will receive 5 Ultimate Reward points for every dollar you spend at Office Supply stores in addition to Top Cashback money for a total of 8% back.  These are business cards.

Otherwise, combine Top Cashback with your regular card.



Thank you YP for the tip!