Monoprice early BF sale plus two-step $25 off $50+ coupon

Not to be left behind by the ever-earlier Black Friday launches, the Monoprice website too launched their own Black Friday sale with 270+ products featured in said sale.

But wait, there’s more, they also have a two-parter coupon promotion:

+ between 11/21 and 12/2 purchase $100+ in qualifying/eligible products
+ if YES, then you will receive a coupon for $25 off purchases of $50+ in qualifying/eligible products to be used between 12/5 and 12/31 in 2018
+ exclusions are listed individually and explained at the aforelinked page

Speaking of Monoprice, their brand new line of AtlasFLEX charging cables (USB-C, microUSB, Lightning) are now shipping and they have free US shipping for a limited time. They range from $4 to $8.

In parallel, Monoprice is running a Clearance + Overstock sale with nearly 500 products featured over there…

B&H Photo Black Friday Head Start sale

If you prefer to get your shopping early and be done before Thanksgiving, so you can have an old fashioned relaxing four day weekend, B&H Photo is running a Black Friday Holiday Head Start sale where you may find what you need and then tune out all this Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Fat chance of that happening, but there is a growing trend these days of people trying to tune out the noise piecemeal and carve out “quiet” periods whenever possible…

Stacksocial Black Friday: 75% off Course Bundles, 40% off Digital; eg Windscribe PRO VPN Lifetime for $35 after coupon

I split the previous Stacksocial post because I got coupon-confused 🙂

Point #1: you need to login in order to test the coupons. You test the coupons by clicking on the tiny blue “Promo Code” on the right side of the shopping cart. You may have to squint to see it. Then enter the coupon codes and see what happens. Their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what happens…

Stacksocial has gone into Black Friday mode with a trio of limited time coupons!

+ coupon BFSAVE75 is 75% off online course bundles

+ for apps and digital goods, coupon code BFSAVE40 gets you 40% off meaning for just $35~ you can get Windscribe PRO VPN lifetime subscription (which is $59 before coupon). Windscribe PRO supports unlimited devices…

+ for physical goods, coupon code BFSAVE20 gets you 20% off, eg some of the various featured items

+ NOTE: I can’t test every product and coupon combination, so that’s DIY for any items you are interested in

Groupon Pre Black Friday sale under way

The Black Friday madness is spreading across the internet stores with the Groupon Black Friday Preview sale currently in progress. You can browse through, or use their left hand side to filter by categories of interest…

Best Buy Early Access sale in progress

All apologies but I don’t have my Best Buy account on this laptop, and I cannot remember my password, so I can’t see what’s on sale. But if you are a member of the Best Buy Rewards programs [free to join], and you are logged on to your BB rewards account, they are currently running an Early Access sale. After that, the sale [or whatever is left] will open up to everybody else. Best Buy has been using this online strategy lately.

The more you spend in a year, the higher the reward level you reach, and the earlier you see the offers. If you are a pleb like me, you are at the entry-level reward level so you are the last to see the offers before the general population does.

REI Outlet sale until 11/22/18

Especially if you are of outdoor photography interest, there is a limited time sale of handpicked products running until 11/22/18 at the online REI Outlet store. The sale is online only, not at their B&M stores…

Round-up of various Manufacturer Instant Savings promotions (C/N/F/P/S/Si/Z/etc)

Sundays are usually [other things equal] the days when new manufacturer-initiated instant-savings promotions are rolling out. In this post, I’m rounding up the latest iteration of these sales using the nicely organized pages at Adorama:

+ Nikon Instant Savings featuring APS-C and full frame DSLRs, Lenses, bundles, and such

+ Sony Instant Savings including a free Joby Gorilla with select Alpha cameras, along with various full frame and APS-C Alpha mirrorless bundles, lens bundles, a handful of Cybershot bundles, two Sony digital paper systems, and assorted photo accessories (flashes, grips, etc)

+ Fuji Instant Savings starting with a couple of GFX (medium format) bundles and then followed by a variety of X-system APS-C camera bundles, lots of XF lenses, and the X100F selling for $1199 instead of its starting price of $1299

+ Panasonic Instant Savings featuring various M43rds mirrorless cameras and lenses, along with a few of their numerous superzoom options

+ Sigma Instant Savings: lots of lenses, a number of which are of the newer ART kind. Shiguma as the good old computer translations like to say 🙂

+ Zeiss Lens Instant Savings with a mix of mirrorless and DSLR lenses

+ GoPRO HERO 7 bundles featuring the Black and Silver models; remember, with GoPRO a different color is a different model; not just a different color!

+ Lexar Instant Savings featuring the various iterations of SD along with some Compactflash and some CFast

+ MSI Gaming Laptops ranging from $999 to $1699

+ LG Instant Savings featuring various computer monitors and one of their Gram lightweight laptops [
+ PS: they weigh more than one gram 🙂

+ Canon Instant Savings featuring a large variety of Full Frame and APS-C DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, assorted lenses of said systems, Powershots (G-series, superzooms, Ixus/Elves), a couple of printers and such…

Adorama Black Friday Preview Sale (2800+ items)

Adorama is currently running their Black Friday Preview sale featuring over 2800 products which you can filter further down using the left hand side of their website (eg by brand or product type or price-range and so on).

A new feature for the 2018 BF/CM season, Adorama has a Same Price Guarantee sale through Cyber Monday. For products featured on this sale, with the red “Same Price Guarantee” appearing in their individual pages or the search results, you’ll pay the same price whether you buy now or on BF/CM. Annotated screenshot below:

YMMV: 10% eBay Bonus Bucks on $50+

If you are participating in the eBay Bucks [reward program], check your emails or eBay Messages. You may have been invited for a new bonus bucks promotion that gets you 10% back in eBay Bucks with a $50+ minimum purchase amount required… Terms and conditions and exclusions apply as usual…

You must first activate the offer using the links in the eBay email/message before you can earn the bonus. Promotion ends 11/20/18 at 11:59pm pacific time…

For ideas on what to buy, check the latest eBay Deals and the latest Trending Deals

NewEgg launches “Black Friday Starts Now” sale

NewEgg has launched their Black Friday Starts NOW sale, featuring their usual assortment of technology, computers, accessories and the like…

NewEGG pre-Black-Friday sales

If you are a fan of the way of the NewEgg, they are currently running another limited time Pre-Black-Friday sale on their website featuring their usual assortment of computer-y and tech-y products…

But that’s not all, they are also running a couple of email e-newsletter promo code style promotions:

+ the Weekend Special, and

+ another pre-Black-Friday sale with a ticking clock on the page even

Saturday at KEH Camera: 25% off Featured, 15% off Many Others [updated]

UPDATE: this promotion has been expanded to run until Saturday at 11:59pm eastern time!

Wake up and smell the KEH roses! Good until Friday at 11/16/18 at 11:59pm eastern time, KEH Camera has a new pre-Black-Friday coupon! Coupon code PBF11A gets you 25% off 550+ featured products. The same coupon also gets you 15% off many other items sold at the KEH website with some exceptions: no Leica, no “NEW” and no “Like New” grade gear. If in doubt, add item(s) of interest to the shopping cart and type in the coupon code and see what happens…

NewEgg Black Friday Preview Sale

NewEGG has launched a Black Friday Countdown sale with some of the offers requiring promo codes for email subscribers [it’s easy to do this, just sign up for their email subscription – with the same email that you use to checkout at the NewEgg website] and you can take advantage of the promotions.

The offers include a 1-year Student and Teacher subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud (the whole thing, not just the Photography plan) for $180 after promo code. Limit one per customer… There’s also a 16GB microSD for $4… Lots of computer and tech products as expected…

Adorama launches “Same Price Guarantee” thru Cyber Monday

IF you are the Early Bird type of a shopper, Adorama has launched a Same Price Guarantee sale on over 2500 items, that, per the verbiage over there, you will pay the same price through Cyber Monday. The same price guarantee is offered by Adorama…

YMMV: 8% eBay Bonus Bucks

If you are participating in the eBay Bucks [reward program], check your emails or eBay Messages. You may have been invited for a new bonus bucks promotion that gets you 8% back in eBay Bucks without a minimum purchase amount required… Terms and conditions and exclusions apply as usual…

You must first activate the offer using the links in the eBay email/message before you can earn the bonus. Promotion ends 11/15/18 at 11:59pm pacific time…

For ideas on what to buy, check the latest eBay Deals and the latest Trending Deals

Monoprice coupons and sales

Good until Sunday night, the weekend duo of coupons is in progress at the Monoprice website. Coupon VET25 gets you $5 off a purchase of $25+, while coupon VET150 gets you 20% off orders of $150+. The minimum purchase amounts must be reached with coupon-eligible items, not a mix of items.

The summer is gone in many regions so Monoprice has put their Pure Outdoor gear on sale/clearance. If you like outdoor gear, or live in places where it’s nice outside, or it’s nice enough for you, you can take advantage of the sales without the summer markup! A total of 56 items are participating in the sale.

Meanwhile the previously mentioned Overstock Clearance sale continues with 489 items remaining…

11/11 Sales are under way!

Black Friday is in less than two weeks, but you can have Black Friday festivities right now as Asian retailers have launched their 11.11 sales including Alibaba and their western-facing AliExpress, along with other Asian western-facing retailers such as GearBest which includes a tech-heavy flash sale of their Top 12 Best Sellers including Xiaomi, OnePlus and DJI). Many items come with free show shipping, but always check the shipping options for smaller items, because for a few cents more you can get tracking or better/faster shipping. YMMV on these shopping adventures!

Monoprice Overstock sale (500 options)

Monoprice is currently running an Overstock/Clearance sale on their website with a random variety of products participating. You can zoom right through them or use the various category-filters on the left hand side of their website to drill down to areas of interest.

YMMV: 10% eBay Bonus Bucks on $150+ items

If you are participating in the eBay Bucks [reward program], check your emails or eBay Messages. You may have been invited for a new bonus bucks promotion that gets you a nice 10% back in eBay Bucks but these have to be purchases of items priced $150 or higher. Terms and conditions and exclusions apply as usual…

You must first activate the offer using the links in the eBay email/message before you can earn the bonus. Promotion ends 11/7/18 at 11:59pm pacific time…

For ideas on what to buy, check the latest eBay Deals and the latest Trending Deals

Save up to 20% on BorrowRentals Gear Rentals

BorrowRentals is having another limited time coupon promotion for the rental of camera gear. I’m saying this because they also sell some of the rental gear. This coupon only works on gear rentals, not purchases. Their promo explains it much better with one picture than I could in words, so here’s the annotated screenshot with all the revenant info…

Mon: 25% off orders of $300+ at Monoprice

If you are planning a big Monoprice purchase, Monday is the day, as they have the 25% off orders of $300+ in coupon-eligible items using coupon code DOUGHNUT [yes, old school spelling] at the Monoprice website

Adorama Pre-Holiday Clearance Sale (4700 options)

Adorama has launched a Pre-Holiday Clearance sale with 4700 products participating. That’s a lot of products to go through one by one, but you can use the left hand side of their website to filter them in various ways, eg by manufacturer, by product type, by price-range, by reviewing rating, and so forth… Speaking of which, they have the latest Google Chromecast (third generation) in-stock for $35…

NewEgg has a “Black Friday NOW” sale

The word is abused so much it no longer has any actual meaning. No, this is not an English Language diatribe but rather, the word “Black Friday”… Speaking of which, NewEgg has a 24-hour Black Friday NOW sale. YMMV as usual with these type of sales…

Fri/Sat: 20% off $150+ or $5 off $25+ at Monoprice

November did not just spawn a monster [per Morrissey], and the holiday drinks at Starbucks, but also has brought a new duo of 2-day coupons (end Saturday night) at the Monoprice website. Coupon NOV20 is 20% off orders of $150+, while coupon NOV5 is $5 off orders of $25+. Limit two redemptions per customer. Only coupon-eligible items count towards the $150/$25 minimums for each coupon. Restrictions and exclusions apply. See website for details.

eBay Bonus Bucks: 6% to 8% back

If you are participating in the eBay Bucks [reward program], check your emails or eBay Messages. You may have been invited for a new bonus bucks promotion that gets you 6% back in eBay Bucks on purchases or 8% in in-app purchases. The default is 1% per purchase. Terms and conditions and exclusions apply as usual…

You must first activate the offer using the links in the eBay email/message before you can earn the bonus. Promotion ends 11/1/18 at 11:59pm pacific time…

For ideas on what to buy, check the latest eBay Deals and the latest Trending Deals

Up to $45 off with BorrowLenses Rental coupon

If you are planning to rent camera gear from BorrowLenses, good until 11/4/18, and for orders received [or picked up] by 11/6/18, the following coupon code gets you a discount based on your total rental-order discount. The coupon is only good for rentals, not purchases of used gear that they also offer over there…

Monday: 25% off $300+ at Monoprice w/coupon

Good until the end of day in the pacific time zone on Monday 10/29/18, coupon code MONSTER25 gets you 25% off orders of $300+ at the Monoprice website. The $300 minimum must needs be reached only with items eligible for the coupon. For example, if your order total is $600 but only $295 is coupon-eligible products, you won’t qualify for the coupon. The coupon only applies to the coupon-eligible products, not the order total. As usual, exclusions apply ~ you can find out for sure by placing items of interest in the shopping cart and entering the coupon [you don’t have to create an account or log-in to test the coupon]…

Adorama Photo Plus Expo 2018 specials

Too many to list here individually, but Adorama is running their own Photo Plus Expo 2018 special offers, featuring a mix of cameras, lenses, photo gear and accessories, computers, Lexar, Sandisk, etc.

And if you like to get a head-start on your shopping, there’s already some Nikon DSLR bundles being offered over there…

15% off with Stacksocial coupon

In this “make your own deal” promotion, for a limited time [expiration date unspecified], coupon code BOO15 [as in Halloween BOO!] gets you 15% off most things [exclusions apply as usual] at the Stacksocial website

Speaking of which, they are offering the Ivacy VPN: Lifetime Subscription + NAT Firewall for $40 as a one-time lifetime fee. You can login with up to five devices at the same time.

More PPE 2018 Specials: Zeiss, Apple, Epson, Bags, Etc

Among the latest B&H PPE 2018 specials, don’t forget to check these potentially interesting offers:

+ Zeiss Prime lenses (five options)

+ Epson Printers

+ Vello Camera Remotes & Flash Triggers

+ Ruggard Camera Bags (8 options)

+ LowePro Camera Bags

+ Apple sale (12 options)