YMMV: 8% back in eBay Bucks on $25+ items [or 6% under $25]

Jump in the Bay of Fees 🙂 This is YMMV ~ I do not know if eBay offers this to everyone or a subset of their registered users. Good until Thursday 3am eastern (9/7/17), you earn 8% eBay Bucks on your purchases of individual items priced at $25+, or 6% on items individually priced under $25. So you earn bonus bucks even if you buy a $1 eligible item!

First you have to manually activate the offer from the eBay email or your eBay messages (if invited/selected to participate). Some exclusions apply as usual and the maximum rewards you can earn is $100 per transaction, and $500 during the promotional period. The email title announcing this promotion is not as clear as previous ones, but it has “eBay Bucks” in it, so look for that if you are skimming or filtering eBay emails.

DOUBLE DIP ALERT: until Tuesday September 5 (2017) at 11am ET, there is also an eBay coupon promotion. During this time period, once you activate the eBay Bonus Bucks, you can get both the coupon discount and the Bonus Bucks!

A good place to look for ideas are the eBay Deals along with the Trending Deals (shows only 100 trending deals, less overwhelming to look at than their main deals page). There’s also a dedicated search box there that searches only the Deals, not everything else on eBay.

Another way to look for ideas is our eBay Category posts.

Samy’s B&M stores: Rent for Labor Day Weekend, Pay For One Day

If you are near a participating Samy’s Camera brick and mortar store, they have a new Labor Day weekend promotion. You can pick up a rental during the weekend, return by Tuesday 9/5/17 at 11am local time and pay for ONLY ONE DAY. Details and more questions on their Twitter:

4-Day Monoprice Coupon: 15% off, no minimum

Finally Monoprice is doing more user-friendly coupons, this one lasts for the whole Labor Day weekend, good until Monday night 9/4/17, coupon code LABORDAY gets you 15% off site-wide at the Monoprice website without a minimum purchase requirement. No minimum purchase amount required!

As usual, you can test the coupon by adding items of interest in the cart and the coupon. You don’t need to login or signup for a Monoprice account to test the coupon. Likewise, you can enter a zipcode and get a shipping estimate.

PS: for a rolling summary of some of the latest deals, check our Labor day deals round-up.

New eBay Coupon: 20% off items priced $25+ (max discount $50)

eBay is back with another coupon promotion. Promo code P20LABORDAY gets you 20% off items individually priced $25+, with a maximum discount of $50 (in other words it flattens to $50 off after $250).

Participating retailers include Beach Camera, Anker, Overstock, and some of the regulars of the eBay Deals.

There are nearly 3000 listings under the Camera and Photo category.

As usual with these, keep in mind that a variety of sellers are participating, with products in various conditions (new, open box, refurbished, new-other, etc), along with a mix of authorized and un-authorized dealers, so do check each individual listing for details ~ do not make assumptions 🙂

Coupon expires on September 5, 2017 at 11am ET.

(ENDED) Thursday Rakuten coupons: $10/$75+ OR $40/$350+ OR $60/$500+

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YMMV: 8% back in eBay Bucks on $50+ items

Jump in the Bay of Fees 🙂 This is YMMV ~ I do not know if eBay offers this to everyone or a subset of their registered users. Good until Thursday 3am eastern (8/31/17), you earn 8% eBay Bucks on your purchases of individual items priced at $50 or more.

First you have to manually activate the offer from the eBay email or your eBay messages (if invited/selected to participate). Some exclusions apply as usual and the maximum rewards you can earn is $100 per transaction, and $500 during the promotional period. The email title announcing this promotion is not as clear as previous ones, but it has “eBay Bucks” in it, so look for that if you are skimming or filtering eBay emails.

A good place to look for ideas are the eBay Deals along with the Trending Deals (shows only 100 trending deals, less overwhelming to look at than their main deals page). There’s also a dedicated search box there that searches only the Deals, not everything else on eBay.

Another way to look for ideas is our eBay Category posts.

KEH Weekly USED Coupon Deals: Minolta X-700 Film Camera for $82+, Pentax 645 RC-A 2X TC for $49+

A new week has arrived which means another round of featured USED Weekly Sales at KEH has been added. These are eligible for 25% off with permanent coupon KEHDEALS and continue until Friday night of the same week (eg Friday 9/1/17 in this case).

This week includes:

+ USED Minolta X-700 Black 35mm Camera Body starts at $82~ after coupon

+ USED Pentax 645 Rear Converter-A 2X Teleconverter (35-600mm) starts at $49~ after coupon

+ four photo-accessories are also part of the weekly offers

(ENDED) Woot-OFF In Progress!

This Woot-OFF lasted 24 hours only…

It’s not a bird, it’s a WOOT-OFF. Currently in progress is a WOOT-OFf at the main Woot, along with Shirts and Wines. Offers change throughout the day. The pace is determined by how fast the previous item sells out. Shipping is $5 flat for anything you buy during the day as usual. These typically last in 24 hour increments, 1-3 days, so they end at 1am Eastern.

(ENDED) Monday: 20% off Monoprice coupon [no minimum order amount!]

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It is a rare coupon at the Monoprice website, coupon code SAVE20 gets you 20% OFF Your Entire Order without a minimum order amount! Typically their 20% off coupons have a $200 or $300 minimum amount, but this coupon is on any amount! Coupon expires Monday night!

As usual restrictions apply. You can test the coupon by entering it in the shopping cart without logging in or creating an account. You can also get a S&H estimate just by entering a zipcode.

Thursday: 20% off back in Rakuten Rewards w/coupon

Good for Thursday 8/24/17, promo code 20BACK gets you 20% Rakuten Rewards points on your purchase at the Rakuten website. You pay the price you see, but you will earn 20% Rewards Points which you can use in the future. You have to be a member of the Rakuten Rewards program, which is free and easy to join.

(ENDED) KEH Film Cameras, Lenses, Accessories Sale with 15% to 25% off Coupon (ends 7pm ET)

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10% off select eBay items priced $25+ with coupon (max disco $50)

eBay super fans, we have a proper Union of the Two Towers! Running until 3am ET on Friday is a 6% to 8% eBay Bucks promotion (you must be invited and activate the promotion), and now, running until Monday 3am ET is a new eBay coupon promotion. So until Friday 3am ET, you can both get the bonus bucks and the coupon discount.

The coupon promotion is this: coupon code P10COLLEGE gets you 10% off towards the purchase of products individually priced $25+ from 60 different eBay sellers, including the official DJI eBay store, VM Innotations, eBags, Samsonite, Red Tag Camera, OVerstock, Anker Direct, and many other eBay discounters you may recognize from the eBay Deals.

You can use the coupon twice per PayPal account. Maximum discount is $50 per transaction. In other words, if you buy an eligible item with a price over $500, you will get a flat discount of $50 off.

You can use the categories on the left hand side of the Promotional page to filter in different ways. Or you can go directly to the Cameras and Drones page with over 2400 eligible items. You can further drill down on those using the categories on the left hand side over there.

Sadly I’m not a Google bot, so I can’t price-check 2400+ items on the fly, but I’ll try to go through as many as I can on a time-permitting basis 🙂

20% off your first order at Google Express (max disco $30)

Combined with the end of the Google Express memberships, and the partnership with Walmart for Express delivery and Google Assistant ordering, a new coupon has launched at Google Express.

Coupon code WELCOME1 gets you 20% off your FIRST Google Express order, with a maximum discount of $30. If you want to use your discount on Walmart, you can sign up for email notification so you’ll receive the coupon when Walmart becomes available at your local Google Express.

Of camera and photo interest, retailers of potential interest participating at Google Express (YMMV depending on location) including Costco, Fry’s, Walmart (soon), Staples, Tarjay (Target), etc.

More details on the promotions, with exclusions and terms at the Help page.

YMMV: 6% to 8% back in eBay Bucks

This is YMMV ~ I do not know if eBay offers this to everyone or a subset of their registered users. Good until Friday 3am eastern (8/25/17), you earn 8% eBay Bucks on your purchases over $50 or 6% on purchases under $50. So even a $1 item will get you bonus bucks.

First you have to manually activate the offer from the eBay email or your eBay messages (if invited/selected to participate). Some exclusions apply as usual and the maximum rewards you can earn is $100 per transaction, and $500 during the promotional period. The email title announcing this promotion is not as clear as previous ones, but it has “eBay Bucks” in it, so look for that if you are skimming or filtering eBay emails.

A good place to look for ideas are the eBay Deals along with the Trending Deals (shows only 100 trending deals, less overwhelming to look at than their main deals page). There’s also a dedicated search box there that searches only the Deals, not everything else on eBay.

Another way to look for ideas is our eBay Category posts.

UPDATE: speaking of eBay, PayPal Digital Gifts is offering $25 Peets emailable gift cards for $20 with a limit of five per customer. This is a 20% off discount. If you max out, you pay $100 and get $125 worth of Peets e-gift cards. Peets has launched a rewards program now with iOS and Android apps as well.

BorrowLenses Rent More to Save More (up to 25% off)

Borrow Lenses is back with another camera gear RENTAL coupon, it’s a Spend More, to Save More type of a promotion, The more you spend, the bigger the discount percentage, with discounts ranging from 10% to 25% as outlined in the annotated screenshot of their promotion below (much easier to explain like this than me writing a five paragraph post about it):

10% off site-wide sale at Dell with coupon

Dell Home is currently having a 10% off site-wide sale. Click on the large thumbnails at the top stripe of the page to look at the various product categories participating (laptops, desktops, etc). In addition to those, when you page down the page, you will see a variety of other offers. Use coupon code TENOFF for the the 10% off discount. Items that already discounted by more than 10% may not be eligible for the coupon. This is a limited time offer!

Used Specials at B&H Photo (96+ options)

B&H Photo has launched a sale on select Clearance Categories. Under the Photography category there are 96 items, while under the Video category there are over 440 items.

Adorama Solar Eclipse sale (4000+ items)

Adorama is having a 12-hour Solar Eclipse Sale with over 4000 products participating. I can’t stop time and go through all of them before the sale ends, so this is if you feel like going into a deal fishing expedition.

Sunday: 15% off Monoprice coupon

For Sunday 8/20/17 only, coupon code SPREE gets you 15% off your purchase at the Monoprice website. The usual exclusions apply. Cannot be combined with other purchases. Up to five redemptions per customer on orders up to $5000.

New Free Shipping Offer at Groupon: Make $50+ purchase, unlock Free Shipping for the next 14 Days (without minimum purchase requirement)

There is a new development in the world of Free Shipping at Groupon Goods. In addition to their existing on-going offer to get free shipping with a $34.99+ order, they are introducing a new limited time free shipping promotion as follows:

IF you make a purchase of $49.99+ in a single transaction, for the next 14 calendar days, you will get FREE shipping on all your purchases, without the need for a minimum purchase amount. Items have to be sold and shipped by Groupon itself, not 3rd-party sellers.

Think of it a 14-day Prime-like membership, except you get the slowest Super-Saver No-Rush shipping, instead of 2-day shipping 🙂

The fineprint of the offer, cut and paste from their website:

“For a limited time, when you spend $49.99 or more on eligible Goods deals in one purchase, you’ll get free standard shipping ($3.99) on that order and on all eligible orders for the next 14 days with no minimum purchase requirement. No limits on number of uses. Eligible orders are for deals sold by Groupon Goods, Inc. that are not large, oversized, or delivered by a special or white glove carrier. Orders from third party sellers that sell on the Groupon Marketplace do not qualify. U.S. only.”

It is nice to see retailers try new things. Shipping is definitely one thing that is holding back some people from making Groupon purchases, so this offer may …unlock temporary impulse buys 🙂

(ENDED) 2-Day Monoprice coupons: 20% off $200+ or $5 off $25+ [updated]

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YMMV: 8% back in eBay Bucks [no minimum amount]

This is YMMV ~ I do not know if eBay offers this to everyone or a subset of their registered users. Good until Friday 3am eastern (8/18/17), you earn 8% eBay Bucks on your purchases This particular promotion has no minimum purchase price, so even a $1 item will get you bonus bucks.

First you have to manually activate the offer from the eBay email or your eBay messages (if invited/selected to participate). Some exclusions apply as usual and the maximum rewards you can earn is $100 per transaction, and $500 during the promotional period. The email title announcing this promotion is not as clear as previous ones, but it has “eBay Bucks” in it, so look for that if you are skimming or filtering eBay emails.

A good place to look for ideas are the eBay Deals along with the Trending Deals (shows only 100 trending deals, less overwhelming to look at than their main deals page). There’s also a dedicated search box there that searches only the Deals, not everything else on eBay.

Another way to look for ideas is our eBay Category posts.

UPDATE: speaking of eBay, PayPal Digital Gifts is offering $25 Peets emailable gift cards for $20 with a limit of five per customer. This is a 20% off discount. If you max out, you pay $100 and get $125 worth of Peets e-gift cards. Peets has launched a rewards program now with iOS and Android apps as well.

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Sunday: 15% off Monoprice coupon

Sunday is here and coupon code RED15 gets you 15% off at the Monoprice website. Coupon expires Sunday night (I’m assuming 11:59pm pacific time since Monoprice is located in Southern Californication).

Deal Fishing: Overstock Sale at KEH (430+ options)

If you feel like deal fishing, KEH Camera has an Overstock Camera Gear Sale featuring over 430 camera-related products. You can use their website options on the left-hand side over there to filter by product category, brand, system, condition, price-range, etc. Happy fishing 🙂 [insert fishing meme here]

Monoprice coupons: $20/$200+ or $5/$25+

Monoprice is back with two coupons that are good until Saturday night at Monoprice.com: SAVING5 (five, not “S”) gets you $5 off a $25+ order, while coupon SAVING20 gets you $20 off a $200+ order. The usual exclusions apply.

In other Monoprice action, they have the following sales:

+ Monoprice MP 22-inch 1080p Battery-Free Pen Display Tablet, Black – 5048 LPI | 2048 Pressure Levels | 200 RPS – PC / MAC for $380 with free standard US shipping

+ Monoprice MP Select Mini 3D Printer (REFURBISHED) for $180 + S&H

+ 63-inch Lightweight Aluminum Portable Monopod for $5 + S&H
+ averages 4.6 out of 5 on 19 customer reviews

+ Mid-Summer Clearance sale

+ free shipping on select tech items under $10

10% back in eBay Bucks on $50+ items

If you are planning to make purchases of items priced $50 or higher individually (not as a total shopping cart), and you are participating in the eBay Bucks rewards program, check your emails or eBay messages for a new 10% eBay Bucks promotion on $50+ items. You must first activate the offer by clicking on the appropriate spot in the email or eBay message. Without activation, you won’t earn the bonus! The email title is semi-hidden, “Don’t get schooled–earn 10% eBay Bucks now!”, which may not be visible if you are using a phone to quickly skim emails.

A good place to look for ideas are the eBay Deals along with the Trending Deals (shows only 100 trending deals, less overwhelming to look at than their main deals page). There’s also a dedicated search box there that searches only the Deals, not everything else on eBay.

Another way to look for ideas is our eBay Archive posts.

(ENDED) 15% off at KEH Camera on Used Gear in Excellent and Excellent Plus condition

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Oops, I knew there was something I forgot about today, and now I remember, thankfully it’s not too late! Good for Thursday, coupon code EX08A gets you 15% off Excellent and Excellent Plus grade gear. KEH specializes in used gear, and they offer a 180-day warranty (except for AS-IS items). This link prefilters items in those two conditions which are the ones eligible for the coupon code.