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Good until Thursday 12/22/16, if you pay for your Woot order with Amazon (they have a “Pay with Amazon” option), you will receive 10% off your order, with a maximum discount of $30 (in other words, a $300 order). There’s no coupon code to enter – here’s their explanation.

Amazon’s many different shipping and delivery options are paying off for procrastinators this year, especially if you are a Prime member. They have a variety of last minute delivery options including:

• Thursday is the last day for 2-Day shipping
• Friday is the last day for 1-Day shipping (some Prime member $35+ orders are eligible for free 1-Day shipping)
• Saturday (Christmas Eve): Same-Day Delivery (some Prime member $35+ orders are eligible) as late as 9:30am Local Time (or earlier; varies regionally)
• Saturday (Christmas Eve) Two Hour PrimeNow deliveries for Prime members as late as 9:45pm local time (or earlier; varies regionally)
• Sunday (Christmas Day): online gifts only; no physical deliveries

NOTE however that the local delivery varies by region, those Saturday cut-off times may be earlier in your region. And that’s before you factor in weather conditions. Some items may not be possible to ship/deliver fast enough. The most accurate estimate is when you add items of interest in your shopping cart and proceed to the Checkout page (the last step before placing an order).

DELIVERY TIP: you can optionally send your orders to local Amazon Lockers if you don’t want to play delivery tug-of-war with the delivery drivers. UPS and FedEx offer some rerouting flexibility (and have more experienced drivers), but Amazon’s own delivery service offers no customization. Since you can’t tell whose gonna deliver before you place the order, if you don’t want to deal with green panicked Amazon delivery drivers not finding you or not delivering because no one was home, you can send the shipment to an Amazon Locker and prevent potential delivery uncertainty.

If you haven’t used this promotion before, Amazon is offering a $5 off discount on orders of $25+ if you install the official Amazon Browser Extension. This offer only works one time per the lifetime of an Amazon account (OTU = one time use). The page tells you whether you are eligible if you are logged on to your Amazon account. If you are not logged on, you will see the promotion information. I don’t even remember how many centuries ago I did this promotion, but their servers remember 🙂

This daily deal expired… Ooops, I forgot about this one! The Sunday deal of the day at the National Geographic Store is 40% off Books, Maps and DVD sets, with free shipping. The sale happens automatically when you add an eligible product in the shopping cart. There’s no coupon. The sale ends on Monday at 3am ET. The usual exclusions apply.

The latest email from the Adorama emailing list has a new promotion, a Secret Holiday Sale. If you make purchase at certain levels, you receive promotional gift cards. For example, a $200+ purchase gets you a $20 promotional gift card, a $500+ gets a $50 promotional gift card, and a $1000+ gets a $100 promotional gift card. The promotional gift cards must be spent between December 12-31 in 2016. The offer ends on Sunday December 4 at 11:59pm eastern.

The terms are outlined at the bottom of their email:

“Promotion ends 12/4/16 at 11:59 PM. Eligible purchases must be made via Holiday Secret Sale email promotion only. Secret Sale coupon codes will be emailed to customers, who have made an eligible purchase through our email-only Holiday Secret Sale promotion, in the form of a redeemable coupon code sent on 12/12/16. Offer valid for in-stock items only. Not valid for orders placed by phone. Not valid for previous purchases. Returns on purchases made through the holiday Secret Sale promotion, are subject to a deduction in the equal amount of the coupon received. Secret Sale coupon codes are good for purchases made between 12/12/16 and December 31st, 2016.”