Coupon code PLUG15 gets you 15% off on almost everything at the Monoprice website. Excluded are items already on sale, items whose manufacturers do not allow couponing, items that cannot be couponized by law, etc. When you enter the coupon code in the shopping cart, click on “Details” to see the list of all the excluded items. The coupon ends Sunday night 5/22/16.
(ENDED) Thur only: 10% off Monoprice coupon
This coupon expired…
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Spring Wedding Sale at Adorama
Adorama has just launched a Spring Wedding Camera Gear Sale featuring a variety of camera and photo items related to weddings. In due time I will digest this, but if you want to dive in on your own, it is waiting for you there 🙂
Groupon Coupon: 10% off Goods, 20% off Local (many photo print offers live here)
Groupon is having another 2-day coupon code. Coupon SALE3 gets you 10% off Goods (physical items, eg cameras, bags, memory cards, etc) and 20% off Local deals which is where most of the various photo print offers live (custom photo books, canvas prints, wood, metal, coffee mug prints, etc). Navigate the categories or use their search box to look for items of interest at the Groupon website, or look for ideas in our previous Groupon posts.
The usual coupon restrictions apply. Maximum discount is $50 per deal. Discount on only one unit per transaction, but you can use it on up to three of each deal type (Goods, Local, Gateways). Some items are not eligible (eg manufacturer or legal restrictions). Coupon expires Thursday night 5/19/16.
Due to time-constraints, I can’t go through the Groupon site looking for deals at the moment. The highly anticipated 2-hour Google I/O 2016 keynote begins in 30 minutes or so, I will be live-tweeting the Google I/O (these things are fun!) on Twitter.
Borrow Lenses: Extra Rental Day for Memorial Day
Borrow Lenses is offering an extra rental day if your rental order ends on Memorial Day. They will be closed, so they are giving everyone an extra day as well. No coupon needed but the rental must end on Memorial Day (5/31/16). Details in their email, a screenshot of the relevant part is right below:
(ENDED) Weekend Coupon: 15% off sitewide at Monoprice
This coupon expired but Monoprice rolls out coupons on a regular basis… Now if only they figured out a way to make their free shipping promotions predictable…
(ENDED) Friday: $20 off $100+ or $5 off $25+ at Monoprice
This 1-day coupon pouponed (expired)…
(ENDED) 20% off Groupon Local Deals with coupon
This promotion expired ahead of time. Groupon coupons are rather frustrating. Sometimes they expire early sometimes they get extended multiple days in a row. Grrr…. All apologies but it’s beyond my control…
Prime members: $15 off the first time you pay with Discover Cashback Bonus
If you are an Amazon Prime member, and you have a Discover Cashback Bonus, and you have your Discover Cashback linked to your Amazon account (or do not object to linking one to it) you can get $15 off your Amazon purchase when you pay with “Discover Shop with Points” (your own Discover Cashback Bonus points) at checkout. Unlike some of the other cards, the “translation” here is 1:1, $1 Discover Cashback has $1 in Amazon buying power.
Enter coupon code DISC16EVER at checkout if you don’t see the offer automatically applied. Your Cashback Bonus does not have to cover the full amount of your purchase, it has to pay for at least part of the order. The discount is up to $15, so make sure your order is $15+, so you can get the maximum discount.
(ENDED) Monoprice Coupons: $20/$100+ or $5/$25+ [continues]
These coupons expired but Monoprice has new coupons all the time… If only they figured out a way to make their free shipping promotions more predictable…
(ENDED) Ends 9pm ET: 8% eBay Bucks (no minimum purchase) [must opt-in] {YMMV}
This surprise flash offer expired…
Last Call for the NAB 2016 Specials
We are now in the last few hours of the NAB 2016 Specials. Last call as they say. B&H closes at 7pm ET today (Thursday 4/21/16) and will re-open on 5/1/16, so this is the final countdown for the NAB offers.
If you don’t feel like going through all the offers, here are some pre-sorted links by product category: 10 Tripods (Benro, Magnus, E-Image, Manfrotto, etc) and 30 LED Lights (Genaray, Litepanels, Dracast, Ledgo, Cool-Lux, etc) and 2 Impact Green Screens and 2 Flolights and 3 Westcott Cine Kits.
One more thing, if you are looking for a workstation-caliber $1000 laptop, the HP 15.6″ OMEN Pro Multi-Touch Mobile Workstation PC, model L9U78AA#ABA, goes for $1000. It has a late May 2016 shipping estimate though. Specs include Core i7-4870HQ Quad-Core, 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM, 15.6″ UWVA Anti-Glare 1920 x 1080 Touchscreen, 512GB Z Turbo Drive M.2 PCIe SSD, NVIDIA Quadro K1100M with 2 GB GDDR5 VRAM, 64-bit Windows 7 Professional, 3 year warranty, etc.
10% off site wide with Monoprice coupon
If you are a fan of the Monoprice way of doing things, they have a new coupon promotion good until the end of day on 4/21/16, coupon code 2XTEN gets you 10% off at the Monoprice website. The usual coupon exclusions apply (you can see them after you add the coupon to the shopping cart, and then click on the coupon name).
YMMV 8% eBay Bucks on $100+ individual items
If you are part of the eBay Rewards Program (eBay Bucks) you may be eligible to participate in an 8% eBay Bucks rewards promotion on purchases of individual items priced at $100 or higher. Check your emails or eBay messages to see if the eBay computers selected you for this particular promotion. You have to manually activate the offer before you earn the bonus rewards. The offer is good until April 21st at 11:59pm pacific. The typical limits and exclusions apply (you can find them in the email/message).
I have no way of knowing what percentage of eBay Bucks users are participating in each one of these promotions. I can only see the ones sent to my eBay account, but eBay seems to be sending them to different groups of shoppers at different times. Or something like that. The computers are taking over 🙂
A couple of places to look for ideas are the eBay Deals and the Top 100 Trending Deals.
First time Groupon customers: $10 off $25+ coupon
Groupon is trying to tempt new customers to try their service with coupon code WELCOME that gets you $10 off a purchase of $25 or more from the Groupon website. Most offers are eligible but some local offers and consumer electronics are not eligible. Must be used on the desktop or mobile website, not the app. Limit one use per customer. This is a good way to try out different photo print services. Use the search bar over there to search for things like “photo” or “canvas” or “custom photo book” or photography classes or wood or metal prints and such. Their search bar has auto-complete so it will give you pointers.
(ENDED) New WOOT-OFF started Tue 1am ET
This Woot-OFF ended after 24 hours on Wednesday 4/20/16 at 1am ET…
Surprise discount at Stacksocial with coupon
Stacksocial has some Adobe related and other assorted tutorials, software and hardware items. They have a “surprise discount” coupon to celebrate tax season, coupon TAXES gets you a surprise (aka unknown) discount at Stacksocial. The coupon is good for this weekend. Some items may not be eligible for the discount.
Some items of potential interest:
+ Adobe KnowHow All-Inclusive Photography Bundle for $69 before coupon
+ Pro Digital Photography & Photoshop Bundle by “Courses for Success” for $29 before coupon
+ DSLR Photography Course Bundle by Ken Schultz for $25 before coupon
+ Hollywood Art Institute Photography Course & Certification for $25 before coupon
+ various WordPress theme bundles and courses (note some of the WP Themes are lifetime, others are 1-year subscriptions)
15% off rentals at Borrow Lenses with coupon
Borrow Lenses is among the retailers “celebrating” tax deadline panic season with a coupon promotion. Coupon code BLTAXDAY gets you 15% off a rental order per their Offers page. The coupon expires April 18th, 2016, at 11:59PM PST.
Monoprice Coupons: $20 off $100+ or $5 off $25+
The Monoprice website has two coupons for the weekend, good until the end of day on Sunday 4/10/16 as follows:
+ coupon AP20 is $20 off orders of $100 or more
+ coupon AP5 is $5 off orders of $25 or more
+ their usual coupon restrictions apply
+ they have reasonably priced camera-related accessories to begin with, the coupon discounts will make up for the lack of free shipping
Staples: $25 off $100+ order with VISA Checkout
Staples does not have the selection and variety of dedicated camera retailers, but they do have some camera and photo gear, and also a variety of degrees of separation gear (memory cards, hard drives, monitors, etc), not to mention office supplies if you have a studio or small business. Which brings us to a limited time offer, if you use VISA Checkout to pay for your order, you get $25 off an order of $100 or more.
Ideas for things to buy: their Camera and Photo main page and their Daily Deals ever-scrolling page.
Some of the items ship to you, some of them are available for store pickup, some are available for ship-to-store. many are available in two or all of those options. If you are a Staples Rewards member, you get free shipping on orders of $15+.
Woot April 2016: pay $5 flat shipping only ONCE during the month
It can risky when companies make serious announcements on April Fool’s Day (that’s when Gmail was born!), especially if they participate in April Fool’s Day jokes, but this one is not a joke. For the whole month of April 2016, you only pay $5 shipping ONCE for everything you buy from Woot (except Wine and International Shirt). So instead of paying $5 flat shipping per day, you only pay it for the first order you make in April 2016. Subsequent April 2016 orders will get free shipping. This is not the first time they run a promotion like this. Details at the Promotion page.
Spring Clearance at Adorama (4200+ items)
Adorama is having a Spring Clearance Sale with over 4200 items participating. You can use the various options in the left sidebar to filter them by product categories and manufacturer and price range or condition (eg refurbished). Unfortunately my brain is a 900 MHz Celeron so I can’t go through 4200+ items in milliseconds, so it may take a while for me to sift through them 🙂
Limited time Stacksocial coupon ($10/$55+, $15/100+, $20/$150+)
For a limited time only, Stacksocial has three coupon discounts as follows:
+ SAVE10 is $10 off a $55+ order
+ SAVE15 is $15 off a $100+ order
+ SAVE20 is $20 off a $150+ order
YMMV 10% on eBay Bucks until 3/30/16 PM (must opt-in)
If you are participating in the eBay Bucks rewards program, there is a new promotion emailed out good until 3/30/16 at 11:59pm pacific. You earn 10% back in eBay Bucks on any eligible purchase (no minimum amounts this time). The usual restrictions apply (you can find them in the email or eBay Inbox message). This is a “bury the lead” offer, the email advertises a 20% back on Fashion items, with the 10% buried below it. The email is titled “HUGE BONUS—earn up to 20% eBay Bucks.”
A good place to look for specials are the eBay Daily Deals and their accompanying Trending Deals Top 100 (some of the deals may be auto-tuned or oversampled).
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Q2 2016: 5% on Warehouse Clubs with Chase Freedom
If you shop at warehouse clubs (eg BJ’s, Sam’s Club, etc), and you have a Chase Freedom credit card, their 2nd quarter (4/1 to 6/30 in 2016) 5% cashback promotion includes purchases at some warehouse clubs. This is capped at $1500 per card for the whole quarter. Warehouse clubs have limited camera and photo selection, but if they happen to have any cameras and lenses you want/need, then that’s an extra 5% for you to spend in the future. If you have multiple cards, and camera purchases over $1500, you can split the purchase between two cards (if possible).
You have to manually opt-in for this promotion at the Chase website or using the 1-click reminder emails (if you signed up for those). You have until mid-June to retroactively activate it, but if you activate now, you will earn the rewards now as opposed to two months later. Or you may forget.
PS: the Chase pages mention BJ and Sam’s Club by name. They do not mention Costco. I do not know if Costco is not mentioned simply because the other ones may be paying to be featured or not. To be certain, try a small purchase first or contact the Chase customer service. I don’t have a Costco membership so I cannot test it ~ you will know I have a Costco membership when the prizes for blog contests are 100pks of socks and toilet paper 😉
(ENDED) New WOOT-OFF started Thur 1am ET
This particular surprise Woot-OFF lasted 24 hours and ended on Friday at 1am ET. (These typically start Tuesdays at 1am ET)…
Pay with PayPal Coupon: $10 off $50+ at Monoprice
If you are a fan of The PayPal and The Monoprice, there is a limited time coupon promotion that brings the two together. Use coupon code PAL10 to get $10 off an order of $50+ at the Monoprice website. You have to pay with Paypal for this promotion. Most items are eligible with the usual exceptions (gift cards, brands that do not allow couponing on their products, etc). If you enter the coupon in the shopping cart, its details should show the specific exclusion list. Monoprice has a number of camera-related accessories, search for product type (eg tripods, camera bags, etc) or navigate the categories. Coupon expires 3/17/16.
(ENDED) Fri only: $20 off $100+ at Monoprice with coupon
This offer ended but there are occasional Monoprice coupons like this every few weeks…
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