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Prime members: $20 off first PrimeNow order of $50+ [more places in CA, TX, MN]

If you have a Prime membership, you are also eligible to shop using Amazon’s PrimeNow feature (free 2-hour local delivery). In recent days, this service became available to more highly-populated areas (Houston, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Twin Cities, Northern California Tech Bubble Bay Area). If you haven’t used it before, coupon code GETITNOW gets you $20 off an order of $50+. You have to use the Prime Now app (available on iOS, Google Play, Amazon’s appstore) to make your purchases. You can’t use the regular Amazon website for PrimeNow orders. Sicne it is local delivery within 2 hours, you can only purchase items available at your local Amazon warehouse. Only items sold and shipped by Amazon actual are eligible. I haven’t used this service yet, but I will try to do so over the weekend, so I will have a mini-report for you early next week.

Amazon has so many different sub-programs, it can get very confusing. PrimeNow is a different program from the Prime Same Day Delivery feature (with orders of $35+). I am working on a post to help sort out all the Prime features, but they keep adding/changing things every time I sneeze 🙂

October 24, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

B&H PhotoPlus 2015 Specials (some require promo code)

B&H Photo has launched their PhotoPlus 2015 Specials. Some of the offers require promo code PPEBH15 to activate. More on these tomorrow as I go through them, but in the meantime, you can peruse them at your leisure.

October 22, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

(ENDED) 20% off Local Deals with Groupon coupon (includes various Photo Prints offers)

This Groupon coupon expired but more will likely come in the future…

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October 22, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

(ENDED) 20% off sitewide at LivingSocial with coupon

This coupon offer expired…

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October 14, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

eBay Camera Gear Featured Sale (448 options)

eBay has launched another one of its semi-curated sales, this one is a featured Camera Gear Sale featuring 448 items. Due to time constraints I cannot go through them all right now, so it is YMMV.

October 14, 2015 Filed Under: dslr deals, storewide deals Tagged With:

YMMV: 4x eBay Bucks on $100+ individual items

eBay rotates these type of offers, so they typically only cover a percentage of the participants in the eBay Rewards program (aka eBay Bucks). This new promotion, which started at 11am ET today and ends at 3am ET on Wednesday 10/14/15, requires, as usual, manual opt-in – you click the “Activate Now” in the offer email or message.

This offer gets you 4X eBay Bucks (= 8% of the purchase price) on individual items priced at $100 or more. You can use it as many times as you like during this promotion but the maximum rewards are $100 Rewards per single item, and $500 maximum Rewards total per customer.

The usual restrictions apply: “Qualifying purchase excludes all items in the following categories: Classifieds, Business & Industrial, Real Estate, eBay Gift Cards (within the Gift Cards & Coupons category), Bullion (within the Coins & Paper category), and eBay Motors”

eBay Rewards become available to you only if you have a balance of $5 or more, so if you are an occasional shopper or only buy low priced items, you may never see a penny out of them. Which is perhaps why they do these 4X promotions on more expensive items, since a single $100 item will get you $8 in rewards.

A few good places to start looking for deals:
+ the eBay Daily Deals
+ the eBay Trending Deals
+ our previous eBay Deals posts

October 12, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

Amazon Student Deals: $5 bonus with $25 Gift Card, Discounts on Fire, Paperwhite, Sony SD cards, etc

With all the Canon deals, I forgot to post this earlier, but better late than never as they say…

If you have an Amazon Student membership or planning to Join Amazon Student (free six month trial) you can get special discounts at the Amazon Student promotions [if you are not sure what “Amazon Student” is check their Help Pages – you have to verify your .edu status]:

+ use coupon code STUDWEEK to get a $5 promotional credit when you purchase a $25 Amazon gift card (ends Sat 3am ET)
+ discount on Sony SD memory cards (32GB to 128GB; ends Fri 3am ET)
+ 6-inch Fire HD tablet for $70 (ends Sun 3am ET)
+ latest Kindle Paperwhite e-reader for $100
+ $10 off an order of $50+ at Amazon Warehouse Deals
+ they have 14 widget-pages of Amazon Student promotions including technology and office supplies
+ expiration date varies by a day or two depending on each offer

PLEASE NOTE: add items of interest to the shopping cart and check the discounted prices (when logged in with Amazon Student account). I do not have an Amazon Student membership, so I cannot test these.

For the speed-readers, you must be signed up as an Amazon Student for these offers. It does not work for regular Amazon shoppers or regular Amazon Prime shoppers. Only Amazon Students! (“Amazon Students” is a membership program, you have to join in, it does not mean an Amazon shopper who happens to be a student somewhere). If you qualify, you can Join Amazon Student with a free six month trial.

October 8, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals

Thursday: No Camera & Photo Lightning Deals Planned

Since I am posting almost daily Lightning Deals round-ups, on days I don’t post them, it raises the question: is the blog running behind or are there no deals? To help answer that question, I am trying a new experiment, this re-surfacing post that answers that question. (to prevent filling up the blog with no-op posts, I simply change the date of the same post and move it up/down as needed).

As of around 1:40am ET on Thursday there are no camera and photo related lightning deals scheduled in the Amazon Gold Box that are of Camera & Photo interest for Thursday 10/8/15 (except for selfie-sticks of course).

CAVEAT: please note however that “Deals of The Day” get revealed at 3am Eastern every night, and those are typically not “teased” ahead of time. Also keep in mind that some of the lightning deals just go live at the Amazon website without them appearing in the “teasers”. These obviously I can’t catch ahead of time.

October 7, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

Targeted/YMMV: Sell items on eBay, Get Up to $100 eBay coupon

This is a YMMV targeted promotion. I have no way of knowing what percentage of eBay users are getting this, thus the YMMV Targeted. Check your email or eBay Inbox to see if you qualify. You must manually opt-in to this offer by clicking a button. If you list and sell items on eBay by certain dates, eBay will send you an eBay coupon of up to $100 to use on future purchases.

This is an annotated screenshot crop _after_ you activate the offer:

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October 6, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

5% Rewards sitewide at Rakuten with coupon for October

If you are a fan of “The Rakuten” (an ancient race of anime creatures trying to take over the Amazon river), they have a new promotion good until the end of October 2015. Coupon code REWARDME gets you 5% back in Rakuten Rewards points sitewide when you shop at the Rakuten website (formerly Buy.com).

October 5, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

YMMV Targeted: Amazon Auto-Reload Rewards: $10 bonus + 1% bonus [Debit Cards only]

Please note this is a YMMV promotion. Amazon has been running multiple of these promotions the last few weeks, but each time, only a percentage of their customers are eligible. As fate would have it, I am finally eligible for one of these, so I can tell you what happens.

You find out if you are eligible if you are logged on to your Amazon account and visit the Auto Reload Rewards page. If you are eligible, you will see the promotion mentioned below.

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October 1, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

15% off Clearance Sale at BuyDig with coupon

Buydig is offering an extra 15% off their Clearance Sale items (670+ items) when you use coupon code CLOSEOUT15 over there. The camera and photo gear is divided in multiple sub-categories (use the left side “Guided Search” over there to look for items of potential interest).

September 30, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

20% off coupon at Cowboom (mostly used/refurb)

Cowboom (formerly DealTree, part of the Best Buy Empire) has a 20% OFF coupon promotion with coupon code BOOM20 good until the end of day on 10/1/15. The coupon can be used on almost everything but it excludes the Deal of the Day, Auctions, and items sold/shipped by Best Buy. A lot of their items are used/refurbished. A DIY adventure!

September 30, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

5% rewards sitewide with coupon at Rakuten

If you are a fan of “The Rakuten” (sounds like a creature!), coupon code REWARDME gets you 5% back in Rakuten Rewards points site-wide (including tech/camera purchases) at the Rakuten (formerly Buy.com) website. Offer ends at the end of day on 9/30/15.

September 28, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

Shipping: Monoprice opens Kentucky Distribution center

On the shipping front, there are good news for Monoprice fans in the East and Mid-West regions. They have opened a distribution center in Kentucky carrying 1400+ of their most popular products.

Speculation: one frustrating thing with shopping at Monoprice is that there is consistent way to predict whether you will pay shipping or not. Most other retailers have predictability (purchases over a certain amount or membership or free shipping for almost everything). Maybe the launch of an Eastern/Midwest distribution center can make it easier to give customers a non-moving target. Again, this is pure speculation.

September 25, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

(ENDED) One Year Of Amazon Prime for $67 (for New Members Only; Ends Sat 3am ET)

This 1-day Emmy-inspired sale ended…

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September 25, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals

5% rewards site-wide with coupon at Rakuten

If you are a fan of the Rakuten, coupon code REWARDME gets you 5% back in Rakuten Reward points when you shop at Rakuten (Buy.com) website. Offer ends 9/30/15.

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(ENDED) 10% off site-wide with coupon at Monoprice

This limited time offer ended…

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Heads Up: Friday: Prime membership for $67 for New Members

To celebrate its Emmy wins, on Friday 9/25/15 Amazon is having a 24-hour special promotion for new Prime member signups, you can signup for a One Year Prime membership for $67 instead of its usual price of $100. The offer will be good on Friday 9/25/15 in the pacific time zone. The offer is good for new members only, not renewals. The offer will be live Friday 3am ET until Saturday 3am ET.

September 22, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

10% off rentals at BL with coupon

BorrowLenses has another coupon offer for renting camera gear. Coupon SHOOTFALL10 gets you 10% off your rental orders. Coupon expires 9/28/15. Your rental period must start by Friday October 2nd. More details over there.

September 22, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

(ENDED) New WOOT-OFF includes Electronics sub-Woot (started Wedn 1am ET)

This Woot-OFF lasted 24 hours only. It ended on Thursday at 1am ET…

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September 22, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

(YMMV Amex Offer) Ends 9/30/15: Spend $20+ at Sam’s Club website, get $20 back as statement credit

This promotion ends 9/30/15, this is a reminder…

If you have an American Express credit card, you may be eligible for an AMEX Offer that gets you a $20 statement credit if you spend $20 or more at the Sam’s Club website (not their stores) and pay for it with the AMEX credit card that is offering this promotion. This is YMMV because they don’t offer every offer to every card member. You have to opt-in first by clicking the “Add to Card” button while logged on to your AMEX account. If you have multiple AMEX accounts, make sure you activate the offer with the credit card you are going to use to pay for your purchase.

A couple of minutes after you make an eligible purchase (they are that fast!), you get an email from AMEX telling you that pending validation, you have used the offer.

Sam’s Club is a membership club. If you are not a member, depending on your local state laws, you can either make a purchase with a 10% surcharge or get a free 1-day trial by creating an account there.

Strategery: This is their camera and photo page, but be sure to price-check any items you may not be familiar with. And factor in the $20 AMEX statement credit. Of particular interest are items that have the same prices at all authorized dealers. The statement credit is a virtual $20 off discount.

September 20, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

Prime members in Los Angeles & Orange County areas: $20 off a $50+ Prime Now order

Prime members in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas have a new Prime benefit going live, the Prime Now service. To celebrate the launch, Amazon offers coupon code LATRYNOW to get $20 off an order of $50+. This can be particularly good if you are buying items that have the same prices at all authorized dealers. The coupon is good for physical items sold and shipped by Amazon itself. I am not in a Prime Now area yet, so I can’t test it and tell you more about it. Details and terms and conditions at the Amazon Prime Now page.

PS: that page also mentions coupon code TRYITNOW that’s also $20 off a $50+ order. I don’t know if you can use them both, on separate orders, or stack them. I can’t test this, so this is DIY YMMV.

PS2: Prime Now is purchasing regular Amazon items. It should not be confused with AmazonFresh (fresh foods and groceries) or Prime Pantry (someone’s twisted idea of a virtual Costco).

September 16, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

eBay Bucks (YMMV): 5X on $50+ items until Thur PM

This is YMMV because I don’t know if eBay sends these type of offers to every person participating in their eBay Bucks rewards program or some of them. So if you received an email from eBay or saw this offer in your eBay Messages, then it means you are eligible. This is important because you have to opt-in for the offer, that’s how it activates.

So with this offer, you earn 5X eBay Bucks (which is 10% since 1X = 2%) on purchases of individual items that are priced $50 or more. You can use this offer on as many items as you like. The limits are $100 rewards on a single item, and $500 total per account during the promotion. Offer expires on Thursday 7/17/15 at 11:59pm pacific time.

A good place to start looking for ideas are the eBay Deals du jour.

September 16, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

One Year of NewEgg Premier for some Students (must be attending eligible school partnered with NewEgg Business)

If you are a student, you may be eligible to get a FREE one-year NewEgg Premier subscription (free shipping, typically costs $30/year). This is different from the Adobe academic discounts. Your eligibility depends on whether your school is a partner with NewEgg Business (their business B2B site). So you get a free Premier subscription at the regular NewEgg website, but your eligibility stems from your school’s partnership with NewEgg business.

More details at the promotional page. You can confirm there your school’s eligibility by entering your school’s email address.

PS1: all apologies, Noisy U does not qualify (yet) 😉

PS2: all apologies for the long blog-post title, I was trying to prevent it from being click-bait-y without the extra clarifactions

September 15, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

(ENDED) Mon: 20% off LivingSocial with coupon

This one day coupon expired…

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September 14, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

25% off rentals at BL with coupon

BorrowLenses.com is offering 25% off rentals with coupon code FLASH25 in a new promotion. The coupon must be used by the end of day on 9/9/15. The rental period must start by Saturday 9/26/15. The coupon is good for rentals only.

September 8, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

Rakuten: 7% Rewards for Tech purchases with coupon

Rakuten (ne’e Buy.com) has another rewards promotion. Use coupon code REWARDME to earn 7% back in Rakuten Rewards on technology purchases, and 10% back on non-tech purchases at the Rakuten website. Promotion ends at the end of day on 9/7/2015. This is not a discount on the purchase price, but rewards to be used in future purchases. The earned rewards are of a promotional nature, you have to use them within a specific time period, which makes them better suited for regular Rakuten shoppers (or very organized shoppers who can plan and organize purchases ahead of time in a Spock-like fashion).

September 2, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

$20 off rental at Borrow Lenses with coupon

Borrow Lenses has a new coupon offer, this time it is a fixed amount discount, $20 off a rental order with coupon code GEARSAVE20 entered during the rentaling (proposed new word candidate!) process. You must needs place an order by 9/7/15, and choose a 9/11/15 or earlier as the delivery date. Details, terms and conditions at the coupon page.

September 1, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

YMMV (eBay sellers): 80 free listings (fixed price or auction)

This is a YMMV promotion. Check your email (associated with your eBay account) or your eBay Messages to see if you qualify. From now until October 15 (2015), you can list to sell up to 80 items, either fixed price or auction style listings. If you find auction-style listings too cumbersome, this offer is good news because fixed price listings are also included. Free are the Insertion Fees. You still have to pay the Final Value Fees (for items that sell) and any other upgrade or optional add-ons to your listings. Check the email/message for the full terms/conditions.

September 1, 2015 Filed Under: storewide deals