New Borders Coupon

[Cpl Punishment]

I just got a new Borders coupon for 40% off....Sooooo, I printed it out and was going back to Borders tomorrow to get another 650....But lo and behold, "Ereaders excluded from this offer !!!" :

[grooks]

Electronic devices are normally excluded from Borders coupons.

[Cpl Punishment]

Originally Posted by grooks

Electronic devices are normally excluded from Borders coupons.

So are ebooks, magazines, audio books and books on sale...Geez, whats the point !!! I guess its a coffee and half the price.... (No cream...!!)

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Cpl Punishment

I just got a new Borders coupon for 40% off....Sooooo, I printed it out and was going back to Borders tomorrow to get another 650....But lo and behold, "Ereaders excluded from this offer !!!" :

Electronics and accessories have always been excluded from Borders Rewards coupons. That's nothing new.

[Cpl Punishment]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Electronics and accessories have always been excluded from Borders Rewards coupons. That's nothing new.

Anything that is 40% off at Borders is Amazons regular price....

[rebarnmom]

I seem to remember a couple years ago that there was a coupon floating around that didn't say anything to exclude the Sony Readers and several people got to take advantage of it. The store managers had to honor it. But it was a mistake and they've never made that mistake again... unfortunately.

[Cpl Punishment]

Does anyone want it, before it expires...?? I can forward it to you or copy and past it in a private message, I think..

I just looked at the coupon and there is a link to forward it, if anyone wants it....

[jsites]

Originally Posted by Cpl Punishment

audio books and books on sale

<-Borders Employee

This isn't exactly correct. Coupons do work on Audio Books (unless it's a coupon off a specific item, like a coupon for x% off 1 Hardcover book, or 1 DVD, etc.) As long as it's the generic "x% off any 1 item" you can use it on audio books. And by audio books, I mean the books on CD, or those things we had last year that were standalone player devices that came with headphones and the book pre-loaded.

Books on sale work with coupons as well. Just keep in mind that coupons give you x% off the "list price" of the item. So if a new release is on sale for 20% off, and you have a 40% coupon, you would get 40% off the list price of the item instead of 20% off the list price.

[SeaBookGuy]

Originally Posted by jsites

<-Borders Employee

or those things we had last year that were standalone player devices that came with headphones and the book pre-loaded.

Playaway, I believe. I cannot understand why anyone would buy a new player for each book, although I suppose I could understand public libraries offering them as an option.

[emonti8384]

Originally Posted by rebarnmom

I seem to remember a couple years ago that there was a coupon floating around that didn't say anything to exclude the Sony Readers and several people got to take advantage of it. The store managers had to honor it. But it was a mistake and they've never made that mistake again... unfortunately.

I remember that; when the 505's were $300 it was a coupon that gave you $100 off (don't remember, but it must have been a 30% or 40% off coupon or something) and it took them a week to realize people were using it to buy readers. I got one like that. Didn't really matter though, within a month they were pushing the 505's out for $200 and moving the new readers in, lol.

[jsites]

Originally Posted by emonti8384

I remember that; when the 505's were $300 it was a coupon that gave you $100 off (don't remember, but it must have been a 30% or 40% off coupon or something) and it took them a week to realize people were using it to buy readers. I got one like that. Didn't really matter though, within a month they were pushing the 505's out for $200 and moving the new readers in, lol.

We had someone come into our store the day that coupon came out, and bought one of the Sonys. Don't remember which version, but I was the one who took the customer. As soon as the manager came up and saw the coupon, he went to the back and printed off a disclaimer sign indicating that the coupon would not be accepted for the items generally not included in coupon offers. The customer who presented this coupon did in fact get her Sony for the coupon price, but that was the only one our store permitted.

[jashsu]

Originally Posted by rebarnmom

I seem to remember a couple years ago that there was a coupon floating around that didn't say anything to exclude the Sony Readers and several people got to take advantage of it. The store managers had to honor it. But it was a mistake and they've never made that mistake again... unfortunately.

I got two PRS-500s very inexpensively this way. Unfortunately like you said they caught on right quickly.