Black Friday 2015

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by jswinden

I hear you. I have the origami case and it works okay, but I really don't like the way it flops around when you open it. Once in place either open or closed it works very well.

But it is always either open or closed, isn't it? I can't imagine anyone wanting to hold a flip cover like the Origami in an "half open" state, as you would with a book-style cover.

[Shane R]

Can I buy the $35 Fire now, and then call them on Friday and ask for a price adjustment?

Don't want any shenanigans surrounding in stock/out of stock.

Also: anyone seen a deal on Sodastreams (only tangentially related to a book-site, but I'll throw it out there)?

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Shane R

Can I buy the $35 Fire now, and then call them on Friday and ask for a price adjustment?

You could ask, but Amazon would be under no legal obligation to oblige you. They probably would, though.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by Shane R

Can I buy the $35 Fire now, and then call them on Friday and ask for a price adjustment?

Don't want any shenanigans surrounding in stock/out of stock.

Also: anyone seen a deal on Sodastreams (only tangentially related to a book-site, but I'll throw it out there)?

Even if Amazon doesn't accommodate you, some credit cards will refund the price difference if an item's price drops within a certain interval after it's bought. Maybe you can hedge your bets by buying the Kindle with such a credit card.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Starting today, my Chase Visa is doubling their 5% cash back for several Amazon stores - Amazon, Audible, Diapers.com, Zappos - to 10%. This rate is good for the first $1,500 spent. The promo will run from 23 Nov ~ 31 Dec 2015.

Check your cards to see if other banks are doing the same.

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

Thanks! I get that too.

Don't forget to activate the new 10% offer. Even if you've already activated this quarter, you still need to activate this new promo. The activation deadline is mid-December.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Froide

Even if Amazon doesn't accommodate you, some credit cards will refund the price difference if an item's price drops within a certain interval after it's bought. Maybe you can hedge your bets by buying the Kindle with such a credit card.

Yep; mine gives me 90 days price protection.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Best Buy Early Access Pass -- sale has now started -- exp 24 Nov @ 11:59pm CT



This is BF pricing. Sale includes some tablets, phones, computers, and TVs from the BF ad.

Say monkey, what's the full link to this early access thingy? Your link is broken. :sob:

[Fbone]

B&N sent out their BF preview email.

30% off one item in-store or online. Excludes nook and ebooks.
Samsung Tab4 Nook $100
Nook Glowlight Plus $100

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks

Yes, it is. I have Discover and it has 5 percent cashback on Amazon this month. If anyone is interested in a referral, let me know. They have a referral program (no idea what you get or what I get, but I think both parties get something).

Discover changes the "bonus" 5 percent every month and then there's usually a quarterly thing too. I think they also have a deal where you can spend your "bonus" cashback directly at Amazon.

The Amazon store card offers 5 percent back as a statement credit if you're a Prime member, 3 percent if you're not. But until these recent posts I didn't know that Visa or Discover ever offered that amount on anything--I even have a Discover card (which I never use).

I might apply for the Chase Freedom Visa card for holiday shopping; the introductory perks and the 10 percent at Amazon are very tempting!

[BearMountainBooks]

Originally Posted by Catlady

The Amazon store card offers 5 percent back as a statement credit if you're a Prime member, 3 percent if you're not. But until these recent posts I didn't know that Visa or Discover ever offered that amount on anything--I even have a Discover card (which I never use).

I might apply for the Chase Freedom Visa card for holiday shopping; the introductory perks and the 10 percent at Amazon are very tempting!

Several years ago discover moved to a "sign up for the special rebate" thing. They have 1 percent cash back on everything else. You have to go in every month for the monthly ones (and they aren't every month if I recall correctly) and once a quarter for the others. They also offer some good gift cards. I save my Discover rebate thing and get a 50 dollars Lowe's card for 45. There are other gift card deals like that but I always get that one. There are some newer cards that do not offer the extra rebates (they are some kind of special other deal type of card and I don't have one. My mom does. She has completely different non-signup deals, but my deals are better). I say that because not every card they issue is the same.

[badgoodDeb]

Yeah. I can't be bothered to keep signing up for each special offer. So I just ignore them. On whichever card it is I have that does them.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Don't forget to activate the new 10% offer. Even if you've already activated this quarter, you still need to activate this new promo. The activation deadline is mid-December.

I did activate, thanks. I didn't get an email telling me about it and didn't get an email confirming that I signed up either. I went back to the site and activated again, but still no email.

[uncletoma]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Actually, I find the way you wrote the date to be rather odd looking. It's best written as November 30, 2015.

As Phil Collins said: against all odds
Well, i used the classic italian way, and i'm italian, so...

Originally Posted by jswinden

The formal and correct way to write a date without using a comma is to say such and such occurs on 30 November 2015. We are used to seeing the abbreviated version of Nov 30 here in the USA, but quite frankly how much IQ does it require to interpret 30 Nov as Nov 30?

Sorry for lower instead upper case, but here in Italy months aren't important such as countries

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Say monkey, what's the full link to this early access thingy? Your link is broken. :sob:

Best Buy Early Access Pass

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Catlady

The Amazon store card offers 5 percent back as a statement credit if you're a Prime member, 3 percent if you're not. But until these recent posts I didn't know that Visa or Discover ever offered that amount on anything--I even have a Discover card (which I never use).

I might apply for the Chase Freedom Visa card for holiday shopping; the introductory perks and the 10 percent at Amazon are very tempting!

That card has nice perks. For some stores, if I go through the Chase Rewards window to get to their websites, I get extra % points in addition to the standard 1%. These stores include B&N 2%, Walmart 2%, Microsoft 3%, Sears 6%, Sam's Club 2%, Nordstrom 5%, Best Buy 1%, B&N Nook 2%, Staples 2%, Macys 6%, REI 3%, ToysRUs 1%, Apple Store 2%, Kmart 4%, Lowe's 3%, Petco 3%, PetSmart 4%.