Giftcertificates.com special promo for 99c

If you would like to stock up on the world-famous e-super-certificates from GiftCertificates.com, you can get it for just a 99c handling fee if delivered by email. This special promotion is only good on "Cyber Monday", Monday December 1st, 2008. Use promo code CYBER1. Please note that 99c is what you pay for the handling fee, you still have to pay for the full price of the gift card itself. Obviously :-)

The easiest and classiest gift ever?

Avoid any embarassing moments where you forgot to get someone a gift, or someone drops by announced, or they bought you a gift, but you did not think to get them one. Ouch! Embarassing!

So what can you do to prevent this? Well, you can stock up in American Express gift cards! They can be used anywhere, they look good, they look prestigious, and even better yet, they can be easily re-gifted, so in a way, it's a gift that keeps on giving to the giver, and to the next giver, and to the next giver :-)

Bonus with Gift Card Purchase!

Two restaurant chains are having special offers for those who buy gift cards from them!

First up, Jack In the Box offers a free dessert for anyone buying a gift card worth $15 or more! The dessert is either one of their cheesecakes or the chocolate cake thingy they have. You receive the dessert right away with your purchase.

Next Baja Fresh offers a $5 gift card when you purchase a Baja Fresh gift card of $25 or more. You receive the $5 bonus card right there with your purchase.

The bonus items for both of these offers are given to you right away - when you purchase the gift cards. There is no waiting, nothing to mail, no UPC codes :-)

Great Article: What to do with your unused and unwanted Gift Cards and Gift Certificates

While surfing around the net we found this great article discussing what to do with your unused and unwanted Gift Cards and Gift Certificates. One option of course is to send them to me, but most people don't like that option :)

There are some great ideas and tips there.

I have one bonus tip for you: Today only eBay has a 10c listing special (today: Thursday December 27, 2007). You can list an item (auction-style or fixed-price) for 10c, regardless of what its price or starting bid. So let's say you have a $100 Starbucks card. You want to sell it at a good price but don't mind keeping it and using it yourself. So here's what you do: You create a fixed price listing, 7-day duration, and put the Buy-It-Now price as the maximum you hope to get (eg $100 or $95 or something like that). Then enable best offers, and mention prominently in your listing that you accept best offers. This will generate a reverse-bidding situation where you can get offers from interested parties and you can make counteroffers as well (up to 3 offers per interested person). If someone makes an offer or buys it at the Buy-It-Now price, that's great! If no one makes a good offer, then you have only lost 10c (10 cents).

On the other hand if you create an auction-style listing, you will have to sell the card to the highest bidder whether it's $99 or $59. In order to protect yourself there you would have to have reserves or high starting bid prices. This really depends on the type of a gift card. If it's a hot item, it will probably do very well in an auction-style listing. But it also depends on supply and demand.

Gift Card Balance: Trust but Verify!

I use gift cards and reloadable gift cards often and I have noticed a couple of places where they do not have good practices with how they handle them. I was told by one place that I had zero balance, and it was only after I insisted that they read the card properly and "discovered" that everything was okay (convenience store). In other instances the employees were cutting corners and charging random people's reloadable cards instead of looking into whatever issue they had (this was at a regional coffee shop chain).

So these two recent instances prompted me to issue this warning! Just like you check your credit card statements at the end of the month to make sure everything is okay, be sure to check your gift card balances as well. Especially if you are dealing with larger than pocket change amounts! Most places are doing a good job at handling them, but not all of them. So as Reagan said, trust but verify!

10% off e-gift card orders of $100+ at GiftCertificates.com

Until December 31st, 2007, you can get 10% off e-gift card orders of $100 or more at GiftCertificates.com! Just use promotional code 10POFF100, which as you expect stands for 10% percent off purchase of $100+.

Gift Certificates has a long list of big name retailers participating in its gift card program, so be sure to check it out! Not only you can give a gift, you can save 10% off, whihc in a way it's like giving yourself a gift :)

And the fineprint from GiftCertificate.com:

Offer ends December 31, 2007. Limited to one use per order on an order over $100. Offer not valid on previous purchases, American Express® Gift Cheques, GiftCertificates.com™ MasterCard® Gift Cards, Amazon®, Best Buy, Bahama Breeze, Chevron, Chili's, Circut City®, EBGames, GameStop, The Home Depot®, iTunes, JCPenney, Lowe's, Maggiano's Little Italy, Olive Garden, On The Border Mexican Grill, Red Lobster, Romano's Maccaroni Grill, Starbucks, Sears, Target or Wal-Mart. Not valid for corporate pricing. Offer is not combinable with any other promotion or offer.

Coupon for 10% off GiftCertificates.com order of over $100

Gift certificates are a great way to give gifts to people near and far. And better yet, they can't blame you for a poor taste in gifts, they buy whatever they want, and if they don't want to buy anything, they can always sell, trade or re-gift the gift certificate or gift card.

With that in mind, GiftCertificates.com has a special coupon offer: 10poff100, you get 10% off GiftCertificates.com orders of over $100! Woohoo!

Here is the fineprint from GiftCertificates.com:

Offer ends December 31, 2007. Limited to one use per customer on an order between $100 and $1000. Offer not valid on previous purchases, American Express® Gift Cheques, GiftCertificates™ MasterCard® Gift Cards, Amazon®, Best Buy, Bahama Breeze, Chevron, Chili's, Circut City®, EBGames, GameStop, The Home Depot®, iTunes, JCPenney, Lowe's, Maggiano's Little Italy, Olive Garden, On The Border Mexican Grill, Red Lobster, Romano's Maccaroni Grill, Starbucks, Sears, Target or Wal-Mart. Not valid for corporate pricing. Offer is not combinable with any other promotion or offer.

Amazon gift card special: Buy a $50 gift card, get a bonus $5 promotional certificate

Amazon.com is promoting their gift cards for the holiday shopping season with this promo: Buy a $50 Amazon gift card and receive a $5 promotional Amazon gift certificate for yourself! This offer is sent by email from Amazon to people eligible to participate in this promotion. Check your email for an Amazon email for details!

Here is the page with the Amazon Gift Cards


The fineprint from the Amazon offer:

Offer valid on only one (1) qualifying purchase per household. Offer applies only to intended recipients of this e-mail transmission. Offer good for a single qualifying Amazon.com Gift Card purchase between 12/14/2007 and 12/31/2007.
We will send your promotional certificate to the e-mail address corresponding to the Amazon account used to purchase the qualifying Amazon.com Gift Card by 1/31/2008.Your promotional certificate will expire thirty (30) days from the date on which the e-mail containing the e-mail is sent. Restrictions apply. See www.amazon.com/promos for details.

10% off orders at GiftCertificates.com

There is a new promotion running by GiftCertificates.com, you get 10% off your online purchase if you use coupon code HOLIDAY2. Get an early start to your holiday season gift buying with a versatile gift that lets the "gift receiver" get what they want! And they can't blame you for their purchases, so you have a level of assurance that they won't hate your gift :)

August 8 Deal Round-up! (Nikon D40 with 18-135 DX $570?)

Quite possibly the deal of the day is the Nikon D40 with the 18-135 DX digital lens just $570 sold at Amazon and by Amazon. Details at camera deals

Longs Drugs: 4-pack of CFLs for just 99c. These are subsidized by the local utility companies that's why the prices are so low!

Free after mail-in rebate: Sharp Scientific calculator ($7 mail-in rebate) at Office Depot

Office Depot email coupon, $15 off $75, expires 8/11/07. Coupon has restrictions, so do read the fineprint... Also 20% off Airpack Backpacks, HP R837 for $180, a new low online price.

TheStreet.com promotes an offer from GorillaTrade for a full 15 months for $500.

Target is hiring according to Yahoo Hot Jobs

Up to 78% off from Magazines.com, including free shipping, and no sales tax. Some of the magazines advertised: SI for kids $10, National Geographic for Kids $15, Seventeen $10, Nickolodeon $20, Ranger Rick $20. Also a $5 off coupon included in the email

Email/online coupons from Raley's, Nob Hill and Bel Air: This week: Free Hefty OneZip quart bags with store purchase of $10 or more. Free European market floral bouquet ($5 value) with store purchase of $10 or more. Offer valid August 8 through August 14 Next week: Next week: Free Mozzarella Fresca with Heirloom Tomatoes purchase!

New Office Max email offers: Get double MaxPerks rewards points with all writing instruments purchases, free shipping on orders over $50, and get earn points for recycling!. Check their website for details.

New set of email coupons from Smart Source. This batch includes Bissell, Woolite Oxy Deep Oxygen activated stain remover, Handy all-in-one cleaner, Breath Rx anti-bacterial mouth rinse, and Old Orchard Healthy Balance juice coctails.

Crutchfield's latest email advertises satellite radio for as little as $30, a BOGO offer on MTX subwoofers, a Kenwood amp/subs package for $200 after rebate ($50), and discounts on LCD HDTVs. Also Alpine CD receiver just $100

Rite Aid has published a Pain Relief Guide which includes a free guide, a free booklet, and an offer to receive $25 of free pain relief products with the purchase of $20 of select items via their Rite Aid Single Checks Rebate program

Free shipping with orders over $75, 40-50% online and in-store sale of back-to-school must-haves, and a lot more at Kohls

Free OmniMount Bracket with select plasma or LCD HDTV purchases from 1Call (aka OneCall.com). Some of the HDTVs on sale that include FREE shipping: Toshiba 42HL167 $1550, Sharp LC-37GP1U $1600, Sony KDL-52XBR3 $3870, Panasonic TH-50PX75U $1600, Samsung FP-T5084 $2300, Panasonic TH-50PZ700U $2649. Professional flat panel installation is offered starting at $400.

The latest HP Newsgram for August advertises free online classes offered by HP.

Best Buy offers $100-$230 select desktop and notebook packages, 15% photo editing and music software, 5-10% off select digital cameras and camcorders. Online only offers: free shelf systems with tv purchases of $999 and up, 10-15% select home audio, free starter kit with camcorder purchases, and 10% off dvd players and dvd recorders

Universal highlights their latest DVD and HD-DVD offeerings, which includes the Heroes Season 1 dvd set that includes the original 73-minute unaired series premiere. Also House season three, Friday Night Lights season 1, Flash Gordon remastered (new Flash Gordon starts this Friday on the SciFi Channel), and a collector's edition of the cult favorite movie Serenity (of Firefly fame). The collector's edition includes 60 minutes of additional bonus material.

Free coffee Tumbler offer from Peet's Coffee when you sign up as a Peetnik (monthly coffee delivery program)

HP L7630 all-in-one printer $360 at Office Depot. Compatible inks HP88 and HP88XL. Also HP 1020 monochrome laserjet printer $100, and HP CLJ2605dn color laserjet printer for just $375

Lots of back to school goodies at Walmart, including laptops starting at $450, new Kodak M753 digital camera for $150, Samsung BlackJack from AT&T free with 2yr agreement, WEstern digital 250gb external hard disk drive $90, Creatinve Zen V Plus 2gb mp3 player $80, Acer 19" widescreen LCD monitor $165, PSP greatest hits bundle with bonus accessory $209, Erne Task chair $60, Wendel workstation $73, Whitmore black wire storage cubes, set of 4, $15. Also $4 generic prescriptions, Lexmark all-in-one printer $50, Emerson 15" LCD TV/DVD player combo $238 and lots more. (If you don't object to shopping at Walmart. We apologize for the readers who object to Walmart).

GiftCertificates.com introduces a brand new Dining SuperCertificate, the Dining Supercertificate. It is similar to their SuperCertificate but for restaurants. You have a choice of 30 restaurant chain gift cards to choose from. Check their website for more details.

20% off office furniture and 50% off on select items online only from Staples.

Don't forget to pile up your college savings when you shop online by going through Upromise.com! Lots and lots of websites are listed there

99c shipping is back at Sears for music, video and video games purchases! Also buy a pair of Levis and get 10 iTunes free, 12 months no interest no payments on mattresses, and a lot more

Red Envelope gifts available at GiftCertificates.com

This is a quick note for all the gift certificate junkies out there: Red Envelope gifts become avaiable at GiftCertificates.com, famous for their SuperCertificate. Visit their respective websites for more details.

Most flexible way to give a gift

The fastest way to give a gift!, delivered by email, an Amazon gift certificate, ranging from $5 to $5000. This is a simple, yet very flexible way to pick up a gift as late as late can be!

New look from GiftCertificates.com

GiftCertificates.com has a new look for their versatile Super Certificate which can be converted to gift cards from a large variety of big brick and mortar retailers and online stores. Unfortunately GiftCertificates.com does not carry Amazon gift certificates any more which may limit the flexibility of their SuperCertificate for online shoppers.