I Got Paid to Buy Batteries
I have to thank Punny Money for this one. Nick wrote a humorous piece about shopping at CVS and credited My Good Cents with inspiring his shopping frenzy. In the piece, he mentioned a $5 off Energizer batteries coupon on the CVS site. I strolled over to My Good Cents and found the battery coupon and printed it out. What I love about CVS coupons is that they have a code on them the cashier can enter instead of scanning them, so no one can complain about my printer’s print quality.
CVS had Energizer batteries on sale for $5.29, and they also had Starbucks coffee on sale for $6.99 (which my grandfather wants for Christmas). I also printed the free tissues coupon from the same post and I already had a $2 off a $10 purchase coupon from in the store itself. My CVS was out of the tissues, but I picked up the batteries and coffee and headed to the exit. My batteries also had a $1 off instant coupon stuck to them.
I wasn’t sure if I really could stack the coupons (I had heard you could use both a manufacturer’s coupon like was stuck to the package and a store coupon like I printed out at the same time but I’d never tried it) but I was was going to find out. I had the cashier scan my CVS card, then the coffee and batteries, and then my $2 off a $10 purchase coupon, the $5 off CVS coupon for the batteries, and the $1 manufacturer’s coupon. All went through without a hitch, and my total was $5.01. If you count the $2 off coupon as being for the coffee, with tax the coffee itself should have cost me $5.40.
So after tax I got paid $0.39 to buy 4 D batteries. Which was applied to my coffee purchase. And I also got a $4 off a $20 purchase coupon on my receipt!
I love CVS.
December 14th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
WOW! GREAT DEAL
December 14th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Very cool. Those Starbucks things are nice.
December 14th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
I’ve been going everyday to get free batteries and tissue… I didn’t get to go today… well, I could have I guess but I didn’t want to get out of bed
.. I’m having free crap withdrawals !!
December 14th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
I hate CVS (mainly for violating child labor laws) but I LOVE that you beat the system. Go you!
December 14th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Good job! I’d love CVS too if we only have one here in my town.
December 25th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
I have been looking for the site fro hours and cant find it again. I found a site that had tons of cvs coupons on it to print and my comp froze up and now cant find it again…can anywone help me with site
Thanks
December 25th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
I did this but they wouldn’t stack my coupons as it would have resulted in them owing ME money! I ended up with batteries and Dove face wash for $0.29. I was very very happy.