McDonald's Monopoly 2006 Game w/ Best Buy Bucks

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Shaotai

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Didn't notice it mentioned, but if you buy stamps at costco or sam's club, I think it's cheaper than the 39 cent rate. I believe you get them at 37 cents... :) Of course, you have to buy them in 100s...
 
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VTHodge

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Originally posted by: Diademed
Originally posted by: VTHodge
If memory serves me correctly, you can usually buy/sell these in FS/FT forum. I believe the going rate was about $0.70 per dollar.
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Which basically utterly negates the 40% you're saving in the first place. .70 on the dollar will pay for postage & supplies...
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My point was that you could buy then from ~30% of instead of doing the bulk mailing. People selling them usually just have a few from actually eating at McD's and are happy to unload them for a little PayPal.
 
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Bowhuntr11

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Well I will be doing this...I just went and bought 200 envelopes :) I think I might be trying to get an Xbox360 (yes I know its excluded, but I am going to return whatever I bought for store credit to get the 360)

So my story shall begin...I will be writing 100 of these while I am working right now. =) So tech. I am double dipping right? Haha
 
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Mayfriday0529

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Lets see it takes about 6 bucks to buy a Super Size meal with 4 board stamps and 1 best buy buck. For that amount I can recieve 7 game pieces if I mail in the requests.

Thats what i'm going to do.
 
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Last year you couldn't return stuff you bought w/ BBB. If you bought a $100 item using $75 in bucks, they'd ring it as a $75 discount - meaning that if you returned it, you'd only get $25 back.

The only way to do the return is to "lose" your receipt and return w/o receipt, so you just get store credit, probably at whatever price the item has been on sale for recently. Probably have to also tell them it was a gift since they'll usually try to look up the receipt for you.

I know that the people above posting that they're planning to do returns probably already know this - but I'm sure there's people reading this thread who WOULDN'T understand this and have issues...
 
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Limit of 40 promotional codes of any kind may be redeemed per online order.
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so if you want to get $200 off you better have 40 of the $5 certs.
 
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Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinorOdds are, however, with that many a manager will be summoned and I read dozens of horrendous stories from last year involving everything from being shot down to having security escort you to the back office.
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then you sue them for fraud, defamation, and false arrest.


i am so on this.
 
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Bowhuntr11

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Originally posted by: dboy
Last year you couldn't return stuff you bought w/ BBB. If you bought a $100 item using $75 in bucks, they'd ring it as a $75 discount - meaning that if you returned it, you'd only get $25 back.

The only way to do the return is to "lose" your receipt and return w/o receipt, so you just get store credit, probably at whatever price the item has been on sale for recently. Probably have to also tell them it was a gift since they'll usually try to look up the receipt for you.
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Yeah I am going to go get whatever and then have my g/f go in the next day and say she wants to return it and that it was a gift w/o a reciept. Hopefully it will work. haha...
 
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If I lived in VT, I'd charge 15 cents per envelope to forward the game pieces to a non-VTer.

Some non-VTer works out a deal and sends in a bunch of envelopes using a willing VTer's address. The VTer would say "Put down 'A' as my middle initial". When the game pieces come back to the VTer, all the envelopes with a middle initial of A get opened and the game pieces forwarded in one envelope to the actual non-VT recipient for a 15 cent charge per envelope. The next person who contracts with the VTer gets a middle initial of 'B', etc.

The non-VTer still saves 24 cents per request in postage because requests going to Vermont addresses don't have to include return postage on the SASE. The VTer doesn't have to address/mail anything except one envelope to forward the game pieces.

From reading the rules, I don't see that this would be a violation.
 
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Bowhuntr11

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Yeah thats a pretty cool idea if you have the time.

Anybody have any idea how long it took last year to get them back? I didnt see anything in the 2005 thread...
 
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Originally posted by: Bowhuntr11
Yeah thats a pretty cool idea if you have the time.

Anybody have any idea how long it took last year to get them back? I didnt see anything in the 2005 thread...
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IME, 2 weeks.
 
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Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
Two words . . . child labor.

Seems like a great fundraiser for kids . . . except for the McDonald's part.
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Great fundraiser? Hell, I'll just use my four kids.
 
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Best Buy Bucks are valid for one-time use only and must be used only during normal hours of operation in Best Buy stores located in the U.S. between 10/3/06 and 12/2/06 OR at BestBuy.com between 12:00:01 a.m. Central Time ("CT") 10/3/06 and 11:59:59 p.m. (CT) 12/2/06.
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Does this mean that best buy bucks cannot be used for purchases on Black Friday that may occur at 5 AM (or anytime before the "normal" hours of operation)? It would be nice to get 200$ off a laptop/desktop deal that they have going on at BB during Black Friday, but those go quick, i.e. early in the morning.

Anyone used these on Black Friday? Experiences?
 
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Kwint Sommer

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Originally posted by: Albaby348
Best Buy Bucks are valid for one-time use only and must be used only during normal hours of operation in Best Buy stores located in the U.S. between 10/3/06 and 12/2/06 OR at BestBuy.com between 12:00:01 a.m. Central Time ("CT") 10/3/06 and 11:59:59 p.m. (CT) 12/2/06.
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Does this mean that best buy bucks cannot be used for purchases on Black Friday that may occur at 5 AM (or anytime before the "normal" hours of operation)? It would be nice to get 200$ off a laptop/desktop deal that they have going on at BB during Black Friday, but those go quick, i.e. early in the morning.

Anyone used these on Black Friday? Experiences?
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My BB refused them last Black Friday however they will accept a gift card/store credit. Hence, buy and return without receipt something well before Black Friday and then have that store credit ready.
 
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Mafiaz

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My BB at my home accepted my BBB happily on BF, only scanning in 1 of the $1 and 1 of the $3 each, unlike my college BB which scanned each one of my 100+ coupons...
 
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Bowhuntr11

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Well I put 10 in my mail to be sent tomorrow...I have 50 ready, but don't have the stamps...I got to go buy more..

I will be writing about 25-50 every couple days hopefully =P I just want to see what I can get...Its a time waster at work anyways.


So...

10 being sent on October 4th
 
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