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Today’s Mamapedia Deal. It’s a DVD set on how to talk to your kids about this stuff. What else is cool about Mamapedia is that when you make a purchase, you can designate 5% of the price to go to your kid’s school.
I just spent about 20 minutes trying to re-do the Amazon diaper deal that I did last summer. I think that Amazon figured out what was going on (that they were selling diapers at a loss, lol) and fixed a few things.
First, the subscription service. Every item that I chose for the subscription service only gave me a 15% discount, not 30% as it had been. Also, once I chose a subscription item, the site hustled me right through to checkout. It did not ever give me an option to add additional items. I even went all the way through once, then went into my email and canceled the order. I tried a second time, this time much more slowly and really paying attention to look for other options than what I was given. Even if you choose the subscription service and click to see if it’s in your cart, mine wasn’t there. It seems they are now treating the subscription service as something different than choosing a regular item.
This is not really a big deal unless like me, you have more than one child in diapers. Since all of the various discount codes and promotional codes can only be used once, I then had to choose which order I wanted to apply it to. And it appears that they’ve changed up their e-coupons somewhat. It would only allow me to apply the $1.50 e-coupon to some of the sizes, not every size.
I decided to forego the 15% discount for the subscription and just added big single boxes to my cart. I had two separate 20% Parents magazine codes (Dec and Jan) that I found at my pediatrician’s office plus the $10 home mailer code. I also had a $5 Swagbucks code, a $10 gift code I got for being a moderator on hotcouponworld, plus the $20 one I got for free from LivingSocial.
At the end of it all, it was still a great deal. Over 400 diapers delivered to my home for just under $0.09 each.
If someone has a different or better experience, please let the rest of us know, and good luck!
Here is a great deal on Parents magazine. $5 for one year, or $8 for two years. Or, use the codes PARENTS1YR to bring the price down to $4 for one year. For a 2 year subscription use: PARENTS2YR to bring the price down to $6. Not only is it a great magazine, don’t forget that they frequently include Amazon coupon codes for diapers. Which has resulted in some fantastic diaper deals for some of us!
I used to work for QVC. Go ahead and chuckle, for some reason everyone does when I tell them that. Before I worked there, I never thought that QVC was for me. But they actually sell lots of cool stuff. And they have been trying to lure in a younger, hipper customer with names like Smashbox, Dana Buchman and Dooney & Bourke to name a few.
I worked for the outlets, and this is how they work. Customer sees an item on TV or online and orders it. It arrives. For whatever reason, they return it. It gets processed in a warehouse and then sent out to the outlet stores. I believe right now there are four or five QVC Outlet Stores–Lancaster, Prices Corner, Frazer and a few others. (If you don’t have one near you, keep reading–you will still find a great deal!)
I got my monthly mailer from them today, and from February 2-7, all Dooney & Bourke bags will be $99.99. That’s a really great price point for these bags. I personally hope to score this one, or a similar Wonder Duck bag:
But, if you don’t have a QVC outlet near you, here’s the thing. They will ship to you. Here’s all you have to do. Look at the QVC website and find the bags you like. Keep in mind that because of how the outlet system works, there is no guarantee of any of them being in stock. And unfortunately, if they come with a key fob or change purse, the customer usually keeps that before returning the bag. Nice, huh? But find what you like and jot down the item number. It will always begin with an “A” and have five or six digits behind the A. Then you just call a store and see if they have it in stock. That A number allows them to check their inventory instantly and tell you.
Now, I half-expect myself to be promptly unfriended by my QVC friends on Facebook, ha ha, for sharing this secret with you. But the outlets will ship any item, as long as you’re willing to pay for the shipping which is the usual UPS amount. So anytime you see an item on TV or online, you can call an outlet and see if they also have it in stock. They do not carry the food items or cosmetics. But they carry just about everything else, and it will be marked down 25%-50% or more off of the price you see on TV or online. Make sure you check out the jewelry. QVC really made me a fan of Michael Dawkins’ stuff.
