ThinkGeek, a wonderful purveyor of nerdy novelties, is currently running the best percent-off promotion we’ve seen all year. For the code, and deals on a Roku 3 and a Panasonic plasma TV, hit the jump:
At Thinkgeek, the code SKYLAB takes $20 off any order of $60 or more. That means if you order exactly $60, you’ll be receiving a 33% discount, which is the best we’ve seen from Thinkgeek since before the holiday season. Of course, with ever dollar spent over $60 the discount percentage drops. Keep in mind that there’s a $6 shipping charge—so you’ll need to spend at least $46 to get this promotion. Here’s some recommendations to get you started (all prices listed before discount):
I posted this Panasonic deal yesterday and after I went home I almost bought it, so I figured it could use a little more attention. Right now Sears is selling a 42″ Panasonic plasma TV (model number TC-P42S60) for $400. Shipping’s not free though, so to save $70 you should pick it up in-store. Still: that’s a $400 plasma, perfect for most small apartments, at a no-name scratcher TV price. It’s even got some smart functionality, if that’s your bag. [Sears]
Update: Amazon’s price-matched Sears’ price, but only with shipping included. So this set from Amazon is $470—and still $600 or more everywhere else. [Amazon]
This is only the second discount we’ve ever seen on the Roku 3, which is currently the best streaming box on the market. Honestly, I haven’t even been posting Roku 2 deals recently because the improvements in the Roku 3 are worth the premium, especially since it’s only $100 at full price. But right now PC Richard is selling the Roku 3 for $90, with free shipping and no tax depending on your state. This box would look pretty sweet plugged into that Panasonic at the top of the post. [PC Richard via 9to5Toys, Wirecutter Deals, Moneysaver] Thanks, friends!
If you try out Google’s new music service now, you’ll get a free month’s trial and lock in an $8/month lifetime subscription rate. Try it out here: [Google Music]
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Mother’s Day is a week away, but there’s still time to get great deals on gifts for every type of mom.
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May 5, 2013
A florist sorts roses in a flower shop in Vienna. On occasion of the Saint Valentine’s Day. 1-800 Flowers is offering a 40 percent off coupon for Mother’s Day flowers.
Today’s roundup is dedicated to Mother’s Day presents, both the traditional and the techy. From jewelry to jeweled iPhone cases, we’ve got a little something sparkly for every mom. And for everything else, do check out the other extra special Mother’s Day deals we’ve stockpiled.
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Two Row 8mm AAA White Freshwater Pearl Necklace Store: WinPearl Price: $14.99 via coupon code “dealnews25″ with free shipping Lowest By: $8 Expires: May 7. Is It Worth It?: Neckties are classic Father’s Day gifts; pearl necklaces are the Mother’s Day equivalent! Give your mom a stunning double-stranded pearl necklace for the reasonable price of $15. This 15-inch white pearl necklace is stately and elegant. But if such a classic, white pearl necklace doesn’t suit her style, consider the 8mm AA+ Black Freshwater Pearl Necklace for $10.19 via coupon code “dealnews40″ with free shipping (a low by $38; expires May 10). This 17-inch necklace features a white gold-plated clasp and is professionally hand knotted between each pearl.
Tempe, AZ — (SBWIRE) — 03/13/2013 — Egutscheincode.com, a website that features coupons and promo codes for the largest online retailers in Germany, has just launched its completely redesigned website. The new site is now even more user-friendly, and helps shoppers find exactly which “gutscheine,” which means “coupon” in German, they are looking for.
From Galeria Kaufhof and Otto to amazon.de, Dell and many more, shoppers are sure to find the coupon code they need for their online shopping. The list of retailers featured at Egutscheincode.com is always expanding; in the near future, the website hopes to include almost 1,000 online shops which will eventually allow shoppers to choose between 6,000 total coupons.
In recent years, online shopping has grown rapidly in popularity. Rather than spend hours driving or walking from store to store looking for needed items, people can now find exactly what they are looking for from the comfort of home. Online coupons and coupon codes can help people save more of their hard-earned money. With the newly-redesigned Egutscheincode.com website, shoppers can find the coupons they need for the stores they want all in one convenient and easy-to-use location.
“Egutscheincode.com is the portal for coupons, coupon codes and discounts! With us you will always find the right coupon code for many online stores,” an article on the website noted, adding that shoppers can save money on their every purchase with the coupons that are featured on the site.
“All vouchers are 100% free and without annoying registration.”
Finding the right “gutscheincode,” which means “coupon code” in German, is easy at Egutscheincode.com. Over 30 companies are featured on the home page. By clicking on the company’s logo, shoppers will be taken to a page filled with information about the business as well as any current coupons or coupon codes. To see a list of the most popular coupons that are currently available, visitors to the site just need to click on “Top Gutscheine,” which means “Top Coupons” in German.
The website is constantly being updated and added to, which means that shoppers can rest assured that they are finding the most current and best coupons and coupon codes.
About Egutscheincode.com
Egutscheincode.com is a website that provides coupons for the biggest online shops in Germany. The website originally started in early 2012. The founders of the website love to help their customers save money when they are shopping. For more information, please visit http://www.egutscheincode.com
LOS ANGELES, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Egutscheincode.com, a website that features coupons and promo codes for the largest online retailers in Germany, has just launched its completely redesigned website. The new site is now even more user-friendly, and helps shoppers find exactly which “gutscheine,” which means “coupon” in German, they are looking for.
From Galeria Kaufhof and Otto to amazon.de, Dell and many more, shoppers are sure to find the coupon code they need for their online shopping. The list of retailers featured at Egutscheincode.com is always expanding; in the near future, the website hopes to include almost 1,000 online shops which will eventually allow shoppers to choose between 6,000 total coupons.
In recent years, online shopping has grown rapidly in popularity. Rather than spend hours driving or walking from store to store looking for needed items, people can now find exactly what they are looking for from the comfort of home. Online coupons and coupon codes can help people save more of their hard-earned money. With the newly-redesigned Egutscheincode.com website, shoppers can find the coupons they need for the stores they want all in one convenient and easy-to-use location.
“Egutscheincode.com is the portal for coupons, coupon codes and discounts! With us you will always find the right coupon code for many online stores,” an article on the website noted, adding that shoppers can save money on their every purchase with the coupons that are featured on the site.
“All vouchers are 100% free and without annoying registration.”
Finding the right “gutscheincode,” which means “coupon code” in German, is easy at Egutscheincode.com. Over 30 companies are featured on the home page. By clicking on the company’s logo, shoppers will be taken to a page filled with information about the business as well as any current coupons or coupon codes. To see a list of the most popular coupons that are currently available, visitors to the site just need to click on “Top Gutscheine,” which means “Top Coupons” in German.
The website is constantly being updated and added to, which means that shoppers can rest assured that they are finding the most current and best coupons and coupon codes.
About Egutscheincode.com:
Egutscheincode.com is a website that provides coupons for the biggest online shops in Germany. The website originally started in early 2012. The founders of the website love to help their customers save money when they are shopping. For more information, please visit http://www.egutscheincode.com
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We’re big fans of ThinkGeek here at Gizmodo. They carry some really cool stuff that you can’t get anywhere else, but like all superfluous-yet-undeniably-dope toys, the price has got to be right. You can’t shout “shut up and take my money” if you’ve got to check your bank account first.
Right now, ThinkGeek’s offering a rare coupon code that takes 20% off everything. Shipping’s $6, or free when you spend more than $75. The code’s BLUERUPEE. Don’t know what to use the code on? Well, the impossibly creepy USB tentacle flash drive pictured up at the top is a good start. [ThinkGeek]
Update 3:25: Unfortunately, it looks like free shipping doesn’t stack with the 20% off code.
Here are some more suggestions to get you started:
A few notes: In Zelda, the blue rupee is worth 5 rupees. Shouldn’t the coupon be something like “redrupee”? Also, if you want more shopping inspiration, here’s the list of ThinkGeek products that Gizmodo’s written about. And if you’ve had your eye on something for a while, let us know in the comments (after you cop one for yourself.) The Internet was made for window shopping. Dealzmodo does it the best.Follow @dealzmodo
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One hundred thirty thousand dollars off? What a steal! No, but seriously, this is a pretty cool deal: Gorilla Tape kicks ass, and usually a roll costs around $6. [Amazon]
Hey — this official Apple 30-pin-to-Lightning adapter is $20 instead of $30. Of course, it’s refurbished. [All4Celluar]
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A year ago, Curtis Jackson promoted these headphones so hard that he spoke with Gizmodo’s own Sam Biddle. Here’s the video. Now, the blue model is on sale for $100, which is significantly less than the $250 MSRP. Is it because these are pretty hideous “fashion” headphones? It is because Fiddy isn’t the marketing master that Dr. Dre is? Or is it because these are actually cheap, generic headphones with a whole bunch of expensive marketing, and now they’re finally coming down to their true price? We don’t know, but it is a bit sad. [Amazon]
Does This Verizon Galaxy S3 Deal Mean The GS4 Is Around the Corner?
For the past two weeks we’ve been seeing a lot of cheap Galaxy S3 handsets with Sprint contract. But this one is for Verizon service, and unlike the Sprint deals, current customers can take advantage of it. It’s a $20 GS3 with two-year contract.
Of course, the Galaxy S4 could be just around the corner — there’s starting to be a little bit of rumor chatter, and Mobile World Congress starts next week. Plus, it simply makes sense that the GS4 would come out a year after the GS3. So you’ve got to decide whether it’s worth it to wait. [Newegg via Dealnews]
You guys see anything out there? Yesterday’s sick OCZ Vertex 3 deal was spotted by a commenter.
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More PC download games are on sale through the week, with some nice additions for console gamers too.
Probably the hottest deal this week is the PC download of Dead island from Green Man Gaming for only $4.08 (standard edition) and $5.44 for the GOTY edition. All released Dead Island games and DLC are 66% off instantly and eligible for an extra 20% off with coupon code.
If you need to renew the ol’ Xbox LIVE subscription soon you’re in luck. Best Buy has a rare week-long sale for 12-month Xbox LIVE cards at only $34.99 (list price $60), with free shipping or store pickup. Amazon has price-matched.
The newest co-op hack and slash game Dungeonland released today on PC. Green Man Gaming’s 25% off pre-order games coupon still works even though the game is released. This pre-order coupon tends to work on release dates but stops working the day after.
Amazon is offering hefty bonus credits on five pre-order games for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC (physical copy only). Dead Space 3, Sim City, Crysis 3, and Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel each get a $20 bonus credit (good towards anything sold by Amazon, not limited to gaming orders like usual) and God of War: Ascension gets a $10 credit.
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Dead Island – $4.08. Next best is $15 at GameFly. Deal expires January 31. The GOTY edition is $5.44. Activates on Steam.
Today’s release: Dungeonland (PC Download) – $7.50. List is $10. Deal expires January 30. Game activates on Steam.
uDraw GameTablet with uDraw Studio (Xbox 360, PS3) – $5.99. Next best is $14 at Amazon. Deal expires today. No surprises this is so cheap with the breakup for THQ (sniff).
Awesomenauts – $3. Next best is $10 at Green Man Gaming. Deal expires today. Game activates on Steam.
Green Man Gaming PC Downloads
Last Wednesday’s release: Strike Suit Zero – $16. List is $20. Deal expires January 31.
Instead of paying upwards of $20 for one HDMI cable, why not get six for $12.99?
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I don’t know about you, but I never seem to have enough HDMI cables. Maybe Obviously it’s because I live in a gear-heavy household (Roku boxes everywhere!), so I’m always looking to pad my supply.
Today’s deal ought to last me awhile. Today only, and while supplies last, 1SaleADay has a six-pack of 10-foot gold-tip HDMI cables for $12.99 shipped. That works out to about $2.16 per cable, which is less than what you’d typically pay for a single six-footer.
By now I suspect that most people (or at least most CNET readers) know the truth about HDMI cables: They’re all pretty much the same.
These are high-speed HDMI 1.4 cables, meaning they’re capable of transmitting 3D — for all 10 of you who have 3D Blu-ray players and TVs and all three who actually use them to watch 3D movies.
One of the listed features is Ethernet, suggesting that the cables also support Ethernet over HDMI — for all zero of you who have need for that feature.
Anyway, the bottom line: half a dozen extra-long HDMI cables for about a dozen dollars. What’s not to like? (Maybe this: 1SaleADay notes you should “Please allow up to 7 days for your order to ship.” Translation, based on past experience: It could take 2-3 weeks for your order to arrive.)
Bonus deal: These probably won’t last long, but while supplies last, Best Buy has the refurbished Kindle Fire for $84.99 when you apply coupon code BEMINE15 at checkout. You’ll have to pick it up in-store, but at least you won’t be on the hook for any shipping charges. This is the first-generation Fire; it comes with a 90-day Geek Squad warranty.
Bonus deal No. 2: Got Xbox? For a limited time, Amazon has an Xbox Live Gold 12-month Subscription card for $34.99 shipped. Regular price: $59.99. I don’t love having to pay for Gold just to get features like online gaming and Netflix streaming, but at least now I don’t have to pay full price for it.
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One-Liner Pitch: ZenDeals uses patent-pending technology to verify online-coupon codes, so consumers don’t end up wasting time trying to redeem outdated or fake offers. ` Why It’s Taking Off: A much-needed solution to the biggest problem facing the online-coupon industry.
If you’ve ever tried to redeem coupon codes online, chances are you’ve come across a bunch that don’t work. That’s the problem ZenDeals hopes to solve.
ZenDeals, a startup based in Palo Alto, came out of stealth mode Tuesday after spending the past 18 months working under the radar on a new service to eliminate the headache that comes with redeeming coupon codes online. The resulting service, which is free to use, relies on patent-pending technology that uses machine-learning algorithms to verify that every coupon code offered on the ZenDeals website is in fact redeemable at that time.
To date, ZenDeals has tested more than 5.5 million coupon codes, and it has verified coupon codes from all the largest e-commerce companies, including Amazon, Gap, Best Buy and Target. Users must click on the code on ZenDeals’ website, which then automatically pulls up the retailer’s website. The coupon code is displayed at the top of the retailer’s site, and is redeemable for a limited period of time.
“There are a lot of dirty and expired coupons out there,” said Alexi Suvacioglu, co-founder and product lead for ZenDeals.
By way of comparison, he noted that when consumers go to book a flight online, they expect to find listings that are current and unfilled. Yet, when it comes to searching for coupon codes, it’s practically inevitable that consumers will have to sift through outdated and fake listings. “Our value proposition is that if you come to us, we’ll save you both time and money.”
Suvacioglu and his co-founders Christopher Couhault and David Lemphers came up with the idea for the service after Couhault struggled to find a redeemable coupon code to buy diapers online (at his wife’s request). At the time, they were in the middle of a brainstorming meeting for a project, but soon recognized the opportunity to solve a problem for consumers.
At launch, ZenDeals is available for online shoppers in the U.S., Italy, Brazil and China.
ZenDeals is backed by Eric Schmidt’s venture fund Innovation Endeavors, as well as by several startup CEOs, and executives originally from Facebook and Zynga. As with the current crop of coupon websites, ZenDeals will generate revenue from referrals when users click through a coupon-code link to a retailer’s website, and make a purchase there.
While many in the tech community have been focused on the growth and decline of daily-deal companies, the online-coupon industry has continued to grow. Earlier this year, eMarketer estimated that there would be more than 90 million online-coupon users by the end of 2012.
As ZenDeals’ founders are quick to point out, big money is flowing to some of the marquee startups in the online-coupon industry. Savings.com, an online-coupon code and deals site, was acquired earlier this year by Cox Target Media for $100 million, while Coupons.com raised a $200 million round in mid-2011 at a $1 billion valuation.
The hope, according to the founders, is that ZenDeals can compete against these and other companies by offering verified coupon codes that work reliably. If so, perhaps they’ll get a nice payday of their own down the road.
Those that have been holding off on the Kindle Fire HD may just want to grab one today, as Amazon has a special deal for today only. Their 8.9-inch tablet is their “Deal of the Day.” Today only, customers will be able to get a whopping $50 off of the tablet if they enter in the coupon code “FIREHD89″ upon checkout. Instead of paying the full $399 for the 16 gig version of the Kindle Fire HD customers will now only be paying $249.99. Granted, this deal is limited to one per-person and will be available all throughout today. Unless the stock runs out, that is.
Are any of you going to be grabbing this deal today or are you still going to be holding off? There are plenty of reviews out there that actually have good things to say about the new Kindle Fire HD. Most which have called it a vast improvement upon the original Kindle Fire.
Again, make sure you enter FIREHD89 when you checkout so you can actually make use of the $50 deal.
In other news, Best Buy launched their coupon today for $50 off of the iPhone 4S or the iPhone 5 (with a new two-year contract of course). You can read more about that on our post from earlier today.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, it’s Cyber Monday and Amazon is celebrating by offering some extremely phenomenal deals! Available today only, consumers are able to order Amazon’s refreshed Kindle Fire tablet for a mere $129. The discount is not automatically applied to your order, as you will have to …
Amazon is saying that their Kindle sales have nearly doubled over this Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend. That’s great! Unfortunately, Amazon isn’t going to be releasing their sales figures for their Kindles, so we won’t get to see statistics side-by-side from last year’s Black Friday weekend. In addition to …
During this years Super Bowl the Chad OchoCinco News Network gave away 25% off coupon codes to the Motorola online store that don’t expire until March 15, 2011. The coupon code wasn’t good for phones but it was for accessories. When the Motorola Xoom went on sale last Thursday Motorola …
Amazon.com is offering, today only, a limited $50 off coupon code that drops the Kindle Fire HD 8.9-inch to $249. Coupon code FIREHD89 works with both Wi-Fi and LTE-enabled Kindle Fire HD 8.9-inch models.
This is the largest discount we’ve seen for the Kindle Fire HD 8.9-inch model, the only discount that came close on Kindle Fire HD was a $30 gift card offered by Best Buy on Black Friday.
While Amazon is the manufacturer of Kindle Fire, they caution you should act fast to lock in this discount, the quantity of coupon redemptions is limited – though Amazon won’t say to how many. Regardless, the coupon code will expire at midnight tonight.
Kindle Fire remains the most popular Android tablet, despite not being branded as Android compatible. The new Kindle Fire HD 7-inch and 8.9-inch models have resparked its popularity, with Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich serving as the core operating system. In addition, Amazon’s partnership with ATT has offered a unique, $50/year 4G LTE data plan that offers 250 MB of data per month, for 12 months. That translates to about $4/month for basic data plans, which ATT still charges some customers significantly higher for.
The timing of this deal is almost certainly tied, at least in part, to the so-called Green Monday. The Monday two weeks before Christmas is statistically a high day for commerce, as shoppers begin to finalize their Christmas gift-giving plans.
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For the past two weeks we’ve been seeing a lot of cheap Galaxy S3 handsets with Sprint contract. But this one is for Verizon service, and unlike the Sprint deals, current customers can take advantage of it. It’s a $20 GS3 with two-year contract.
