My second trip I had a list of two transactions that I wanted to perform. If you bought two John Frieda products, you'd get $5 ECB's back; and another deal was to buy $25 in Schick products and get $10 ECB's. There was also another deal that I was really looking forward to. It didn't have any ECB, but that was okay. It was the Dry Idea deodorant. They had it going for BOGO free. It was a little over four dollars. I had a $3/2 coupon and there were some $1/1 off coupons on the Internet. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the dollar off coupons because they reached their limit of downloads. I could have gotten it for totally free so I was pissed, but you win some, you lose some. So anyways, I get to the store and there are two packages of Schick razors, but no cartridges. So obviously I couldn't get either of them because I needed both at the same time for the coupons to work. As for the deodorant, someone kindly left one behind, which meant I couldn't get that either. The only thing there were the John Frieda products. I got two travel size canisters since the ad did not exclude them from getting an ECB. I checked out with the two items I had and when all was said and done, I did NOT get the ECB that I believe I should have. I didn't bring this to anyone's attention at the moment because this is all still new to me and I thought maybe if I went online I could check to see if it went through. I do not want to be known as *that* customer. You know the type I'm talking about. So when I couldn't find a single clue about how many ECB's I had online, I wrote an e-mail to CVS customer service and told them the situation. They were supposed to respond within two business days. I sent it on Sunday night. Still have not received any word yet. I'll give them a few more days before I bug them again.
It was about 2:50 AM this morning, and I was pondering about going to CVS. There'd be less people and I figured this is the time that they're stocking items. I was really hesitant though because every single day that I've been checking to see if the items have been restocked, the shelves are still empty. About ten minutes later, I just said "fuck it" and put my coat on and left. When I got there, lo and behold, two ladies were stocking right in the aisle where everything I wanted was. There were a bunch of Schick razors, but no cartridges. Again. I wanted to pull my hair out. But then two seconds passed by and logic checked in. I asked the nearest associate if they had any shipments of the cartridges. She kindly looked through a box that was laying on the floor. There wasn't one in there. Then another associate (who I believe is actually the manager) came over and tried to help by looking elsewhere. Thankfully, she found one! I was a happy camper and got the Schick items. Then I headed over for the deodorant. There was only one Dry Idea left. Ugh. Again. There was a near-empty bin with deodorant, and it luckily had a couple of the deodorants I needed. So, you know, yay! I got what I wanted. I definitely think I'm going to shop during the wee hours from now on. Now I'm going to list how the transaction went:
Schick cartridge coupon: $6/1
Buy a Schick cartridge, get the razor free: $12.99 value
Dry Idea coupon: $3/2 (man, I really wish I had those $1/1 coupons)
ECB's used: $10
OOP expense: Just a little over $3.
You guys, I saved over 90% for all of that. How cool, right? Oh, and I got $10 ECB's to roll over. So I guess you could say I actually made about six dollars and some odd change.
I'm beat. Goodnight everyone.
FYI: The deal is still going, so go get your coupons and jump in on this great deal.
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