Best Buy Bucks...How Did You Get So Many?

[BFJedi]

I sent out $68.82 in self-addressed stamped envelopes and got thirty-one $3 BBBs and sixty-two $1 BBBs.. that totals $155. After that cost of stamps I made $86.18. It took me about 4 hours to hand write both the inner and outer envelopes while watching TV. That is $21.54/hr tax-free, which is more than I make at my job. I wish I had done more. I also ate at the restaurants like a mad man (grown up eating under the arches, addict for life), so I earned another $42 in BBBs. The SASEs also gave me free McDonalds food for lunch for 2 weeks as a bonus.

 

I read about other people 'cheating' and using hand-writing type fonts to PRINT their envelopes. McDonalds still honored these requests, so I could have saved my hand alot of cramping, but to me 'no mechanically reproduced entries accepted' meant I couldn't use a mechanical device (like a printer head moving across paper) to write-out my envelopes. I hope the rules don't change much next year. There was some worry towards the end of the promotion because instead of receiving game pieces with BBBs in the mail, some people received a really fat printout of the rules. Fortunately for me I only got BBBs and game pieces and mailed out in the middle of the promo.

[Mike]

I spent about $400 and got back $700. Nice little return..

[Gumball]

Aren't postage rates supposed to go up next year?

[BFJedi]

Aren't postage rates supposed to go up next year?

Yes.. I believe by 4 cents

[alimfp]

Rates on postage stamps are going up to .39 cents, from .37 cents, so two pennies. Not a lot but it will hit a lot of people and businesses where it hurts.

 

Even with postage going up, I think if the terms still remain the same on this deal next year, I'll do it.

[MrsHoneybee]

The Best Buy Bucks was an awesome promotion...I McLove getting such a good return on what we spent! http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/Honeybee_au/Emoticons/yeah.gif

 

Postage cost - first class mail will be 2 cents more in January... http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=17381&highlight=postage+rate+increase

[teresa92]

I'm definitely sending away for some next year! I also read about how some people had no problems using the Kaela font instead of handwriting the envelopes. I've downloaded it and will try a few next year to see if it works. It sure would save time

[cami_reardon]

I know some people on another board I visit were trading them to each other. I never got any of them though. I sure wish I would have. With the teenagers and even the grandkids getting so much older now, it would have helped a bunch.

 

I didn't know you could send away for them though. I'll have to do some of that next year.

 

Thanks for the tip!!

[angel-too]

We received $265 Best Buy Bucks and it only cost us $111.

 

We only ate at McDonald's twice, so that wasn't it.

So, your real savings is $154 in BBB'S, minus the $111 you put out of your own money?

[RossMAN]

So, your real savings is $154 in BBB'S, minus the $111 you put out of your own money?

[Mike]

Anyone else having trouble redeeming theirs? BB seems content to want to let me use a few as possible. 2 out of 2 tries required the store manager to get involved.