Free Starbucks coffee for you and a friend
Starbucks loves a BOGO deal. It seems like you can always find some sort of buy one, get one offer that gives you the perfect excuse for a coffee date — and this deal is even better. It’s all free and there’s no expiration date!
The latest deal is offering a free cup of Starbucks Blonde Roast for you and a friend. Here’s how to get it:
Head over to the Starbucks Facebook page and click the green “Get Started” button.
From there, click “Go to App” on the pop-up window, which will take you to a screen where you can enter your email address (your coupon for a free cup of coffee will be emailed to you). Submit your email address, and then pick out an eCard to be sent to one of your Facebook friends offering them a free cup of coffee, too.
Pretty simple! And who wouldn’t love to open an email offering free coffee, especially on a Monday?
Here’s the fine print: Offer to be redeemed through eGift. Value of eGift equivalent to one tall cup of brewed [Starbucks ® Blonde Roast] coffee valued up to $2.60. Number of eGifts available are limited. Limited time offer.
January 7, 2013 - 10:35 AM
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Do you realize how much junk e-mail this free cup of coffee will cost you?
Actually, Don, there’s an option to opt out of any further emails when you sign up for the offer. And you can always “un-like” the Facebook page immediately after.
While the knee jerk denials ar being prepped – here’s the deal. Even while you stupidly think the retailers are doing as you requested, if you listen to the fine print, it takes ’6-8 weeks to process’. That means 6-8 weeks of time that various other companies acquire your info because the fine print agreement you read allows that, even though you read it & didn’t see where it did. Yeah, question mark here, too. Anyway, by the time the 6-8 weeks is actually up, which for the record IS NEVER AS LONG AS IT REALLY TAKES – your info has been sold to so many spammers it is unbelievable.
Bottom line? Starbucks NEVER takes you off their list, though they pretend to every time you call to complain, even when you take down their names and their supervisors names. They also never instruct anyone to stop selling your info to their spam associates.
Ever hear – ‘You get what you pay for’? In this case, you get some free overpriced coffee for the hassle that lasts years on end. Is that what you would pay for?
And you can also not fall for starbucks tricks and overpriced coffee
There’s always the option not to participate in the deal, Don. I was just trying to point out some options since you were concerned about junk email.
I loved Starbucks’ BOGO deal on holiday drinks over the holidays. Those were really a deal!
I don’t often do FB likes because I’m afraid of getting blasted with ads, but I know it can also leads to some good finds. There’s nothing wrong with offering it. To each his own, as you say Rebecca!
Resistance may be futile but I will not “like” any facebook pages to get deals or for any other reason other than I actually *like* that company.
tass, with the seemingly desperate maneuvers recently by the RT to gain traction in the evolving news media, I suspect we’ll see a lot more ‘gentle nudges’ towards forcing us into Facebook and other highly invasive and profitable (for the invaders) forms of interaction on this site.
Enjoy your over rated, overpriced Starbucks coffee Rebecca
Apparently I’ve hit a nerve with this deal, but I can’t quite tell if it’s Starbucks or Facebook related.
Don: I wasn’t trying to call you out, just give you some options incase you decided to take advantage of the deal. I’d appreciate it if we could continue to keep the comments civil.
Crooked Road: Tons of coupons and deals get posted to Facebook and my job is to find those freebies and deals — there’s no hidden agenda by the newspaper. I’d like to hear more about your stance on Facebook offers, though. Just last week you seemed to be praising Facebook for giving retailers and restaurants a free outlet to advertise.
You said: “Like it or not, that’s the world in which we live. Facebook, Twitter, they’re FREE! That means FREE advertising. FREE! It takes one minute, and costs a whole lot less than a weekly flier, and hits just as many people, if done right. You know, the people with expendable income? The DESIRED customers?”
As well as: ” Facebook, Twitter, and lots of other highly effective marketing channels cost NOTHING.”
So, what’s the verdict on Facebook?
Rebecca, Thank you for posting this deal. I was able to print my coupon last night (I live in the dark ages and don’t have a smart phone). This morning I was putting the coupon into my purse to use later on this month and I noticed that there isn’t an expiration date on it. Does yours have an expiration date? I didn’t want to wait too long and miss out on a free cup of joe.
Thanks!
Jodie: There isn’t an expiration date, and I noticed that you can transfer the coupon to a Starbucks gift card if you have one. That’s one less thing to keep track of!
There is nothing inherently wrong with facebook, or with companies that use facebook for their marketing. But a lot of people use facebook only as a truly “social” network, and not as a consumer or advocat, and they take umbrage at attempts to force them to feed their personal, financial, political, and professional details into the insatiable gaping maw that is facebook’s marketing database.
Just as there’s no purchase required to win a door prize, there ought to be no facebooking required to get a coupon.