UPDATE: They’ve fixed the link so that it doesn’t work anymore, but we will post up-to-date coupons below as they become available.
It’s not often that I buy stuff in stores because I can normally find the same item for much less online. I do, however, find myself turning to Best Buy on the rare occasion that I can’t fulfill my gadget addiction over the Internet.
Just a few months ago we moved from Iowa to Illinois, and when notifying the United States Postal Service (USPS) we received some coupons online. Among them was a Best Buy coupon that was 10% off of a single item from the categories I’ve listed below. Huh, I thought it was a pretty good deal since the coupon didn’t expire for about two-months.
Then I noticed that this particular coupon, like most others, was merely an image. The URL of the coupon is:
https://moversguide.usps.com/img/coupon/bestbuy/200804_clientarea.gif
The first thing that popped into my head was that part of the filename for the image is just the year followed by the month. In this case the 200804 represents April, 2008. As it turns out the URL of the image changes from month-to-month almost like clockwork. So the next time you’re looking to buy something from Best Buy check to see whether this coupon applies to you, and adjust the URL to represent the current month. USPS might be changing the URL as more people start to catch on, but by modifying the URL I can see that they’ve been using this structure for nearly a year.
UPDATE: Even though this trick no longer works here is a coupon you can print that doesn’t expire until November 30, 2009. We’ll update this article as more recent coupons become available.
For those of you who have a hard time reading the fine print here is a nice structured list of the things the coupon is valid for:
- Home Theater:
- TV’s $399 & up
- DVD players and recorders
- Blu-ray Disc & HD DVD Players
- Home Audio
- Audio and video accessories
- Furniture $99 & up
- Home Theater installation
- Also valid at Magnolia Home Theater
- Computer Accessories:
- DVD-RW drives
- Flash and external hard drives
- Printers $149 & up
- Scanners $99 & up
- Networking
- Speakers, mice, and keyboards
- PC cameras and gaming controllers
- Digital recorders $99 & up
- Surge protectors
- Flash memory
- Cables
- Graphic and sound cards
- Software
- Blank media
- Ink cartridges
- Printer Docks
- Paper
- Digital Cameras & Camcorders:
- Digital cameras $249 & up
- Camcorders $279 & up
- Digital camera accessories
- Camcorder accessories
- Blank media
- Camcorder batteries
- Premium photo services
- Digital photo frames
- Photo gifts
- Prepaid Best Buy Photo Center Gift Cards
- Batteries
- MP3 Players & Car Electronics:
- MP3 accessories
- GPS hardware
- Car audio
- Satellite radio hardware
- Musical instruments
- CD/DVD storage
- Toys
- Phones & Accessories:
- Pay-as-you-go phones
- Cordless phones
- Answering machines
- Landline and cellular phone accessories
- Phone cards
- Two-way radios
- Major and Small Appliances & More:
- Vacuums
- Microwaves
not for me, lol
I live in Panama. Not for me either.
Bad luck,
Omar.-
Neither for me. I’m in France or South Korea.
Is it just me or is there a problem with photos going along with comments? Found myself with a new face today, and others had this same face! My first laugh this morning. Lol!
Someone manipulated the MyBlogLog service in a way we weren’t expecting, but it’s fixed now! Thanks for pointing it out.
The categories don’t really matter when I used it they didn’t even check it, just a quick scan and 10% off its pretty nice. I picked up a couple from the post office they have them with the change of address forms.
I would assume that their system would check to make sure you purchased a qualifying product though.
Lifehacker just reported on your article:
[lifehacker.com]
Congrats!
They sure did… 4,000 hits from them and counting.
Any coupons from other stores?
The Consumerist is on this too! Way to go Cybernet!!!!
[consumerist.com]
This coupon appy for regular price items only and won’t apply sale or clearance items and that will defeat the purpose of using it since regular items at BB are more expensive that other stores especially online.
I do not buy electronics item at regular price any more. I only buy at sale price plus coupons only since our econnomics are suck now. Save money for gas and lucnh instead. Everything goes up but salary.
Coupon that BB mail to your email or in regular US email or some floating on the web mostly can use and apply for sale or clearance items.
However, lately, some BB stores, cashiers, checkout computers do not accept coupon for sale items.
Good luck for someone who could use this coupon for sale item by having some kind of argument with store manager to have them manual over-ride the coupon.
FYI, you can find a lot of these at your local post office. It is inside the moving package. I have like 10 of these useless coupons in front of me here.
Wow… I never really thought that any of our articles would be pertinent to the Consumerist community. Go figure.
Of course there will be restrictions on some things, but if you’re going to pick something up at the store anyhow why not see if the coupon applies. You can normally get stuff online cheaper with or without the coupon anyway.
“Coupon valid 4/1/08 5/31/08″
You gotta read the entire article, and not just click on the link.
You’ll have to modify the URL according to the current month.
Have they already been alerted? I’m getting:
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Not Found
The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you have it. Please inform the site administrator of the referring page.
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And it’s still April.
Link isn’t working for me either
I guess they found out that we found out about their little trick.
If you’re lucky and you downloaded their coupons for the next few months, you can of course still use them.
anyone have a link that works?
Nope, looks like they’ve caught on. Sorry guys, the deal is dead!
I downloaded the coupon last week, hope it’s still useable…gonna come over to the states and use that coupon on the Canon XSi this weekend!
I’m in Texas and got this coupon in the “Change of Address” packet at the post office. A friend and I both used one to buy televisions recently and it worked–we saved a lot of money.
COUPON STILL PRINTABLE HERE:
[consumerist.com]
By the way, Best Buy still honors them. I used it today(4-24-08) on a new tv. $149.99 Saved!
Works great. You saved me $60.00. Thanks
any coupons for september????????? if so can u please email me 1..thanks
I’m also looking for the latest 10% Best Buy coupon!
me too i see on ebay september 30th coupons.. can anyone post a new september coupon, i want too buy me a new 1080p tv… would be nice saving 80-100$ more
I am also hoping someone will post a coupon for September?
Unfortunately there has been no coupons made available online. We’ll keep an eye out for new coupons.
I found this one:
[forums.slickdeals.net]
the only coupun i can use for best buy with no problems
This coupon works!!!!
Got a Nikon D90 with kit lens at 10% off….$1170 (retail $1300)…”Nikon D90 Body only” is not available from Nikon yet (retail $1000), many people are holding off buying this great camera because they don’t want to pay extra for the kit lens….USE this coupon & do what I did….
Pay the $1170, then dump the lens on Craigs list (or Ebay)…this lens costs $300 as of now with the “kit”. Retails for $400 by itself…I didn’t get greedy…asked $275 for a BRAND NEW UNUSED STILL IN THE BOX lens & GOT IT!!!!
Final cost of the D90…..$895.
Bargain
Thanks Cybernet!!
sweet! Thanks a lot for posting this, I can tell a lot of work went into it.
Printed and used today and worked great! Thanks
I am watching this site now …
It looks like I have missed the 10.31.08 deadline.
What are the odds that there will be a 11.01.08 – 12.31.08 version?
Can anyone comment when the next version may be posted?
Thanks!
There’s nothing available right now, but I’m sure they will be posted in the next week or two.
Ryan,
Nice work.
Will keep looking to see if there is a November coupon.
Thanks!
damn, i need a coupon!
Still looking for the coupon …
Any updates?
Unfortunately no coupon has been made available yet. We rely on people who are moving to share the coupon with us. We’ll try to get it as soon as possible.
Thanks for this great link guys! I always come here and print the coupon and save before going to BB. They usually don’t care either when the item you are getting doesn’t exactly meet the criteria. I need to go buy a subwoofer for my home theater this week, hope you guys can find the November one, thanks again!!
I picked up the “movers pack” from the post office earlier today (I was already there to get stamps) … and there is no BestBuy coupon in the collection of paper coupons in the pack.
Is this bad news?
Are there other coupons that are available online?
So the “10% at BestBuy” might still be out there?
That is definitely not good news. It could mean that Best Buy is holding off on distributing those coupons during the holiday season, and I haven’t seen any other Best Buy coupons that are available.
There is a new Best Buy near me which has its Grand Opening this Saturday.
Location: North Haven, CT.
Any word on deals for Best Buy grand openings?
Is this bad news?[/subcomment]
That is definitely not good news. It could mean that Best Buy is holding off on distributing those coupons during the holiday season, and I haven’t seen any other Best Buy coupons that are available.[/comment]
In these dismal economic times you’d think that they would try a little harder to get people into their stores by making more coupons available.
has anyone tried using this coupon after the expiration date? if so, what were the results?
I can’t find a recent coupon either but I did on October 28th the same as “Dogg” and bought myself the Nikon D90 with the 10% coupon. I turned around and dropped the kit lens on eBay for $289 so the deal ended up better than buying the camera body only. Awesome, and Thanks!!! Ever since I have been waiting for the next coupon to buy another camera and GPS but I haven’t seen any although I keep checking back here. It’s stupid of BB not to promote sales now seeing what happened to circuit City and economic tough times. The door buster ad was helpful to get now and the deal on the Garmin Nuvi 260W is pretty good even by online standards…it just sucks to be up and in line at 5:00am. What’s my time worth? I wish they would just release the stupid coupon and make our lives easy.
LOL this is great thanks
I will try this tonight on a Sale item to see what happens.
Pretty please can you post one for February?
I just filled out the usps move form (which costs $1) and best buy is not offering a coupon at this time.
Any word on the coupon……For march or April 2009?
Man, I Convinced One of the Comp Assosiates to give me 10% off Of A Nice Monitor Thats on Sale, But i Need A Coupon Cuz the one I Had Is Expired! Can Anyone Help Me? If so Email Bewareofgod@gmail.com Thank you
I need one of these ASAP…for April 09…i wish we could change the numbers on there…this would take $100 off of my TV purchase.
I’ll add my name to the request list… April 2009 anyone??
I could also use one for April 09.
USPS does not offer the BB 10% coupon on their website either. Will try to go by the post office tomorrow and see if it is back inside the change of address pack
snooknreds2@yahoo.com
April 14th 2009
I would definitely really appreciate a coupon for April as well.
Thank you
I joined the “Reward Zone” And I get this coupon in the mail every month, sometimes I get even better ones. it was free to join too Plus I get something like 3-5% back on everything I buy in the form of Best Buy cash vouchers. I just got $160.00 in vouchers plus 10% savings for buying a new TV and dishwasher. the vouchers have serial numbers so they can’t be reused though.
I just saw a great deal on an [123bargains.com] for $349.99 at the online deal site. The product is sold at Bestbuy. Can you use these type of coupons for deals like this or can you only use it for regular price items? Thank you.