Here are some tips for ordering online and earning Extra Bucks. Thru 12/31, there is FREE SHIPPING, with no minimum order. Shopping online and earning ECBs is a little different than in-store.
1. First of all, you CAN use Send2Card Manufacturer’s coupons and Send2Card CVS Coupons (the ones that print for you at the Coupon Center Kiosk). Only certain CVS Coupons will be redeemable online, but you’ll be able to tell by looking at the line immediately below show details. Redeem instore or online is what you want to see.You must send them to your card before they print in-store in order to use them online. Secondly, both of these will deduct from the threshold. For example, this week you’ll earn $5 ECB for spending $20 on Herbal Essences, Pantene and Head & Shoulders, but if you use the $5/2 MQs on your app, the threshold will dip below the $20, and you’ll have to buy more in order to reach it.
2. Items on sale at the store and a part of the ECB will not always be on sale online, but may be a part of the ECB. It’s really wonderful that you’ll be able to tell, right away that this item is a part of the ECB in a statement right below the price in red. Below that, you’ll see if you have any coupons clipped to your card that will work on this. As you can see H&S is 2/$12 and a part of the ECB in store, but online it’s not on sale, just $6.99, but it is a part of the ECB.
3. This week there is a 25% off Regular prices online only, and because the H&S is regular price online, the % off will work; however, this again means that the price after this discount is what will count towards the threshold.
4. You’ll be able to tell the progress of the items counting to the ECB deal you are trying to earn. Here’s the breakdown for the first item, before everything is added. In each item there are two messages with a circled ¡ . The one in red notes the savings applied to this item. The other will note the amount counting towards the ECBs. To the right is the ECB breakdown when I first added the Herbal Essences to this order. You can see you need $13.27 more to reach the $20 threshold at this point since I’ve only added two Herbal Essences to the order.
4. You CAN apply your ECBs to pay for your order, and these will not deduct from the threshold needed to earn the ECBs. Also, it doesn’t matter if your ECBs printed for you or if they are Beauty Bucks for instance that have not printed, you can still apply them to the order. If you’re ECBs go over the total for the order, it the order cannot be finalized.
5. Because this week there are 25%, there’s MQs and CVS coupons on hair care, here’s an example of how much this person needs to buy in order to reach the $20 on hair care to earn the $5 ECBs. Here’s the breakdown for the Pantene for both the Savings Applied and the ECBs progress. The $4/$14 Pantene clipped to the card came off only after adding four items to the transaction. Each one is $4.99 regularly, but since the 25% was applied it only worked when four were added. The $2/$5 Head & Shoulders also came off. 
6. ExtraBucks Rewards earned on online orders become available to print or send to your ExtraCare card for use on a subsequent transaction up to 2 days after your qualifying purchase ships. Also note these ECB’s for some reason have a shorter expiration date than if they had printed in-store. However, once you print them in store, they do have a regular time span for expiration.
7. On your shopping basket you’ll be able to see the Savings Redeemed, on the right hand side after the list of ECBs you can use. Here’s that information from the order pictured above between 4 and 5. In here it includes any coupons used, and if you apply ECB’s they will be listed here too, so you can see what’s going on.
7. ECBs that require no threshold are best to grab online! For instance this week you’ll earn $5 ECB for buying two Maybelline or Sally Hansen Cosmetics. These are regular price, so the 25% off applies. A friend of mine grabbed this deal this week since she had $5 ECBs that she lost! They were about to expire and somehow they were not in her handbag, so she ordered the Sally Hansen to successfully roll them into another $5 ECBs…
8. Check you thresholds carefully. It appears you must reach the threshold to the penny in order to earn the ECBs online, unlike in the stores where you can be a few pennies shy.
Have anecdotes that you’d like to share if you’ve ordered online? Please leave us a comment, and we’ll all learn 🙂 .
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