Target: Better Than FREE Pantene Ultimate 10 BB Creme (After Target Gift Cards)
Target shoppers!
Through October 22nd, Target is offering a FREE $5 Target Gift card when you buy 3 select Pantene hair care products. If you buy the Sunday Paper, make sure you check the Smart Source Coupon insert in today’s paper for a possible high value $4/2 Pantene Products coupon! Even better, there is also a 10% off Pantene Hair Care Cartwheel Savings Offer available.
Target Deal Ideas (Thru 10/22):
Buy 6 Pantene Ultimate 10 BB Creme 5.1 oz $3.24 each
Total = $19.44
Use the 10% off Pantene Hair Care Cartwheel Savings Offer – limit 4
– will deduct $1.30
Plus, use three $4/2 Pantene Products coupons found in the 10/16 SS
Pay $6.14
Get two $5 Target Gift Cards
Final Cost FREE = $3.86 Money Maker!
Buy 6 Pantene Hair Care Products $4.99 each
Total = $29.94
Use the 10% off Pantene Hair Care Cartwheel Savings Offer – limit 4
– will deduct $2
Use three $4/2 Pantene Products coupons found in the 10/16 SS
Pay $15.94
Get two $5 Target Gift Cards
Final Cost $5.94 total – just $0.99 each!
My experience has been that Target changed their registers and no more MMs are possible. It will adjust the coupon value down so that the item is free but not a moneymaker! 🙁
The moneymaker is due to the gift cards. The coupons do not cause overage in this scenario.
Target now adjusts the coupons to the return value of the item, so if your return value is 2.50 and the coupon says 3.00 off, it will adjust it to 2.50. 🙁
That is what I heard but I haven’t tried myself after the register change. Hope someone can share their experience on this deal. If no mm, I will pass
Hello, I have a question! First, do y’all get multiple Sunday papers, because mine only has 1 $4/2 Pantene products. Also, mine says “limit one coupon per purchase” so how do y’all use multiple. Thanks. (:
You have to buy more inserts to get more coupons !!there is just one $4/2 coupon in each insert
Yeah we buy multiple newspapers, I buy mine at the dollar tree $1 each! Limit one per purchase: per item usually the limit is 4 alike coupon per transaction or two for the uneliver product
I get multiple. Per purchase means per item purchased.
I just recently tried a “MM” deal however the register automatically adjusted the coupons down. No more MMs on Target. Never Target again. Target is definitely against Couponers.
Yeah they change a lot of things!!!No more overages ! But here the money maker is when considering the gift cards so you pay $6.98 you get $10 on gift cards !!!the last week I used a coupon buy axe body wash get axe body spray free, I have a target coupons! The axe body spray was $4.49 but the register took just $3.28 because the target coupon!!!
I think they are trying to recoop some of their coupon fraud loss back, by doing it this way.
In my opinion Target is not against couponers. They are, after all, in business to make money, not give it away! Getting free items is totally a win in my book – no need to get overage. Free is free 🙂
This! I don’t know why people are so upset on not getting MM so much anymore, you get the product free after the coupons so why does it matter? Target is trying to stay in business by not losing out on money from coupons not being used correctly.
I couldn’t agree more!
The problem is that target is committing theft by doing is. They adjust the coupon down to the refund value of the item after gift card is factored in. However they submit the coupon for the full value to the mfr plus the 8 cent handling fee. It’s not about getting good money makers. It’s about the fact that the full value of the coupon isn’t given to the consumer but they still receive the full value.
Completely agree. Also, remember they don’t recoup anything on the cartwheel % or on “Target Coupon”. If they go out of business, you will be relegated to shopping at Walmart. They don’t have anything like cartwheel or their own coupons. I have more trouble with coupons at Walmart than Target, by far.
Thank you for saying that Nan.
Ugh, I’m going to have to start buying inserts. I live in a rural area and we never get any of these coupons! My SS only has a total of 16 coupons. =(
I used to work at Target and they throw all the coupons in a huge box and mail them off. They are linked to any one transaction. No matter what they get th face value of the coupon from the manufacturer…they just hate couponers!!
I meant to say they are not linked to any transaction.
So it’s a MM for target when they adjust down for the product.
Yeah exactly ! We get the money maker from the gift cards which is target money!! When the coupon is adjusted we pay for the gift card!!!in this scenario we pay $5 oop to get $5 gc and they send back three $2 coupon and get $6 back so they’re now making money !!!
Wouldn’t the cartwheel take off $1.94 in the first scenario and $2.99 in the second scenario?
No, because the cartwheel is a limit four, so you only get ten percent off of four products.
I always thought you had to pay out more than you were receiving back in gift cards in order for it to not adjust down the coupon. If your total for Pantene was $6.14 but you bought other items so your total pay out was over the $10 you get back in gift cards, then do the coupons still get adjusted down now?
Yes. I had this happen a few weeks ago with the covergirl coupons. I bought 3 mascaras @$4.49 and some other stuff, but coupon deducted $2.82 instead of $3.00 because the return value was $2.82 when gift card was figured in. It goes by return value after specials/gift card deals not by total paid oop. Hope that helps! At least we’re still getting stuff free. Some stores won’t take coupons if the coupon value exceeds item price…
Good to know, thanks Mel!
HOW do you use this product? LOL I got it awhile ago with a deal like this but can’t figure out how/when to use it! Do I shampoo and condition in the shower and then put this on? Thanks!
Anyone have a problem with bringing a coupon back the next day? I did the purina litter deal last week – so I got the store coupon and the gift card – I forgot the mfr. cpn and when I went back with it the very next day they refused. I bought 3 litters so at $2/coupon it was a lot to eat $6.
i’ll just add my 2 cents re: target’s seemingly changed/changing attitude toward people who use coupons–or at least MY experience the last 2 (consecutive) times i shopped @ target & used coupons there. up until these 2 most recent trips to target,i had good experiences w/ using coupons. but now, not so much. the 1st “problem” time was when i tried to use the cover girl coupons that collin et al posted about…& neither the register, cashier, nor customer service manager would allow me to use 3 cover girl coupons for 3 different items. the manager told me flat-out: ” target won’t allow [me] to use more than 1 cover girl coupon PER PURCHASE”:..even though i was buying 3 diff. cg items w/ 3 diff. cg coupons! obviously, she did NOT understand target’s coupon policy! it was SO frustrating!
& i had more coupon problems during my next target trip–with the register rejecting my coupons when scanned & the cashier not even willing to manually key in the coupons to see if the register would accept them that way. fortunately, though, the employee @ the customer service desk scanned the coupons again & they worked right away.
If the item is out of stock on this deal, can you get a rain check? For the buy 3 $5 GC promo?
Sorry Kim. Target never give a rain check.