Break the Bank at Smokey Bones
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
$10 Coupon!
I just got an email for $10 off any order of $20 or more. Last time I got one of these it was a challenge to hit exactly $20. It required as I recall a side of cornbread. They eventually stung me with it because I ordered again thinking I would use the same coupon, but when I got there they pointed out that it had expired. This one is good through 10/9, so I should be able to use several times before I go to New York. And I get Bones Club points as well!
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The New Bones Club Card
One element of the game I'm running is the Bones Club card. Every time I make a purchase from Smokey Bones a point is added to my card for every dollar I spend. When I rack up 200 points SB applies a $20 credit to my account, so it becomes in effect a $20 gift card. That sounds like a 10% discount, right? It would be, except when you first activate a Bones Club card online you get an automatic 100 points, so the first $100 you spend earns a $20 gift card, which is a 20% discount. Follow me?
My card hit 200 points last week, and I used my $20 credit to buy lunch on Monday and Tuesday. I have $4.00 credit left after that, but I picked up lunch for Sergio today, so I wanted to be sure to apply that purchase to the Bones Club card since it's more than I usually spend. However, I didn't want to apply it to the card I already have; I wanted a new card with the automatic 100-point balance.
I asked Frankie, the hostess who took my order today, if I could get a new card. She asked me if I had lost my old card, and I said that I hadn't, I just wanted a new one. So she gave it to me! She's clearly obvlivous to my strategy.
She applied the 17-point credit to the card, but I still have to activate it, and this presents a dilemma. To create the account I have to provide an email address. Of course I have several active addresses other than the one I used on my first card, but I'm going to need to do this many, many times if I expect Smokey Bones to take me seriously. I could create new accounts as I need them, but this seems to me inelegant. Instead I'm hoping to use the username+suffix@gmail.com format to create multiple Bones Club accounts. Could their machines be smart enough to recognize that it's actually an address on file for another account? I suppose its possible, but then again, what do they do for people who legitimately lose their cards and need to open new accounts. I think this will work, but if it doesn't I stand to lose today's 17 points altogether. That would be quite a setback!
I doubt I'll work up the courage to activate this account until the last minute, which will probably come at 11:45 one week from today. That will be the next time I need the new card, since I'll use my last $4.00 credit on Friday, and I'll be in Greenville on Monday and Tuesday. If anyone has suggestions on what to use for an email address I'll welcome them.
My card hit 200 points last week, and I used my $20 credit to buy lunch on Monday and Tuesday. I have $4.00 credit left after that, but I picked up lunch for Sergio today, so I wanted to be sure to apply that purchase to the Bones Club card since it's more than I usually spend. However, I didn't want to apply it to the card I already have; I wanted a new card with the automatic 100-point balance.
I asked Frankie, the hostess who took my order today, if I could get a new card. She asked me if I had lost my old card, and I said that I hadn't, I just wanted a new one. So she gave it to me! She's clearly obvlivous to my strategy.
She applied the 17-point credit to the card, but I still have to activate it, and this presents a dilemma. To create the account I have to provide an email address. Of course I have several active addresses other than the one I used on my first card, but I'm going to need to do this many, many times if I expect Smokey Bones to take me seriously. I could create new accounts as I need them, but this seems to me inelegant. Instead I'm hoping to use the username+suffix@gmail.com format to create multiple Bones Club accounts. Could their machines be smart enough to recognize that it's actually an address on file for another account? I suppose its possible, but then again, what do they do for people who legitimately lose their cards and need to open new accounts. I think this will work, but if it doesn't I stand to lose today's 17 points altogether. That would be quite a setback!
I doubt I'll work up the courage to activate this account until the last minute, which will probably come at 11:45 one week from today. That will be the next time I need the new card, since I'll use my last $4.00 credit on Friday, and I'll be in Greenville on Monday and Tuesday. If anyone has suggestions on what to use for an email address I'll welcome them.
The Mission
I get pulled pork from Smokey Bones a lot. Like this week I've eaten one pound of it for lunch on Monday, Tuesday, and today. I'll probably have another pound for lunch on Friday. I'll explain why in a later post, but what's important here is how I buy it. Several months back I realized that by combining a few different promotional offers together I am able to buy this lunch every time at half the menu price. My goal is to buy so much discounted pork from Smokey Bones that they: 1) are forced to declare bankruptcy; 2) cut me off and ban me from their stores nationwide; 3) admit that I've found the flaw in their system and have bested them.
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