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Don’t forget! The 12 Days of Starbucks Deals starts tomorrow (December 1, 2010). I’m super anxious to see what they end up offering!
To get the deals, you’ll need to have a data plan or text plan on your phone. Just text 12DAYS to 29943 and you’ll receive one Starbucks deal per day beginning December 1, 2010. Normal texting rates apply.
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almost makes me wish i had one of those fancy texting machines
@Karen S., me. too!
I can’t get this to work. Has anyone else had success?
@Claire,
It starts tomorrow.
@HS Mama, Oh, so I can’t even text the number yet? I just assumed you could do it ahead of time and it would keep track of you. Thanks for the hint!
we have a prepaid cell phone and it would cost me 20 cents per text, if I wanted to do this…sure wish they had this option through email
I agree. I do not have a top of the line cell phone or text.
They should offer specials for email.
Ahh, tomorrow. Should say that in the original post! Would have been helpful to know before I shot out 3 texts trying to get it to work. LOL Thanks for letting us know to the other poster!
Have they done this in past years? I wonder what type of offers they do. Also, do you have to text them every day or does one text get you all 12 days?
We have a prepaid cell plan too- through Tracfone. Their text rates are very reasonable- .3 min./text. Cheaper than actually calling.
I tried it and it said “29943 is not a supported number”
You can sign up through the website. Go to starbucks.com/share and sign up there, no texting required!!
Has anyone had any luck with this? I tried to text and i got an immediate text back saying “sevice access denied”
It worked for me this morning. You might try again; I heard some people had to try more than once.
@amber, me too, after 3 tries, i’ve given up.
I got mine this morning… Today’s deal: 5 cents from every beverage you buy goes to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa…… THAT is the deal? haha
My husband called me to tell me that and was like “That’s no deal!” I agree. Let’s hope they step it up, or I’m going to be thoroughly disappointed!
I had that same reaction, but then again it is a “deal” in you or your family has AIDS in Africa. Share the blessings!
@Patti,
Exactly, people always expect something to benefit them. Today is one day companies are being charitable to various AIDS foundations. I don’t know of anyone who has AIDS, however, as a former nurse turned SAHM I know many nurses are at the potential to be exposed yearly.
My problem with it is that it benefits *Starbucks* more than it really benefits anyone else — including AIDS. If they were being more generous with their donations, I’d be more excited about it.
@Crystal,
I was a barrista through undergrad and I can say a lot of the beverages do not have a profitable margin built in. Two for starters, the Horizon organic milks don’t, the juice boxes have less than 15 cents and Naked Juice is next to nothing. I realize it isn’t a lot (it’s something) but they sell things outside of coffees and probably take that into consideration writing up the offer. They are a business and the goal of a business is to make a profit. If the deals are better tomorrow they will probably make more of a profit so I wouldn’t say this necessarily benefits them, it’s not going to get a ton of people through the door like other offers they’ve previously had or may have the next 11 days.
The $0.05 donation is only on handcrafted beverages, not the beverages in the glass case which would have a lot lower mark-up. Otherwise, it would make more sense why they’d only be giving $0.05.
Well, I thought it was called 12 Days of Deals, but it’s actually 12 Days of Sharing. Thus, the stellar (read: sarcasm here) offer is really a sham to benefit some global group when I’d rather know the organization my money is going to!
Nonetheless, you’d think they would’ve started off w/more of a bang!
@Amy, I agree. I thought maybe I texted the wrong number, expecting deals, not sharing. Like a good speech/blog post/sermon, a deal series should start with a hook. I thought they benefited AIDS every year. I remember something about [red]cup. So really this just makes them look worse to me.
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