I suspect the turnout on these in the past were higher than expected and they discovered that it cost them a lot more money than anticipated.
$15 Princess Auto credit for old batteries April 9-21, 2024
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Nice. I have a couple of old batteries I keep hoping my Optimate will recover but never does. If UPS batteries also work- my office is always dumping old UPSes once they get past a certain age.
Ups batteries used to work as part of the promotion.
I do seem to remember during the latter half of the promotion last year that there was some limitations that the batteries tendered must be "automotive" style batteries. The entire premise of the program was that they could recoup some of the costs by sending the batteries for recycling and getting their scrap values back out of them. But a lot of people ended up bringing in things like UPS batteries and power tool batteries and collecting the gift cards.
I was guilty of such in the first year of this program - I had an old totally defunct UPS that had something like 12 tiny 6v batteries in it, I disassembled it and made out like a fiend on the gift cards, but in the end each of those batteries probably yielded very little scrap value so they certainly lost money on that deal.
Between not even coming close to break even in many cases, plus all the hassle and logistics of each individual store collecting skids full of batteries and having to deal with handling and shipping them, the whole program may have gone away.
If it does appear again though, I've got 6 12v UPS batteries waiting lol.
Mark's Work Warehouse did a promo many years ago (early 2000's) where they gave you a $10 Gift Card for spending $10 in store.
I bought a bunch of under shirts for $9.99 plus something else for a dollar or two.
They never ran to program again.
CT ran a gift card program before. Iirc, something like a 25 or 50% bonus for buying gift cards. I used CT Mastercard to buy thousands in gift cards and earned CT money on the card to boot.
