The Offer
No direct link, will show when you download app (iOS or Play store)
- Get 21% back in SYWR points (max of $50 back in points) on qualifying purchases through the fount app. Excludes Staples, Sears & Kmart (make sure you link your fount & SYWR accounts first)
The Fine Print
- Valid until April 30th, 2017
- Points can take up to 10 days to be reflected
Our Verdict
If you’ve had issues with fount in the past not award points try sending an e-mail to [email protected], good idea to also take screenshots of your purchases through the app so you have proof. They offer a similar deal every week, so can be an easy way to rack up SYWR points. Especially if you’re also doing the SYWR portal deals as well.
Does anyone know if Amex Gift Cards work on this? The wording is weird because it says it only excludes Staples, Kmart/Sears then gift cards a couple more sentences down. I imagine it means purchasing cards from Walmart or something, but wanted another opinion.
Just as a heads up, Moody’s rates Sears’s corporate debt as Caa2. That means they believe there is a 100% chance of default in the next 12 months.
In a bankruptcy, points holders are unsecured creditors. So if and when Sears goes bankrupt, those points will be completely worthless – Sears already has several billion dollars in debt more than it holds in assets.
Seems like Sears is cranking these SYWR promos out of desperation to artificially inflate revenue and shift unsecured liability onto points holders like us. Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic at this point.
Yeah, I considered using SYW points to cover or significantly defray the costs of appliances for our kitchen renovation, but I’m leery they will last long enough for me to accumulate a sufficient balance and SYW points holders aren’t exactly going to be important creditors in the event of a bankruptcy.
I’m focusing on stuff I know we’ll need and use in the coming months: a new high chair and convertible carseat, clothes for my kids in the next size up, infant formula, etc. FWIW, Kmart has a decent dry goods/pharmacy selection and if you get a SYW Max trial, you can get free shipping over $30. I’m stocking up on non-perishables, laundry detergent, paper goods and toiletries. I’m seeing a lot of the UPS guy lately. I ordered 6 infant sleepers, which would have cost $40 had I not had points: they shipped them, via UPS in FOUR separate parcels. No wonder they’re going broke.
Things like that often happen with KMart orders because they use some of the regular stores to fulfill orders. So orders are often fulfilled by more than one store since none of them individually had enough of your items in stock (they also like to hold some back for in-store purchases), and/or one or more such stores didn’t have large enough boxes available to combine more items per box (they don’t provide enough proper shipping materials to the stores). Someone on slickdeals posted photos a few years ago of a KMart order shipped to them in a reused box from some food (a regular individual box of crackers or something like that), with wads of toilet paper for packing material, LOL.
wait a sec Franholio, how big is your short position on Sears holdings? Yes, I just read the Moody’s Jan report…. (the downgrade) BUt I don’t see anything in there to support your bald faced sentence #2…. the fear mongering about 100% odds of a default.
Fess up, you made up that line.
https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-downgrades-Sears-Holdings-Corporate-Family-Rating-to-Caa2–PR_360948?WT.mc_id=AM~RmluYW56ZW4ubmV0X1JTQl9SYXRpbmdzX05ld3NfTm9fVHJhbnNsYXRpb25z~20170120_PR_360948
I agree that OP’s comment has no place in this post. It’s the same old thing whenever Sears/Kmart is brought up.
Caa2 debt rating is the equivalent of a 1-year default probability of 100%.
I don’t recommend keeping a large point balance with anybody. This is doubly true for Sears/Kmart.