I recently ordered my baby’s car seat, a First Years True Fit car seat
1. Visit Amazon.com and select your seat pattern
You must choose Amazon.com as your seller to get additional discounts. Prices range from $179.63 to $182.19 for the ones available from Amazon.
2. Add to your cart. Select free “super saver” shipping.
3. Use discount code: visababy to get 10% off your Amazon baby order! This code expires soon (Oct. 15, I think) so you’ll want to act quickly. This will take $17-18 off your order instantly.
4. On the car seat product page under the “special offers” section, you’ll see how you can get a free two-year subscription to Cookie magazine OR a $15 mail-in rebate. I’m opting for the rebate. Here are instructions for how to get it.
5. Gather up all of your loose change, and if you think it’s over $5, take it to your nearest CoinStar machine. If you deposit money and opt for a gift certificate (Amazon is one of several choices) instead of a cash voucher, you won’t have to pay the $0.08 or whatever per dollar. If you have less than $5, it won’t give you a gift certificate. It’ll give you a cash voucher instead. Use this money for additional savings on your purchase.
You can get this seat for as little as $147 after discounts and rebates! Considering it costs $189 at Target and Babies R Us, I think this is a pretty good deal. If you’re seeking a different car seat (or baby item) you can follow these same steps to save a little bit of money.
The Graco SafeSeat Infant Car Seat
**Note: Amazon links are affiliate links.
I’m using the 15.00 rebate after purchasing 3 Bum Genius one size cloth diapers. They were on sale already for 12.00 each (normally almost 17.00 a piece) so after the rebate I’m only paying 21.00 or $7.00 a diaper!! And these are great since they last from newborn to toddler.
Who did you send the rebate into? There are two different addresses and I am not sure how to get the $15. I am also using it for diapers.
Thansk
Hi Pam,
There is now just one address listed. Looks like they fixed that problem!
Good job, Kacie! That’s a $42 savings right there! Yay, more money for diapers.
That is a great savings!
Great job! Good choice on car seat–that’s what we have and it works great!
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Thanks so much for sharing all this! We have reached the point where our daughter needs to be in a different seat (she’s a lightweight and has finally outgrown her infant seat at 17 monhts!) I read a review of various carseats at babycheapskate, and this seat received a lot of good reveiws, so I was going to check it out. I probably would have just bought it from Walmart (it’s the same price as Amazon), but instead I followed your instructions and am getting it for almost $33 less! Thanks again!
Glad I could help!