Tickets for Cirque 2007 in Toronto are now on sale! A great chance to book the best possible seats. Cirque du Soleil is a modern circus that focuses upon a storyline as well as amazing performances which people adore.

Click here to book your Cirque du Soleil pre-sale tickets

I just received my 2007 Smart Consumer calendar in the mail today and it looks very nice with drawings and consumer tips and advice. You can see what it looks like here. You can order your free hard copy by calling 416-326-5300 or 1-800-668-9938.

More details on this Smart Consumer calendar here

Note: this Calender is for Ontario only

Last month I mentioned a Banana republic promo where, if you spent $150 you got a $25 gift card.

Gale left a comment on that post saying:

I received 4 of these giftcards and bought something with them. the item I purchased did not fit my husband and had to be returned when I returned the merchandise, the store credited me with the money portion but did not return the gift card. so much for banana republic and good cheer I will never go there again.

So in a nutshell, she used the gift card to buy something and when she returned it, Banana Republic just credited her the difference (original price minus the gift card amount).

Gale, I think that we shouldn’t let incidents like that go unnoticed. Ignoring them will only make us, consumers, more vulnerable to corporate greed in the future. Usually the main headquarters don’t even know about these appalling incidents. I suggest you contact their main office and explain what happened and hopefully they’ll resolve your issue. If you don’t want to contact them and would rather I do that instead please let me know. Here’s Banana Republic’s contact information:

1 (888) BR-STYLE
[email protected]

I suggest you phone instead of email. Companies take phone calls more seriously.

Thanks to Ceci for mentioning this factory sale.

More details on this Umbra factory sale here

Get a free appetizer at Kelsey’s with a minimum food purchase of $25. Unlike the Wendy’s coupon, this coupon has been confirmed to be legitimate and was emailed to people who entered one of Kelsey’s contests.
Click here to print this Kelsey’s coupon.

It’ll be more than 25 years before I could get a letter but I’m not that eager. Would’ve been more valuable had it been from the Queen.

Actually, on a second thought, this could be a very nice gift to your parents or grandparents on their wedding anniversary or birthday.

On request, the Prime Minister sends congratulatory letters and certificates to Canadians celebrating significant birthdays or wedding anniversaries.

Congratulatory letters are available for:

25th, 30th, 35th, 40th, and 45th wedding anniversaries
65th and 70th birthdays

Congratulatory certificates are available for:

50th wedding anniversaries and up
75th birthdays and up

You can send your request one of three ways :

1. Online by filling out and submitting either a

Birthday Congratulatory Message from the Prime Minister Form

or a

Wedding Anniversary Congratulatory Message from the Prime Minister Form

2. Filling out and Faxing a Congratulatory Message from the Prime Minister PDF form (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader),

3. By contacting:

Coordinator
Congratulatory Message
Room 105 – Langevin Block
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A2
Fax: (613) 941-6901
Email: [email protected]

To ensure on-time delivery, we ask that you submit your request at least three weeks before the event date.

More details

Click here to order your free Lacoste Pour Femme sample

Wish i had known about this earlier. Sorry if you’re reading this after 9:00am today:

Read The Brick’s flyer here

Click here to print your coupon

Banana Republic:
30% off all merchandise
Valid till December 3, 2006

Old Navy:
20% off all merchandise
25% off all merchandise if you apply for their card
Valid till December 3, 2006

Unlike other stores, you need the actual invitation to get the discounts at Banana Republic and Old Navy. However, you can try printing out copies of the invitations and try your luck. Most stores will accept it.

Here are copies of the invitations

Get 30% off all merchandise at Guess stores (or online)

December 1 – 3, 2006

Click here to print your Guess invitation

I was looking forward to this Saturday’s 20X Optimum points event at Shoppers Drug Mart. I find that Shoppers’ Optimum points are the most valuable of all reward programs out there. Optimum points can be very effectively redeemed as opposed to other points/miles.

Shoppers Drug Mart had several 20X events and the flyers during these special days were always decent. This time however, Shoppers Drug Mart – knowing that we have to spend $50+ to get the 20X points – decided to treat us like fools. The flyer barely has a single good deal and the weekend deals were shifted one day to avoid overlapping with the 20X event!

Shoppers Drug Mart, please don’t ruin your wonderful programs and rewards. You can’t fool consumers.

This Sunday December 3rd, 2006 Sears is giving out a free $10 Sears Gift card to the first customers in Sears (usually first 100 or 200 customers). Sears has these free gift cards almost every other week. There used to be no minimum purchase requirement but I believe they’re changed it now.

As far as I know, this is the first time HP offers 12 days of deals starting on December 1, 2006. Unfortunately they haven’t done a great job. Shop at HPhopping.ca.

Here are the deals for each Day:

December 1	December 2	December 3
December 4	December 5	December 6
December 7	December 8	December 9
December 10	December 11	December 12

The source is having 12 days of Christmas deals starting on December 1st. Other than the Radio Controlled Hummer on Day 2 (December 2) and the Drum Set on Day 5 (which should read $99.99 not $599.99) I can’t see any other worthy deals. Shop for these deals here.

If you look at the price savings for Days 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 you’ll notice that they’ve all been calculated wrongly 😯 Someone at The Source needs to learn how to use a calculator 🙄

Here are the deals for each Day. The source are mixing the days: