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Get a Nook Color, NOOKbooks, Nook Classic for Half Price!

February 4, 2011 by Nathan

Nook Color and Nook 3G

There seems to be a loophole that a number of folks have stumbled across to get a brand new Nook Color for roughly half price or even less. This would apply to the regular E Ink Nook as well and other merchandise from Barnes and Noble, including NOOKbooks.

Groupon is running a promotion for $20 B&N coupons that cost $10 each. The Fine Print of the Groupon offer clearly states limit one Groupon per transaction, but apparently B&N’s policy allows you to apply as many Groupons as you want.

Who knows how long this offer will continue to be honored, but as of now a number of people have had success getting a Nook Color for 50 cents on the dollar. And some have saved even more by using a Discover Card to get additional savings by ordering online.

You can only buy one Groupon per city, but since it’s available to multiple cities, you can purchase one from each of them to get 14 or so.

You can then take your Groupons to a local B&N store, according to reports, and apply them to the purchase of a Nook Color or other B&N merchandise.

Many B&N retail stores are sold out of Nook Colors, however, so people have found out how to order a Nook Color online (which is now in stock). The problem is that B&N only has 3 fields for entering coupon codes so to complete the online order you have to select “pay by phone”. They will send an email with a phone number to call an automated paying service. With the automated service, like in retail stores, you can apply as many Groupons as you want.

The Groupons are on sale for 3 more days. And as long as B&N keeps accepting multiple Groupons per transaction, there’s going to be a lot of people jumping at this deal. Of course if B&N stops accepting multiple coupons per order, the whole plan goes out the window.

Update: There are reports that B&N has being advising employees to accept only one Groupon per transaction. Before dropping down a bunch of $$$ on extra Groupons you might want to check the source links below to see if other folks are still having luck.

Source: SlickDeals and MobileRead

Filed Under: Nook, Sales and Discounts Tagged With: BN, nook color

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  1. Yariv says

    February 5, 2011 at 2:50 am

    Your use or purchase of this Groupon for Barnes & Noble products and services (“BN Groupon”) indicates your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.

    Limit 1 per person. Valid on all items – including sale items. Not valid on previous purchases and/or adjustments. Not valid with other offers.

  2. Carole Forman says

    February 5, 2011 at 9:30 am

    The Groupon coupon has a website to visit for the ebook redemption which is not a website. I typed it in and nothing came up. What now? http://gr.pn/gUkzlw

  3. Doug says

    February 5, 2011 at 10:29 am

    Reportedly the stores are now being advised to accept only one Groupon per transaction.

  4. Bob says

    February 5, 2011 at 11:45 am

    I have only received one e-mail confirmation, even though I went to 15 cities and bought a groupon from each. Anyone know: was I supposed to create 15 different groupon accounts with different e-mail addresses? Sounds like it won’t matter anyway…

    • Nathan says

      February 5, 2011 at 12:18 pm

      Make sure to read the instructions on the SlickDeals link!

  5. Dave Heckler says

    February 5, 2011 at 2:20 pm

    I placed two group orders today (different email addresses) and have yet receive any email confirmations. How long does it take?

  6. Debbi says

    February 6, 2011 at 10:16 am

    Carole, same problem here!! I am stumped….

  7. Randi Ray says

    February 11, 2011 at 4:40 am

    Agree with above – how do I redeem my Groupon coupon? As Carole said, the website isn’t functional!

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