I think I asked here a little while ago about buying a
Amazon Prime subscription through swagbucks even you previously had a prime subscription, wondering if you'd get the $15 Amazon gift card they offer. Well someone else may have to find out because my husband managed to goof that up.
We got the AmEx offer for 5000 MR points for buying a Amazon Prime subscription. Ours had renewed just a little while ago and we hadn't used it yet so we're eligible to cancel for pro-rated refund and then we could buy it again with the AmEx card for the points. Some folks on one of the deals blogs had said they canceled and then combined it with the iBotta (I think it was?) GC offer, so I thought we'd try it with the SB one. Hubby's the subscriber so I wanted him to check it out and do it a couple weeks ago but he keeps forgetting. Since I had to cancel a free trial today it reminded me about the Prime cancel and I told him that we should do it once and for all LATER tonight.
So I'm trying to hop in the shower before heading out to dinner with some extended family that's in town whom we hardly get to see and he decides he's going to do it now so he doesn't forget (probably so I stop bothering him) rather than wait until we get back from dinner, like I said we should. grr. so I stop what i'm doing to make sure he verifies he can cancel the prime with a refund ok. we get through that and I say again, 'ok cool we'll double check you still have the offer saved later and then buy it again, later' and I hop in the shower.
Like no more than 7 minutes later I get out of the shower and he says, "ok we're all set I renewed with the amex"
Argh, oh well, I guess I don't get my train of thought together after all. I like to make sure I'm not forgetting or missing out on something before I finalize a deal. I at least ask, 'well did you get the confirmation email from amex that you used the offer?'
More grumbles from him, but he goes and checks and reports back "yes I got the email" then there's a pause for a minute ...
"oh wait, I think we screwed up, wasn't I supposed to go through swagbucks first?"

(where's the Skype :banghead: emoji when you need him?)
Of course my first thought was "what's the 'we' sh.. ah.. stuff you speak of?" but I wasn't sure about the SB offer anyway, it was going to be a "why not, can't hurt to try" so I'm just going to forget it ever existed. Next year right before renewal maybe I'll look it up again.
Didn't mean to be so long, apparently I needed to vent a little
