This is a thread with discounts for ScanCafe, a service that scans slides and photographs. I have a good Nikon slide scanner, but if, like me, you have thousands of family slides going back for half a century, doing the job yourself will consume all your free time for a long, long time. I tried several services, and ScanCafe did the best job. Getting discounts on the service can be a significant savings. There are also fatwallet-like sites that will give you up to 10% back. Fatwallet ought to give Cash Back for ScanCafe.
I'll put the discounts in the summary.
Message edited by: Corkypa on 2009-11-03 08:30:16 CST
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Offers expire at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on the final day. With the scanning discounts, you can place an order during the discount period, and then send it out later, at your leisure
The way their scanning works is that you send them slides, they scan them and put them online, and then you get to pick which you want to keep. You have to pay for (get the scanned images for) at least half the slides. They will send back the slides and DVDs (or a disk) with the images). They will also scan photographs. For an extra charge (waived during some promotions), you can send slides in carousels and pictures in albums. They will remove the slides or pictures, and put them back when they are done.
2009
Nov 3 Buy a $150 gift card, receive a $150 gift card free, limit 2 per customer. On the order form, select the $150 gift card value -- offer not valid on amounts other than $150. On the order form, be sure to select Standard Delivery -- offer not valid for cards sent via email. Complete the order form, review your shipping details, and finalize your purchase. By the end of next week, we'll send a $300 gift card in the mail to the address you provide. Gift cards can be used on ScanCafe scanning services - not valid for restorations, gift boxes, USB drives, or photo gifts. Gift cards cannot be used in combination with any other offer or discount.
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Message edited by: Corkypa on 2009-11-03 18:58:02 CST
Thanks OP. 50% discount deals always look tempting to me.
At about 29 cents per slide, $300 in gift cards works out to a little over 1,000 slides---maybe more than the average user is looking for.
My understanding of ScanCafe is that they ship your slides overseas (India I think?) for the actual scanning. Does give me pause, with the uncertainties of international bulk mailing and the priceless nature of some of my images. Nonetheless, I have seen nothing but positive reviews of the service.
This is helpful. I was just about to move forward with a project where I'll need to scan 1000-1500 pics. Was about to use digmypics.com, which I've heard good things about as well.
Confirmed with ScanCafe that no coupon code is necessary for the gift card deal. So I'm thinking the $9 off coupon may stack with the promo, provided the coupon applies to gift card purchases. The CSR at ScanCafe did emphasize the part about selecting Standard Shipping to get the promo.
I see online that they ran the same promo back in August.
FYI, I'll post other discounts as I learn about them, but some go up to 30% and there are a number every month (for instance, there were 7 on various days in October). I would imagine that you can apply the gift cards as payment for a discounted order.
ktg said:Confirmed with ScanCafe that no coupon code is necessary for the gift card deal. So I'm thinking the $9 off coupon may stack with the promo, provided the coupon applies to gift card purchases. The CSR at ScanCafe did emphasize the part about selecting Standard Shipping to get the promo.
And there is no confirmation on the order screen (I don't see one)? I don't want to order $150 scans right now, but I would order $300 worth for $150 right now...
Thanks OP. I've been looking at using ScanCafe...and this will be perfect.
I did some research and they look to be the best for negatives, based on the free color restoration, red eye removal, and scratch removal. They do all this by hand (yes, outsourced India resources).
As for scanning pics...I thought fotobridge prices were better, but not sure about their free add on services. Starting at about .15/picture.
And there is no confirmation on the order screen (I don't see one)? I don't want to order $150 scans right now, but I would order $300 worth for $150 right now...
You won't get a confirmation on-screen, nor will the extra $150 be mentioned in your email confirmation. You should just receive a $300 card instead of a $150 card in the mail. Or so the CSR I spoke with said.
I'm not seeing anyplace on the gift card checkout screen to enter the $9 promo code---I'm guessing it's excluded on gift cards.
Corkypa said:FYI, I'll post other discounts as I learn about them, but some go up to 30% and there are a number every month (for instance, there were 7 on various days in October). I would imagine that you can apply the gift cards as payment for a discounted order.
I don't think you can use these gift cards along with 30% off. The ScanCafe email for the $150 gift card has a footnote that states:
"*Limit 2 per customer. Gift cards can be used on ScanCafe scanning services—not valid for restorations, gift boxes, USB drives, or photo gifts. Gift cards cannot be used in combination with any other offer or discount."
Message edited by: mcl853 on 2009-11-03 12:30:08 CST
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