American Girl fans: Free shipping ends today
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Time is running out to save a little money on those wholesome and oh-so-pricey American Girl products.
The Mattel-owned doll maker is offering free shipping for online shoppers, but it ends today -- as in two days before Thanksgiving. So much for Black Friday and its cousin, Cyber Monday. And those of us on the West Coast who are shopping for an American Girl devotee -- I hope you’re not reading this, Leah! -- get shorted by two hours because the promotion ends at 11:59 p.m. Central time.
There is no minimum purchase, but lots of other rules: The offer is good only once per shopper and to only one U.S. address. Charges apply on shipments to Canada, rush orders and large items. The free shipping can’t be combined with other offers. And the offer doesn’t apply to shipments sent from the American Girl Place stores, located in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas and Minneapolis. To redeem the free-shipping offer, shoppers must enter the code GIFTSHIP when they check out.
The savings are worth exercising your holiday shopping fingers a bit early. The cost to ship a Samantha doll, book and accessories -- on backorder because the dark-haired Victorian-era doll is being spiked, or, as American Girl announced in October, being ‘placed in the American Girl Archives’ -- is $15 to $20 for rush shipping on top of the $105 purchase price.
-- Nancy Rivera Brooks
/ Los Angeles Times
