Haley
I am not a robot
Starbucks has a special offer running right now for a free drink if you create a new account and sign up for email offers. Most of us have many emails, I know I have dozens. You need a gift card to create a new account, I'm really not sure if $0 cards would work or not, I just buy $5 cards for this.
So buy a gift card (or 6) for $5 with the phone app or your linked to primary account gift card (your Starbucks gold card) and ask for separate receipts. This will generate 1 (or 6) star(s) in that account. Create a new account for each card and opt in for emails. This will generate a free drink in each new account (after 1-2 weeks).
After you redeem the free drink move the $5 back to your primary account by either unregistering card then adding it to account (easiest but they might frown on this if you do it too many times) OR just buy a new gift card with the card, it will have a brand new number on it so you can then add it to your primary account with no worries.
Last year the free drink emails got delivered all at once and had a short redemption period, so no need to go crazy with this. Also most airport/inside hotel/inside Target/you get the idea locations can not redeem the codes.
Pro Tip: use a sharpie to keep track of which email is linked to which card
If you need 'starter' funds the best discount w/o too many steps is to buy one off Cardpool at 12% off. Portal plus points or cash back on card you use to pay should come out to around 15% off.
Code:
http://www.starbucks.com/promo/free-drink-msr
After you redeem the free drink move the $5 back to your primary account by either unregistering card then adding it to account (easiest but they might frown on this if you do it too many times) OR just buy a new gift card with the card, it will have a brand new number on it so you can then add it to your primary account with no worries.
Last year the free drink emails got delivered all at once and had a short redemption period, so no need to go crazy with this. Also most airport/inside hotel/inside Target/you get the idea locations can not redeem the codes.
Pro Tip: use a sharpie to keep track of which email is linked to which card
If you need 'starter' funds the best discount w/o too many steps is to buy one off Cardpool at 12% off. Portal plus points or cash back on card you use to pay should come out to around 15% off.