FarmVille: Free Party Cat with Farm Cash purchase for a limited time

Over the past week or so, it seems that Zynga has really been ramping up the frequency of "free gift with purchase" promotions in FarmVille. Not that I'm complaining, but today we've seen yet another promotion launch in the game, but only for a limited time. Specifically, this newest promotion will last for around eight hours. Keep in mind that this promotion's countdown timer is forever counting down, whether you've logged into your game recently or not.

For folks interested in earning a free Party Cat with their future Farm Cash purchases, you'll can earn just that for purchasing any of the Farm Cash packages available on the game's "Buy Farm Cash & Coins" page. This means you can score this Party Cat for as little as $1, and walk away with 4 Farm Cash in the process. The Party Cat was released originally during this year's Birthday event back in June at a price of 10 Farm Cash, so this is definitely the time to make up for not purchasing it then.

In addition, we'd expect that this cat can be placed inside your new Pet Run Habitat with other cats, helping you to master it even faster than otherwise. All in all, this is a fairly great bargain, if you're willing to simply purchase the cheapest Farm Cash package for $1. Taking into account the Party Cat's previous price, that's 14 Farm Cash for $1 - pretty good right? Just remember to take advantage of this deal quickly, as it won't be around for long.

Have you been taking advantage of these free Farm Cash with purchase deals that have launched recently? Which is your favorite item of those offered?

FarmVille: 25% off Farm Cash in back-to-school promotion

Note: This promotion looks to be active in all of Zynga's games (Cafe World, YoVille, Mafia Wars, etc.), so keep that in mind as well!

With the back-to-school rush officially in full swing, leave it to Zynga to get in on the "event" by offering a Farm Cash promotion to all of us "Smarty Pants" players in FarmVille. The promotion applies solely to Zynga Game Cards and e-Cards, but it will give you 25% more Farm Cash for each card you redeem between now and August 28 (Sunday) at 9PM PDT.

While the image below states that you'll receive 25% off Farm Cash, please don't get that confused. If you purchase a Zynga Game Card in the store, you'll still have to pay the same amount for the card at the register; you'll just receive 25% more Farm Cash when you redeem it online. Either way, you're still looking at more Farm Cash for your money, but you're out the same amount of real world dollars, to be perfectly clear.

Again, this promotion will be available only for the next few days, so while you're outand-about shopping for pencils, notebooks and backpacks, take a couple of extra seconds to stare down those Zynga Gift Cards too - deals like these don't come around very often.

Will you take advantage of this 25% bonus Farm Cash deal in FarmVille? What will you use your new Farm Cash on, or will you save it for items that may be released sometime in the future?

FarmVille: Free Crab Shack with any Farm Cash purchase

While the "free-gift-with-purchase" feature in FarmVille has continued to grow, giving users a way to stock up on extra animals that they may have missed in their original releases in the game, until recently, that's all the feature has been: a way to earn animals. Now, though, we're starting to see trees and even buildings come into the mix.

For example, the latest offering is the Crab Shack, which was originally released during the New England event way back in July of 2010, and then again in the Birthday Classics even earlier this year. Interestingly, this is one building that cost coins during its previous releases in the game, but if (for whatever reason) you never picked one up, here's a chance to earn one for as little as $1. For that price, remember you'll also earn 4 Farm Cash.

The reason this building is so significant is that it basically screams to be added to the Lighthouse Cove farm, which all players were given access to earlier this week. And since we can't (as of this writing) pull items out of storage from our others farms into the Lighthouse Cove, this is as close as you're going to get to having any of this theme on your land for the foreseeable future.

As usual, this free Crab Shack offer will only be around for a limited time, so make sure to login to your farm sooner, rather than later, if you want to take advantage of this deal.

Will you purchase a Farm Cash bundle as part of this free-gift-with-purchase giveaway? Would you pay Farm Cash to access your "other farm" storage in the Lighthouse Cove? Sound off in the comments.