Wonder if we can buy gift cards from these stores and also receive 5% back?

dawhim said:Restuarants—From fast food to fine dining
It's that great time of the year when I discover (pardon the pun) how many restaurants do not take Discover .

Nice to see CC there during the BF period!

I never did apply for a 2nd card to use for the 2nd installment of my daughter's college tuition. Looks like it's too late to sign up for the current promotion, anyway .

shoppings said:Wonder if we can buy gift cards from these stores and also receive 5% back?
Why not? They have no idea what you're buying.

I'm signed up for the July-September Get More promotion for tuition, apparel and office supplies. What happens to this promotion if I sign up for the October-December Get More program today? I would hope that I'm still enrolled in the old promotion until September 30. But it wouldn't surprise me if Discover only allows one promotion to be "signed up for" at a time, so that signing up for the new program immediately invalidates the old one. Does anybody know what actually happens here?

i haven't tried for purchases online, anyone confirm it's good for online purchases? eg OD?
my BM purchases have already shown up as 5%

dawhim said:Restuarants—From fast food to fine dining
It's that great time of the year when I discover (pardon the pun) how many restaurants do not take Discover .

Nice to see CC there during the BF period!

I never did apply for a 2nd card to use for the 2nd installment of my daughter's college tuition. Looks like it's too late to sign up for the current promotion, anyway .

yeah its a pitty my local pizza hut didnt even take discover i was like wtf, Amazon.com looks nice i gotta make some purchases and crap, looks like there own visa will be put away for a few months. Only upto $1000 in purch which is kinda crappy.

Anyone think NetFlix will qualify for video rental?

A reminder to all: be sure to check your statements to be sure that you are properly being credited the 5% bonus. If something does not add up, call CS. I find that Discover shortchanges me at least once per promo. In my case, my most recent statement had the proper credit, but my first statement in the current promo had NONE of my applicable purchases credited. It is only worth a few dollars, but hey, it's still due.

Actually this one has a max out of $50.

Sorry if this is off-topic.

When you do the CashBack promotions and you max out your 5% bonus, do you revert back to earning 1% (assuming you've reached your $3000 minimum before the promotion) on those catagories, or are you through earning a bonus on those catagories until the promotion period ends?

Edited to add -- apparently you revert to the normal CashBack schedule once you max out your 5% earnings.

Also I read somewhere on the Discover website that purchases at some merchants are limited to 0.25% CashBack bonus, even if you've passed the $3000 minimum, but I couldn't find what they were. It was something like certain warehouse stores and grocery stores affiliated with them, which made me think it was Sam's and WalMart, but I haven't been able to find a list on the Discover website (even though the Discover website says it's there somewhere). Anyone know which merchants they are talking about?

Edited to add: I was right -- it is Sam's and WalMart that give only 0.25%.

Xeon852 said:Oct-Dec Get More sounds a lot like Citi mtvU...

Except, when Discover is taken at the business, you have a 99% chance that it will be 5% unlike mtvU. Any fast food, sit-down restaurant, bar, raw bar, night club, strip club, etc that accepts Discover will be counted as 5%. I have about a 40% chance Citi will not count my restaurant purchases correctly due to how the business codes the transactions.