Get something extra when you shop at the mall this holiday season. Get a free $20 Discover Gift Card instantly by spending $200 on your Discover Card at select malls from November 1 through December 31, 2006. You can get up to five gift cards per Account for the duration of the program.
It's simple. Take your receipts totaling $200 to the customer service desk of any of the participating malls by December 31, 2006 to receive your Discover Gift Card. Use it as a gift for someone on your list or treat yourself to something special.
California Burbank Town Center, Burbank Del Amo Fashion Center, Los Angeles Great Mall, San Jose Hilltop Mall, Richmond Ontario Mills, Los Angeles Stoneridge Mall, Pleasanton
Colorado Colorado Mills, Denver Park Meadows, Littleton
Delaware Christiana Mall, Newark Dover Mall, Dover
Florida Broward Mall, Ft. Lauderdale Governor's Square, Tallahassee Oviedo Marketplace, Oviedo Sawgrass Mills, Ft. Lauderdale Westland Mall, Miami
Georgia Augusta Mall, Augusta Discover Mills, Atlanta Perimeter Mall, Atlanta
Illinois Ford City Mall, Chicago Gurnee Mills, Chicago Water Tower Place, Chicago
Iowa Coral Ridge Mall, Coralville
Kentucky Florence Mall, Florence Mall St. Matthews, Louisville
Louisiana Alexandria Mall, Alexandria The Esplanade, New Orleans
Massachusetts Silver City Galleria, Taunton Swansea Mall, Swansea
Maryland Arundel Mills, Baltimore Harborplace and The Gallery, Baltimore Lakeforest Mall, Washington, D.C. Laurel Mall, Laurel Marley Station, Baltimore Owings Mills Mall, Owings Mills The Mall in Columbia, Columbia Towson Town Center, Towson White Marsh Mall, Baltimore
Michigan Briarwood Mall, Ann Arbor Lakeside Mall, Sterling Heights RiverTown Crossings, Grandville Southland Center, Taylor
Minnesota Southdale Center, Minneapolis Ridgedale Center, Minnetonka
Mississippi Metrocenter Mall, Jackson Northpark Mall, Jackson
Missouri St. Louis Mills, St. Louis
Nebraska Westroads Mall, Omaha
Nevada Fashion Show, Las Vegas Meadowood Mall, Reno The Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian, Las Vegas
New Jersey Bridgewater Commons, Bridgewater Paramus Park, Paramus Willowbrook, Wayne Woodbridge Center, Woodbridge
New York Galleria at White Plains, White Plains Staten Island Mall, Staten Island
North Carolina Concord Mills, Charlotte The Streets at Southpoint, Durham
Ohio Beachwood Place, Cleveland Cincinnati Mills, Cincinnati The Mall at Tuttle Crossing, Columbus
Oregon Clackamas Town Center, Portland Pioneer Place, Portland
Pennsylvania Franklin Mills, Philadelphia Neshaminy Mall, Bensalem Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills, Pittsburgh
Tennessee Opry Mills, Nashville
Texas Baybrook Mall, Friendswood Collin Creek, Plano Grapevine Mills, Dallas Highland Mall, Austin Hulen Mall, Ft. Worth Katy Mills, Houston North Star, San Antonio Willowbrook Mall, Houston
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link Get a $20 Discover Gift Card for every $200 in purchases made with your Discover Card at these malls between 11/1/2006-12/31/2006, while supplies last. Original receipts must be presented at the mall's Customer Service Center by 12/31/2006. Limit 5 Gift Cards per Account during the promotion period. See Gift Card terms and conditions for full details of Gift Card use.
does that mean after $1000 purchase, you get 5 x $20 gift cards? what is to stop someone from returning the $1000 purchase after getting the gift cards?
tim2357b said:does that mean after $1000 purchase, you get 5 x $20 gift cards? what is to stop someone from returning the $1000 purchase after getting the gift cards? They might keep the receipts
I did this last year at Towson Town Center (bought an iPod Nano at the Apple Store with my educational discount). They actually took down a bunch of information and made me show a driver's license.
MadAnthony said:I did this last year at Towson Town Center (bought an iPod Nano at the Apple Store with my educational discount). They actually took down a bunch of information and made me show a driver's license. Did they stamp te receipt?
In the Hot Deals forum, there's an archived thread about the same deal Discover did last year. This may answer a lot of questions. It looks like malls ran out of gift cards last year.
Off topic: I see people posting archive topic from time to time, do they just bookmarked them before or there is a way for you to search in archive? I read around but didn't find the answer so far.
Last year at the malls I went to, you had to show your card and they stamped each receipt. As it turns out I had to return a gift later on, but that wasn't a problem.
Last year there was no limit though and malls ran out very fast. Some got replenished and some didn't. Don't wait until the end if this is something you were thinking about doing. Maybe you can find a way to tie it together with the 5% CB Discover is offering now for certain places.
An obvious question is whther if you buy a Mall gift card with your Discover, it counts. On the face of it, it would appear to, since you would be making a purchase within the Mall. Several of the listed Malls advertise gift cards good anywhere in the store (with a $2.00 activation fee on cards up to $500).
If this is possible (perhaps someone would post their experience), one might buy gift cards in advance for future purchases at the mall (including post Christmas Sales). The one I checked had a Sears and many other stores, which I could imagine using regularly if one was located close to the shopping center. Admittedly for Sears, Deal pass or MBNA Credit Protector, can give 20% saving, but not everyone has access to these and similar savings on the other stores may not be available.
In theory one might be able to buy gift cards in some of the stores and get the discount, thus stockpilinig the saving for the future and giving one flexibility to use a store closer to your house later. There may be fine print that forbids this, and what really happens may then depend on the clerk who processes the receipt and whether she checks to see what you bought (less likely if you made numerous purchases and included a few gift cards among many items).
I do not know these malls well enough to know if their prices are higher than elsewhere, but I suspect for National chains (Sears, Penneys, etc.) there would not be much difference with location.
I can see no reason why you could not also get the 5% Discover discount on restaurants, books, music, movies etc. that is currently running if you made such purchases (probably as part of a larger shopping trip, since most would not spend $200 on such items on a single shopping trip, with the possible exception of those giving many books as gifts).
Unless there is some very elaborate auditing arrangment with Discover, they do seem open to the risk of purchases getting the bonus gift cards and then having the items returned later for a refund to the Discover card.
From looking at last year's thread it appears some were able to buy Mall gift cards (and complained about the activation fee).
It appears others bought store gift cards as part of their purchases, (and a few big ticket items like appliances).
Thus, you could use this to make the offers last longer. Naturally yoy want gift crds to a particular Mall only if you regularly shop there and to particular stores only if you expect to shop there later. Gift cards may also be a useful way to bring your purchases up to the next $200. Normal shopping has led you to spend $180 and you add a gift card (for a store you plan to use again) to get over $200.
FWIW, my wife cashed in a bunch of receipts today, and they gave her debit cards and stamped her receipts. In doing so, she forfeited $60 of purchase credits which I'm sure we could use between not and the end of December. I wish I could have been there to observe what they actually did, but this sounds like a real loose promotion wide open for abuse.
When I cashed in my receipts they stamped my receipt on the back and asked to see my card. Then she wrote the gift card number down in a notebook and had me sign next to it. I don't remember if she took down my card information though. As the previous poster remarked you forfeit any amount out of the $200 increments. i.e. I spend $450 between getting an eye exam and buying glasses, I went to the customer service desk and received 2 $20 debit gift cards and forfeited the remaining $50 let on the receipt. Sorry if I am unclear on the last part.
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