Can anybody tell me what "home" means? I'll be buying a $14,000 pole barn kit at Menards in April. I just signed up for a platinum, asked for 15k BT, got a 6k CL. I'd love to know if I could buy 5k of building materials at Menards, pay off the card online, buy 5k more when the payment posts, and get $500 Cash Back. Maybe I should ask for a couple more cards. Do the Discover Business cards get the same 5% CashBack promos as the personal cards?
notMinnesota
Member
posted: Feb. 18, 2007 @ 9:29p
On the Get More page I see "You're signed up to get 5% CashBack Bonus on up to $1,000 in purchases." I read that as only the first $1000 spent will get a 5% bonus, maxing you at $50 dollars. Is that incorrect?
ICMaker
Happy Member
posted: Feb. 18, 2007 @ 9:57p
notMinnesota said: On the Get More page I see "You're signed up to get 5% CashBack Bonus on up to $1,000 in purchases." I read that as only the first $1000 spent will get a 5% bonus, maxing you at $50 dollars. Is that incorrect? That is not incorrect. Uh, that's correct--only a $50 benefit.
s0ssos
Senior Member - 1K
posted: Feb. 19, 2007 @ 12:38a
ICMaker said: notMinnesota said: On the Get More page I see "You're signed up to get 5% CashBack Bonus on up to $1,000 in purchases." I read that as only the first $1000 spent will get a 5% bonus, maxing you at $50 dollars. Is that incorrect? That is not incorrect. Uh, that's correct--only a $50 benefit.
yea, before they had a higher cap, so some of us made quite a bit. but i guess they've changed in order to compensate
s0ssos
Senior Member - 1K
posted: Feb. 19, 2007 @ 12:38a
photonfilm said: I have to pay tuition in the next 2 days. any good deals in terms of CashBack/rewards out there?
yes. get a citi premierpass. if you have any flights points, you can basically double it. then, to redeem it at 1%, you can get this credit for your student loan (basically a check, from what i hear).
Dang, now I'm gonna have to actually carry my Discover in my wallet. That's a lot of decent stores.
Prentiss
Member
posted: Mar. 1, 2007 @ 2:33p
Discover card is no good. Cancelled a 5% rebate on me with no notification. Luckly I was able to cash out the rewards with only a few dollars wasted.
I called Discover card up to cancel the card, they offered me a short term 1.9% BT transfer rate and raised my credit limit which I accepted since I had a balance I was just about to pay off in full with another card which had a higher rate. Discover card is my LEAST favorite card amongst all of them in fact. If I did not have an existing balance I would have closed out the account.
Morgan Stanley is a piece of work and just had someone indicted in an insider trading scandal.
"From April 1, 2007 through June 30, 2007, use your Discover Card to get 5% CashBack Bonus on up to $500 in purchases"
Would have been better if they stuck another zero on that total but $25 back is better than nothing.
painkillah1
Member
posted: Mar. 2, 2007 @ 10:21p
My Discover Titanium has no kind of rewards what is up with that???
bbguy5
Senior Member
posted: Mar. 3, 2007 @ 6:05a
Prentiss said: Morgan Stanley is a piece of work and just had someone indicted in an insider trading scandal.
FYI: John Mack was cleared
FullfillOrGetSued
Senior Member
posted: Mar. 3, 2007 @ 7:43a
jason243 said: "From April 1, 2007 through June 30, 2007, use your Discover Card to get 5% CashBack Bonus on up to $500 in purchases"
Would have been better if they stuck another zero on that total but $25 back is better than nothing.
Confirmed. I saw the same thing. CAP is $500 for 5%. Additional amounts are just up to 2%.
WalStMonky
Happy Member
posted: Mar. 3, 2007 @ 8:55a
Any speculation what would happen if I were to purchase some junk at Lowe's close to the end of the promo, have it post, then take it back for a credit after requesting my rebate?
The discover card promo's are lowering their caps each quarter. The old tuition promo was $2000 capped. The last promo was a $1000 cap. Now $500 (max earnings of $25). Not enough to convince me to use my card a lot.
photonfilm said: I have to pay tuition in the next 2 days. any good deals in terms of CashBack/rewards out there?
united visa from chase is giving double miles on tuition payments. not bad.
alielle
Member
posted: Mar. 6, 2007 @ 3:35p
Thanks for the heads up on the new 5% CashBack promotions.
sonnysighedup
Member
posted: Mar. 6, 2007 @ 4:01p
This is slightly OT, but I've been very happy with ShopDiscover, Discover's answer to fatwallet & Citi Dividend Merchants, etc. The Cash Back for nearly all the purchases I've made @ Drugstore.com (10% Cash Back) & iTunes (5%) has been credited quite promptly at statement-close. And they've expanded their list of merchants adding most notably (for all the Mac/iPod fans out there) the Apple Store at a hefty 5% Cash Back.
Can someone tell me what was the 5% category and the stores for the current month? I couldn't find that information. I am sure there was a post on that - but couldn't find that post either.
UnixLab
Senior Member
posted: Mar. 28, 2007 @ 2:31p
aquadoll said: Can someone tell me what was the 5% category and the stores for the current month? I couldn't find that information. I am sure there was a post on that - but couldn't find that post either.
Jan.- Mar. Get 5% CashBack Bonus on up to $1,000 in purchases.
Airlines Cruises Hotels Car Rentals Amtrak® Trains Greyhound® Buses
orangecrushv
Member
posted: Mar. 29, 2007 @ 11:00a
I know i could call Discover and ask but I thought I would try the easy route first. Does anyone know if you will get the bonus CashBack on all purchases that come from an apparel merchant or just the ones specifically listed? Thanks!
-Rich
notMinnesota
Member
posted: Mar. 29, 2007 @ 7:29p
Pretty sure just the stores listed.
tooshy
Frivolous Member
posted: Apr. 3, 2007 @ 12:38p
UnixLab said: aquadoll said: Can someone tell me what was the 5% category and the stores for the current month? I couldn't find that information. I am sure there was a post on that - but couldn't find that post either.
Jan.- Mar. Get 5% CashBack Bonus on up to $1,000 in purchases.
Airlines Cruises Hotels Car Rentals Amtrak® Trains Greyhound® Buses
I made two online purchases on the 3/31 and those rats pushed back the charges to 4/1 and the other one still not posted 3 days later. According to the CSR, the 4/1 transaction shows 3/31 according to her records so she was not sure why it posted as a 4/1 transaction date. She said she would give me manual credit for the two purchases.
I find it odd because previous purchaes through the same merchants posted same day as the transaction. I think it was deliberately pushed back to avoid being included in the 5% Cash Back.
notMinnesota
Member
posted: Apr. 3, 2007 @ 2:20p
tooshy said: I think it was deliberately pushed back to avoid being included in the 5% Cash Back.
I don't think that's the case, transactions fairly regularly get listed as happening in the days that follow the actual purchase, I could come up with dozens of examples from my credit cards.
Does my Discover Gas card have these same opportunities? I can't seem to find anything on my account pages. I'll e-mail customer service, but thought someone might know up front. I love my sweet, sweet 5% back on gas.
UnixLab
Senior Member
posted: Apr. 6, 2007 @ 9:48a
joeyjoejoe said: Does my Discover Gas card have these same opportunities? I can't seem to find anything on my account pages. I'll e-mail customer service, but thought someone might know up front. I love my sweet, sweet 5% back on gas. As far as I know, Gas card or Mile card are not qualified for 5% Get More. Only those "regular" Discover cards without any reward program are eligible for the 5% Get More.
tooshy
Frivolous Member
posted: Apr. 29, 2007 @ 1:04p
notMinnesota said: tooshy said: I think it was deliberately pushed back to avoid being included in the 5% Cash Back.
I don't think that's the case, transactions fairly regularly get listed as happening in the days that follow the actual purchase, I could come up with dozens of examples from my credit cards.The purchase in question posted as follows:
The CSR gave me manual credit for the purchases. She said because the transaction dates on her record shows that these two transactions (Travelocity and Priceline) were done on 3/31 she would follow thru and credit for the transactions.
I would normally not expect post dates nor even transaction dates to be the date of the actual transaction necessarily but because I called being concerned whether I made the 3/31 cutoff and the CSR could see that the Travelocity purchase should indeed have been a 3/31 transaction date that's why I am suspicious. The CSR was also puzzled why the transaction date appeared 4/1 on my statement, therefore she gave me manual credit.
However I shouldn't malign Discover so quickly because on another transaction with Priceline.com (also a different card), I did not have to return CashBack for a bid I cancelled in March (before placing the 3/31 bid), because the cancellation transaction date appeared 4/2 and post date 4/4 on my statement. So maybe it was Priceline's fault that their transactions appear so late. Funny that on a previous Priceline bid on 3/24, both transaction and post date showed up as 3/24 on the statement and that was on a Saturday too.
Bottomline, is I wouldn't have gotten credit for the 3/31 transactions if I didn't call, but I also got an extra $10+ in CashBack because the cancellation fell out of the promotion period.
BTW, the Travelocity -17.98 adjustment was for their Best Rate Guarantee. I already applied a $50 Best Rate Guarantee coupon to the purchase and received ANOTHER $50 BRG coupon due to this adjustment. Many good deals to be had, thanks to FW and the internet
another edit: The above transactions appeared in two different statement cycles, which is why the -4.15 for Travelocity is not quite 5% (I was given .22 or .25% in the previous statement).
update: I got paid $10.93 in CashBack bonus for Priceline at statement close, so I called Discover to report the double payment. Figured I should be honest since the CSR was courteous enough to follow thru with the manual adjustments.
UnixLab
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 1, 2007 @ 2:17p
You can signup for the Jul-Sep from Discover website now.
5% Get more for Jul-Sep Gas Hotels Summer Fun Admission to theme parks, water parks, museums, aquariums and zoos
UnixLab said: 5% CashBack Bonus on up to $400 in purchases
I guess it is better than nothing...but a very disappointing cap nonetheless. I hope this is not the direction the program is going.
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chimmy826
Member
posted: May. 1, 2011 @ 10:12a
WalMart is not considered a department store. They are a discount store, similar to Target and Kmart. However, Macy's, Sears, JCPenney would all qualify as department stores.
And I don't know for certain, but I would guess that Gap and Old Navy DO count as clothing stores. What else would they be?
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