Discover Card 5% Get more. Updated for 2011

5% get more Jan-March 2008

Toasters
Fly Swatters
Strip Clubs

$20 measly dollars back? I officially declare the Discover Get More program worthless. Since gas is one of the purchases, you're probably just better off switching to the Gas version of the card instead of sticking with the More card.

UnixLab said: Oct-Dec 2007 Category is out

Restaurants
Movies

Finally, restaurants again.

captainwho said: 5% get more Jan-March 2008

Toasters
Fly Swatters
Strip Clubs

Every strip club that took Discover was coded as a restaurant so your facetious is actually true. Best part is that most places will treat cash advances as purchases. The bad part is you have to deposit 400 $1 bills the next day.

I save a LOT more than 5% all the time at restaurants.

I stay out of them

Cooking, try it sometime

jdopple said: I save a LOT more than 5% all the time at restaurants.

I stay out of them

Cooking, try it sometime


Getting out of the house, try it sometime.

does anyone know anything about the January 2008 quarter yet? I'm really hoping that one of these quarters will be school/office supplies... or could someone put together a Discover GetMore Thread so we'd know what's probably coming up for a quarter? Jusr curious.

i wonder if it's possible to change the credit card for NetFlix/blockbuster subscription to discover for these months and have it considered as movie? oh well...just curious

johnny98 said: I'm probably going to burn up my $400 limit on gasoline alone. I'll just forget about all the other offers.I would do that too, if I didn't already have a Chase card that provides 5% off gas. I used it for hotel stays. I can tell you though, it didn't take long to burn through that $400 cap. Better than nothing, but pretty weak.

zmmnj said: OK. I payed the September statement days ago. When I checked the Cash Back bonus today, I was surprised...
Although I spent over $200 on gas, I got only $3 for the 5% Cash Back program
I have been signed up for this program since July. What's wrong?
Anybody has similar experience?

Did you exceed $400 already?

From get more page:

January -- March 2008
Airlines
Cruises
Hotels
Car Rentals

Signup begins december

VivYip said: From get more page:


January -- March 2008
Airlines
Cruises
Hotels
Car Rentals

Signup begins december

Thanks for the info. I will be using my card for Air and Cruise during those months. Even if it's a low limit, I can still charge some of it on that card.

Just FYI, my NetFlix monthly charges show up categorized quite generically and with nothing to do with movies. IE: something like "Internet Marketing Service" charge type.

Therefore I would be very skeptical that Discover would indeed qualify such charges to receive 5% cash bank in their current GetMore promotion.

UPDATE: I checked my Citi MasterCard online account information to get the exact NetFlix merchant category, from my most recent statement (September 2007). Here is how it reads:

Merchant Name: NFI*WWW.NetFlix.COM/CC 8005858131 CA US ,000
Merchant Category: DIRECT MARKETING-CONTINUITY SUBSCRIPTION

jakeru said: Just FYI, my NetFlix monthly charges show up categorized quite generically and with nothing to do with movies. IE: something like "Internet Marketing Service" charge type.

When I last got charged by NetFlix (May '07) it showed up in the Merchandise/Retail category, the same as my current Blockbuster charges.

Apr-Jun 2008
Home
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You can sign up for Jan-Mar 2008 Get more now.
Up to $800

Updated on 1st page.

gyagya said: The 5% on restaurants doesn't seem to add up correctly for me. Spent 100$ at restaurants last month. Only got $2.50 as CashBack - was expecting $5.00 because of that Get More program (or whatever it's called).

Anyone else seeing this problem on the CashBack calculations by Discover?

-G
Called yesterday. Signed up for both Restaurant/Movie (Oct-Dec) and Grocery (Dec) Get More :

• Restaurant/Movies transactions 3 days prior to Nov 11 statement close posted to Dec 11 statement instead
  
• None of my grocery Get More's posted to Dec 11 statement

Discover CSR (AZ call center) asked me to wait til next statement.

gyagya said: Same response to me too from the AZ customer service center! It all sounds very fishy... I'm not happy about having to wait 1 more cycle and remembering to call again...Will see if others have any +ve findings to report. if not, will suspend using Discover.

thanks!

-G

I've run into the same issue when I've purchased items close to the end of the billing cycle. They won't post the 5% back until the next cycle. There has not been an instance for me when it has not posted on the next cycle (but I also track it on a spreadsheet just in case).

Thanks lhendricks92
I have updated the first page.

It looks like a copy of all the category from 2007
I guess many people miss the tuition one.

Saw this today, for the month of Feb 08 get 5% off restaurants, florists, chocolate shops, bookstores and pet stores, up to $200 ($10 of rewards)

naas said: Saw this today, for the month of Feb 08 get 5% off restaurants, florists, chocolate shops, bookstores and pet stores, up to $200 ($10 of rewards)Cool. It's the time of the year that I get to discover (no pun intended) how many restaurants do not accept Discover.

I noticed that a restaurant meal I charged on the card on 12/31 showed up on my bill with a transaction and posting date of 1/2, conveniently too late to qualify for the Get More bonus from last quarter. I just emailed them about that. Seems strange that it would have the wrong transaction date. Anyone else have this problem? I also had my NetFlix charge get posted that day, but they really did charge it then, I just forgot to change the card I billed it to.

johnny98 said: Mid-to-high end restaurants will usually take Discover and American Express. Lower end restaurants will only take MC and Visa.That's actually not what I have found. The lower end places I visit are chains and they all take Discover. The fancier places, which are not chains, usually do not. And acceptance of AMEX and Discover are not at all tied together from my experience.