DISCOVER CARD is giving extra Discount on Gas

 5% cash back.

It runs in the summer but you have to ask for it.  See this for info:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/718619/discount_gasoline_with_credit_card/

I believe this is for the US only

  On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:55:24 -0700, JoeyTheCrudder@yahoo.com wrote:


I think it maxes out at a $20 rebate.  With the added bookkeeping, I
elected to just stay with a 1% cash back on another card.

One of the few deals that still works is if you can get a commercial
(contractor) card at Lowees.  It works like a prepay debit card, but
the discounts can be 10% or more on some items.  If you load it from a
cash back charge card, it makes shopping there a bit less costly.
Home Despot has a citi-card affiliation that gives a 5% rebate when
purchasing at Home Despot stores, but 11% beats 5%.

 On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:40:05 -0400, hchickpea@hotmail.com wrote:


Maybe you are confusing two different offers.  

The Discover Gas Card has 5% cashback on gas purchases.  However, it
is limited to $60 per year cashback at the 5% rate, and they've just
instituted new rules that further limit you to accumulating it at a
max of $5 per month (i.e., only the first $100 of gas purchases each
month earns the 5% rate).  Lame.

What I think the OP is talking about is a special promotion for the
"regular" Discover card.  From July through September, current
cardholders can get an extra 5% cashback (in addition to the normal
1%) on purchases from gas stations, hotels and museums/theme
parks/tourist attractions.  But you have to explicitly sign up for the
bonus program.  Discover offers a different "bonus" cashback program
each quarter, with focus on different types of purchases.  This summer
it's vacations.  Sometimes it's home improvement, sometimes it's
restaurants, etc.


I used to do a lot of business at a local lumber yard chain.  If I
paid the bill at the counter each time, I paid face value.  If I
opened an account with them, charged the purchases to the account,
then paid the bill in full at the end of the month, I got a 2%
discount.  I never quite understood the thinking, but I didn't mind
the discount!

Dennis (evil)
--
My output is down, my income is up, I take a short position on the long bond and
my revenue stream has its own cash flow.  -George Carlin

 

I maxed my gas cashbacks out with all the moving.  DW suggested using
the promo for her card.  When she called and got the details, she said
it had a limit of something like $400.  Maybe she mis-heard, or maybe
the offer varies.

 On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:17:41 -0400, hchickpea@hotmail.com wrote:


I just re-read the details and she is correct.  Still, an extra US$20
cashback is not so bad for the few clicks on their website that it
took me to sign up.  So far, I haven't seen any downside.  It's not
like I would even notice any more promotional mailings --  the mail
carrier can only stuff so much paper into my mailbox and still get the
lid to close.  ;-)

Dennis (evil)
--
I'm a hands-on, footloose, knee-jerk head case. -George Carlin