Check out Discover’s credit card rewards, sign up bonuses and promotions. There’s lots going on!
$50 Cash Back Bonus from Discover More
Although the Discover Business Card $100 cash back rewards promo is no longer available, Discover continues to offer a $50 cash back reward for their Discover More card. Some great features of this card:
- New: $50 cash back bonus when you spend at least $500 during the first 3 months.
- Full 5% cash back bonus in spending categories like travel, gas, groceries, restaurants, etc.
- 5% to 20% cash back bonus once you become a member on ShopDiscover, Discover’s online shopping site. ShopDiscover features top retailers, where you’ll be able to receive rewards by making your purchases through the site.
- Up to 1% cash back bonus on all other purchases.
- 0% APR for 6 months, 0% balance transfer APR for 12 months.
- Over 150 cool card designs!
- No annual fee.
Also, Discover also has regular promotions for its cardholders. An example is the Discover Mall promotion, which gave away $20 Discover Gift Cards if you shopped at participating stores using your Discover card. This promo has since passed, but you can read more about it in detail below. It’s one reward program that is likely to come back by the time the holidays swing by again. If you sign up for any one of Discover’s credit cards (such as those listed below), you’ll be privvy to regular rewards like these that crop up on a regular basis.
Discover Credit Cards (With Their Own Rewards)
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Discover More Card will give you $50 sign up bonus, 5% to 20% cashback bonus. You can apply here or check out our review of this card here. |
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Discover Motiva Card has a laddered cash back rewards program where you can receive up to 1% cashback bonus on purchases. You can earn unlimited cash rewards and a pay-on-time bonus when you pay at least the minimum on time! Double your rewards and earn up to 2% cash back during limited periods. You can apply here. |
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Escape by Discover offers travel rewards such as unlimited double miles on all purchases, enhanced travel benefits and 25,000 bonus miles (you earn 1,000 miles for each month you make a purchase during the first 25 months). It has a $60 annual fee. You can apply here. |
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Miles By Discover Card will give you 12,000 bonus miles, with double miles during limited periods when special promotions are offered. Enjoy unlimited miles as well. You can apply here. |
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Discover Student Credit Card offers a full 5% cash back bonus on category purchases throughout the year. You can also earn up to a full 1% unlimited cash back bonus on all other purchases. You can apply here. |
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Discover Open Road Card will reward you with 5% to 20% cash bonuses for gas and specific purchases. Double your rewards (2% cash back bonus) for a limited time, during special promotions. |
Discover Rewards For The Holidays: the Discover Mall Promo (Turn Receipts Into Rewards)
This promo has since passed, but will probably be back for the holidays!
Beyond the credit card rewards, there are sign up bonuses and gift cards to be had if you apply for a Discover card (or are already a cardholder). If you’re interested in taking advantage of deals and are thinking of piggybacking on expenditures you’re already going to make, then do read on.
For those who own this card, there’s a promo that began this November and stretches all the way through January 4, 2009: Discover is offering a $20 Discover Gift Card for every $200 you charge on your credit card at over 160 participating shopping malls throughout the nation. Actually, “Turn Receipts Into Rewards” has been an ongoing, popular program for Discover in the past, but they’ve added many more qualifying malls this time around.
How can you join the program?
1. Be a Discover cardholder. If you’re not yet a card customer and are interested in opening an account, you can apply for any of Discover’s credit cards (some of which offer sign up bonuses as well) to become eligible for the Discover Gift Card and future promotions. Note that the gift card offer applies to all Discover cards.
2. Shop at any one of the eligible, participating stores in this program using your Discover Card.
3. Collect all your shopping receipts from November 1, 2008 to January 4, 2009.
4. Claim up to 5 gift cards (for a $100 total value) by submitting your receipts that total at least $200 to the customer service desk of the malls where you’ve shopped.
That’s it! So Happy Shopping!
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I have also noticed that Discover does often have some pretty good deals. There are some places that don’t accept it though…
If Discover ever becomes as available as the other major credit cards out there, there would be no stopping them.
Why they don’t become more ubiquitous (as credit cards go), I don’t know. Are they just more stingy with their vendors and merchants?
I will definitely have to do some more research on Discover as I always like getting free things!
I have a Discover card, but I always considered mine way lame. I can’t make a major purchase on it and they are 5% of my other cards’ limits. I use them only at Sam’s for bulk buys and gas when I’m near a Sam’s.
The rewards would be nice, but again, I’d wind up making payments every 20 days so I never over spent on my limit if I used Discover as a primary card. Anyone else experience a drastically lower limit on Discover than on other cards?
Joe
yeah…:)
Nice tip — I hold a Discover Card and didn’t know about this. Thanks for the heads up.
Others have asked why Discover is not as common as other brands. The reason is Discover has made a fatal mistake around merchant fees. Discover charges more to the merchant (store) to accept a discover card then Visa/Mastercard do. Discover needs to lower their merchant fees to compete with Visa/Mastercard.