{"id":726,"date":"2006-09-16T16:10:56","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T00:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=726"},"modified":"2006-09-16T16:10:56","modified_gmt":"2006-09-17T00:10:56","slug":"discover-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/16\/discover-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I recently applied for Discover credit card: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovercard.com\/discover\/data\/cashback\/\">Discover Card: Cashback Bonus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve had a little history with Discover Card. They&#8217;re basically the only credit card that ever rejected me not once, but TWICE. Once in freshman year of college and once again in junior year. Not sure why. Maybe they don&#8217;t like college students, so I had actually decided to never apply for another Discover Card again, but I&#8217;ve passed up too many good deals they&#8217;ve offered and finally decided to try again. Guess what, I was approved pretty much on the spot (no telling me to wait for approval while they process my application).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the reason I wanted to share this credit card with you folks was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovercard.com\/discover\/data\/cashback\/cbbpromotion\/holiday06.shtml\">5% Cashback Bonus<\/a>. This changes quarterly it appears. Currently, the promotion is for restaurants, movies, and at the following retailers: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AMAZON.COM<\/li>\n<li>Barnes &#038; Noble<\/li>\n<li>Borders\u00ae<\/li>\n<li>Circuit City<\/li>\n<li>Crutchfield\u00ae<\/li>\n<li>Napster\u00ae<\/li>\n<li>Waldenbooks\u00ae<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This even beats Amazon&#8217;s own credit card I think, which gives you 3pts for every $1 you spend there equating to only ~3%.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, everything else you purchase on the card, you get 1%, which probably isn&#8217;t useful anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The hardest thing about a Discover card is that hardly anyone accepts it. Though I have found a couple restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, when I was activating the card, the guy mentioned about a special bonus from date 1 to date 2. I didn&#8217;t really follow and thought he was trying to sell me some credit protection plan, so I just ignored him and just said declined any offers.<\/p>\n<p>Today I received in the mail about the full details regarding this promotion and here it is verbatim:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thank you for calling to activate your Discover Card. Now you can start building your Cashback Bonus. To get you started, get $1 Cashback Bonus on your first 20 purchases between 09\/12\/06 and 10\/10\/06.*<\/p>\n<p>* Earn up to 1% on purchases. In addition, get $1 Cashback Bonus on each purcahse between 09\/12\/06 and 10\/10\/06 up to a maximum Cashback Bonus of $20. We are not responsible for merchant delays in processing transactions. Please allow eight weeks for this special reward to be added to your Cashback Bonus Account. If your Account i<del datetime=\"2006-09-16T23:57:27+00:00\">n<\/del><ins datetime=\"2006-09-16T23:57:27+00:00\">s<\/ins> closed or deliquent, you will not receive this special reward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty neat. If I guess the inevitable comes and I still haven&#8217;t made 20 purchase by 10\/3\/06, I&#8217;ll probably go to a supermarket and just purchase how many more $1 bonuses I can get in sticks of gum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I recently applied for Discover credit card: Discover Card: Cashback Bonus So I&#8217;ve had a little history with Discover Card. They&#8217;re basically the only credit card that ever rejected me not once, but TWICE. Once in freshman year of college and once again in junior year. Not sure why. Maybe they don&#8217;t like college &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/16\/discover-card\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Discover Card&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}