Discover Points: Redeem For Uber eGiftcards With 15% Discount

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• Have a huge stash of discover points too. Not sure if should wait for better deals to come along before capone merger...

• The guy schlepping your food to you hates his station in life and secretly hates your guts too.
  Who know what he does to your food when he's alone in the car with it to 'get back' at you.
  I will never understand the trust people place in such a 'service'.

• Uber just released their newest invention, shared metallic container running on parallel lines at 100mph!!! I can't wait to get in.
  Hopefully someday they can invent some mixture of hydrogen and oxygen that can boil my food.

  • lmao dude

• Any reason to believe they will be convertible to Capital One points in the future?

• still hoarding a few hundred dollars worth of Discover cashback...wonder whether the 50% off Shell giftcard deal will ever returns lol

  • by the time it does, inflation will have rendered that moot

• Any reason to keep discover points? I have good chunk but I'm thinking with all the merger possibilities I should redeem them to cash. Their gift card offerings almost always can be had discounted on other deals. Any specific gift card that's a winner for discover points or is cash the best option?

  • Basically discounted gift cards. Also the seasonal Amazon discounts.

  • havent really found use in last four years and I lost around 15% inflation. 15% is the best number you get, rarely 20%. in 2012 they had 50% off on shell GC but I dont think its happening again with capone merger on the table. CapOne is not so good either. I am thinking to empty my rewards

  • @guest_1808710 I keep a couple hundred in there for quick redemption when shopping online, i.e., figure if I’m buying ink at Staples, a quick 15% discount getting an e-gift card works well. I’m sure there will be enough warning to dump them into cash if the acquisition goes through.

  • Nike is 20% off.

• Discover should offer discount for Instacart gift cards. They need to do this before Cap1 will swallow them

• I’ve read some stories that Uber/Lyft hike up the prices for discounted gift card users. Did anyone experience that?

  • Hard to believe. When I deposit a gift card, it gets merged into my Uber Cash account, with other gift cards I put in before. How in the world would they keep track of all of the different cards you'd bought, and then deposited into one account, and then adjust prices on that when you select Uber Cash at checkout?

    You have to look a WHERE you read that. These days there's tons of misinformation out on the web, by people who just love to make up stories. So just reading something in a random place doesn't mean it's true.

    Gosh, even here at DoC there's the occasional story which they later have to retract, in fact one having to do with Uber recently, about a change which they first thought applied here but it turned out to only apply in Australia.

    But on many other websites, even when they find out some part of a story is a mistake, they don't necessarily offer a retraction. They may just remove the story, or quietly amend it, or if the information that it's inaccurate gets lost, they may not even touch the story.

    However, if you don't keep track of retractions or story removals or story amendments, you may not realize even that story you read on a website you trust was inaccurate.

    • Recently my Uber one prices are the same as my friends when we go out. They mark up the price and give you a discount to the regular price.

  • Only thing I have noticed is I have excess Uber cash I don't get promos until I run below $50

    • Ya, in a similar vein I have noticed that my Uber account that has the Platinum credits coming in every month- and that's only $30 (2 Plats) not $50- never gets any promos, but P2's account that doesn't have any Plat credits is always getting promos. Maybe that's cause she doesn't use it as often, but still... probably hurts your promos to add a large gift card to your account.

    • Good data point here. I have had a similar experience but didn’t notice it until you called it out.

      • Same!

  • I have bought/spent over $1k on Uber/Ubereats with discounted gift cards and I have always had roughly the same prices as others when getting Ubers, I doubt that is true. The effort to hike up the prices for discounted gift cards is probably not worth the few dollars extra for them anyway.
    If you're worried about that you can always just use Ubereats, if you have Uber One from Capital One you should always have a 40% off that makes it cheaper than eating in.

  • Not true for Uber Eats.

  • This is illegal but if they are doing, a class action will pay you back $0.05. So you are good.

    • Why do you think it’s illegal? Dynamic pricing is legal as long as it’s not discriminatory by gender, race, religion.

      • and by method of payment. Credit cards now are allowed to be charged a fee, but that has be clearly disclosed. Of course, not the case with the gift cards written above.

        • Good to know, I was not aware of that. However, I suspect it would be very difficult to prove that the price difference is in fact because of method of payment and not other factors.

  • Hard to imagine. They can't easily change the price on you once they see you are using a gift card. Or are you suggesting they increase the price just for having a gift card on your account?