I didn’t see this one coming, but apparently Discover is sending out emails that they’ll credit many of the purchases made under the 10% Apple Pay promo which were initially denied.
Discover flagged many people’s purchases made under the 10% Apple Pay promo, back at the end of 2015, as gift card purchases. Many were and some were not.
Discover gave the option to dispute the results, and many people did so.Either because their purchases were completely or partially ordinary purchases or because they wanted to test Discover’s ability to verify on their own. Discover then pulled the receipts using their superpowers (NSA, whatever 🙂 ) and denied the claims since they were gift cards. They did give a $1 credit for the activation fee or for the small item that came along with the gift card.
Today, for reasons that aren’t clear, Discover is emailing many people and telling them they will pay out the 10% bonus on those purchases that were initially denied. Maybe some sort of legal thing? Who knows.
From the reports on Flyertalk and reader D., it appears:
- Most of those who submitted claims to Discover are getting the cashback emails today, after initially getting denied
- But not all
- Undisputed transactions are not getting these emails
- It seems that the emails are for people who bought a small item along with the gift cards; unclear if gift card-only purchases got the same
Yay!
Thanks to reader D. for the email screenshot
