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The Offer
Buy Costco membership for $60 (regular price) and get the following:
- $20 Costco Cash card
- Coupon for $25 off $250 on costco.com
The Fine Print
- This deal expires 2/18/18. You must go in-club to activate membership no later than 4/30/18.
- Please note: Your credit card statement for this purchase will show DCG One for Costco as the merchant of record.
- Offer valid for new memberships only. To qualify as a new member, an existing Costco membership must be expired at least 18 months or more. Offer not valid for renewal of an existing Costco membership or an upgrade of an existing membership to an Executive Membership.
- Costco Membership Activation Certificates are valid for a new Costco Gold Star, Business or Executive Membership.
- Costco Membership Activation Certificates are not replaceable if lost, stolen or destroyed.
- Limit one offer per household. Limit one Costco Cash Card per household.
- This offer is valid only for new members for their first year of Costco membership at any U.S. or Puerto Rico Costco location.
- To activate your Costco membership you must bring your Costco Membership Activation Certificate to your local Costco warehouse membership counter. New members are required to present valid government-issued photo identification before signing up for membership.
- To qualify for the Costco Cash Card & Costco.com coupon offer you must purchase through the specific page for this promotion.
- Costco Cash Card are not generated by purchasing a Costco Membership Activation Certificate – you must join Costco by April 30, 2018 in order to be mailed Costco Cash Card . Costco.com promo code will be emailed to you after you have purchased your Costco Membership Activation Certificate and used after you have joined Costco as a new member. Cash Card will be mailed within 2-6 weeks after you join Costco.
- Costco.com coupon expires on 4/30/2018.
- Costco.com $25 off an order over $250 on Costco.com terms: Limit one offer per promo code. Ineligible purchases include: new Costco memberships, Costco membership renewals, gift of membership, online gift certificates, Costco Cash Cards, custom installation services and online digital print orders. Not valid for orders at the online pharmacy, Costco Travel or Costco Business Delivery. The merchandise total in your cart must equal $250 or more before tax and shipping to receive the $25 off. The coupon code must be entered in the promo code box at checkout to be valid.
Our Verdict
The $20 Costco Cash card brings down the cost from $60 to $40, and if you’ll be making a large Costco.com order that’s another $25 savings bringing down the out of pocket cost to just $15 which is a great deal. Here and here are links to two other deals within the past year for comparison sake.
Hat tip to SD
Just to share a data point on this deal. The deal works in the following way,
Once you purchased this deal, Costco will immediately send you a $25 coupon and a membership activation certification, which is still not a membership card yet, via email. You still have to go to a Costco branch in person to activate your membership with a print-out of membership activation certification before the time indicated above. And you could get your $20 cash card at the time you activate your membership.
Besides, the $25 off coupon for $250 or more eligible purchase can be used by others. It is not necessarily to be used by the person who purchased the membership. This means if your friend (who is a Costco member as well) has some shopping to do, you can just pass your coupon to them as a favor or ask them to cash the coupon for you.
How does Costco track new membership? My membership is expiring and I wonder if I can simply become a new member by using a different phone number and email address
this offer is worse than previous ones, when folks did get free stuff / food; if one can wait, likely see better offer later this yr.
Need 2 for executive member. Does buying 2 gets $40 card + 2 coupons?
Can someone help with this DP? In this case, $40 off executive membership is an awesome deal!
Something wrong with the DCG site. It charged my card 30+ times and triggered fraud alert on my cc.
Dead for me as well.
But the SD link at the bottom still works!
Fixed now, thanks
The offer is gone now on the link above
It was a copy and paste error. Fixed now.
If I’m a secondary member does this work?
I’d like to know this too.
Emailed costco and asked about being secondary..
“You are not eligible. A “new member” is defined as someone who:
Has never had a Costco membership, or
If they previously had a Costco membership it has been expired for more than 18 months, regardless of whether they were the primary account holder or were listed on someone else’s membership as the secondary account /family member.”
Will the $25 off $250 work on gift cards?
No, the term explicitly rules out the purchase of gift cards.
And the best credit card for Costco is….
Vantage west credit union connect visa signature credit card
5X points or 5% cash back at Costco capped at $1,500 per yearly quarter!!!
Wow, you got me. Had never heard of this guy before. Do you need to join VWCU to be approved for the card?
Yes you need to join this credit union, then pursue the credit card. Been with them for a few months:
Vantage West Connect Rewards Visa Signature
• Earn 5x points* (5% cash back) per $1 on one category of your choice per yearly quarter:
• Travel
• Restaurants
• Utilities [water, cell, electric, etc.]
• Wholesale [Costco, Sam’s Club, etc.]
• Department Stores
• Hardware & Home Improvement Stores
• Charitable Organizations
• Pharmacies & Drug Stores
• Amazon.com
• 3x on gas
• 2x on groceries
• Must have a minimum 2,500 points ($25) for cash redemption.
• *Capped at $1,500 spend in qualifying purchases quarterly
1% foreign transaction fee
Anyone can join this credit union
Wow — super easy to max-out the 5% rewards categories! Looks like the credit union restricts membership as follows:
“Membership is open to anyone who lives, works, worships, attends school or volunteers in (as well as all businesses located in) these geographic areas…
Pima, Pinal, Cochise, or Maricopa Counties
Gila River Indian Community Reservation
Arizona’s “Copper Basin” Area”
I suppose I can join a church in Arizona and meet the requirement in that manner.
https://vantagewest.org/help/who-can-join/
I live in California I joined got the credit card by donating $25 to some bike club
Would you mind sharing the name of the club? Not sure if you’re wanting to be discrete but I’ve come up empty with my search. TIA from a fellow Californian.
Membership is open to hundreds of groups — many of which are located outside the geographic areas. (Such groups include employers, organizations, churches, schools, etc.) Relatives of current members, as well as those who work for/belong to any of the eligible groups are also eligible to join.
Our current associational partners are:
GABA – Greater Arizona Bicycling Association
PCOA – Pima Council on Aging
RPZ – Reid Park Zoological Society
I didn’t realize you signed up with GABA. I also read what you pasted on their site, however I was under the impression it was a CA based association. Thanks for setting it straight!
Then you have a new church that you can make charitable donations to with your cc also! Good for you!
Also, this quarter, Chase Freedom via Samsung Pay gives you 5% anywhere where Samsung Pay works, including Costco.
Yea just for that yearly quarter Chase Freedom credit card that is
Vantage west credit union connect visa signature credit card has 5X or 5% cash every yearly quarter category if you so choose