The Offer
Groupon | Living Social (affiliate links)
A nice Sam’s Club membership is for sale on Groupon and Living Social.
- Pay $35 and get:
- One-year Sam’s Club membership ($45 value)
- $10 eGift Card valid online or in-club
- $15 eGift Card for purchases on SamsClub.com
- Free Fruit Party Tray ($19.98 value)
- Pay $45 and get:
- One-year Sam’s Club membership ($45 value)
- $20 eGift Card valid online or in-club
- $15 eGift Card for purchases on SamsClub.com
- Free Fruit Party Tray ($19.98 value), and Free Gourmet Sampler Cheesecake ($14.98 value)
The Fine Print
- Promotional value expires Feb 1, 2019. Amount paid never expires.
- Limit 1 per person, may buy 1 additional as gift.
- Voucher must be redeemed online using link provided with voucher.
- Purchaser must provide a valid ID at Sam’s Club Membership desk to get physical membership card. Voucher is non-transferable.
- Not valid for membership renewals. Valid for new Sam’s Club members only; not valid for those with a current membership or those who were Sam’s Club members less than 6 months prior to 10/1/2018.
- Please allow up to 7 business days for delivery of the $10 or $20 eGift Card after activating your new membership.
- Your $15 eGift Card will be delivered approximately 3-4 weeks after your first purchase of $15 or more on SamsClub.com. Your first SamsClub.com purchase must be made within 30 days of activating your membership.
- Both eGift Cards will be delivered to the same email address used to activate your membership.
- Free offers will be delivered as Instant Savings. Instant Savings, including free fruit tray and free cheesecake will be loaded onto new membership account within 72 hours of membership activation.
- Purchasers will be opted into Sam’s Club auto renewal program upon first transaction in club. By enrolling in Sam’s auto renewal program, you authorize Sam’s to charge the card selected an annual recurring charge in the amount of the, then standard, membership fee for all active memberships on your account.
Our Verdict
You get the $10/$20 gift card automatically while the additional $15 gift card is only if you make a $15+ purchase on sams.com within 30 days. Also remember, the deal is only for new Sam’s members.
This is a pretty good deal for Sam’s membership. Depending whether you can max out all the value here, the cost can be near or below $0. And you can go through a portal for the Groupon/LS purchase, as well as use up Groupon gift cards if you have any. If you don’t have Groupon gift cards to use, you’ll do better with the credit card by buying the LivingSocial deal since it codes at 5x with INK when paying with Paypal.
Check out other Sam’s Club deals here.
For qualifying prior members, i.e. membership lapsed more than six months ago, you might have issues signing up if still using the same email address. If you initiate a chat with Sam’s Club (link: https://gr.pn/2InpAuG), they’ll remove your email from old account, so you can apply the promo to new account.
does this stack with dosh new member offer of receive $20 when signing up for a membership? lmai
Don’t forget that Discover and Chase Freedom has 5% category bonus this quarter for purchase made in wholesales club.
You can buy a discount groupon e-gift card from gift card website and use that to purchase the $35 or $45 sam’s club 1 year membership at groupon. Don’t forget to use a portal to go to groupon to make the purchase and also some portal will let you earn cash back to some gift card webpage, for example use befrugal to go to raise to buy 6% discount groupon e-gift card and use befrugal again to go to groupon to make the purchase.
Sam’s club sells vanilla giftcard with about 3% fee, the chase/discover may still benefit you a little. And if you’re newly opening your first or 2nd discover CC, that would give you 10% cash back so still good deal for some people.
What denominations of OV do they carry?
When buying things on the website, can you select “in store pickup” or do they only ship to your house? Is there a point where you can get free shipping if you spend a certain amount?
Also I assume you can opt-out of the auto renew after creating your account, yes?
Bueller?
The mandatory auto-renewal requirement is a deal breaker for me.
Every time I’ve gotten a Sam’s membership, it’s enrolled in auto renew, it’s the first thing I turn off.
Yeah auto renew is easily turned off in account settings..
Are there any sams club renewal deals?
The expiring Discover Deals has an offer when you login to your discover credit card account.
Yeah just saw it. $10 gift card and you pay $45
Not bad but not lucrative.
FYI, when I went to renew my membership in February, I used the Discover Deals and when customer service put in the code, it prompted a $25 gift card. Don’t know why but hopefully you can get as lucky. Just remember that the Discover Deal might only be valid until the end of the month since they’re dumping it.
Can this combined with Amex Samsclub offer by anymeans?
No. This is going to be sold by Groupon or living social. Will definitely not trigger the Sam’s.com amex credit.
Just get the membership through Groupon and purchase something at Sam’s club to get the Amex offer
Anyone have ideas on how to get a deal on a Sam’s Plus Membership? The $4 drug plan doesn’t work on regular memberships.
Once you do a deal like this for the standard membership, you should be able to upgrade to the plus. The upgrade wouldn’t be discounted, but you would already be halfway there with this deal.
groupon also has a $10 coupon when buying a groupon… stacking bonus on bonus
Link?
Where is this coupon? Only one I can find is $10 off $100
Any idea how much they “care” if you were a member before (how strict?).. I just ended but see this is an online activation and since I don’t have a Sam’s near me, I’d likely not be able to go into the store to activate for a physical card.
Alternatively can gift to a friend who was on as my “household” member but lived where there was one. She’s never been a primary member…