Costco is once again selling 2x $50 Uber gift card multipacks for only $74.99, with the sale lasting almost an entire month.
The Deal
- Buy 2x $50 Uber gift cards for $74.99 at Costco.
- Direct link to offer.
Key Terms
- Offer valid January 29-February 23, 2025.
- Online – limit 2 multipacks per 14 days per membership.
- In-store – limit 2 per transaction.
Quick Thoughts
Saving 25% on Uber gift cards is an excellent deal, especially seeing as this sale is going to be around for almost an entire month. The offer gets even better if you have an Executive membership as you’ll also earn 2% back in rewards – even on gift card purchases.
If you’ve bought Uber gift cards from Costco at their regular $79.99 price in the last 30 days, you can submit a claim online here and Costco will refund you the difference in price.
With regards to the limits, the limit of two packs every 14 days is enforced online. If you try buying again sooner than that, your order will get cancelled and that resets the 14 day timer. In-store though is another matter. You can still only buy two per transaction, but there’s nothing hard coded to prevent you from buying more in a separate transaction. If you decide to hit this offer hard, be aware that some stores might not appreciate that, so it’s probably best not to keep checking out with the same cashier. Unfortunately Costco doesn’t let you buy gift cards in the self checkout lines as that would be far more convenient.
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You shouldn’t be recommending any Costco purchases until the Costco Board drops its DEI initiatives which are hateful and have no place in a fair and just society.
You sound triggered.
while I agree with you in principle in part…..I hate that “triggered” word. You’re UNHINGED for using it.
HA now i’m gonna costo even harder.
I’ve heard when you add these cards to your Uber wallet, the fares go up by 10 to 20%. Like it triggers the algorithm to increase the cost of your Ubers. anyone have experience with these cards? is this true?
That apparently happens, but I’ve never researched it myself. One way to avoid the risk of that happening is to pay for your order or rides with a credit card, than load the gift card after and switch the payment method after the fact as that’s something Uber lets you do.
Doctor of Credit had a post about that a few months ago, if I recall correctly.
I rarely use Uber, so I buy them for Uber Eats, which I think is not susceptible to this type of dynamic pricing. But I still have $270 in my account, so not really motivated to buy more right now.
While UberEats does not do dynamic pricing – for some restaurants the menu prices are 20-30% more than the standard prices at that restaurant. It is probably the restaurant inflating prices to offset UberEats’ commission but UberEats allows that. As such sometimes it is better to order directly from restaurant or use DoorDash etc and avoid UberEats.
Or make a spreadsheet to delineate which restaurants have ubereats premiums.
/s
My $$ savings negated by me wasting my time analyzing this.
Just ordered from a place that has a 10% upcharge…not too bad…considering you get 30% off $47 min order. Combined with 20-25% ubereats gift card order…..so 40-45% real savings.
Jersey Mikes has a 20% up charge I think. Just realized that of late.
Restaurant nearby also has a 20% too….but my fav place thus far, prices are the same.
It’s 100% true. I experienced this first hand many and the increase in fares was more than 20%. I even compared fares for the same ride at the same time with different phones, one with Uber cash balance, one without, just to make sure it was not due to surge pricing etc. What a scam! Can’t wait for the day a class action gets filed.
absolutely does not. I spend about $500/month on Uber/eats.
Not only do the rides do not go up, but the myth that you don’t get promos on uber eats is also false.
What is true, is that Uber is a shitty corporation, same as any other corporation. And their algo based on supply/demand is probably not the best. However, the fares do not go up jsut because you have a GC balance. I say this with years of data at hand…
What’s the best card to use for online costco purchases like these?
Venmo Visa gets 3% when Grocery is your top spend category. Otherwise use a card that has a bonus for Wholesale Clubs
Seems like this could easily justify the $65/year membership cost fairly quickly. Do they do gift card promotions this deep frequently? I don’t ever plan to go to the warehouse, but would do these online regularly for Uber, DoorDash, Starbucks, and other gift cards if the discount was this deep.
I am a member. I mainly buy the $500 Southwest cards when they are $429, which is every month or so. And the Uber cards come up about as often. Depends on your situation of course, but I use Southwest a lot so I like the 14% off in that case.
Worth the membership price to me.
My local Costco also has some other brands with about 20% discount. Local movie theater chain, some local restaurants. And occasionally Alaska Airlines.
You can view the gift cards discounted online here, although sometimes you can’t see the actual price until you have a membership https://www.costco.com/gift-cards-tickets.html
Costco also carries some brands in-store that they don’t have online. For example, some stores have DoorDash gift cards for 20% off. I don’t remember seeing Starbucks in-store before, but they’ll often have gift cards for local restaurants and breweries for 20%-25% off too, along with other nationwide chains like Crumbl Cookies.
Costco near me has a huge Ubereats and Doordash display right as you enter.
I bought a Doordash 20% set. Didn’t know they had that.
Good to know! I have often gotten DoorDash gift cards at office supply stores to get 5x Ultimate Rewards points, but they are sold at face value. A 20% discount is very attractive. I use a lot of DoorDash.
Buy visa/mc gift cards at Office Depot when they are on sale. (They go on sale every month)
Buy Costco gift cards with them.
That way you get (with the discount at Office Depot) 6 pc off everything at Costco.
I did that all the time until I got the Smartly card which gets 4 pc on everything
I signed up for Costco last May. Have literally bought nothing but Uber GCs from there.
They have been 20% off since I joined, with the caveat you can’t buy more than $200 worth every 2 weeks. So basically twice a month I load up for $400 worth for $320. Then every 2 or so months they come out with this for 25% off, which you’ll be able to do twice during this period. It’s been a MASSIVE saving for me, as someone that lives in a big city and doesn’t own a car.
That would be my plan also. Do you buy them online? I don’t have a Costco warehouse that is convenient to visit.
as someone with no car, I’ve never stepped foot in a Costco. Quick google maps shows one about 6 miles away but an uber even at 20% off would kill my savings, and I’d need to take 2 trains and walk 1/2 hour to do public transport.