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Regardless of whether you’re in the market for a first-time Costco membership or looking to add another one to expand your 2% Executive Member rebate capacity, Costco is currently offering a promotion that could be appealing.
For the rest of the month, you can get a $40 or $60 Costco Cash card with the purchase of a new regular or Executive Membership through Groupon. (h/t: DDG)
The Deals
Costco is running a promotion when you buy a new membership and use the promo code NEWMBR25:
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- Get a $40 Costco Shop Card when you buy a $65 basic Gold membership
- Get a $60 Costco Shop Card when you buy a $130 Executive Membership
- Expires 12/31/25
Terms and Conditions
- To receive a Digital Costco Shop Card, you must provide a valid email address and set up auto-renewal of your Costco membership on a Visa® credit/debit card or Mastercard debit card at the time of sign-up.
- If you elect not to enroll in auto-renewal at the time of sign-up, incentives will not be emailed.
- Valid only for new members and those whose memberships (Primary and Household) have expired for at least 18 months.
- Valid only for nonmembers for their first year of membership.
- Not valid for upgrade or renewal of an existing membership. Promotion may not be combined with any other promotion.
- Digital Costco Shop Card will be emailed to the email address provided by the Primary Member at the time of sign-up within 2 weeks after successful sign-up and enrollment in auto-renewal.
- Use the provided single-use promo code when entering your payment information. A Costco Gold Star Membership is $65 a year. An Executive Membership is an additional $65 upgrade fee per year.
- Each membership includes one free Household Card.
Quick Thoughts
If you’ve been thinking about joining Costco or looking to add a bit more space to your annual 2% rebate (like I often am), this could be a good opportunity to get off the fence and try it for a year.
If you are signing up for a second membership, make sure to use a different e-mail address and phone number than those associated with your current membership. Costco won’t let you use the same info on two memberships. You can have both a business and a personal account at the same address, however.
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I had seven of these memberships this year, and Costco eventually caught me and closed all but one of them. I was snail-mailed a stark letter asking which one I wanted to keep, and that future attempts to open multiple accounts will result in a ban. Thankfully, I had maxed all of them out, so I got one big beautiful check from six accounts via UPS expedited, and the final check from the surviving account as normal. This happened to a large swath of people in a number of private MS groups. I will probably make a business account in 2026, and open personal/business for my wife, but we’re limited to a max of 4 accounts to stay legit. Buyer beware; Costco is actively looking for this.
I never got the incentives (since they could obviously tell I was an existing customer), and didn’t much care, as the return on the 2% rebate far outweighed that. I used cloned email addresses and phone numbers, but they obviously connected the dots for me based on name and mailing address. Fun while it lasted…go big or go home.
Im missing something….what are you buying that you needed all those accounts?
A cool mil in
goldgift cardsThey sent me a $60 when I signed up last month. Previous membership expired in october 2025, and I didn’t renew.