Is this a thing? The only one I've ever seen is through Mypoints and it just gives you some free coupons. In 3 weeks we will be moving and by a Costco again - are there any other ways to score a discounted membership?
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They don't usually offer discounted memberships. The best I've seen is they'll offer you a special coupon book that has a bunch of freebies. (This is not the normal monthly coupon book with dollar off coupons).
Usually the freebie items are free batteries, rotisserie chicken, free case of bottled water. I think they will sometimes give away this coupon book when you apply for their Amex (which by the way, I highly recommend unless you have a card that does better on these categories already: 3% cashback on gas, 2% on restaurants/travel, 1% everywhere else).
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If you know someone with a Costco card, they can refer you and get a $10 gift Costco gift card (can't remember the amount for certain) for each of you. It may have been a special promo at the time. Not sure if it's still available.
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Do you know someone with a costco membership? If you don't plan to buy a lot of stuff there, give them cash, they can buy you gift cards and you can use them in the store without a membership.
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@scg00387: they've had them on living social and zulily before, but i don't know of any current ones. if i hear of any, i'll let you know though!!
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If you don't want to buy a membership buy a gift card. They have to let you in to use it, and you can pay the difference with debit.
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@Mirage: If I'm not mistaken, you have to be a member to buy a gift card.
However, that is a good way to get into the store. Have someone buy you a few $25 gift cards. You can use each one to enter the store to make a shopping trip. Pay with just 1 of the cards then use your debit card/cash/Amex to pay for the balance.
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@sunny. In Ontario you can buy costco cards outside of Costco. I've seen them at grocery stores and shoppers drug mart
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many companies offer corporate discounts to costco. mine does.
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thanks all!! investigating a few of these - I haven't heard of all of them!
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This doesn't help you now, but when it came time for us to renew our membership we kept putting it off because we weren't using it at the moment. A couple weeks after our membership expired they offered us a $15 gift card if we renewed. That coupled with the money we made back with our executive membership made the renewal a better deal. Just for future reference!
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