Re: Discover card Cash advances?
10-04-2012 02:53 PM
jsucool76 wrote:
maiden_girl wrote:
SwampSystems wrote:
jsucool76 wrote:I wouldn't recommend doing that, as it against the T&Cs of your card, and, I don't think stuff like that should be talked about on the forums because it usually gets a thread locked.
Actually, I called them twice before I started doing it and asked very specifically if it was against the terms and conditions. They said that as long as I am not sending the money to myself, it is not against the terms and conditions. So I send it to someone else who then withdraws it and hands it to me. I have reason to be sending that person money anyway, so there is plausible deniability if they ever decide to question it.
jsucool76 wrote:Although, I didn't know you could get "Cash Back" at a store with a credit card (with the exception of things like the walmart credit card @ walmart). The only way I could think of would be to run it as a debit and put in your PIN, but I didn't know you could do that either, and if you did, wouldn't discover realize it since it is a PIN based transaction and automatically put it on your statement as a cash advance? Which would then result in you being charged a cash advance fee...
It's called Cash Over Purchases and is supported at select retailers. I do not know if Cash Over generates rewards.
Yea, I looked up the cash over thing via Discover and its not supported by all retailers...not like Target or anything. I noticed it was just grocery stores on the list. Anyway I'm not sure if a cash over purchase is treated as a cash advance. LOL. I've never used a cash advance...its confusing!
It says at the bottom under the "FAQ" that there is no fee, it isn't considered a cash advance, and it shows up as part of your purchase.
Thanks. I was on the site for about 15 minutes this morning trying to find that...smh
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