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webhopper
Moderator Emeritus

Discover Purchase Protection

Seems like discover is trying to play the amex game Smiley Happy

I got a letter in the mail saying that I get 90 days protection on accidental breakage for purchases up to 500 bucks.

Also, double warranty on big ticket items.

Anyone else got this letter in the mail today? I thought it was nice and I don't remember discover ever having this before.
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distantarray
Established Contributor

Re: Discover Purchase Protection

looks like they're just trying to match amex and visa signiture 


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mxp114
Valued Contributor

Re: Discover Purchase Protection

They recently added a few new benefits to all accounts that were previously only for select accounts. You can view the global suite here https://www.discover.com/credit-cards/member-benefits/ and login for your account specific extras (if any).

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sgs10
Regular Contributor

Re: Discover Purchase Protection

+1

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lithium78
Established Contributor

Re: Discover Purchase Protection

Nice!  That was the one benefit that would have made me consider getting an AMEX.  Now AMEX doesn't really have anything special that would make me want to become a member.  It saves me a hard pull.


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Anonymous
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Re: Discover Purchase Protection


@lithium78 wrote:

Nice!  That was the one benefit that would have made me consider getting an AMEX.  Now AMEX doesn't really have anything special that would make me want to become a member.  It saves me a hard pull.


I actually have a Discover More and applied for a claim when my iPhone 5 got stolen and pretty much just filled out the paper work, provided receipt, police report and a week later the check arrived in mail. The funny part is that the I received the check about 2 days before I was emailed the decision on the claim. Even with the above, I really think that Amex has Discover beat, with double the protection ($500 limit with Discover and $1000 for Amex), not to mention return protection with Amex for $300 per incident.

 

To provide a little more info on the claim, I purchased the iPhone for about $900 (64GB no contract) if I had Amex then I would have saved myself $400. Not too sure if it would have been as easy as Discover card claims thought. I guess that just puts me back at close to $0 dollars in reward earned from Discover so far... Smiley Sad LOL

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andre181
Established Contributor

Re: Discover Purchase Protection

I got that letter today too. But I already knew about the extended warranty and purchase protection from Discover.

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CruzImperial
Established Contributor

Re: Discover Purchase Protection

I haven't gotten any email or notification. Is it for everyone?
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scientifics
Frequent Contributor

Re: Discover Purchase Protection

That must have just been added! When I last checked a month ago, they just advertised Squaretrade for extending warantys. Now I have coverage on all my cards...sweet!

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maiden_girl
Valued Contributor

Re: Discover Purchase Protection

Weird. Have not received a letter or email either. I thought they already had this feature tho?

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