Discover Targeted Offer

[Anonymous]

(I'm not sure if this has been posted already, I didn't find it. If it has been posted already, mods can feel free to delete this thread.)

Today I logged into my Discover account and under "Pending Activity" there was an offer to get 5% back at Amazon from July-September. Seemed weird that it appeared under my pending transactions tab, but here's an image:

[Anonymous]

Are you sure it isn't a glitch? I've never had a targeted offer before. The category is restaurants for the July-September. What's it say when you click on "See details"?

[Anonymous]

It's probably a glitch. The only thing I see on my own "Pending Activity" is the usual report on my cashback earnings.

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Are you sure it isn't a glitch? I've never had a targeted offer before. The category is restaurants for the July-September. What's it say when you click on "See details"?

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I know that. I also have the restaurants activated for Q3. Then this morning I got an email saying I got a targetted offer for Amazon.com for Q3 as well. Here are some more screencaps:

My offers page:

Here is the email:

This definitely isn't a glitch that is accidently showing Amazon instead of Restuarants. The title also says "Exclusive for you", which leads me to believe it is a targetted offer. This is the first time I've ever been targetted for an offer by Discover.

[Anonymous]

Yup,

I got the same offer today and activated it.  I wonder if it's because they notice Amazon purchases on your Disco card and are trying to entice additional purchases?  Either way I don't intend to put any more purchases through my Disco for now as I want to continue to chop my balance down.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Anonymous]

Since you already activated it and other people had the offer, it's more than likely a targeted offer. Congratulations. I've never seen a targeted offer from Discover before, so you must be doing something right.

[Anonymous]

Now I wish I'd gotten one of those...! (being that I shop regularly at Amazon and am, in fact, fixing to make a few purchases this weekend when I get paid)

[Mrm-na]

I'm jealous.

Up until now I always shopped Amazon (and a lot of other things, really) with the now-defunct Barclay SM card, so I guess Discover doesn't have much to go on for targeting me.  Hopefully that changes as I've started using their card more frequently than I used to.

I expect Amazon to be in the Q4 category, but having it in Q3 is a nice bonus.

[Anonymous]

Im jealous too! Wish I was targeted