Comments on: Discover Announces 5% Back on Clothes, Office Supplies, and TUITION!!!

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:57:21 +0000

Yeah, my alma mater doesn’t accept it either, I believe. But it looks like community colleges seem to accept it more often. I’ve yet to see any school take AMEX…

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:09:41 +0000

Now the trick is to find a university that takes Discover, as mine doesn’t :/

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:56:47 +0000

Mike,

Anywhere you use your credit card, the merchant will provide a category of the purchase to the credit card issuer. Most restaurants tag their credit card transactions as “Restaurant” while I believe all educational institutions use a generic tag like “Education” or maybe something more specific like “Tuition.” I’ll let you know when I charge Tegan’s tuition for the semester. Either way, I’ll have to do no extra work on my part (except maybe find my Discover card ^_^).

Hmm, I wonder if I can prepay her tuition for the next couple of years…

By: inagm

inagm — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:17:36 +0000

not fair! I’m out of school now.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:17:17 +0000

But how do they track whether it was an educational institution that you paid? Do they have a complete database? Are you going to have to submit your tuition bills?

By: fivecentnickel.com

fivecentnickel.com — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:05:06 +0000

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