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Discover it Card promotional 0% Apr for 12 months for current members. - $0.00

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Hello All, I recently just noticed my credit card apr went from 11.99 % to 16.74 % gradually over the course of a year. I contacted discover via chat to ask why, ( I obviously know why) but I wanted to see what they would say and if there was any promotions they can offer. 2 years ago I caught this promotion 0% apr for 12 months. I didn't think they would be able to do this again, but they did. this is actually pretty good in my eyes. This is something that you have to chat with them and ask for. I have the basic discover it card and have been with them since 2018 and use this as my main card. Thought it would be good to share. Thanks for reading.

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Created 03-29-2023 at 07:10 PM by Jmartinez734
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tenderidol
03-30-2023 at 08:29 AM.
03-30-2023 at 08:29 AM.
Buy whatever you want, pay only the minimum but don't incur any interest as long as the balance is at $0 12 months from now. Is this how it works? Never done one of these before.
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sunnny45678
03-30-2023 at 08:30 AM.
03-30-2023 at 08:30 AM.
They just honored my request for 0 perce t apr until end of may 2024
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DogAndPony
03-30-2023 at 08:36 AM.
03-30-2023 at 08:36 AM.
I used to do this all the time, but Discover stopped offering it to me. Probably because I would run up a tab of $50k or more over a year and then pay it off and not pay a penny in interest. Discover hates this one simple trick.
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Jmartinez734
03-30-2023 at 08:37 AM.
03-30-2023 at 08:37 AM.
Quote from tenderidol :
Buy whatever you want, pay only the minimum but don't incur any interest as long as the balance is at $0 12 months from now. Is this how it works? Never done one of these before.

Correct for new purchases only after activation for 12 months this is my second time receiving this promotion first time was late 2020.
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Jmartinez734
03-30-2023 at 08:39 AM.
03-30-2023 at 08:39 AM.
Quote from SharpDesk104 :
Does this trigger credit check again, if I already have credit card?

100% no
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tenderidol
03-30-2023 at 08:44 AM.
03-30-2023 at 08:44 AM.
Quote from Jmartinez734 :
Correct for new purchases only after activation for 12 months this is my second time receiving this promotion first time was late 2020.
Yup... after the activation date of the promo. Thanks

I don't use this card, so I'm not sure if they'll add the promo or not, but I might just put one big purchase on it and spread out the payment over 12 months and invest the money that was going to pay it full for a year.
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Norlander
03-30-2023 at 08:58 AM.
03-30-2023 at 08:58 AM.
Thanks OP. I was able to get 0% APR for 12 months on new purchases for existing card as well.
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crimsonroses
03-30-2023 at 09:03 AM.
03-30-2023 at 09:03 AM.
Is this a better card than the regular discover card before they required to upgrade? I didn't upgrade to the it card but I asked them to and it never happened.
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gapaf
03-30-2023 at 09:22 AM.
03-30-2023 at 09:22 AM.
Quote from YetiAtomic :
Thanks OP. I was able to get 0% APR for 12 months on new purchases for existing card as well.
Thanks op was able to get 0 percent on new purchase
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negma
03-30-2023 at 09:22 AM.
03-30-2023 at 09:22 AM.
Worked great.. all it it took was less than 5 minutes of phone chat..this is the 4th or 5th time in the last several years I was able to get it.. Thanks OP!
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RyanC8528
03-30-2023 at 09:23 AM.
03-30-2023 at 09:23 AM.
Thanks. I normally don't care about this but now it actually makes a lot of sense when you can get 5%+ on CDs.
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RyanC8528
03-30-2023 at 09:32 AM.
03-30-2023 at 09:32 AM.
Quote from Superorb :
Let the 0% credit card arbitrage begin! Has been a long time since this was worth doing again.
Agree. What are some other cards we can ask to get 0 APR ?
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starlights_
03-30-2023 at 09:44 AM.
03-30-2023 at 09:44 AM.
Zero percent balance transfer for 12+ months in itself is not a deal if there is a fee (3-5%)
Zero percent on purchases may be good for people who want to make big ticket purchases and will pay back in time.
Zero percent balance transfer with no fee would be a great deal to dump money in high interest paying account.
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hwangbible
03-30-2023 at 09:51 AM.
03-30-2023 at 09:51 AM.
Quote from GoodVibrations :
I know what you're talking about, but that doesn't apply to this kind of an offer. You're thinking of how they handle balance transfers. The way Discover handles payments is they first apply to your minimum payment, then anything over that applies to your largest balance first. So if you carry a large balance transfer balance and make new purchases, it is impossible to pay off those new purchases without paying off the entire balance. So yes if you use this card for a BT, essentially you have to quit using it until you pay off the BT offer if you don't want to pay interest.

This offer is different though. This gives you 0% on all purchases within the offer period. It's not a BT offer.
Might be just a bad wording here and we are on the same page anyways. It's not the largest chunk of balance but the chunk of the balance with the highest APR applied.
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iroh
03-30-2023 at 09:51 AM.
03-30-2023 at 09:51 AM.
Quote from RyanC8528 :
Thanks. I normally don't care about this but now it actually makes a lot of sense when you can get 5%+ on CDs.

AFAIK There's a 5% fees for the transfer. So a 12 month transfer is more or less equivalent to a loan at 5% rate.
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