Right now at Groupon, you can pre-pay for $80 worth of gas for $52: that's a 35% discount on the price of gas. To sweeten the deal, Ebates is offering 9% back on deals at Groupon today, saving you another $4.68. Since Winn-Dixie (and some other supermarkets) gives a 4% rebate towards Shell gas when you purchase a gift card, I bought Groupon gift cards there first. This saved me another $2.08. I also receive 5 Hilton Honors points for every $1 I spend on my American Express, so each deal (I bought 8 deals) earned me 260 Hilton Honors points.
Bottom Line: for $80 in gas, I paid $45.24 and received 260 HHonors Points
Note: The gas is rewarded as $1 off per gallon up to 20 gallons. I use gas cans when I fill up to guarantee I get the full benefit of this offer. ETA: After calling Fuel Rewards, the cards were added to my account in such a way that I am not limited to just redeeming $1 per 20 gallons. I can stack these cards, so if gas costs $2/gallon, I can redeem $2 off per gallon for up to 20 gallons.
That's a great deal. Since there isn't a Shell convenient to me and several other reasons it would have been too much of a hassle for me to do this deal. I love being able to stack discounts on gas. I'm not driving a lot of miles right now so there isn't too much money to be saved on gas. If that changes I'll be looking for deals like this one.
ReplyDeleteI drive so many miles between Uber, Amazon and mystery shopping that I should really benefit from this. If my jobs didn't involve driving I've been thinking about whether I even need to own a car. Would be nice to get rid of it one day.
DeleteOh, thanks for the tip! I think it's cool when you can get a discount. For example, when I saw Grademiners.com discounts I immediately decided to purchase some of the hardest essays for my uni there. And I wasn't disappointed. Not always discounts mean that the goods are bad. Sometimes they are made just for us to save our money)
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