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02:50 pm: You Can Bet on Savings Cards

 

You know that you can score local discounts on all kinds of things by showing your college ID. But there is another kind of card that can save college students money on all kinds of things, locally, nationally and online. To qualify, you need to attend a college, university ,or be taking online courses.  There are three main kinds of Student Discount Programs: Paid Membership Programs, Free Card Programs and Online Purchase Programs.  Here is a look at the most popular programs:

1)  Student Advantage bills itself as the “Nations largest student discount program.” A one year membership costs $20, but looking at the list of offerings, it seems that would pay for itself if you use the card regularly. They offer a special “Get $10 Back on Your First Purchase” incentive to sign up as well.  The discounts are local near campuses and online, and are 10% - 20% in most cases. Here is a partial list of the companies offering discounts through Student Advantage:

Allposters.com

Amtrak

Armani Exchange

Barnes & Noble

Ebags

Footlocker

Drugstore.com

Lenovo

Greyhound

T-mobile

Target

 2)  Edhance is a program that rebates cash back to your own debit or credit card when you make purchases online or locally. You register your card on the club website. The incentive is very attractive, as high as 50% back on many purchases. They also offer local discounts categorized by school. Some merchants offer “swipe and save” deals where you get a discount at the time you make a purchase . And there are online discounts too.  Edhance has deals in a long list of categories:

Apparel & Accessories

Art & Entertainment

Art Supplies

Automotive

Books & Magazines

Camera & Photo

Online College Courses

Dorm and Home Supplies

Electronics

Food & Beverages

Gifts & Flowers

Health & Beauty

Jewelry

Music

Online Department Stores

Pets

Restaurants

School Supplies

Services

Shoes

Spas, Salons & Barbers

Sporting Goods

Sports & Outdoors

Toys & Games

3)  Globestudent Discounts does not charge a membership or require a credit card. The deal here is that you go onto the Globestudent website and click through to its discount partners to make your purchases. It offers disc ounts on travel, computers, software, textbooks, insurance and health and fitness products and services.  The discounts are substantial, from 5% - 80%.

 

4)  Student Rate  offers online discounts. This website is more of a clearing house for offers.  Again, you must gotthrough their website to make your purchase. They also have a forum that lists coupons, contest, sweepstakes, and promo codes for local and national deals. They also ask users to rate each deal. Student Rate had the largest number of discounts listed:

Adobe

Amazon Wireless

Bally Total Fitness

Barnes & Noble.com

Beauty.com

Bed Bath & Beyond

Canon

Chinese Laundry

Crumbs Bake Shop

CSN Stores.com

DIRECTV $

EA Store

Eddie Bauer

Endless.com

Express

Finish Line

Forever21

GameHouse

Guess

Hockey Monkey

Home Depot  

Hot Topic

Hotels.com

Kmart  

Linens'N Things

Lowe's

Megabus

ModCloth

MyJewelryBox.com

New Balance

Newegg.com

Pacsun

Penske Truck Rental

PETCO  

Philosophy

Reebok

Roots

Shoebacca

Shoes.com

Skin It  

Spirit Halloween

Sur La Table

Third Coast Kite and Hobby

this coupon

TOMS Shoes

Torrid

ULTA Beauty

Under Armour

Vera Bradley

Verizon Wireless

Wirefly

Wyndham Hotels and Resorts

 

 

 

 

 

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