@mtnagel said in Upside promo codes:
@mistercheap said in Upside promo codes:
@mtnagel said in Upside promo codes:
@mistercheap said in Upside promo codes:
Here’s a tip that may help some of you!
There are a number of restaurants that triple dip on UPSIDE, SWAG and TMOBILE DINING REWARDS. TMO Dining rewards pay double on Tuesdays (10% vs 5%).
I knew I was going out for a pricey dinner at one establishment on a Friday night, so on Tuesday, I dropped by (was in the area anyway) and purchased a $100 GC. I got back 20% on the GC between 10% TMO, 6% UPSIDE and 4% Swag. plus 1.25% on my Visa. $100 GC cost me $78.75 net.
Now, some local restaurants like this run promos on GC at Xmas time, and if they do, I intend to use the Tuesday trick to stack with the promo they are running (say $10 bonus on $50 or $20 on $100 GC)
There’s also Dosh, but that’s new to me and have gotten a couple credits, but can’t cash out yet.
There’s also Rakuten dining, but it’s the same company running it as Tmo dining, so when you add a CC to one, it removes it from the other. Tmo is great when they had a $10 sign up bonus, which I took advantage of twice, and the Tuesday 10% back is better than Rakuten, which is always 5%, if you’re going out on a Tuesday, but I think I’ll mostly stick with Rakuten since they pay out on a regular basis vs having to wait to reach $10 in Tmo dining, which could take us awhile without another big bonus.
Dosh is a joke IMO, they dropped Office Depot which was my only reason for signing up for them to start with. I’ll take a look at their dining offers (who participates) and see if it’s worth my time.
I also got the $10 sign up bonus on TMO, as for using Rakuten over TMo, that 5% bonus on Tuesday justifies the wait for me and I am going to start doing the gift certificate/card deal on Tues to places locally I dine at, so I can use them any day of the week. For instance, have a local Pizza place we go to at least 3x a month spending about $20-30 each visit with tax. So I may get 2 x $25 and 3 x $20 Gift Cards in one shot on Tuesday, pay $110, get back $11 from TMO alone and it’s over $10, cashes out, and I can use them any day of the week. Barely 2 months worth, rinse/repeat when they are used up.
That’s cool if you can save money on something you would do anyway, but we just don’t eat out like that and the 5-20% savings combining multiple programs isn’t enough to justify eating out more often. The biggest benefit I get from these are there are some local breweries on there that we would go to even without a discount and some I might drop $100-200 on special beer releases, so even 5% off is a nice bonus on something I would do anyway. And there is one local brewery/restaurant/taproom that regularly has 20-30% off in Upside in addition to the other apps and they have rewards through Toast Tab so we save a lot of money there!
The place I mentioned we do strictly take out. As for sit down, be waited on , we only do that once in a great while.
