Costco offers discounted gift cards that can be quite valuable, but they limit how many you can buy.
For example, you can buy up to 2 $100 Instacart gift cards and up to 2 $100 Uber/Uber Eats gift cards for $79.99 each every 14 days.
Some people believe that applying Uber gift cards to your account causes Uber to charge more, though you can avoid that by applying the gift cards to your account after your rides or orders and changing the payment method to Uber gift cards for up to 30 days after your ride or order.
I find the Instacart gift cards to be particularly valuable. That’s because they mark up Costco’s in-store pricing for members by about 9% and other stores by roughly 17%, but ordering gift cards at 20% off means that I wind up being able to order groceries delivered to my house for less than it would cost to go to the store!
Plus, you will earn your 2% Executive rebate for the gift card purchase and another 2% on the Costco purchase via Instacart.
You can save the gift cards in your Instacart account or your Costco Same Day account.
I still have years of free Instacart+ membership thanks to Chase, but Costco members can also enroll in Instacart+ for $79 per year.
Need to order more than $200 in gift cards every 2 weeks? You can check your local store to buy more, but you can also order another $200 from the comfort of your home.
Costco memberships allow you to add a free household member. Just open a separate Costco.com account for your household member, and you can each order $200 in gift cards every 2 weeks!
I ordered $200 in cards from my primary account on January 6th, which would make me eligible to buy another $200 on January 21st. I tried ordering $200 today from my primary account, but the order was canceled. However, I was able to order $200 from my wife’s Costco.com account. I did try opening another Costco.com account for myself, but the order from that account was canceled.
With 2 Costco.com accounts, you can buy $400 in Instacart and $400 in Uber gift cards every 14 days with 20% off savings.
Do you buy discounted gift cards from Costco?
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thanks !! was looking for a way to get more
Samesies!!!!
Can they get away with charging more if your account has GC?
Legally not but how can we stop them
Instacart. All the time. FYI if you get Instacart+ through Costco it’s $79.99 instead of $99.99 and 2 months free, and it lowers the markup on Costco Same Day by a few percent so it’s definitely worth it (aside from savings on regular Instacart delivery fees)
I still have years for free from Chase, but that’s a good point!
Is there any clarity if you’re 2% double dips? Checking out with gift cards it says I’m earning 2% (4 with CC), and then Same Day supposedly gives you 2% on the in store prices…
Costco includes the purchase price of the gift cards in the 2% Executive Rewards calculation. It also includes the in-store purchase price of goods purchased through both Costco Same-Day and Instacart. So, yes, you can double-dip. (2% Executive Rewards + 2% CC Rewards when you buy the GC, 2% Executive Rewards on the online purchase.)
Incidentally, if you order something through Instacart or Same-Day, and you want to return it to Costco, you will only get the in-store price back, not the marked-up online price.
I tend to find that ordering Costco through Instacart rather than Same-Day gets the same pricing, but slightly better fees.
Lastly, you can see your rewards and all your purchases (including Same-Day and Instacart) on your Costco login. Same-Day shows up as an online purchase, while Instacart codes as an in-store purchase.
Sorry, correction, Costco.com shows up as online, Same-Day and Instacart both code as in-warehouse.
Do the Instacart gift cards only work on Instacart app? I ask because I only use the Costco same day which is powered by Instacart. I believe the charges also come from Instacart. So I’m wondering how I could even apply the Instacart gift card?
They can be applied to Instacart or Same Day!
Some more heads up.
-Next weeks catalog on Costco will get you two Uber gift cards for $75 after $5 off
—Using Costco same day by instacart (on Costco website or app with your instacart membership added to it) will get you cheaper prices than going directly through instacart. Even without adding instacart (which you do not need to shop same day) prices will be cheaper than from directly through instacart.
-next month catalog savings (1/29) will get you $15 of $50 same day by instacart on Costco app/website.
Using your wife’s account. You can use the same day discount in each of your accounts.
That’s $15 off $50 x2. (Although I must add, you may have trouble adding your personal instacart to that second account (and prices may be a little higher although still cheaper than directly through instacart) unless it’s family shared)
If you link Instacart to Costco, it’s the same price as Same Day.
Are you sure? I remember checking and it was more
I just checked, for example Empire chicken breast which I know is 5.49/lb in store, is $6 on Same Day with IC+ and on IC app is $6.83 plus service fee. (No service fee on same day)
Your Instacart app isn’t linked to your Costco membership then. It will be the same after you link it.
It is linked…weird
Not only do I find they have the same pricing, but I find that Instacart has slightly cheaper fees than Same-Day, so unless I have a Same-Day-specific discount (like the $15 off $50), I use Instacart.
Have Costco linked with my Instacart+ account and have added Costco number on Instacart. Costco Same Day is def cheaper than Instacart Costco. Kirkland 9 liter coconut water is $24.87 on Instacart with Costco linked and $21.85 on Costco Same Day with the same linked Instacart+ account.
It’s $21.85 on my linked Instacart:
Is your Instacart+ connected in to your Costco Same Day?
If you click the Pricing and Fees line on IC it says:
Prices vary from in-warehouse
Prices are higher than your local warehouse.
To get the best value, members should shop
SameDay.Costco.com
It’s literally the same price on same day and IC if you do it correctly.
Sorry you can’t get the linking done correctly, try contacting IC.
Check your Costco link on Instacart – something is definitely not set up right.
Same for me. Everything is linked correctly.
Thank you! This is very helpful! I usually run through my $200 Instacart gift cards allotment in a week. This should keep me well stocked moving forward. I save a lot of money and time especially by placing my Sam’s Club order through Instacart.
We have been using Instacart since COVID and the time savings is truly incredible. We get Aldi, BJs, and Costco orders via Instacart all the time.
Plus, between the Chase offers and these gift cards, it’s also been a money saver!
Also, if you live in LA, I’m getting $10 off $75 orders this week on Costco same day using code many times.
Lol i cant even open the gift card for purchase now
Quick question as I gave up Executive membership a few years ago…does the purchase of the Instacart gift card count and earn 2%? Do purchase at Costco via Instacart (when linked to my Costco membership) earn the 2%? Thanks!
Yes to both.
costco keeps cancelling my uber gift card orders, I think its because i put my moms membership number and linked it to my account I wonder if anyone can give me any insight into this thank you
Just open a separate Costco.com account for your household member – Can you please guide on how this can be done? thanks!
When opening a second account, am I adding the membership #??
Yes
Interesting, I did and it was also cancelled
You’re clearly not tipping very generously if it’s still cheaper for you to order through Instacart than shop at Costco yourself. A normal tip will eat all the margin.
I never give any tip, the whole concept of tipping makes no sense, let them get paid by the company that hires them like every other person who does a job
I don’t tip generously, nor should anyone. My orders are regularly $250-300+. According to instacart, I should be tipping $40-$50 an order! I’m sorry, but I’m not paying $99 a year for instacart membership for the privilege of tipping $40-$50 an order.
I tip around $5 per order, that’s it.
If instacart can’t find a way to pay the shoppers and make a profit without those kind of tips then their business model doesn’t work and they shouldn’t be in business.
Pickup. I almost never get groceries to my door, but even going to the pickup spot and having someone drop groceries in my trunk saves so much time.
Have you ever had an issues with a bad Instacart shopper and do you restrict your orders to certain categories (for example, no refrigerated items)? What’s a good tip for the shopper?
How to set up family account? When I set up a new account (different email address) it still tells me order limit reached and cancels order
Did you use the name of your household account member for opening the account?
cancelled order.. I dont think this is correct @dan
It worked for me and for the DDF’er linked at the end of the post.
YMMV I suppose?
My local Costco hasn’t had the Instacart gift cards in store the last few times I checked.
I’ll have to try Costco.com
The costco same day markup can be a lot less than 9%
I’ve recently bought a piece of jewelry through costco same day, and the markup was only $5 more than the sale price that they were advertising for in store (over 1k).
(Wish I would have seen this post before how to purchase the gc quicker, but it all worked BH)
I just opened up an additional account for my wife. It is brand new account yet still it says I already exceeded the limit.
Maybe they are catching on to this and blocking it.
Same here, just got cancelled. Although I’m not sure I was careful with the names
When i register for a second costco.com account and put in my membership id it pulls my name. how would i open one for my wife without having it linked to me, it canceled a second order already
What name for the billing/shipping address and credit card are you using?
I got orders through 12 days apart… 12/26 and 1/7