Stackable Omni discounts that worked for me this month (every extra bit helps)
Not shilling, just sharing a repeatable omnibus discount stack that actually worked
I know this sub is usually right to be skeptical when a post starts smelling like referral bait, so I’ll put the actual useful part first and the optional part at the bottom.
These books are expensive, this is my contribution to help.
- Capital One card offers: the first layer
This part only applies if you have a Capital One Savor or Venture card.
Inside the Capital One account, there are rotating merchant offers. ThriftBooks shows up pretty often. Usually it’s just 3–5% back, which is fine but nothing special. The move is to wait for one of the bigger ones. I got 20% back.
Example from my order:
Immortal Hulk Omnibus
Brand new at ThriftBooks
$79 shipped
20% back from the Capital One offer
3% back from the card I actually used
effective cost ended up around $60
Not quite Fanaticals “broken” pricing, but close enough.
- Capital One Shopping: the part everyone should use if you buy books on eBay.
Separate from the credit card offers, there’s Capital One Shopping. You do not need a Capital One credit card for this. It’s just the app/extension rewards portal.
I got two offers in the first day or two that felt completely fake:
a one-time Web Bonus in the app
a one-time Email Bonus
As far as I can tell, each type is basically one use at one merchant, so be selective.
I don’t remember the exact wording on the web bonus, but I targeted eBay and it was something like $25 off a $75 purchase.
The email bonus was even dumber: $50 off a $50 purchase.
Since these are omni prices and I was going to buy anyway, I used them on:
Batgirl of Burnside for $55.95
Absolute New Frontier for $79
The $25 and $50 credits both showed up a day or two later.
I haven’t seen huge one-time bonuses like that again, so I would not count on it as a repeatable everyday thing. But the ongoing part is still useful 7%+ back on every eBay purchase:
eBay cashback in the app changes constantly
they also email the current percentages
the offers usually stick around for a few days
the highest I’ve personally seen so far is 7% back
So now basically every eBay book purchase gets me:
7% from Capital One Shopping
3% from my PayPal Visa
So effectively 10% back on eBay omni purchases I was already making anyway.
- The downside / “catch”
There is a catch, but it’s not a scam catch.
Capital One Shopping does not pay out as straight cash. You redeem rewards as gift cards.
For people here, that’s honestly not much of a hardship, because eBay gift cards are one of the redemption options. So you can basically roll the rewards into the next omni and continue feeding the disease.
The other thing is timing: it takes about 30 days before the rewards become redeemable.
Which, in fairness, is about the same amount of time it takes some of these ebay book orders to actually ship (you know who you are).
- One more stack people here should probably use: Target Circle
If you buy collected editions with any regularity, you should at least look at Target Circle.
Whether it’s useful depends on your life situation, but if your household buys normal Target stuff anyway, it’s worth having.
They run stackable offers during book promos. On the 3-for-2 book sale, I used an offer like:
$25 off $120
Then stack that with:
Target RedCard / Target Circle Card 5% off
Using that combo, I got:
The Flash by Williamson Vol. 1
Batman: Murderer/Fugitive
Detective Comics by Tamaki
for $137 all-in with tax, shipping, and delivery.
Again, not “I cheated the system and stole from Bezos” pricing. Just a clean, stackable way to drag the numbers down before Marvel or DC decides the next omnibus should cost the same as a minor outpatient procedure.
- Optional referral link
Here’s the part everyone is trained to distrust.
I do have a Capital One Shopping refer-a-friend link. Use it or don’t. You can still use the general method without helping me. I’m posting the stack either way because it worked.
If you want the sign-up bonus, here it is:
https://capitaloneshopping.com/r/237a63b0-cc9d-487c-93b6-5347c5206aa4
Free bonus for you, free bonus for me, and the money is coming out of a bank’s promo budget, which is one of the few morally acceptable forms of commerce left.
- Receipts
I’ll attach screenshots for:
the ThriftBooks price
the Capital One offer
the Capital One Shopping bonuses
the pending / posted credits
That way nobody has to rely on “bro trust me.”
If other people here have better stack methods, better portal timing, or cleaner ways to combine this with Target/eBay/ThriftBooks/Fanatical, post them. A lot of us are trying to buy oversized hardcovers without acting like paying cover price is a personality trait.