Daniel B. Kline, The Motley Fool Published 6:13 p.m. ET Dec. 13, 2017 | Updated 6:14 p.m. ET Dec. 13, 2017
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Joining the barn club can advance to some above savings, but you accept to use it to acquire those rewards.
Costco offers deals on vacation packages.(Photo: Getty Images)
Costco makes its money -- at atomic best of it -- whether its associates boutique at its warehouses or not. The banker earns about 75% of its profits from associates fees.
That doesn't beggarly Costco doesn't appetite associates to boutique at its stores: It absolutely grows its profits and its chump adherence aback consumers appear in added often. Still, alike admitting there are deals to be had, abounding of the barn club's associates don't booty abounding advantage of what advantageous the anniversary fee brings them.
Below are seven means you can get added out of your Costco associates that you may not accept considered. Of course, not every way works for every member, but alike if you alone use a few, you should be able to badly access the amount of your membership.
Costco can advice you get the best amount on a new car. (Photo: Getty Images)
It's not consistently true, but in general, Costco has cheaper gas than added bounded stations. Not every barn offers gas pumps, but those that do crave you to aboriginal bash your associates card, again access a acclaim agenda to ample up.
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The accumulation can vary, but best of the time, you will save anywhere from a few cents to $0.15 per gallon over affairs gas at acceptable gas stations. That's not account it if Costco is out of the way, but if it's abreast your home, or you were visiting the barn anyhow -- ample up, and add some added savings.
Costco's gas can be badly cheaper than the gas awash at acceptable stations. (Photo: Getty Images)
Costco offers two classes of membership. Its Gold Star accord costs $60 a year and gets you into its warehouses. The additional tier, controlling membership, costs alert as abundant at $120 a year, but it offers 2% banknote aback (up to $1,000 a year) on best items purchased at Costco.
Whether this makes faculty for you depends on how abundant you boutique at Costco. If you spent $100 a anniversary at Costco (not absurd for addition grocery-shopping for a family) you would absorb $5,200 a year at the alternation and acquire $104 back. That's not absolutely the amount of your membership, but it absolutely underwrites what you pay to get in.
Costco sells audition aids for beneath than abounding of its rivals. (Photo: Getty Images)
On its website, Costco offers a biking booking service. While you should analyze prices afore booking, the barn club offers actual acceptable deals on vacation packages. In general, the accumulation access with items you add to your auberge and airfare, like rental cars and theme-park tickets.
In abounding cases, Costco additionally has acceptable prices on rental cars. And, admitting offerings vary, the barn club can be a acceptable way to align a cruise to one of the above Florida affair parks at a amount lower than booking direct.
Costco associates can bifold their banknote aback by accepting the Costco Anywhere Visa from Citigroup. The agenda offers 4% banknote aback on gas (including at Costco), 3% on acceptable biking and restaurant purchases, 2% aback on any Costco purchase, and 1% banknote aback on all added purchases.
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Most Costco warehouses accept a committed hearing-aid center. In these baby stores-within-a-store, accountant technicians can assay your audition and fit you for a audition aid if you charge one. These are the aforementioned audition aids awash beneath a array of big cast names, at a atom of the cost. A Costco affiliate could save hundreds of dollars, or alike as abundant as $1,000, compared to affairs a agnate audition aid elsewhere.
And clashing abounding of its rivals, Costco does not pay its technicians a benefit based on sales. That removes any allurement they ability accept to upsell customers, or alike to advertise a audition aid to addition who absolutely doesn't charge one.
Costco's auto affairs takes the haggling out of affairs a car. Essentially, associates ascribe the archetypal they are attractive to buy, and again the barn club makes a accord with a bounded banker to action the best appraisement possible. In abounding cases, appraisement on new cars has already been prearranged with the manufacturer, and prices can be lower than activity absolute to a dealer. (But amuse do some comparison-shopping to accomplish sure.)
Costco warehouses accept pharmacies. (Photo: Getty Images)
Even if you don't accept insurance, Costco can save you money on abounding decree drugs. The barn club doesn't action specific accumulation beyond the board, but it promises associates accumulation of "up to 80%," and it lists some appraisement examples on its website. Again, this is an breadth area you should comparison-shop (and accepting allowance ability change whether this is a amount or not).
In abounding cases, abnormally on accepted drugs, Costco will be cheaper than battling pharmacies -- artlessly because its biologic affairs isn't about active revenue, but is addition way to accumulate associates engaged.
Costco offers two types of membership. (Photo: Getty Images)
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Daniel B. Kline has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Visa. The Motley Fool recommends Costco Wholesale. The Motley Fool has a acknowledgment policy.
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