Pay Tuition with Disney Visa?

[Brownie54]

I have to make a $9,000 payment for DD's tuition. Any reason I can't pay it with my Disney Visa and then send a check to pay it off at the same time? Seems like an easy way to get $90 diz dollars. Am I missing something here?

 

[Ava]

If the school takes credit cards and you have the cash to pay it off right away, I say go for it. I'll probably use my Disney Visa to pay some medical bills just to get the points.

 

[Wilsonfamily4]

Depends on the school. Our kids private school charges a 2% fee for using a card. So of course we do not use the card to gain 1% from our Disney Visa.

But some schools do not charge a fee. I would ask your school first,

 

[NeverlandClub23]

I agree with PP. You need to check with the school about a fee. I don't use my Disney Visa to pay for my insurance or my taxes every year because they charge a fee to use a credit card.

 

[DANAW]

I just did this last month. My son's state school, as of July 1st, is imposing a 2% fee if you use a credit card. They sent a notice home last month letting people know of this new fee. So, I paid the tuition prior to July 1, and saw that my Disney Visa was just credited with $60 in Disney Dollars. I just wrote out the check to get that tuiton off my visa, and now I will pay for my other son's fall tuition, which is through a private college that does not impose any fee for using a credit card and will get another $80 Disney dollars! So far, we have almost $600 for our January trip!!!

 

[Green Tea]

Ultimately, schools allowing credit cards kind of raise tuition for everyone-it's a straight 1,2,3% discount rate. Some do accept though, some do not. My DS's charges 3% so no, we don't use it.

 

[Brownie54]

Thanks all for the very fast answers. I'll have to check if the school has a charge.

 

[dseth]

We did this!! Taking that gift card to Disney in September!

 

[TheDISneyFamily]

We do it every semester!

 

[michelesobo]

I used the Disney Visa to help pay for my new car!!

Loved the points =)

 

[disneyfreakk]

I would ask if the school has a pay up front and/or cash discount too!

 

[ecamc]

I pay my daughter's private school monthly tuition by my DisVisa! Like getting those points each month.

 

[OnePrincess]

I paid my college course with my DisneyVisa and loved those extra points. I think I'm going to check to see if my daughter's private school will let us pay that way too.

 

[SandrA9810]

Kari's parent's paid the downpayment on our truck with a CC just to get the 1% rebate on it, and then paid it off.
As long as you're paying it off, why not get free money?

 

[akcire]

When my MIL died, my FIL (who is notoriously bad with money) had no way to pay for the funeral. I had just gotten my Disney Visa, and back then they had a lot of 12 months 0% interest on purchases. He called us to ask for the money for the funeral, I wasn't so interest in paying $9,000.00 with no time frame for repayment--but I also did not think it was right to stick it to the funeral home, they did their job.

So I called the funeral home to ask if I could put it on a credit card, the said no problem. I called my FIL and told him I didn't have the money, but that I could put it on my credit card that had 6 months free interest (I figured 6 months for him to not pay, and 6 months for me to drive him crazy until he paid). At the time I was not thinking disney points, but it was a nice gift to get the 90 disney dollars.

For the record, even though he did get $42K in insurance money, a month after my MIL died, it did take him the full 6 months to pay me back. I was glad I gave myself the the 6 month nagging cushion.

Now I use the Disney card for everything, my town even takes it fee free for my water/sewer bill--in an odd way I am flushing myself to Disney.

 

[maggymouse]

We pay for our son's tuition on our Chase Disney Visa as well but we also make sure that we do not carry a balance on the card either. He attends a state school and they prefer that payment is made online....no additional fees imposed. The points add up quickly allowing mom & dad extra $$ for WDW!

 

[cinnamon-sugah]

I am flushing myself to Disney.

 

[amsafko]

When my dh was getting his doctorate we charged his tuition and got a whopping $800 off our trip! We always paid it off immediately; it was nice to get such a discount on our trip. We never carry a balance so anything we can charge we do - just started putting dd's orthodontics on there for example. But again, we always pay it off.

Amy

 

[Brownie54]

OP here.... Thanks to everyone for your help(and humor). I paid DD's tuition with the Disney Visa without a surcharge. I then immediately sent a check to Chase to pay in full. Nice feeling to have tuition paid(at least for fall) and get reward $$ to boot.

 

[a1tinkfans]

I tried to pay my taxes (over 11K) but the town wanted to charge us 3%, OUCH!
Meanwhile, is there a LIMIT in how many dollars you can accumulate monthly, etc. I know there is for the special promos...like right now the 5X.....
anyone know???????????