Walmart+/Sam's Club Plus combo not honoring AARP discount

What I, personally, need is an AARP discount for Sam’s Club (plus) membership. Then I get both!  I suspect that is what a huge number of AARP members need.

I have both a Sam’s Club membership and Walmart plus. Walmart plus through AARP is $58/year and Sam’s Club is $60. It seems to me you would be upgrading to Sam’s Club plus for $2 extra per year with the cost at $120. Seems like a deal to me especially if you watch paramount plus regularly. That subscription alone is $9/month. 

Sorry about the errant post with the terms. I was only sharing so we had the background when I added a comment about them and that disappeared. I could have clicked on send without realizing it. 

So I created another response. I agree the Walmart upgrade seemed promising, but I have seen Sam’s Club membership discounts that are more competitively priced  although good only for a year or so.

I think it’s like timeshares were marketed. Only those who spent the base amount for vacations found it be to be a savings. Look where they are today. 

The best value is for existing Sam’s Club members who are upgrading. It’s a Sam’s Club upgrade promotion incentive.

It seems like semantics, and we are speaking about the same outcome. But this is a Sam’s Club membership plan result rather than a Walmart+ membership fraud issue. The first-tier $60 Sam’s Club Plan fee must be satisfied and cannot be subsidized by a discounted Walmart+ membership. Two Walmart+ memberships cannot exist at the same time, especially if one converts to supposedly free. 

I am in the same situation as you. Again, the deal is an upgrade promotion. If we had separate existing Sam’s Club first tier memberships and discounted Walmart+ memberships, then it would be equate to about a $10 out of pocket increase to upgrade (annual $50 or so WM+ plus annual $60 SC first-tier equals $110). 

I decided not to add Sam’s Club for now since I don’t have the first-tier. I also don’t want to have one membership controlling both areas. 

In effect if I understand the deal, those who have both regular Sam’s Club and Walmart + now will only see an increase of $10 in their costs to upgrade to Plus. The AARP discounted Walmart+ cost accounts for the remainder of the $60 upgrade (although claiming free).

If you don’t have Sam’s Club at all, buying Plus and subtracting the AARP discounted Walmart + value accounts for the difference allotted to Sam’s Club Plus in the $120 annual fee for both.

You can divvy up the $120 amount howsoever you wish between the two to allocate discounts to try to figure out the cost savings.  All of these mental calculations only are to figure out whether it’s worth having Plus. You can combine the two memberships or add either immediately for a sum.

Walmart claims Walmart + membership is free so it’s difficult to say free doesn’t reflect the AARP discount. Even when you factor in a AARP discounted value of Walmart + instead of free, those who are upgrading are only adding $10 and those who are not upgrading are adding a discounted Plus membership.

Standalone Walmart + memberships are not discounted unless certain criteria are met (like AARP eligibility).  Now the membership is free for everyone who has a Sam’s Club Plus membership, including those who previously had an AARP Walmart+ discount.

If someone already has a discounted Sam’s Club Plus membership and a discounted Walmart + membership then a combined membership may not bring the same savings. There are countless ways to save on memberships and this deal is just one of them. Just because it doesn’t stack all discounts available, it isn’t acting unjustly.  

I just read the small print. subject to change… there’s the out.

​@imljb , try reporting them to the Better Business Bureau & chat about situation on Social Media. Sometimes this "pushes" them into cooperating.