Discover it® Miles

Just received this card a month ago and already earning miles due to my work travel. Credit limit is the highest I have ever had on a card. Very happy with this card

Opening a credit card with Discover has been the worst financial decision of my life. I was charged with over $2,000 worth of merchandise on my Discover it Miles card less than a year after opening it and when I called they said that they were handling this and would be in contact. Months later it amount was still there and when I called them about it they said that they could not validate that the charges were fraud and so it was now my payment. I honestly didn't understand so I filed a police report and they would not even accept that even though the detective could clearly even see that it was fraud (multiple locations of the same chain store within minutes). Anyways I was running around with them for months until I just canceled the card and decided to never to business with them again. This is just my personal experience but it was the worst in my 20s when I don't have &2,000 just to throw away so just want anyone else to be aware. I never had this problem with Citibank so I will stay with them.

It claims to be a world/travel card and international transactions don't incur a conversion fee, but using the card online has been impossible. Every vendor I've tried can't process my payment using this card. I contacted them and they claim it will work when swiped. We'll see if that's true when we get to Europe but wound up switching all my travel arrangements to capital one

Yes, I know it's a "cheap" card with the $0 annual fee and relatively low 1.5x rewards. But it offers a 100% match after 12 months that I don't see any other company offer, which makes it incredibly valuable--even for a high spender--after a year.
Consider someone who spends $10k/month on a card. At 1.5X, that's 180k miles in 12 months. With a 100% match, that would be 360k miles with the Discover It Miles card. 
By comparison, the Capital One Venture card offers 2x rewards, which would be 240k miles earned. Even if you add the 40k bonus sign up offer, that's 280k miles earned over 12 months, which is 80k less than the Discover It Miles card.
For someone who doesn't travel internationally with much frequency or need travel/airline-specific perks, what am I missing here?

I had the Discover Student card for years before this was released and stupidly thought this would be a better card and closed my student account. The discover student card seemed to have a better rewards rate especially since you got more for amazon purchases.
Pros:-Discover's site and app is good, customer service is also good-the "miles" are basically cashback
Cons:-for some reason Discover takes FOREVER to process payments and seems to not process payments at random. -the payout is TERRIBLE. If you're using the card for $4k/month you'll amount to $30 to pay off one or two uber rides and that's about it. -no bonus for points when you start-Disocver/Diner's Club really isn't taken anywhere outside of North America

No better way than purchasing books and supplies and paying some classes off with this credit card. At the end of the college year you'll have enough miles to travel and give yourself a good vacation from all that hard work and don't have to spend an extra dime on your flight; we'll depends how far your flying and how much you spent. This card gives you 1.5x for each dollar spent and Discover Doubles those miles on the first year. This card has no annual fees which I love and if you pay a purchase within 21 days from when it was bought you won't get charged the interest which is another plus. All in all it is a great card and I recommend  it to others especially College Students because who wouldn't want to be awarded a good vacation at the end of the year.   

I applied for this card a few months ago and have been using it for all my purchases.  I received a generous credit limit of $6500 which is the most I have ever been approved for as my average credit limit on my other credit cards are $1200 or less.  Great design and an available app that makes checking my balance a breeze.  Im already gaining miles and planning my first trip next year.  Thank you Discover for this wonderful credit card. 

Got this card specifically because of reviews and assurances from Discover that this card is "the best card in Asia".  WRONG!  First 3 vendors I went to in Hong Kong "don't take Discover".  Boo.  Cancelling this card, getting a United Mileage Plus card.