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Beneplace. Discounts on Non-HP products and services for HP and HPE retirees and alumni.

From former employees of HP and HPE. (Updated May 10, 2025) Click to join the HPAA Question? Email us: info@hpalumni.org

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Discount tickets, including Disney World and Disneyland. No longer available at HP/HPE sites. Check Beneplace -- and be sure to also check the "Specials" tab on your HP Inc or HPE Beneplace page. As with all discounts, be sure to check your other affiliations.

Disney World -- "Mission: Space" lounge. Access with HP Gold Badge no longer available. (Compaq signed sponsorship deal in 2000. Grand opening in 2003 with HP CEO. HP sponsorship ended in 2015.)

Corporate discounts. Back when HP was much smaller, there were some discounts that were informally leveraged from corporate contracts.

By 2006, this had been replaced by Beneplace -- an advertising company that promotes identical discounts to employees and retirees of thousands of companies -- including HP and HPE -- using web pages and emails with the employer's name and logo. Unrelated to the employer's corporate purchasing. How to use Beneplace: Beneplace Discounts

Alternative to Beneplace: The free HP Inc "Passport Corporate Discount Card" now includes most of the restaurants on the popular, long-standing $79/year "Passport Dining" program. Passport Discount Card (No report of a similar program for HPE retirees.)

How Beneplace works

Advertisers pay discount-ad companies for sales leads. Employers promote this as a benefit -- with little or no cost, effort, or involvement. Some offers may be for merchants, products, or services that an employer might not endorse -- such as health products or Lenovo PCs. Unrelated to the employer's corporate purchasing.

Both the employer and the ad company disclaim all responsibility. "HP Retiree Discount Program is not an HP-sponsored benefit program. HP does not promote, endorse, and is not responsible for any of the products, services, or practices on this website or any sites that link from this website."

Your Beneplace account is independent of your HP or HPE Benefits, HP Continuum, and HPShopping accounts. ("HP Continuum" -- HPInc's official password-protected U.S. retiree social networking site.)

Be sure to also check the "Specials" tab on your HP or HPE Beneplace page.

- Beneplace site with HP logo: http://www.beneplace.com/hp_employee/ [There are a few offers under the "HP Inc Specials" tab.]

- Beneplace site with HPE logo: http://www.beneplace.com/hpe_employee/ [Confusingly, most of the offers under the "HPE Specials" tab are listed twice.]

If you have used Beneplace as a current employee and are now a retiree, or you have used Beneplace at a previous employer -- including those transitioned from HP to HPE -- you may have to use a different browser instance -- or go into the cookie settings in your browser to find and delete Beneplace's tracking cookies.

Due to the internet and how modern sales channels work, such "employee discounts" are often not a very good deal these days.

1. Check with the source of the product or service. Many now sell directly -- usually at a discount or with extra benefits -- from their corporate website. For example, Avis has offers on their site: https://www.avis.com/en/offers/us-offers/coupon-codes

2. Run online searches.

3. Check AAA, AARP, Costco, your credit card company, professional organizations like ACM or IEEE, and other affiliations.

With any online deals -- whatever the source -- for the deal to work, you must follow the special online process precisely so that local stores, travel agencies, or other sales channels are not involved. The company that promoted the deal gets the commission.

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