I love credit cards so much!

[Haley R]

Wow I see quite a few Chase offers that I like! Here are the ones I'm interested in:
Petsmart, Hampton, Hilton, Starbucks, Dick's, Airbnb, Autozone, and Advanced Auto Parts

I'm mostly excited about the Petsmart one because it's 30% back and we always stock up on litter for Black Friday because it's normally almost 50% off their regular price. We just booked a Hampton stay for January for the Harry Potter Live show with our Hilton card so I'm wondering if we should rebook with our Chase card to get the 10% back.

 

[chattadisser]

any Apple Watch people here? Considering one for DH. Looks like on sale will be the version 3, but there is a version 4 now. Any big differences? Also wifi only or data plan? Wonder how much a data plan is...
How does one find out the best deal? I am thinking Best Buy Thursday with the $30 back on $300 amex deal?

I just purchased the 3 thru BB using the $30 off $300 for my DH's Christmas gift. I just got the wifi one, I couldn't tell how much the data plan would be and I figured that for the most part he only runs at the gym and can use the wifi there. I'm hoping that it will help him see the texts I send while he's running and improves his response time. It's also kinda a trial run on how it does in the family. If we like it, I can see us getting another. If you are a BB rewards member, you can login now and get the Black Friday price for it.

 

[chattadisser]

Wow I see quite a few Chase offers that I like! Here are the ones I'm interested in:
Petsmart, Hampton, Hilton, Starbucks, Dick's, Airbnb, Autozone, and Advanced Auto Parts

I'm mostly excited about the Petsmart one because it's 30% back and we always stock up on litter for Black Friday because it's normally almost 50% off their regular price. We just booked a Hampton stay for January for the Harry Potter Live show with our Hilton card so I'm wondering if we should rebook with our Chase card to get the 10% back.

What card did you see the Petsmart on? We usually do the same on Black Friday and I'd love another 30% back. I checked a couple of my cards but they all seemed to have the same offers.

 

[Limes96]

Just checked P2’s Amex Plat and his $200 airline credit posted today. I bought a $200 Southwest egc last Wednesday.

 

[kidsfirsttrip]

Do you guys think the Chase offers will work on giftcards in store? I’m particularly thinking Dicks and Lowe’s?

 

[Limes96]

I saw my new Chase offers on the app yesterday but haven’t been able to find them today. I’m pretty sure I’m looking in the same place. But I only had 5 offers. None of them ones I’d be likely to use.

ETA, never mind, I logged out and back in again and there they are. With two additions, Bloomingdales and Lowes.

 

[amalone1013]

All this talk of KitchenAid has me looking at one for my DH. He has been asking for one for years! What is your plan? I have the $10 off $100 at Kroger. I still have some left at 10% off at Lowe's but was planning to do Kroger/Disney gift cards.

I know the Professional ones were at Best Buy for $219, but I think we would prefer the tilt head rather than the lift.

I have some 10% off at Lowe's and Staples left too, but our gas savings with fuel points is 10.8% to 11.6% (I always go with 10.8% for my calculations)

Here is my plan, knowing I am at almost exactly $250 with tax for my area:

• Use the $10 off $100 Kroger Kohl's coupon: $90 for $100 GC, $10.80 in gas savings, use SW Biz (meeting MSR) which is $1.26 in points (1.4cpp)
• Will probably try to buy a Kohl's eGC and see if it triggers the online RMN offer of $10 back on $60; I'll do a $75 GC, get $10, get $5.63 URs from Freedom Q4
• Buy remainder needed online from Kroger - I'm only buying online because I'm also working on a CIP MSR and it earns 3x points, otherwise I'd just get them in store - $75 GC, $8.10 in gas savings, $3.38 in URs (1.5cpp) (If I skip trying RMN I would get $150 GC, $16.20 in gas savings, $6.75 in URs)
• The only shopping portals from the ones I typically use that don't exclude Kitchenaid products are Shopkick (10pts/$), and SW RRs (3pts/$) - each is about $10 in value on the purchase
• Kohl's Cash $60 ($15 per $50 spent) and their Yes2You rewards $11.90

So spend $240 OOP ($250 - $10 Kroger coupon), get $121.07 in points/savings/rewards ($18.90 in gas savings, $1.26 SW RRs, $9.01 URs, $10 RMN, $10 either Shopkick or SW RRs, and $71.90 in Kohl's money)

@amalone1013, do you have the $30/$300 amex offer?

I do, and I thought about that, but we're leading towards the tilt head kind.

 

[WVMomof3]

What card did you see the Petsmart on? We usually do the same on Black Friday and I'd love another 30% back. I checked a couple of my cards but they all seemed to have the same offers.

Not the original OP but I had the PetSmart offer on my Hyatt card only. Really hard to keep track of them all.

 

[*WDW*Groupie*]

10% or 20% off the $25 cards? Online too?

Sorry. Super busy at work today and trying to multi-task! It's 10% off the $25.00 cards. I only use BJs online as I don't live in close proximity to one.

 

[miztressuz]

Do you guys think the Chase offers will work on giftcards in store? I’m particularly thinking Dicks and Lowe’s?

Yes, should work. I did a GC at Lowe's when I had that offer on my BoA card. There's no exclusions listed in the offer either. Just be sure to pay attention to the maximum cash back. My Lowe's is for $12 max, so only $120 per offer.

 

[magickingdomprincess]

If you're a real slow churner or have a P2 who's a slow churner where 5/24 isn't a consideration, I think this is a great offer.

If P2 won't get business cards and has pretty much everything they'd want with Chase then maybe this makes sense too. What's P2's 5/24 status and when do they have cards falling off? It's not a "Slam Dunk Yes" but it's also not a "Heck No" either. At $800+ it warrants consideration and the waived AF in yr 1 is a nice benefit too...

I think he's 2/24 but not completely sure (sorry, he doesn't even want me to set up a credit karma acct for him. Might need to get him a tinfoil hat for Christmas!) He just got CSP in June and the SW visa sometime in 2016.

 

[kidsfirsttrip]

Yes, should work. I did a GC at Lowe's when I had that offer on my BoA card. There's no exclusions listed in the offer either. Just be sure to pay attention to the maximum cash back. My Lowe's is for $12 max, so only $120 per offer.

Awesome. Says something about third party purchase so I’m thinking online cardstar or whatever it is wouldn’t work

 

[Oscar Madison]

Has it been decided that the Chase Pay 5 $25 transactions get 1500 points is open to everyone? I failed today... decided to stop at Starbucks for breakfast to make myself feel better about having to work (a story in itself) and went to reload quickly with chase pay... apparently I had an AMEX card set as my default method still, probably from an old AMEX offer.

My work makes no sense. We were supposed to work this weekend. Then they decided our warehouse is too full so we would only work today. Thursday night one of the elevators pulling product out from our automated warehouse broke, and they weren't sure they'd be able to keep up with the input... secretly I was hoping they couldn't fix it and they wouldn't make us work today, but alas, it is fixed.

I SMd and asked about all of my cards. They told me it would work for CFU and CSP, but not my CF.

 

[Oscar Madison]

How is seaworld? I went once when I was a kid and haven't gone back b/c that requires leaving the disney bubble, but DS10 has asked to go.

We went to the one in San Diego last spring and loved it. However, I couldn't see us wanting to go back in less than 4-5 years.

 

[miztressuz]

Awesome. Says something about third party purchase so I’m thinking online cardstar or whatever it is wouldn’t work

Correct, or for Lowe's maybe 3rd party installation services or extended warranties or something like that? I think they throw that in there on all of the offers to cover where it may not be listed as "Lowes" on the transaction, like the Cashstar example. But for the 3rd party GC's you're paying Lowe's directly the same as a garden hose, and Lowe's just works out the rest behind the scenes, so it's listed as Lowes on the card statement.

 

[1st*toright]

Back from a few days in Lake Placid. Used my Marriott nights & flights on the Courtyard up there - an ok Cat 4 (used to be a Cat 6 - would have been grumpy to spend that many points for that property). Great location, room was really small, breakfast was super chaotic and meh. I'm Marriott platinum, and one of the benefits of the merger was getting breakfast at courtyards for elites. DH checked in ahead of me, they said he wasn't entitled to bfast, but were nice and gave him a couple of vouchers anyway. I got there, and proceeded to have a 2 day long argument with them about the benefit... platinums are supposed to get $10 per person (up to 2) F&B credit if the hotel doesn't have a lounge. They insisted it was only one day. The guys at the desk were nice, and I was nice (and they had taken care of breakfast for the first day, at least) so I wasn't in a rush, and I was friendly about it, but did insist I knew what I was talking about. Eventually I pulled up the Marriott site on my phone and showed the desk clerk. He said he had to talk to his manager, then the next time I walked by he handed me a whole stack of $10 vouchers to cover the rest of the stay - so it all worked out, but took some persistence!

Also, stayed at a different Marriott for a conference - stay has not shown up in my account. There is no question that when you book a conference rate the default is to NOT give nights/points for the stay unless you report the "missing" stay.

MSR is complete on my United Explorer - definitely time for a new card. Is it time for potential triple dips on Amexes yet? Any chance the 100k biz call in offer is still out there? The 75k personal is still not working for me via incognito or anything else. Think I could make the 10k spend work in the next 3 months.

 

[3 DD love princesses]

ok so working to catch up again since DD was sick. on page 3015 so eventually I'll catch up.

DH is 8 nights away from gold with marriott. is there a card he could get that would give him some nights to make him closer? thanks

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

I think he's 2/24 but not completely sure (sorry, he doesn't even want me to set up a credit karma acct for him. Might need to get him a tinfoil hat for Christmas!) He just got CSP in June and the SW visa sometime in 2016.

If he's that slow of a churner I think the Arrival card warrants consideration. If somebody only gets 2-3 cards a year then 5/24 is never really a worry

 

[miztressuz]

Oh, yes, now that you say that, I do have "Cancel This Order" but have been afraid to click it since I only want to cancel part of the order. I can cancel a partial order that way? I don't want to screw up the discounted restaurant gift cards I've already received. I may have to call but was trying to avoid it for the same reason, I don't always get competent reps when I phone in.

Quoting myself, took the plunge and tried the link - tells me "We're moving fast to get your order shipped to you as quickly as possible." and won't let me cancel anything. I find the 'moving fast' to be highly inaccurate. If they don't show up tomorrow I guess I can just head in store to replace them and then figure out what to spend them on when they show up. Lesson re-learned, don't order stuff from WM/Sam's online - it just doesn't go well for me (although it could be worse, until this point I've at least always gotten the stuff I've ordered. I think it's just never been completely when they said it would be.)

 

[3 DD love princesses]

Schools are closed in MD too. I guess I'll be canceling my pedi for this morning. I am trying to be strong and letting my Vineyard Vines basket sit there...but SW has 4x (and I'm trying to get to the $1000) and a $30 off offer on my AmEx...and does DS really need 6 more shirts???

lucky you we had school. lots of rain