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Hyatt Card Now Earns 2x Points on Restaurants, Airline Tickets and Car Rentals

October 5, 2012 ccwatcher Chase, Reward Cards, Travel Cards

Chase just announced a number of changes to its Hyatt Credit Card offer, most of them for the better. While you now must spend at least $1,000 within your first 3 months of cardmembership to earn 2 free nights (as opposed to earning your free nights after just a single purchase), you’ll now earn 2x points for every $1 spent at restaurants, on airline tickets purchased directly with the airline and at car rental agencies.

Cardmembers will now also be able to earn status faster by receiving 2 stay and 5 night credits towards Diamond status when they spend $20,000 during the calendar year, and an additional 3 stay and 5 night credits when they spend $40,000 during the calendar year.
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Chase Launches LivingSocial Credit Card

May 2, 2012 ccwatcher Chase, Reward Cards

Chase and LivingSocial, the second largest daily deals site behind Groupon, just announced their newly minted co-branded credit card, the LivingSocial Rewards Visa Card. This new offering earns cardmembers 5 points per $1 spent on LivingSocial purchases, 3 points per $1 spent on dining and 1 point on everything else. In addition, as part of a special promotion for 2012, cardmembers will receive 10 Deal Bucks after making 10 purchases each billing cycle.
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How to Earn More Credit Card Rewards Without Spending More: Gift Card Arbitrage

April 2, 2012 ccwatcher Reward Cards

For the experienced point and rewards chasers, this “tip” is hardly new, as the basic idea itself is simple–to maximize your point earning potential, you’ll want to spend more at places that offer the highest rebate percentage. But how can we do this without actually spending more money? One easy answer: Buy prepaid cards and gift cards to manipulate your spending so that it falls into a high rebate bonus category.

For example, the American Express Blue Cash Preferred card pays a juicy 6% cash back at stand-alone supermarkets. Chances are that your local grocery store stocks a wide variety of retail branded gift cards (such as Amazon.com gift cards). Ordinarily, you might only earn a 1% rebate on Amazon.com purchases, but if you buy an Amazon.com gift card at your supermarket with the Blue Cash Preferred card, you’ll earn 6% cash back on that gift card purchase. With one extra step, you’ve turned a 1% transaction into one that nets 6%.
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Chase Adds Ritz-Carlton as Ultimate Rewards Partner

March 27, 2012 ccwatcher Chase, Reward Cards, Travel Cards

Chase and Ritz-Carlton had already teamed to offer the Ritz-Carlton Rewards credit card, so it comes as no big surprise to learn that Chase has just added Ritz-Carlton as its latest “Ultimate Rewards” point transfer partner.

Under the new partnership, Chase Sapphire Preferred, Ink Plus and Ink Bold cardmembers can now instantly transfer Ultimate Rewards points to The Ritz-Carlton Rewards at a 1:1 point ratio and then redeem those points towards free nights at Ritz-Carlton hotels and resorts as well as at 3,400 partner hotels around the world.
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Southwest Airlines Credit Card – 2 Bonus Flights is Back

October 17, 2011 ccwatcher Chase, Reward Cards, Signup Bonuses, Travel Cards

For a limited time, Chase and Southwest have brought back this popular offer. With your very first purchase on your Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Plus Credit Card, you’ll earn 50,000 bonus points–enough to redeem for 2 free roundtrip flights (up to $833 towards Wanna Get Away fares).

The card has a $69 annual fee which is not waived for the first year. That fee, however, is substantially offset by the 3,000 points you’ll receive on your card membership anniversary every year, good for $50 towards a Wanna Get Away fare.
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Citi ThankYou Preferred Rewards Card: Up to $500 in Gift Cards

September 27, 2011 ccwatcher Citibank, Reward Cards, Signup Bonuses

Citi has a new offer out for its ThankYou Preferred Rewards Card, allowing you to earn up to 50,000 ThankYou points, redeemable for $500 in gift cards.

This is the most lucrative sign up bonus offered yet for the Preferred Card, though it also has the largest spending requirement. You’ll earn 25,000 bonus points when you spend at least $5,000 within the first 6 months of opening your account; you’ll earn an additional 25,000 points when you spend another $5,000 in the following 6 months.

As is standard for the card, you’ll receive 1 point for every $1 on all purchases and also earn an anniversary bonus for every year you remain a member. There is no annual fee.

Update 12/22: This offer has now expired. Please see this link for the current Citi ThankYou Preferred Card deal.
~~Citi ThankYou Preferred Rewards Card application – Up to $500 in gift cards~~

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Existing Southwest Credit Card Members: Free 1,000 Points YMMV

September 22, 2011 ccwatcher Chase, Reward Cards

In an effort to educate cardmembers on how to redeem their rewards points, Southwest is offering those who have its credit card 1,000 bonus points to watch a short video describing the process. At the end of the video (roughly 2 and a half minutes), you’ll be asked for your Rapid Rewards number and the last four digits of your credit card number.

Assuming your credit card account is open and in good standing, the 1,000 bonus points should post in 6 to 8 weeks. And while not everyone has reported success in getting the bonus points, it seems like the majority of cardholders are eligible, so it is definitely worth checking out.

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Priceline Rewards Visa: 2% Credit Card?

September 22, 2011 ccwatcher Barclays, Reward Cards

With the impending demise of the 2% Schwab card, there’s been a lot of scrambling to find a replacement. This post on FW describes a new targeted offer for the Priceline Rewards Visa that presents an intruiging possibility. This version of the card earns 5 points per dollar spent on “Name Your Own Price” Priceline purchases and 2 points per dollar everywhere else with no annual fee, a superior value when compared to the other publicly available Priceline credit cards.
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Get a 25% Discount on Any Flight Using Your ThankYou Premier Card

February 15, 2011 ccwatcher Citibank, Reward Cards, Travel Cards

According to this thread on FW, if you have a ThankYou Premier credit card or a card that is due to be converted to one (such as a Citi PremierPass Elite or Citi Amex Platinum card), you can get a 25% discount off the Thank You points needed to book a flight. Better yet, this discount applies as long as you apply points towards at least a portion of the ticket, essentially allowing you to always get 25% off the best available airfare.
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Are Credit Card Rewards Programs In Danger of Going Away?

January 14, 2011 ccwatcher General, Reward Cards

After the passage and enactment of the Credit CARD Act, there was some concern over whether the new legislation would impact the ability or incentive of credit card issuers to offer attractive rewards programs. A new study performed by the Federal Reserve suggests that consumers should probably not have anything to fear on that front.
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