Citi has announced a refresh to the Citi Diamond Preferred card, changes are as follows:
- Citi Easy Deals has been rebranded and is now called My Deals and is available on Citi Mobile App and Citi Online
- New card cart (see below)
- Savings spotlight feature. Shows you how much you’ve saved from ‘My Deals’ and interest rate promotions
Overall this is a surface level change at best, but it does indicate they plan to keep the diamond preferred around. Citi easy deals (now my deals) can be great so it’s worth holding onto the card for that. Hopefully this means we are one step closer to the Citi Strata.
I log in and make sure I click right as the time changes from 9:59 to 10 AM PST, and the daily deal has already ended. Total B.S. This didn’t use to happen. Just the last two or three weeks on 100% daily deals. It used to work pretty well on the free deals. You did have to log on right as they come alive and would say deal ended at about 3 minutes after, but now even if I am right on time refreshing the page until it switches to today’s daily deal, it has already ended. I Don’t consider daily deals as a perk anymore. More of a waste of time now
Me too. Everything sells out in the first minute now. Wondering if the new year brought some sort of time zone problem. I’m on mountain time. This happened once before and then got better. Hoping they get this fixed as chitty bank customer service is worthless.
It sold out in less then 2 seconds. I started to load before 1pm eastern time and hit add to cart at 2 seconds after 1 and it was sold out. This has happened for the last free ones.
Again today. Refreshed, and deal sold out in less than 10 seconds.
January 1, 2025 The “daily deal” was sold out immediately. Today January 2, 2025 the same thing. I called customer service she just gave the usual talking points. Either it is messed up again or they have changed it.
Anyone else having issues?
Same. Even today it sold out in less than 1 min
Yes…it has been happening beginning on 1/1/2025 and has continued (today is Jan 5). Has Buffalo Wild Wings that, historically, never sells out. Deal ended tooooo quick! I get a lot of the daily deals…I am retired so it is easy for me to do at 1 PM. I did notice that for the last 6 months Citi has been offering me a different Citi Preferred card that “would not have the Citi daily deals”. They have offered this to me about 4 or5 times in last six months. I figure they are blocking me because I have gotten too many. Are your circumstances similar to my circumstances?
same encounter since start of 2025
They have changed something. I worded it wrong it doesn’t say sold out but ended. I refresh at 10 am pacific time and it is Deal Ended click on card and deal ended and no blue available bar.
Of course page wouldn’t load and when it did Deal Ended.
Did anyone else notice that a $15 card is now 20%, which is a whole $3 savings. It used to be 40% off.
I also think there are less cards.
I am guessing only people with super fast internet will be getting the cards.
Same as today, Jan 9, 2025.
Something has changed for the worse.
Definitely it has changed. I refresh at exactly 10am pacific time. 2 to 3 seconds for page to refresh and Deal Ended. There is a person here I asked for help when they pulled the rug out from under us with the change from “easydeals” to “my deals”. I asked him about this, he said nothing has changed for him. business as usual.
So only some people are getting blocked. Same today for me. 2,3 second refresh, Deal Ended.
My internet is fast. Something is up.
Still happening.
Tried again today, Jan 21, 2025.
I hit add at 0s and it was sold out.
I suspect a very low number are being given out now.
It used to be that if you got in within the first 10 seconds, you would be ok. The server would get hammered with everything adding to cart and checking out, but still fine.
Going to take a break from this nonsense, hope it fixes itself.
See you all in a month.
Fellow Doc-readers I have a question
1. Has the diamond preferred offered a SUB?
2. Is it wise to pc Citi premier card to Diamond preferred from (I see Simplicity is no longer available) ?
I am thinking of closing the Premier as I got hit with the 2nd year fee and don’t want to cough up the fee.
However given premier gave me a good CL I would rather keep that credit line by doing pc.
Too bad that Citi doesn’t allow CL reallocation.
Thanks in advance!
My deals disappeared from my page. Anyone else? I can’t find it now on my account.
My update(s) – my own personal opinions:
So, I’ve seen noticeable improvements with the platform & website. It’s improved to the point where I am now able to capture daily deals again without much issue. 1.) The website is still not as user-friendly as it once was. I still might have to reload/refresh the webpage once or twice (but not TEN times like back in June/July) to get deals to load or “stick” to my cart. 2.) The Daily Deals are not as diverse as they once were (I no longer see some of the companies/vendors I used to). 3.) 99% of the deals you capture are e-certificates (delivered via email); no more physical gift cards. I prefer gift cars, easier to keep track and use those versus email print-outs. But, I can learn to adapt.
Since June, I’ve saved (or ‘made’) about $200 in gift cards from this program.
I feel it’s still worth it, as longer as you are patient, diligent, and consistent.
how did you get it to work, page loads well before 1PM EST and when you click on it at 1PM…it does not enable ‘Add to Cart’ button….and when i refresh the page…the deal totally fails to load….i cannot even see it until multiple refreshes…by that time deal is dead.
Login a few minutes before 1pm rolls around. Keep a close eye on the clock. Literally 1 second after 1pm hits, refresh the entire webpage. If you are lucky, the daily deal will show on the first go-around/refresh and you can add to cart. If it doesn’t load, refresh again. The daily deal WILL eventually show. You have to be QUICK on all these steps.
Everything I listed above, probably takes place in the span of 10-15 seconds. Good luck.
Deals never load. Can’t even find it on my account anymore.
Melody
Citi Easy deals have changed to a new vendor and they dont control the program anymore. They are taking the list of complaints from customers like us. Let your voice be heard. Call 855-849-7594
What easy deals are worth it? Serious question, because I’m not overly familiar with it. I have a Double Cash card that got PC’d from a Simplicity.
Sometimes Citi easy deals would give you a free gift card valued at $5-$10 to amazon, best buy, walmart, etc. Sometimes the gift cards a discounted pretty deep. But these gift card deals only show up once or twice per year. You can search up Citi Easy Deals on this site to see some past deals that were available in the past.
I like the new design of this card. It fits in with the rest of Citi’s card offerings. Its card design looks better than the Double Cash or the Custom Cash. Too bad this card doesn’t have any rewards.