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The Offer
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- Get $5 back as a statement credit when you spend $100 on your cellular phone bill.
The Fine Print
- Expires 6/30/20.
Our Verdict
This isn’t necessarily a beneficial offer since there are credit cards which give a bonus on cell phone payments. For example, if you save the Amex Offer on a Blue Cash card, then you’ll land up getting $6 back on the $100 payment ($5 AO + $1 rewards), which is less than a lot of people value the 5x Ultimate Rewards on the Chase INK Plus/Cash.
Anyway, some might find this offer appealing. I couldn’t find it on my offers, but reader Mark reported on this one, and a friend on mine got it as well. Obviously, the $55 or 15% deals which were released yesterday on business cards are better.
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Do I have to spend $100 in one transaction or can I pay $35/months for 3 months and still get $5 ?
Thanks.
0/3, but I get 5% perpetually from US Bank Cash+, so this would have been only slightly better.
Anyone know what sprint’s rules are on overpaying, and if you can recoup easily? looking to max out my cash+ credit as well.
Does it need to be one bill over $100 ? It’s okey for several bills accumulated over $100?
1/3. Nothing earth shattering. This essentially makes 6% back on a $100 spend with a cell phone provider, while Chase Freedom this quarter would give you 5% back on $100 spend.
I’ll probably pre-pay 3-4 months of TV service on CF to help max that quarter out, and do four $100 payments on my cell phone bill with this offer.
Got 0/9 but yep pretty useless as I already get 5x
Will AT&T prepaid trigger it? Target has once a month 5% off sales so I’m not sure this really interests me.
As usual, this doesn’t work if your provider is an MVNO like Page Plus.
Also useless if you have Verizon postpaid as you lose your autopay discount when paying with a credit card. No, there is no work around anymore.
You sure? I prepay all but one dollar which is auto debited from my bank account, and still keep the discount.
According to Verizon’s terms, they are supposed to claw back autopay discount on the next billing statement if you don’t pay completely with a debit card or ACH.
I see. Well, mine is still working the way I described without any clawback. Not sure if the terms & conditions depend on when you open the account.
I DID notice that when I had my initial iteration of the account, I was actually able to get the autopay discount no matter what (even paying full balance with credit card). However, after I switch to a different account without auto-pay (family plan) and then switched back (as our taxes with family plan were actually more expensive than 2x taxes with individual plans for whatever reason), I was no longer to get the autopay discount paying full credit card balance, but still works for me with credit card pay full balance minus $1 and $1 debited from my bank account. Thus, not sure if terms depend on when you originally signed up for the plan.
Must consider the autopay discount versus the credit card benefit(s).
I use CIP for 3x Ultimate Rewards points and cell phone protection for seven lines. That is worth way more to me than the $10 per month per account autopay discount.
I agree. I use Ink Cash for 5x, works great.
Gerald, fortunately I can live with that, as I’m only paying about $8 per month with Red Pocket. 😉
You high roller. I have the $2.50 plan on the Sprint network. Of course 200 minutes per month is barely service at all but it ends up being enough for me usually. ( I use Google Hangouts to make my minutes go further.)
😀 Nice!
500/500/500 for me…with no need for me to advance Google’s surveillance apparatus.
I got get 15% back on your cellphone bill up to $35 on my BGR and my wife got Spend 3 times on our cell phone bill, get $55 back one time. I wonder if the second is like the AT&T offer where you can just buy accessories at the store to trigger the credit. I plan on making 3 small payments either way.
Doesn’t show up on either my Cash Magnet or SimplyCash Plus. Funny thing is that this would actually be more useful to me than the otherwise-better “pay your cell phone bill 3x and get $55 back” offer that IS showing up on my SimplyCash, just because I pay semi-annually and am already paid up until May. Ah well.