Citi is launching something called Citi Shop Day that will run August 5, 12:00 a.m. – August 6, 11:59 p.m. ET. Citi says you will earn 20x points on select merchants. This requires installing the Citi shop browser extension, so it means you won’t be able to stack with other portals.
Here is the list of merchants with the 20x offer:
- Kohl’s
- Best Buy
- StubHub
- Lowe’s
- Macy’s
- Sephora
- Bloomingdale’s
- Petco
- Nike
- Anthropologie
- eBay
- L.L. Bean
- Shark
- Bed Bath & Beyond
- Le Creuset
- ULTA Beauty
Scored 39% cash back at Ulta and Macy’s.
How? What other offer did you stack?
I used my old laptop to test this out. I enrolled with my double cash and installed the extension on Edge. I bought a gamestop membership with it with a CHASE card. This morning I wake up to a congratulations for using citi shop email showing the cashback that I’ll receive.
I am interested to see if there are caps when this comes out. If there is no cap we could make a lot of money
Aside from them sounding as bad as tracking as Bank of America, I’m going to skip this. Also because those stores listed only carry ‘want’ items for me and nothing needed.
Besides I’m already in a tracking watch with Chase who is usually quick with their rewards.
Any maximum on the amount you can earn?
i get it. prime day made all ecomm rethink their strat. no reason to manipulate consumer behavior only during holiday black friday. but citi is a joke in general. will see how they fuck it up. 20x savings on 20x markup. net result = MSRP.
IMHO, launch is too close after prime day. they couldve done it during sept “back to school day” and really drive up rev from parents buying shit. but even amazon fucked it up their 1st time w/ bullshit deals like gallons of lube on sale. OGs know how bad it was back in 2015.
i bet shit will burn up in flames. i pass this 1st time. maybe next year will be like prime.
Oh, you just found out what prime day is about? Most if us saw that after the very first, years ago but it’s not a race, better late than never.
Not sue what you are talking about either; you’re saying citi will ask merchant to mark up prices for users of the citi shopping portal extension? Cause your Amazon analogy is way off, citi is not a merchant offering a limited sale.
I get your anger against citi, okay, but if you clear your head a bit, you’re gonna see, this is a cash back deal and citi’s direct competitor here is the cap1 extension.
From the terms and conditions, this is interesting:
“Enrolling a Card: Once you’ve downloaded the extension and logged in with your Citibank online credentials and are deemed eligible for the Program, you must select a Card Account to enroll in the Program. This Enrolled Card will be the Card Account used to receive your Percent Back or Amount Back statement credits. After enrollment, if you want to select a different Card Account as your Enrolled Card, you may do so within the Program. You are not required to use this Enrolled Card to earn a Percent Back or Amount Back. If you use another payment method at checkout, the Enrolled Card will still receive any earned Percent Back or Amount Back statement credits from that transaction.”
So it seems like you download the app, enroll the card, can use ANY card, and still get the 20x on the enrolled card.
Odd. But if true, that would mean that if you have some bonus from another card, you could stack that way – say a “department stores” category card and you shop at Macy’s, or a home improvement category at Lowe’s.
If understand the times, it run for two days – all day on August 5 and 6?
yes
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No thanks, not installing spyware on my computer and never getting the cashback.
Is it cash back or thankyoupoints?
Looks like cash back as a statement credit to an associated Citi card.
https://www.citi.com/CRD/PDF/citishop/Citi_Shop_FAQs.pdf
“Will the Citi Shop statement credits I receive count as a payment to my Enrolled Citi Card Account? No, Citi Shop statement credits are applied toward your Card Account statement balance, but not toward your minimum payment due.”