The Offer
- Make a purchase using Visa Checkout, pay with your Chase Sapphire or Chase Sapphire Preferred card, and receive a $15 statement credit.
You can use Visa Checkout at the following stores:
- Staples
- Newegg
- Orbitz
- Pizza Hut
- Gap
- Neiman Marcus
- Williams-Sonoma
- Gymboree
- Zulily
- Fandango
- Virgin America
- Under Armour
The Fine Print
- Expires 9/30/15
- Offer valid both for existing Visa Checkout accounts and new accounts
- Limit one $15 statement credit per customer or card account. (I think that means that if you have two separate Sapphire accounts you can get two credits.) You can’t get the $15 credit for each merchant that allows Visa Checkout; only one $15 credit allowed. You also apparently can’t get a second credit for an authorized-user account.
- Allow 1 to 2 billing cycles for $15 credit to reflect on your credit card statement.
- Your card account must remain open and not be in default to receive the statement credit. Statement credit cannot be processed if your card number expires or changes while statement credit is pending.
Our Verdict
$15 off at any of these merchants is nice, but free $15 is nicer. Let’s see how to cash out this $15 offer:
- Purchase $.49 game codes from Newegg and pay with Visa Checkout for a $14.51 profit. There’s no mention of a minimum purchase amount requirement and I assume this will work.
- Purchase a $200 Visa gift card from staples.com for $206.95 and get back $15. Or purchase a $25 Visa gift card for $29.95 and get back $15.
- Purchase third-party gift cards or e-gift cards from staples.com or from newegg.com and trigger the $15 credit that way. You can find gift cards to popular merchants such as eBay, Target, Home Depot, Lowes, lots of restaurants, and much more.
I’m going the $.49 game code route since that’s the easiest.
Ditto. I did TWO $0.49 purchases at newegg and got ONE $15 credit. So no surprise despite at least one blogger proclaiming we’d get multiple rebates…
FYI: My credit posted on 10/2 after the 9/23 purchase.
@Steve, hard for this to come off as not snarky, but if you google “how gift card purchases on eBay will get UR points”, the magic of SEO provides your answer, assuming you haven’t maxed out your velocity limits of purchasing GCs thru that supplier.
I just purchase the newegg code using visa checkout and CSP card. Let’s see if the $15 credit posts. If it does not, then all I will lose is $0.49 cents. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Just bought a $25 eBay gift card at Staples. Hope this works!
You can also get $30 off $150 for using Visa Checkout with your Chase Ink at Staples. Use the following link:
https://checkout.visa.com/campaign/us/en/staples/chaseink/index.jsp
This times nicely with the Staples gift card deal on eBay, plus there’s a sale on iPads at Staples right now. Use $300 gift cards (cost: $255 – 8% eBay bucks – 1-5% portal rewards – 5% UR from Ink), buy a 16gb iPad (cost: $350 – $30 coupon + 22.04 taxes – 2% Ebates – 5% UR from Ink). Get an iPad for ~$215-235, depending on which portals you use. Can be sold for about $150 profit on Amazon.
How do we get UR points for staples gift cards bought on eBay?
Can you please let me know how gift card purchases on eBay will get UR points?
If you pay for gift cards from PayPal Digital Gifts using your Chase Ink card, you get 5x points. It codes as “Utilities” for some reason. There has been much discussion on the topic since the beginning of the year. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/chase-ultimate-rewards/1682137-paypal-digital-gifts-chase-ink-5x.html
If you use $300 in gift cards, how will you have $150 left to put on your Ink card? Or don’t they care how much is on the card?
Doesn’t matter how much you put on the card. The value of the product simply has to be >$150. I only put $42 on the card, and still got the $30 discount.
Well, the 8% eBay deal expired 2 days ago–9/23.
Yep, but a lot at folks bought them during the promotion. I had actually already maxed out my eBay bucks but bought then anyway. It’s a huge money maker even without eBay bucks.