It’s almost the start of a new quarter so it’s time for Barclaycard to send out an array of targeted offers (both by e-mail and regular postal mail), if you didn’t receive any of these and have the card then you can try calling Barclaycard to get enrolled, but people haven’t had a lot of success in the past.
Without further ado, here are some of the offers:
Contents
- 1 The Offers
- 1.1 Aviator Red – Spend $1,500, Receive 15k Miles
- 1.2 Aviator Red – 2x Bonus Miles (2,500 point max)
- 1.3 Miles & More – 2x Bonus Points (2,500 point max)
- 1.4 Sallie Mae – 2x Bonus Points (2,500 point max)
- 1.5 Wyndham – 2x Bonus Points (2,500 point max)
- 1.6 Citi ThankYou Premier – 5x Points (2,500 point max)
- 2 Our Thoughts
The Offers
Without further ado, here are some of the offers. Keep in mind the promotional period is the same for all of these offers, it starts on October 1st and runs through December 31st.
Aviator Red – Spend $1,500, Receive 15k Miles
Spend $500 a month in October, November & December and receive 15,000 bonus miles.
Aviator Red – 2x Bonus Miles (2,500 point max)
This bonus gives you 2x bonus miles (so 3x miles total) on the following categories: gas, restaurant and department, toy and game store purchases.
Miles & More – 2x Bonus Points (2,500 point max)
Via Travelling The World For Less
This bonus gives you 2x bonus miles (so 3x miles total) on the following categories: gas, restaurant and department, toy and game store purchases.
Sallie Mae – 2x Bonus Points (2,500 point max)
This bonus gives you 2x bonus points (so 3x points total) on the following categories: travel and department, toy and game store purchases. I was hoping this would give 2x on gas purchases as well, that way you could get 7x on gas with this card but it wasn’t meant to be.
Wyndham – 2x Bonus Points (2,500 point max)
This card earns 2x points on all purchases and 3x points on Wyndham purchases, with this deal you earn a bonus 2x points (so 4x points total) on the following categories: gas, restaurant and department, toy and game store purchases.
Citi ThankYou Premier – 5x Points (2,500 point max)
Earn 5x points on the following categories: clothing stores, computer & electronic stores, toy stores & department stores. You can earn a maximum of 2,500 points from this promotion. (Note: I know this isn’t Citi, but I decided to include it anyway. Kind of weird how everybody is targeting toy stores, but makes sense given it’s the giving/spending season).
Our Thoughts
I’ve noticed an interesting trend on my own cards, when the annual fee is almost due they will send a spend X amount per month for three months deal. This means I need to keep the card and pay the annual fee (Barclaycard will refund the annual fee if you cancel within 60 days of paying it, but the miles/points won’t post before then), this is quite a genius way for them to offer a retention bonus without cardholders really realizing it. I suspect they also send these offers to only cardholders they think have a high likelihood of cancelling their cards as well.
The bonus category offers seem to be a bit more random, but are probably sent out to cardholders who used to spend in those categories and no longer do OR haven’t had much activity on their card lately and Barclaycard is trying to get their cards to front of wallet again.
