Update 7/18/23: Capital One offers (in the credit card login) is offering some people $26 with an AARP membership signup. Membership cost is $12. You can also get $8 if find and enroll in the Chase Offer. That makes this a potential $22 moneymaker. (ht Jason)
Update 12/19/22: The Capital One Shopping app or Capital One offers (in the credit card login) are offering some people $30 with an AARP membership signup. Membership cost is $12. You can also get $8 if you enroll in the Chase Offer which would make it possible to turn this into a $26 moneymaker. (ht David)
Update 8/29/22: Topcashback is up slightly at $12.60. There’s also a Chase Offer for for $8 back. Should be a $8.60 moneymaker on the $12 cost of first year, just remember to cancel. (ht joremero)
Update 7/21/22: MyPoints is now 2,000 (around $13), Swagbucks is 1,000 ($10). Topcashback is now at $12.
Update 2/3/22: Deal is back on Swagbucks for 1,500. Slightly lower now on MyPoints at 2,000. I’m not sure if the AA or Citi offers are still around. There is a Chase Offer for $8 off.
The Offer
Swagbucks | MyPoints or MyPoints
- Get 1,500 Swagbucks ($15) or 2,500 MyPoints (worth around $15.75) when signing up for AARP.
- Simplymiles offers 1,000 AAdvantage miles with the purchase of a membership (this is a card-linked offer which is valid for any Mastercard linked to the simplymiles website).
- Some people have a Citi Merchant offers to get 20% back on AARP purchase of $12+ which will get you an additional discount.
The Fine Print
- SB will appear as Pending for 32 days.
- SB are determined by Swagbucks, not AARP.
- This offer is only available to new AARP Members. (reader Troy tells us that it worked for him despite having had AARP membership in the past which had since expired)
- Must submit valid name, address, credit card and other subscription information to earn SB.
- SB may be revoked if you cancel within 32 days.
- Offer may only be redeemed once (1) per user.
- If you are not credited within 32 days of offer completion, you have 14 days to contact the Swagbucks Help Center for further investigation. Help Center tickets submitted after the 14 day grace period are not eligible for further investigation and SB.
Our Verdict
AARP costs $16 per year, or $12 per year when you enable auto-renew. Either option is fine for the purposes of earning the Swagbucks/MyPoints, just set yourself a reminder to cancel the auto-renew if you don’t want to get hit with the charge.
Assuming you do auto-renew, you’ll end up with: free AARP membership + $3 moneymaker after Swagbucks + 1,000 AA miles + $2.40 from Citi Offers.
Anyone can get AARP membership, regardless of age, and it can be useful for various discounts and the like. (The Swagbucks/MP page mentions being age 50+, but these offers should track fine regardless of age, I’d assume).
Big thanks to reader Troy for letting us know about the deal and stack.
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I thought I’d add my experience last week with signing up for this Capital One credit card offer — and some tips: [Note: If this comment looks like a giant block of text, click on “read more” at the end of the visible portion of the comment and it will unfold into a properly formatted message that is easier to read.] My Capital One offer was to get a $23 statement credit when signing up for the first year of an AARP renewing membership (which costs $12 for the first year, and $16 — I think — for subsequent years). I clicked through the link on my credit card account page and signed up. Two days later, I got an email from Capital One confirming that the statement credit of $23 would be coming within 3 statement cycles. (Reports from this thread say that the credit usually posts much earlier than that.) Five steps that I’d recommend: Step 1: Privacy As soon as you sign up, if you don’t want to receive emails, newsletters, postal mailings, or have your information sold to all and sundry other companies, take some privacy actions: 1a. Signing up for a membership appears to automatically sign you up for several of their 30+ (yes, thirty-plus) email newsletters, so unsubscribe yourself from those if you don’t want to receive them. 1b. Go through your account profile and adjust things like your automatically-created, publicly-visible “discussion forum” name that initially has your full first name and the first initial of your last name in it. 1c. I ended up adjusting my birth date in the account after I realized how much AARP sells on members’ info. 1d. I tried online, and also by talking to their customer service on the phone, to take off the cell phone number I had signed up with and replace it with a landline number (because a landline can’t receive irritating, unwanted text messages), but the website wouldn’t let me do this, so I called and the telephone customer service agent told me that she successfully changed the number for me, but whatever she did didn’t work, so my cell number is still in there. I will need to call them again about that. [Their telephone number to call if you want to change your telephone number with them is 1-866-839-0463.] 1e. Go to their “Your Privacy Choices” page, which they do NOT make easy to find. It is at: https://help.aarp.org/s/ccpa-request-page Decide if you want to select any of the privacy choices. I would suggest to do 4 of them: 1e (i). You have the right to request that AARP not sell or share your personal information to third parties. [to do this, click the “submit a request” button at the bottom of the Privacy Choices page and then click on a confirmation email they will send to your email address] 1e (ii). You have the right to request that AARP limit the processing of sensitive personal information AARP may have about you.… Read more »
Just correcting the amount of interest (in the last sentence of my above post) that Marcus (Goldman Sachs) customers can get on their Marcus savings account if they link their AARP membership — I see that I had put 0.01% in my post, but it is actually 0.10%.
FYI, the DoctorofCredit article that explains the Marcus 0.10% offer is: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/marcus-bank-aarp-members-get-10-apy-increase-in-savings-account-rate/
8/29 – P2 clicked the C1 offers link to AARP, renewed one year at $12, paid with a USBank card
8/31 – email from C1 received that $23 is on the way
P2 has Quicksilver card.
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Anyone see the credit posted from Cap1? I received their email that I am qualified but not yet seen the credit.
Had a $23 Capital one offer, used it for a $12 membership for a year. Also got a free insulated trunk organizer for signing up. Received some AARP membership rewards points and used 50 points for a chance to win a $25 Walmart gift card and won instantly. What a score. $36 profit so far in about half an hour of work.
Side topic, is anyone else no longer able to use up MC debit cards from Swagbucks via Citi pay-by-phone?
Yes, this was reported on Flyertalk and another thread on DoC (maybe buy sb offer ?)
“must be a Capital One cardholder or bank account holder” so if you have a checking account and pay with a chase card, you’ll get $23 in your CO bank account?
got an email from cap1 said it tracked about 48hrs later – see you in retirement boys
When I go through the CO portal for the $23 Offer and choose ‘renew’ (because I already have an AARP membership), I only get a 3yr or 5yr renewal choice @ $43/3yr or $63/5yr for me!! Def not worth it. Am I doing something wrong, or is this MM deal not really for current members?
cap1 portal shows only 8$ cb for me.