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The Offer
- Citi has sent out targeted spending bonuses on the Citi Sears card.
- Earn a $40 statement credit each month when you use your Shop Your Way Mastercard® to make 1 eligible purchases each month of $375 or more each. Offer is valid 3/1/2025 (or from the date you activate this offer, whichever date is later) through 5/31/2025
Our Verdict
This is why this is our #1 store card. Will also stack with the other offers that are good for 2025 and for offers through April as well.
I used to be able to call customer service, get a live person, and they’d confirm that yes, my transactions did qualify for the e.g., $1000 online spend, before points actually hit. Today I just got an AI agent (who admittedly was actually fairly smart), but she said I did not quality for the 325,000 offer but didn’t say why, wouldn’t transfer me to a live agent, said to submit a ticket, which will maybe be responded to in 2-3 days, which doesn’t leave time for an additional transaction should I need to make one and have it post before 4/15. Frustrating to not be able to talk to someone live. I guess I shouldn’t wait until the last week for these things but I sometimes wait to see if I actually have a better type of online transaction to make instead of gift cards. This time I did Amazon reload, REI gift card and an airbnb gift card (along with some other misc transactions that my initial offer status email said DID qualify).
First time in a VERY long time that I don’t have any new offer emails today on my card or my husband’s. He still has 3 active offers and I have 4 but surprised at no new ones today.
Got GGR offer email today for rest of the year (April-Dec). $100SC/$1000 Spend /$200SC /$2000 Spend. Check your emails!
New offer today –
Earn up to $1,350 in statement credits
Activate this offer by 5/15/2025Earn $75 in statement credits when you spend $750 – $1,499.99 each month or earn $150 in statement credits when you spend $1,500 or more each month on eligible gas station, grocery store and restaurant purchases. Activation required. Offer ends 12/31/2025.
Looks like Citi SYW finally updated their systems to show pending charges. About time.
Got another $100 statement credit for $1k online spend offer. Not bad, not amazing either.
Got 325k points for $1k online spend.
Used to get offers all the time but this is the second month in a row with no offers. Is this normal for anyone else?
Is yours TYP version? TYP version may stop receiving offer update due to pending product change.
Got the 250k points for $750 online spend again.
I accidently bought a “prepaid mastercard” from the SYW gift card section, instead of the electronic visa. They emailed me a card number and expiration date, but provided no CVV. How the heck do I use that card?
Activate at: https://www.myprepaidcenter.com
Thanks, you’re amazing. it’s incredible to me that SYW doesn’t include that info in the confirmation email.
don’t know why, but I just rec’d a new offer today in the mail. Just spend 750.00 in online purchase and get 250k points. ($250.00) This is the third time I rec’d this offer in 5 months. I have so many DDonut egift cards (I add to my DD app). Plus WM e gift cards I add to my acct. Any other retailers that seem to be good on their sit? I only find these 2 to be great.
Hey do you know if making purchases online at Walmart counts as both grocery spend and online spend? I hit to hit both of those categories for a total spend of $500 so thinking about getting physical giftcards. Would e gift cards not count for some reason??
Do online purchases through Door Dash, Giftcards .com, or Pepper app, and get another 10% off on the gift card purchases, in addition to the Shop Your Way offer.
Purchasing gift cards from Pepper would not qualify as grocery spend though? It would be an online purchase. Besides I am trying to buy visa pre paid cards instead of store gift cards. Do you know if I pay with PayPal, does that go against terms and conditions of the offers?? Sometimes PayPal has 5x offers for Walmart and Bestbuy stores that I love. Would be nice to stack that on top of Citi offers!!!
Door Dash codes as grocery so be stacked with the Gas Grocery and Dining offers that some people have. Giftcards .com and Pepper both offer gift cards regularly at a discount. Giftcards .com currently has a free $5 giftcard .com gift card when buying a $50 gift card of several retailers. Pepper currently has 10% off of a number of retailers (like Sams Club, Lowes, Home Depot) with no limits. So part of the savings would come from Shop Your Way and part would come from giftcards. com and part from Pepper.
Door Dash has 10% off many gift cards too, including Zift gift cards, which includes Amazon. So for the Door Dash ones you can get $200 in gift cards at a time for $180, and the $180 would count toward both the online offer and the grocery offer if you have both.
The part about receiving the offer in the mail might not be normal but receiving the offer this time of the month isn’t, SYW offers go out the first of the month and the 15th
Also do you do a lot of shopping online since you keep receiving the 250k offer? I got it in January and now I keep receiving no online spending offers