Targeted Offer on Various Barclaycards for up to $20 Back

This deal is targeted and starts tomorrow, 12/1/16.

The Offer

Barclay is sending out a targeted offer via email on various credit cards. I’ve seen it reported on Arrival, A+, Jetblue Plus, Aviator Red, and Aviator Silver. Likely other cards too.

• Register your Barclay Arrival Plus as your preferred method of payment at Amazon, Wayfair, iTunes and 1800Flowers and receive $5 statement credit per 2 transactions up to 20$ max

1. Register your card as your preferred payment option at one of the following online merchants: Amazon.com, Wayfair.com, iTunes, and 1800Flowers.com.
2. Ready to check out? Simply click your card in the payment options — no forms, no need to type your card number.
3. Get a $5 statement credit, up to $20 total, each time you register and use your card two or more times at any of the online merchants listed above from December 1 through December 31, 2016.¹

The Fine Print

• This deal starts tomorrow, 12/1, and ends 12/31/16
• Primary cardmember is financially responsible for all authorized user transactions
• The statement credit will appear on the cardmember’s statement 6-8 weeks after the end of the promotion

Our Verdict

Nice offer. Check your emails – no luck yet for me on my A+, but it is a newish card so not surprising.

I doubt you have to actually set the Barclay card as the preferred method; so long as you do two purchases of any amount the $5 statement credit will likely be triggered.

Amazon is the easiest since you can simply reload your Amazon balance with $.50 or buy an Amazon gift card of $1; do it twice to trigger the $5 credit.

With iTunes, you can either buy anything in the iTunes store to trigger the credit – some are as little as $1.29 – or you can load up your iTunes balance with $10 at a time. You might be able to find cheap stuff on wayfair and 1800flowers too.

The one thing that’s still a bit unclear is whether you can get the full $20 credit from a single merchant, e.g. if you buy eight $.50 Amazon reloads you’ll get a $20 credit, or if you can only get $5 from each of the four. I’d probably run eight $.50 Amazon gift card purchases just in case it works to trigger the full amount.

Hat tip to r/churning and G.