[Expired] [YMMV] Citi Sears Spend Offer: Earn Up To 20%/20x

The Offer

  • Some Citi Sears cardholders have received a targeted spending bonus. One offer was as follows:
    • Earn 10% in statement credits on eligible purchases made with your SYWR card at gas stations, grocery stores and restaurants of $1,500 or more made each month from 10/1/20 through 12/31/20. Limit of $250 in statement credits each month
    • Earn 20% in statement credits on eligible purchases made with your SYWR card at gas stations, grocery stores and restaurants of $400 or more made each month from 10/1/20 through 12/31/20. Limit of $120 in statement credits each month

Our Verdict

Offers seem to vary based on how much you normally spend on this card. Obviously this is a fantastic offer. Usually as the months go on you can get targeted for other offers in this quarter and they also stack. This is why this is our highest rated store credit card.

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CMH
CMH (@guest_1076999)
October 21, 2020 14:42

Does the Sears card earn TYP or Shop Your Way points?

Chris
Chris (@guest_1077329)
October 22, 2020 00:16

It can be either depending on the version you have. The Shop Your Way version earns SYW points and gets these offers as statement credits. The TYP version earns TYP and gets the offers as TYP instead.

You can’t apply for the TYP version anymore, and I haven’t seen anybody able to product change from SYW to TYP since around last fall.

Dude
Dude (@guest_1075927)
October 20, 2020 09:19

I tried to take advantage of these offers for the first time. I clicked on the email link and it said activated. They sent another email so I clicked on it and it said, “already activated”. I logged into my account and they’re showing up as offers I can activate on the site which is something I’ve never seen before. I clicked on them and it went from saying something along the lines of click her to activate to activated. So now I’m wondering when they’re going to start counting my purchases. This system they use – sending email links – is pretty poorly designed. I want to be able to log into my account, see what offers are activated, when they were activated, and how much spend has gone towards them. Instead, you have to cross your fingers and hope that the offer works. Oh and you don’t find out for months.

Anon712
Anon712 (@guest_1066951)
October 2, 2020 19:39

I received the 10% on 1,500. Last quarter it was 10% on 2,000.

Also got the offer below a few days ago but when I click to activate it says “We’re sorry,
but the offer was not activated at this time. Please try again.” Anyone else able to activate?

12,500
Bonus ThankYou® Points
on eligible purchases totaling $2,000 or more with your Sears Mastercard® made from 9/15/2020 (or the date you activate, whichever is later) through 11/13/2020*.
Only purchases made after activation will apply towards receiving your Bonus ThankYou points.

B
B (@guest_1067404)
October 3, 2020 21:34

I was recently unable to activate a Citi offer via the citi.com/activate – It worked fine once I logged in and on the phone.

Anon712
Anon712 (@guest_1069793)
October 7, 2020 21:22
  B

Thanks for the reply. I clicked on it today and it said it was already activated so I guess I’m good.

Tim
Tim (@guest_1066868)
October 2, 2020 17:19

I got the 10% offer a few months ago. It was good for 3 calendar months. Easy $750.

DaveInAZ
DaveInAZ (@guest_1066866)
October 2, 2020 17:15

I got the 20% in statement credits $400 or more made each month for grocery, gas & restaurants. Going to start grocery & gas after the statement cuts on 12th, I spend around $500/mo. at Walmart alone and mine codes everything as groceries. Sure beats Cap One’s 5%. I ignore the Thank You point offers.

Iks
Iks (@guest_1066846)
October 2, 2020 16:50

the version i received is 15% statement credit up to $150 back per month thru ye.

BT
BT (@guest_1066826)
October 2, 2020 16:23

I got 10% statement credit min $800 on gas grocery and restaurant

Kapil
Kapil (@guest_1066857)
October 2, 2020 17:07
  BT

same here

Roger
Roger (@guest_1066803)
October 2, 2020 15:57

Got 10X TYP with monthly spend >= $1500. Not the best offer for this card, but still amazing compared to any other card.

Stephanie
Stephanie (@guest_1066777)
October 2, 2020 15:20

Received the following offer: 10X Bonus ThankYou Points on eligible purchases made with your Sears Mastercard from Citi at: Gas Stations, Grocery Stores, Restaurants. For total eligible gas station, grocery store and restaurant purchases of $1,500 or more made each month from 10/1/2020 (or the date you activate this offer, whichever is later) through 12/31/2020, you’ll earn 10X Bonus ThankYou Points (up to a maximum total of 25,000 Bonus ThankYou Points each month).

Jon
Jon (@guest_1066764)
October 2, 2020 14:49

I received at 15% statement credit after $300 in spend with a max of $100 back each month.