Although the Capital One Shopping portal is far less appealing nowadays due to a dearth of gift card redemption options, it does continue to offer some fantastic earning rates across a broad range of retailers and services.
If you’re booking a paid hotel stay any time soon, you might be able to get yourself targeted for rates of up to 30%, while for some retailers you can earn up to 100% back.
The Deal
- Get increased targeted offers through Capital One Shopping.
Key Terms
- Various limits & expiry dates.
Quick Thoughts
It feels like there’s been an uptick in the number of targeted offers Capital One Shopping has sent me over the past couple of weeks, but perhaps that’s based more on my browsing habits than Capital One Shopping doing anything different.
Some of the offers I’ve received recently include:
- Hilton – up to 30% (depending on the brand)
- IHG – 20%
- Choice – 18%
- Accor – 7%
- MGM Resorts – 22%
- Qatar Airways – 10%
- Best Western – 28%
- Viator – 27%
- Agoda – 28%
- Marriott Homes & Villas – 15%
- StubHub – 18%
- Avis – 10%
Some of these increased offers have been the headline amounts in the email that Capital One Shopping has sent after browsing that particular site with its browser extension installed. If you ever get any emails like that, be sure to scroll down the email because there are usually ~10 other retailers for whom Capital One Shopping will also offer increased rates.
In some cases, you might be able to do even better than that courtesy of 100% offers for select retailers. Some people have recently reported getting an offer for $50 back on $50 spend at Lululemon. As if that wasn’t already good enough, personal Amex Platinum cards now come with an up to $75 quarterly Lululemon credit which will stack perfectly.
Vinh from Miles Per Day also reported last week getting some absurd offers on some of his accounts. That includes:
- StubHub – $250 back on $250 spend
- Marriott – $150 back on $200 spend
- Walmart – $50 back on $50 spend
- eBay – $50 back on $50 spend
- Nike – $50 back on $50 spend
- Dyson – $200 back on $200 spend
While I wouldn’t value the 100% back as 100% cashback due to the requirement that you redeem it for gift cards that could be purchased at a good discount elsewhere, those are incredibly generous offers nonetheless for anyone who’s targeted.
Be sure to keep an eye on the terms of these offers, particularly those that are emailed to you. They’re usually single use nowadays, plus there’s usually an expiry date listed.
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Was anyone actually able to get these 100% back offers to work? CapOne made me wait 30 days before opening a ticket, most likely hoping I’d forget. eBay showed up as “ineligible” (I read the extensive fine print, should have been fine) right away, and they wouldn’t even let me know if the click had registered for Lululemon. Now it’s been 35 days and I’m about to get into it with them on both $50 orders (one was $50.74 before tax/shipping, one was $69 + tax).
all my offers disappeared today
I have noticed on Cap 1 that if you click on an offer multiple days and shop without buying, the offer price goes up when you return. I tried shopping at Nobull at 5x, it went to12, 15, then 25%. I bought the 25% link and was paid promptly. I will try the same on other items. Have a couple IHG stays coming up so… Hope it works
I’m really curious if there are any tricks to getting the Hilton 30% off through Cap1 Shopping. I have tried it on single night stays with the AAA rate, the HiltonHonors rate, and regular rack rate. All have posted as ineligible. I am a little scared to try on other longer stays or for really nice hotels.
I use the same browser and computer as I do for other non travel cap1 shopping purchases that do post.
At one point I thought I read that Diamonds had restrictions on getting cash back that others didn’t (wish I remember where). I have since downgraded my Aspire, so am no longer diamond. Worth trying cap1 shopping one last time?
Do you mean you’ve been targeted for the 30% offer, but that it isn’t tracking correctly? If so, I’m not sure why that would be.
There are restrictions regarding length of stay, eligible brands, etc., but I’m not aware of Diamond members being excluded. That used to be the case with most shopping portals, but I don’t think Hilton enforces that any more unless a portal specifically lists Diamond members as being excluded.
C1 Shopping has not been working for me nearly as well as it used to. I get the great email offers after I search for a product and then don’t buy it, but when I click the email link it doesn’t register the elevated offer most of the time now. E.g. today I got a 20% lululemon. Just went to purchase. Clicked on the email link and then on the LLL site I look at my C1 extension and it’s giving me only 1% offer to activate. I’ve done this same process in the past and when it works that extension in the browser will show me the elevated offer that I clicked on from the email. Now it seems to not register the elevated offer I’m supposed to get about 90% of the time. Worked great for me in the past but for a while now it has become a scam.
They are now reducing the previous earn cash back and show my balance as negative a couples of hundreds. They just show previous earnings is not eligible. I sent email to their support and they just copied pasted the t&c without event looking at the issue. Stay away
Same with me. Have -$151 balance. I just ended up changing and now using P2s account.
Yup negative balance for me too. Glad I cashed out for hotels.com