The public Capital One Shopping portal (which does not require having a Capital One account) is out with some interesting targeted “Home Page Bonus Offers” for some people. Sadly, I don’t see these on my own account, but others are seeing offers as good as $250 back on a hotel booking of $250 or more. There are numerous other targeted offers like $100 back on $250 at Trip.com or $30 back on $50 at Walmart that some users are seeing, so it could certainly be worth a look.
As you can see above, these “Home Page Bonus Offers” are on the Capital One Shopping home page between the daily deal near the top and the beginning of other targeted offers. They are displaying in a grey box in my wife’s account (with a link at the bottom to expand the box and show more of the home page bonus offers).
My wife is seeing mostly lukewarm offers, though $30 back on $50 at Walmart and $50 back on $100 at Sam’s Club are great deals.
Greg found more useful travel offers in his account, like $100 back on $200 at Hotels.com, $100 back on $250 at Trip.com, and other interesting options.
Doctor of Credit reports that some users have been targeted for $250 back on a hotel booking of $250 or more. We haven’t seen that on any of our accounts on the Frequent Miler team.
Oddly, I don’t have home page bonus offers at all on my account, and neither does Stephen (though, again, other members of my family have them). We don’t know why or how these offers have been targeted, but it is worth knowing that they are there.
The terms for these offers indicate that you can only use one of each “offer type”, as in one travel offer, and then you won’t be able to activate a second travel offer. It’s anybody’s guess as to what “type” of offer a Macy’s Offer is versus a Walmart offer versus some other retailer.
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This now seems to be dead. Am curious if anyone else sees the offer apply when they click the link?
I just see ‘Rewards’ in the normal range (<$50) when I click on the titled: ‘earn up to $250 when you book a hotel or vacation rental over $250’
Some people are seeing similar offers under Capital One Offers. Doctor of Credit has a post on this today.
Regarding the terms, you ask: “It’s anybody’s guess as to what ‘type’ of offer a Macy’s Offer is versus a Walmart offer versus some other retailer.” My understanding of the terms is that these are all “Home Page Bonus” offers, based on the gray box in the upper left of each banner. The “Hotel Search Bonus” has a different label, as illustrated in the screenshot in this DoC post: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/ymmv-capital-one-shopping-spend-250-get-250-back/
P2 and I did one Home Page Bonus each. The others went away at midnight Pacific on the day the offer tracked. I suppose it might have been possible to do multiple offers or multiples of the same offer, as they did not go away immediately — but we decided not to chance it.
So “one home page bonus offer per user”…..WTH does that mean? Per day? Per week? Per lifetime? I get different offers every day, and am afraid to click any of them because I did one two weeks ago.
Your guess is as good as mine.
Here’s what I personally think is safe: if you use one type of offer, all the others go away, and then the offers of that type come back in a few days/weeks/months, it’s safe to do one again.
Realistically, you can probably get away with doing multiples in one round, but that could cause a clawback or shutdown later.
I got my account “terminated” by Capital One Shopping once because their compliance team misinterpreted my purchase history, and it took three months, and escalation to Capital One’s lawyers, to get it back — so I am risk averse.
Looks like things are changing. For the worse! I clicked a 4% Macy link from an email and it said this rate not valid for this user. And instead it gave me the standard 1.5% instead. I think the great rates may be over unfortunately.
Nick, Here is a cautionary data point. I had both the $250 offer for Hotels and Tickets. So having read this article, I was curious, I had never paid attention to it because most of the C1 shopping are “up to” offers. Well I should not have clicked it, the fine print said it was good for 30 minutes once “activated”. So I booked something that I thought I would use via their recommended vendor, Priceline. However, I wasn’t going to do non-refundable so when I clicked through to pay it was $0 today. So my assumption is they will not tie some eventual payment to this, but I will watch for it. Now the offer has disappeared and nothing has shown up at C1.
Update: the $250 showed up as conditional credit in an email from C1S, so it worked!
I didn’t see it at all in my app on my phone, but when I logged in on a desktop and clicked on the Capital One shopping homepage, I had the $250 off a $250 hotel offer. It’s kind of odd, they basically just takes you to a search page for lodging, and then you click on ‘get offers’ based on your search and it gives you a bunch of random hotels through a bunch of random OTAs- some of which have crappy offers like $25 off $250 at VRBO, but I did have $250 off $250 at Priceline and $200 off $250 at some other OTA. but the key for me was logging in from something other than my phone app.
I almost never use the phone app. Can’t even remember the last time I looked at it before your comment. I go to the website daily on desktop.
(For what it’s worth, that’s because the offers I see on desktop exceed (sometimes by a large margin) those in the app about 9,999 times out of 10,000. I have a couple of times seen better offers in the app, but it had gotten so rare that I all but stopped using the app.
Seems like those of us with aged accounts that have earned quite a bit over the years are out of luck for now. Nothing for me.
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I never saw them on my home page, but did get $250 off $250 hotels and $250 off $250 off concert tickets via email offers. Used both and got emails for both offers confirming I had used them within 2-3 days. Just waiting for them to credit (versus being pending). For both, there were several website options to book once I clicked through the offer. I used Priceline for the hotel offer and Stubhub for the concert tickets. Great deal since both were bookings I was going to make anyway.
Did Priceline charge your card at booking? or was it pay later? Thanks!
I had $250 off $250 spend on event tickets. Must be $250 before taxes/fees. Just bought a $320 suite basketball ticket with food and drink that was $257 before taxes. Screen recorded the full thing as well.
I had a few of these including the $30 back from $50 at Walmart which came in handy. They were mostly things I’ve been browsing recently ($50 from $100 @ Hoka was a good one) so stands to reason if you’ve looked at hotels maybe you got lucky with the $250/$250 back offer.
No luck on that one but I’m seeing Get $300 back when you spend $1000 on British Airways. Not sure if it’s worth the hassle as I’ve never tried shopping through Capital One Shopping before
I see some of these (e.g. Walmart) but whado I do to use them? I click through and the Walmart site is there but no indication of the offer. Does it magically appear when checking out?
This is a generic problem with Capital oNe offers.
Thanks.
This is coming from someone who is a big App Hater, but for these big C1 shopping deals, it’s almost-but-not-quite a necessity to have the app. You click through straight from email, can take screenshots showing higher payout throughout checkout and the little i with a circle logo will show exclusions / different rates at each store.
Thanks. Additionally, those exclusions have made all of the ‘deals’ today useless.
See the complete guide to which I linked. I install the extension in a browser instance that I only use for shopping (not my day to day browser). Then I click through from an offer like this and the extension pops up confirmation of the rate/payout and any exclusions. It doesn’t show anywhere on the Walmart site — it tracks based on clicking through from the link just like any shopping portal, but having the extension installed makes it easy to confirm the payout. If you’re using a browser like Chrome, it is easy to set up multiple profiles and just install the extension in one profile that you only use for Capital One Shopping and nothing else (that’s what I do).
Thanks. I am taking your suggestion.
Off topic. What is the name of that $95 AMEX Marriott card that has been discontinued but is still available to product changers. You referred to it in a podcast and I can’t, for the life of me, find the reference. Thanks
It’s just called the Bonvoy Amex Card. It is what used to be the Starwood Preferred Guest card. I just asked if there was still a card with a $95 annual fee available for downgrade.
Thanks!