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There’s a new Best Buy Chase Offer that’s giving 10% back on up to $250 spend. It’s a targeted offer, but if you’re lucky enough to have it on more than one card, you can take advantage of the deal more than once.
The Deal
- Get 10% back on all your Best Buy purchases with a targeted Chase Offer. ($25 max cashback)
Key Terms
- Expires September 28th, 2023.
Quick Thoughts
These Best Buy Chase Offers come around every so often and have different spending limits. This latest offer is good on up to $250 spend which is a fairly good limit, although some past offers have been good on up to $440 of spend.
The nice thing about Chase Offers compared to Amex Offers is that if you’re targeted for the offer on more than one card, you can redeem it on each of those cards.
Even if you don’t need to purchase any kind of merchandise from Best Buy at the moment, this spending offer could still be worth making use of. That’s because Best Buy sells a range of gift cards online and in-store that’ll work to trigger the statement credit from this offer. These are the types of gift cards you can buy:
- In-store
- Best Buy gift cards
- Third party gift cards (e.g. Amazon)
- Online
- Third party gift cards
The only kind of gift cards that aren’t eligible for this offer are Best Buy eGift cards; those don’t work because payment is processed by CashStar rather than Best Buy.
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What’s this have to do with travel and why is this post on Boarding Area? It’s about as relevant as you posting about sports or politics.
Best Buy sells a wide range of travel gift cards – Delta, Southwest, Lyft, Uber, Shell, Amtrak, Airbnb, etc. – so these Chase Offers and similar Best Buy Amex Offers can be a good way to save on those.
In addition to what Stephen wrote, many of us consider cash-back to be part of the “mix” in our travel budget. So, if I can save $25 on normal expenses (by buying an Amazon gift card, gas card, etc), that’s $25 I can put into my travel savings account to spend on things I can’t generally buy directly with points and miles! (Meals, tours, etc.)
Actually, I don’t think that anyone at FM would consider us, first and foremost, a “travel site.” Our tagline is “Earn Miles Without Flying.” Our primary mission is to help folks maximize credit card rewards and then to be able to use those rewards effectively towards low-cost travel (and, because of that, we do post a lot of content about travel). In this case, Chase and Amex offers can be valuable tools for maximizing return on credit cards, both ongoing and when trying to meet minimum spend for sign-up bonuses.
As Stephen notes, you can buy 3rd party gift cards at Best Buy, which can then be used for actual travel or to resell to buying groups for manufactured spend. You can also use these offers to buy physical merchandise which then be resold to buying groups (or directly on Ebay). Regardless, saving $25 on a purchase that you’d make anyway helps to offset annual fees on a credit card or make a profitable card even more profitable.
Any idea if purchases at BestBuy Canada stores would trigger this? I have 20% back offer on Marriott card (good for $25 back), so am curious. The terms don’t say it’s valid only at US stores.
It’s hard to know with Chase Offers. With Amex Offers, there’s usually an exclusion stating that charges have to be in USD, but perhaps CAD charges will work with Chase Offers.
I took one for the team and bought C$150 (~US$113) worth of grocery store gift card from my local BB store. the transaction recorded as Best Buy #<insert store number> without any reference to it being a US or a Canadian store. Of course the payment will be processed in CAD, so Chase’s system will know the transaction was at a non-US store. Will report back on whether this triggers the credit or not, sometime next week.
FWIW, I have been targeted for the grocery/restaurant offers on various chase cards for the past couple of months and all international spends have triggered those offer credits, so I am 99% sure this BB credit will post too. But, like they say – YMMV!
I checked this morning and while the statement credit hasn’t posted yet, the offer has moved to my “redeemed” offers section with a redemption value of US$22.50 (exactly what is should have). So, I can confirm that this works on international BB stores and should work no matter what you buy, including physical BB gift cards.
Nice! Just noticed this. Thanks for the follow-up!