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With it being Black Friday, shopping portals are trying to capture your business and Capital One Shopping has some eye-catching offers today. It seems to be getting marketed as a ‘Cyber 10 Event’, but they’re turned it up to 11 with some of the generous rates they’re offering.
The Deal
- Earn boosted cashback rates at Capital One Shopping.
- Direct link to offer.
Key Terms
- Expiry date unknown.
Quick Thoughts
Capital One Shopping is a quirky shopping portal because depending on where you look, you might see all kinds of different cashback rates available for any given retailer.
For example, if using the search bar in the app, Giftcards.com doesn’t show up. If using the search bar on desktop, it displays a cashback rate of 2%. However, on the desktop home page and at the above Cyber 10 Event link, it’s showing a 10% cashback rate which is very good.
That Cyber 10 Event landing page lists, I think, non-targeted cashback rates as I’m seeing the same rates when logged in as I’m seeing when looking at that page in incognito mode and not logged in. There are some incredibly generous rates, such as up to 22% cashback on Dell purchases – perfect if you still need to use your Amex Business Platinum credits.
Other notable rates include 18% at IHG, 18% at HP (which can be stacked with the HP Chase Offer giving $50 back when spending $299), 20% back at Viator, up to 33.5% at TripAdvisor, $375 for T-Mobile Home Internet and much, much more.
One slight frustration with the landing page for this promotion is that many of the retailers are listed as being ‘up to’ the headline cashback amount. That’s because you’ll only earn that highest amount on certain categories and it’s not clear which categories those are. With some of those retailers it’s possible to ascertain what the rates are by going to the home page on desktop and looking through your targeted offers, then hovering over the question mark. For example, when doing that for HP it shows the 18% rate as being for ‘Everything Else’, with ink, toner and gift cards only paying out at 0.5%.
You might also be able to get an idea of what the boosted categories are by using the desktop search bar too. For example, TripAdvisor doesn’t show up in my targeted offers on the home page, but when going to the main TripAdvisor listing via the search bar, it lists ‘Completed activity, experience or tour’ as being at a higher rate than ‘Completed instant book hotel stay’.
Now, those are for the non-promo rates of 2.5% and 1% respectively, but I suspect the boosted 33.5% rate for TripAdvisor from the Cyber 10 Event will be earned on completed activities, experiences or tours.
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I purchased three $100 Visa credit cards on Giftcards.com, but the purchase came back as ‘ineligible’ (for 10% cashback) on the C1S portal. Does anyone know if Visa card purchases are supposed to be eligible for cashback?
Did you use the promo code for a discount on those or for the bonus Giftcards.com gift card? If so, those specific deals weren’t commissionable through their affiliate program. If you didn’t use a promo code though, it should’ve tracked ok.
Thanks Stephen, no promo code used…..will follow up with CS1S.
I got targeted for 20% cash back at Best Buy. Gift cards are excluded, although we have certainly all seen situations where gift cards track and pay out anyway. May be worth visiting the Best Buy website with the C1S extension turned on to try to get targeted.
C1S is crazy. I was targeted for a 35% back offer at Dell last week that I stacked with the Amex Bus. Plat credit. I also currently have a whopping 60.5% back offer at TripAdvisor. What?! (Gonna book some Broadway show tickets right now using that one.)
I consistently get the best targeted offers from C1S. No comparison.
Apparently this was one day only. Already dead.
Here’s an email I just received after visiting the giftcards.com site:
A Giftcards․com deal for you.
Earn 2% Rewards, Up to $250
10% off select gift cards and up to 2% Giftcards.com Rewards with code EPICDEALS
How should I interpret this when attempting to buy 3 x $200 Giftcard.com gift cards for $270 w/ the EPICGIFT code? Think it will trigger 10% or only the 2%? If the latter, I’m better off sticking w/ the Chase Freedom Shop w/ Chase for 4 points per $1.
If you click through from the Cyber 10 Event using the link in the above post, you should earn 10% cashback. If you click through from the email Capital One sent you, you’ll only earn 2%.
Thanks, Stephen! I did the desktop website as y’all recommend above, so just waiting for the email confirmation.
One other question if you have an idea:
I clicked that Giftcard.com tile a dozen or so times for different individual orders on Giftcards.com.
I noticed the Capital One Shopping add-in on Chrome kept trying to interfere, but I would ignore it.
I’m assuming that clicking the tile alone should trigger the cash back, and you don’t have to (also) click the Activate button on the Capital One Shopping add-in on Chrome.
Thanks in advance!
Yep, you shouldn’t need to click that popup provided you already clicked through from the portal.
FM team – I think you should make a distinction (or post) concerning the difference between cap one shopping and cap one offers. Cap one offers are similar to the chase shopping portal….you need a cap one credit card for this (sorry Greg the Frequent Miler for your misfortune of being placed in the permanent C1 naughty corner). If one logs into the cap one app, you can see offers for “miles per dollar.” This is a shift within the last few weeks when it was simply percentage cash back on the credit card. C1 shopping does not require a C1 credit card and can be utilized by anyone. Rates between the two are different but not always by much. Just the other day, IHG hotels were 20x when clicking through and booking directly on IHG website! I’ll take 20x transferrable points any day (in addition to to the IHG points).
Yep, Nick wrote a post about that here https://frequentmiler.com/c-is-for-confusion-capital-one-shopping-vs-offers-vs-travel-offers/
FYI, I’m now getting the option for miles back at Cap One, instead of cash. 12x on IHG today, very, very nice.
That’ll be Capital One Offers rather than the Capital One Shopping portal