Update 8/8/25:Â It looks like there are a bunch of gift card redemptions back online, the most notable being eBay. If you have a stash of Capital One Shopping Rewards to redeem, it would be worth taking a look at what’s on offer ASAP.
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Update 5/28/25: Capital One Shopping has again removed a ton of useful gift card redemption options…over 30 in total. I (Tim) am now seeing only 42 possible redemptions in my account, and many useful ones are gone, including Lowe’s, Home Depot, eBay, Instacart, CVS, Ace Hardware, and Hotels.com. Unlike last month, this appears to be affecting most, if not all, Capital One Shopping customers. If anyone still has access, we’d love to hear from you.
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Capital One Shopping is a public shopping portal (no Capital One credit card required) that offers rewards dollars that can only be redeemed for gift cards to select merchants. Over time, they have offered some broadly useful merchants like Walmart, Kroger, Safeway/Albertsons/Vons/etc, DoorDash, GrubHub, and Uber Eats, among others. Sadly, none of the merchants in that sentence are available anymore (each having been removed at different times, some returning for a time and disappearing again). While I have long been willing to mostly look past the limitation of only being able to redeem rewards for gift cards, it’s been really frustrating to see high turnover in the redemption options over time.
Quick Thoughts
A reader reached out today to say that they thought that eBay gift cards had been removed as a redemption option. Thankfully, that doesn’t appear to be correct (I still see eBay among the gift card redemption options), but it was nonetheless a good reminder to publish a post about which options have been removed and which remain.
For many, redemption options like Kroger, Safeway, and Walmart made the utility of the rewards earned through Capital One Shopping almost as good as cash. Portal rewards are never quite the same as cash, given the delay in payouts, and if you’re using gift cards at Kroger or Safeway, you’re missing out on earning a bonus category for that spend. Still, given the monster payouts frequently offered by Capital One Shopping, it has been easy enough to overlook the limitation of gift cards.
However, given the loss of popular redemption options noted in the first paragraph, some readers might think twice about whether they want to collect portal rewards through Capital One Shopping, given the uncertainty of redemption options.
Personally, I’m still happy to use Capital One Shopping. Just yesterday, I got offers like 35.5% back at Get Your Guide, up to 36% back at Expedia (usually good for tours and activities), 40% back at Klook, 15% back at Vrbo, 25% back at Agoda, 15.5% back at IHG, and many more. The payouts tend to be enough higher than what I see elsewhere that I’m confident I will get enough value out of the rewards even with a more limited set of redemption partners. However, that won’t necessarily work out for everyone.
Out of the redemption options available at the time of writing, I would say that the most broadly useful and/or relevant to travel are:
- ebay
Lowe’sHome DepotInstacart- Hotels.com
Celebrity Cruises
Personally, I’m still happy to redeem for Hotels.com, and I’ll surely have occasional uses with other merchants. For instance, I buy stuff from L.L. Bean from time to time and don’t otherwise see their gift cards discounted. I’ll buy a holiday gift from Bass Pro Shops now and then, etc. Still, you’ll want to more closely track the redemption options if you don’t find the gift card options as useful.
Here is a full list of available gift card redemptions at the time of writing.
- REI
- Expedia Global Hotel Card
- Shutterfly
- Home Chef
- 1800Flowers
- Etsy
- StubHub
- The Container Store
Lowe’sHome Depot- Omaha Steaks
The Children’s Place- Carter’s / Oshkosh B’Gosh
- Groupon
- Office Depot / Office Max
- Allbirds
- Columbia
- Lands’ End
Ulta Beauty- Macy’s
- Victoria’s Secret
Cabela’s- Boscov’s
- Ace Hardware
- Soma
Instacart- PetSmart
- NFL Shop
- MLB Shop
Nordstrom Rack- Under Armour
- Chico’s
- Hanna Anderson
ZapposHulu- Athleta
- Advance Auto
- White House Black Market
- Chewy
StaplesCVSBass Pro ShopsMichaelsDSW- GAP
- Adidas
Sephora- ebay
- American Eagle
L.L. Bean- Callaway
Banana Republic- Hotels.com
- Barnes & Noble
Kohl’sOld NavySaks Fifth Avenue- H&M
- SiriusXM
TJ Maxx / Marshalls / Home Goods / Sierra / Home SenseStitch FixCelebrity Cruises- Sling
- Petco
- Belk
- Lane Bryant
- Eddie Bauer
- Aeropostale
- Camping World
- Chubbies
- Finish Line
- Lulus
- Nautica
- Sunglass Hut
- Tommy Bahama
- Tractor Supply
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Nothing but lame gift cards left.
Pretty miffed about it since I intended to use my rewards for specific purchases.
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Oh boo. Etsy is gone. I’m real bumped out.
It looks like every time I go to a website through capital one and I’m going to buy from that website they remove the gift card
How do you check your gift card balance if you’ve had a return what do they do with the return payment?
ebay is gone again? not seeing the option
is it better to redeem for Hotels.com or Expedia?
expedia isnt really expedia.. its some globalhotels platform which usually has higher rates than hotels.com or expedia.. so go with hotels.com
This one hurt – I had Camping World available up until a week ago. I had a major purchase planned at Camping World for last Friday (got some service done) and was relishing the opportunity to use a big chunk of my C1S rewards. Was just waiting to get a confirmed total before getting the gift card. But of course, the morning I get the confirmed amount, Camping World gets removed from my redemption options that very day! Ugh. That seriously stunk.
Camping World is back
I’m not sure why this is viewed as a one and done opportunity. It seems rather clear that they are changing up cards frequently to rotate all sorts of options through. Fully expect Walmart, Kroger, and/or Albertsons to return at some point in the next 6 months.
Thanks, just cashed out to ebay and I can finally leave this schizophrenic mess behind
Can we use eBay gift care for other retailers cards?
How to liquidate eBay GC
I don’t think so, you just use them to buy stuff on eBay. Since eBay sells almost everything under the sun, a lot of people find it to be an easy place to find something they need. Maybe not quite as broadly useful as Amazon, but more broadly useful than most 3rd party cards.
At least there’s still American Eagle
people still shop at AE??? really?
They’ve got good
genesjeansLowes apparently came back at some point. Because I used it a few weeks ago, but now it’s gone again, and the current options for me are not super helpful. Annoying!
Old Navy is back, but Chewy is gone. This program is pretty much useless for me now.
Hotels.com is gone for me yet again. It came back at the starting of this month, I redeemed maybe a couple of hundred for it and now it’s gone again.
it was gone for me too and I was going to book a trip with it 2 weeks ago, as of 08/06 its back on the gift card options