Last Chance Deals: FTU discount, tens of thousands of points, lots more ending today

Welcome to our weekly list of what’s ending this week as well as a collection of some of the best ongoing deals around.

The final countdown is on: there are hours left to take advantage of a number of great deals that expire this evening. If you’re interested in networking with like-minded people who have a passion for maximizing their mileage, today is the last day to save twenty bucks on your FTU ticket and get a free new book on top of it — see the post below for more on that. Today is also the final day to apply for a Serve ONE VIP card. If you aren’t banned from Serve, it can be a great (free) liquidation method for some of your PIN-based gift cards. And there are tons of opportunities to earn extra points ending today — from 10K for a hotel booking to a bunch of easy Club Carlson points or 20K Membership Rewards with a KLM booking, you could scoop up some nice payouts if you can act fast.

While we’ve reported that Chase Offers mostly haven’t been triggered by gift card purchases, I can report that I bought a coffee and a $50 Starbucks gift card and successfully received the 10% back on the entire purchase. YMMV, but if you often spend money at Starbucks, it might be worth a shot.

And don’t forget to check out the Won’t Last Long section below, where we have a terrific deal on business class award tickets that is said to be available through January 31st, but it worth a look right now.

Without further ado, here are this week’s Last Chance Deals. Those are followed by deals that Won’t Last Long and our Other Limited-time Offers. Deals in bold were posted this week.

Expires today

• Last-minute gift for someone who should be earning more miles: a ticket to FTU: Today is the last day to save $20 and get a free book with the promo code in this post.
• Targeted offers for 30K-35K Starpoints
• Flying Blue Promo awards, save on business class to Europe
• Get 10,000 points back on a $500 prepaid hotel booking
• Another great offer: Alaska Airlines – spend $250, get $50/5K back [Targeted]
• If you’re going to Vancouver, grab a gift card
• Status match to top-tier with National Rental Cars
• Hilton Double Up: 2X points Sept 1-December 31st, Diamonds earn more
• Hyatt Globalist fast track for all credit card holders:
• Low-hanging fruit: 3K points for a dollar (or less):
• New Hertz offer stacks for 15% back total + United miles:
• $40 back at Doubletree with new Amex Offer 
• 1K bonus Amtrak points with SPG
• 2500 points for four small purchases [Targeted?]
• New Chase Offers: 1800Flowers brands, Etsy, Wayfair, more (Offers expire 12/31/17, 1/4/18, or 2/13/18)
• Chase Pay eBags promo: 2K Ultimate Rewards on $20+
• Serve One VIP to be discontinued
• New Chase Offer: 10% back at Starbucks up to $100
• Save on Universal Studios, Gas, Lowe’s, more w/ new offers (Offers for Exxon-Mobil, Lowe’s, Mont Blanc, and Reebok Expire 12/31/17)
• New offer for 5x at Sam’s Club (up to 1500 additional points) [Targeted]: If you had this offer but didn’t have a Sam’s Club membership, check out the deal on membership found under “Shopping” below ending on 1/31/18.
• Office Depot: Spend $50, get 1K Membership Rewards or $10 back [Targeted]
• $30 off of $60 at Amazon with 1 Membership Rewards point [Targeted]
• 50% transfer bonus: Hotels to Asia Miles
• Cool promo: Earn 50K bonus AA miles w/ partner activity
• Awesome new offers to save $$ at many stores (Best Buy and many others expire 12/31/17)
• 20K Membership Rewards, $5 back on $5 & other new offers (KLM and Gilt offers expire 12/31)
• 5.5x on groceries, 4x on gas & more extra point offers [Targeted]
• Extra 1x at Walmart.com and other retailers
• Double points with Club Carlson Visa
• Earn a couple bucks on Plastiq payments with Drop
• Pay mortgage by Mastercard w/ 1.5% fee after rebate: Set up three payments that pay before 12/31/17.
• More Amex 2X merchants 

Expires Friday, January 5, 2017

• Stack for $40 off $100 at Google Express [Targeted, but widely available] (Expires 1/5/18)

• Use your free travel credits before it’s too late
• 25.5K business class to Europe from Boston or Chicago: If you’re unable to see the pricing online due to not having enough miles in your account, you might try calling Iberia to price it out over the phone.
• East coast to Vegas from $78.80 in Basic Economy: Most of these prices/cities were still alive as of the time of writing last night.

Sign-up Bonuses / Credit Cards

• Update: both 45K & 18K Wyndham offers return
• Uber Visa app is now live: There is no set expiration date for this offer, but it is a new card that may be of interest to some readers.
• Big Virgin Atlantic “90K” offer returns
• New Savor card earns 3% back on dining
• New 50K signup offer worth $500 in travel
• 60K offers return on Citi AA cards
• 50K offer now live: BOA Premium Rewards Credit Card: This is a great new offer that boils down to $500 back on $3K spend.
• Marriott 120K offer now public: There are two offers out on the Marriott credit card. See this post for info about the new 120K offer and a link for a comparison of all of the Marriott/SPG offers.
• 40K AA miles w/ 1 purchase: New Aviator Business card link
• 60K JetBlue miles with newly increased offer: This is the best offer we’ve ever seen on this card.
• Great new 10K MQM + 40K miles business card offer: The offer previously increased on the personal version — now that offer has been bumped up on the business card, too. This is a great time to go for this card if it’s on your radar.
• 20,000 Marriott points per referral up to 100K per year
• Nice: 60K American AAdvantage miles after a single purchase + fee
• Highest-ever bonus: 40K miles & 10K MQMs: This is the best bonus there has ever been on the Reserve card. If you’re eligible and had it on your radar, this is definitely the bonus to take on this card.
• Up to 50,000 JetBlue TrueBlue points for student loan refinance: There is no set expiration date on this offer.
• Up to 75K United miles with targeted MileagePlus Explorer offer
• Better than Best Offers available for some cards
• Didn’t see this coming: New 125K Hilton offer (Expires 1/17/18)
• Great new targeted offer out for 75K Delta miles (Expires 1/24/18)

Travel

• Now up to $50 GC when dining out (w/ minimum purchase): I’m not sure if this is a temporary or permanent increase, but you can get some pretty nice rewards when dining out through the Seated app right now.
• Now up to 100K at 1mi/$1 investing with Lending Club (Expires 1/9/17)
• 6K points for skiing in Aspen [Targeted]  (Expires 1/12/18)
• Earn 5K Alaska miles per referral [Targeted?] (Expires 1/15/18)
• Up to 15,000 Wyndham points with Visa Checkout (Book by 1/31/18, stay by 2/28/18)
• Get $60 back on $300 at Hilton & Curio [Targeted] (Expires 1/31/18)
• IHG Point Breaks list is live for bookings through 1/31/18 (Expires 1/31/18)
• IHG Point Breaks list Oct 30-Jan 31st: The list goes live on 10/30 and is available through 1/31/18.
• Big Hertz / United 5K+ per rental offer returns [Targeted]: Earn bonus miles for rentals through 1/31/18)
• SPG, Marriott, Hilton 2018 Q1 promotions open for registration (Promotions end 4/15/18 or 4/30/18. Register by 3/31/18)
• A 91K IHG Accelerate offer: What did you get? (Ends 4/30/18, don’t forget to register)
• One Two Free is back: 1 free day after 2 rentals: Earn through 2/28/16, use certificates by 6/15/18)

Shopping/Spending Deals

• $15 back with each dine in major cities through this app
• 1-800 Flowers Amex Offer & Mileage Stacking
• Earn 3X JetBlue Points Per Dollar Shopping on Amazon
• Get Great Moving Offers Including 15% Off Amazon & More
• Earn 1.5k-5k AA miles for joining Sam’s Club
• Add fast: 2K back on $100 at Staples, 2K back on $75 in groceries, and more [Some targeted] (Expires 1/15/18)
• 11.5K Membership Rewards for furniture, new Boxed offer, delayed Delta offer, and more (Furniture offer expires 1/21/18, some sooner)
• $15 back on $30 at Sam’s Club online [Targeted] (Expires 1/31/18)
• Stack $25 off Sam’s Club membership w/ AA miles or gift card for joining (Expires 1/31/18)
• 10,000 points with 10 purchases [Targeted] (Expires 1/31/18)
• Spend $300 on wine, get 9000 points; Spend $200, get 6000 w/ new offers [Targeted?] (Expires 2/20/18)
• Get 4,000 Membership Rewards with $300 Marriott spend [Targeted] (Expires 2/28/18)
• Awesome: 5K points for Amazon Prime Membership [Targeted] (Expires 3/2/18)
• 30K Membership Rewards w/ new Yelp offer (Expires 4/9/18)
• [Targeted] 30% off some Amazon categories (up to $15) (Codes expire 6/30/18)

Bank Account Bonuses

• List of great bank account signup bonuses available this month.
• Charles Schwab Checking $100 Bonus (Comes with Free International ATMs)

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