Although the Capital One Shopping portal is far less appealing nowadays due to a dearth of gift card redemption options, it does continue to offer some fantastic earning rates across a broad range of retailers and services.
If you’re booking a paid hotel stay any time soon, you might be able to get yourself targeted for rates of up to 30%, while for some retailers you can earn up to 100% back.
The Deal
- Get increased targeted offers through Capital One Shopping.
Key Terms
- Various limits & expiry dates.
Quick Thoughts
It feels like there’s been an uptick in the number of targeted offers Capital One Shopping has sent me over the past couple of weeks, but perhaps that’s based more on my browsing habits than Capital One Shopping doing anything different.
Some of the offers I’ve received recently include:
- Hilton – up to 30% (depending on the brand)
- IHG – 20%
- Choice – 18%
- Accor – 7%
- MGM Resorts – 22%
- Qatar Airways – 10%
- Best Western – 28%
- Viator – 27%
- Agoda – 28%
- Marriott Homes & Villas – 15%
- StubHub – 18%
- Avis – 10%
Some of these increased offers have been the headline amounts in the email that Capital One Shopping has sent after browsing that particular site with its browser extension installed. If you ever get any emails like that, be sure to scroll down the email because there are usually ~10 other retailers for whom Capital One Shopping will also offer increased rates.
In some cases, you might be able to do even better than that courtesy of 100% offers for select retailers. Some people have recently reported getting an offer for $50 back on $50 spend at Lululemon. As if that wasn’t already good enough, personal Amex Platinum cards now come with an up to $75 quarterly Lululemon credit which will stack perfectly.
Vinh from Miles Per Day also reported last week getting some absurd offers on some of his accounts. That includes:
- StubHub – $250 back on $250 spend
- Marriott – $150 back on $200 spend
- Walmart – $50 back on $50 spend
- eBay – $50 back on $50 spend
- Nike – $50 back on $50 spend
- Dyson – $200 back on $200 spend
While I wouldn’t value the 100% back as 100% cashback due to the requirement that you redeem it for gift cards that could be purchased at a good discount elsewhere, those are incredibly generous offers nonetheless for anyone who’s targeted.
Be sure to keep an eye on the terms of these offers, particularly those that are emailed to you. They’re usually single use nowadays, plus there’s usually an expiry date listed.
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C1 Shopping has not been working for me nearly as well as it used to. I get the great email offers after I search for a product and then don’t buy it, but when I click the email link it doesn’t register the elevated offer most of the time now. E.g. today I got a 20% lululemon. Just went to purchase. Clicked on the email link and then on the LLL site I look at my C1 extension and it’s giving me only 1% offer to activate. I’ve done this same process in the past and when it works that extension in the browser will show me the elevated offer that I clicked on from the email. Now it seems to not register the elevated offer I’m supposed to get about 90% of the time. Worked great for me in the past but for a while now it has become a scam.
They are now reducing the previous earn cash back and show my balance as negative a couples of hundreds. They just show previous earnings is not eligible. I sent email to their support and they just copied pasted the t&c without event looking at the issue. Stay away