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NOTE: Please do not miss reading my previous post, “One card to rule them all.”
Wow, thanks to HikerT for updating his website (lakebagger.com/ur/) that shows the Ultimate Rewards Mall payouts for different Chase cards, I’ve got some exciting news…
Ink Bold
If you log in with your Ink Bold account, you’ll find the following:
- Staples.com now at 5X! Oh yeah, I’ll be writing a lot more about that soon! Sorry Sapphire and Freedom, you’re still at 2X.
- Sony at 10X! Time to run some Frequent Miler Laboratory experiments!
- Overstock.com at 10X
- Lenovo: 5X
- LuggagePoint.com: 5X (I’ve never heard of it either)
Freedom
If you log in with your Freedom card, you’ll find the following:
- Sephora at 20X! Holy cow, that’s a big number. Someone with a Freedom card, please do a double dip experiment right away!!!
- QVC at 10X!
Sapphire Preferred
If you log in with your Sapphire or Sapphire Preferred, you’ll find the following:
- J. Crew at 10X! I seem to remember a tip from a family oriented blogger saying that double dipping works here!
- Ann Taylor at 5X
Happy online shopping everyone! Enjoy the new bonus points while they last!
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Yes, even on May 1 it was posted as only available through May 8. I didn’t notice that you hadn’t included that. Sorry.
Update: I got an email late last night saying the my UR points for the Sephora purchases has posted. Sure enough, I got 200 pts for a $10 eGift card purchase and then another 200 pts for redemption of that gift card. Unfortunately, the email came so late that I was unable to capitalize on the deal bonus before it was reduced to 5x points this morning. It would have been simply amazing to get 10,000 pts for a $250 eGift card purchase and redemption. Well played, Chase. Well played.
Matthew: Oh no! They dropped the bonus rate already? I wonder what else has changed… Thanks for the input anyway.
Ian: that’s great! Were any of your purchases made with a Sephora gift card or to purchase a Sephora gift card?
@cdeb & others
my points from sephora purchases on 5/1 and 5/2 have started to show up in my Ultimate rewards account
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The UR points still haven’t posted for my May 1st purchase at Sephora. I’m about to make another purchase today (last day of the 20x promotion) since my wife uses Clinique makeup. Hopefully I can call like CollegeStudent did and get the points to post.
I just received 5,000 UR points for my $250 gift card purchase from Sephora. I don’t think the 20x points works with a gift card because I didn’t get them through the UR portal but I had to send a message to chase.
I told them that I made a $250 purchase on sephora. The purchase was on my activity so they could see it was legit and they manually added the points to my account.
Thanks FM for the tip!
Do you know if Overstock.com qualifies as office supplies for the Ink Bold? Thinking of buying an office chair through it.
Ajit: I don’t know
How long does it typically take for UR points to post after a purchase? I made a Sephora purchase on May 1st, but the points aren’t showing as pending yet and I’m wondering if I should worry.
I just used my freedom to purchase $105 worth of stuff…:)
I haven’t used UR Mall for Sephora purchases with the use of a gift card. However, I did try that using Bigcrumbs. On the Bigcrumbs portal, portion paid by Sephora gift cards does not contribute to cashback. Sales tax isn’t counted towards it either. I don’t know if the case in Chase is similar.
Sam: Thanks, good info!
jackiem: At a grocery store I presume?
cdeb: It usually takes about 4 or 5 days for the points to show up under “Ultimate Rewards Mall & Travel Earnings”.
@DGuy: If you have a Discover Card, their shopping portal offers 15% cashback. I used to go thru UR til they recently dropped to 2 pts/$, now I’ve switched to Discover.
groupon is down to 2 points per dollar. I think the days of 12 UR/$ are over.
Is there such a thing as triple dipping?