Wednesday Showers: Transfer Bonuses, Kroger is Back, Lots of Credit Card News

1. Bank of America has a targeted promotion for +2x or +2% on top of regular earning between August 1 and September 30 via USPS and (probably) email. Like last year’s version, it appears that the rewards are uncapped. (EDIT: Some cards are reported to have a $5,000 spend capacity for the promotion, others don’t)
   
   If you’re targeted, it’s probably worth spending some time with charges on your cards to get the fraud alerts under control before August 1, and it’s also worth figuring out how to pay Bank of America in a post alternative payments world. (Thanks to Rocky)
   
2. Citi ThankYou Points has a 50% transfer bonus to Accor ALL through July 19. With the bonus, the fixed euro value of an Accor point, and the current US dollar exchange rate, this is a cash-out value of 1.74 cents per ThankYou Point.
   
3. Citi ThankYou Points also has a 20% transfer bonus to AirFrance / KLM FlyingBlue through July 19.
   
   Citi’s prior transfer bonus to FlyingBlue was 30%, which is *checks notes* 10% more than this one.
   
4. Southwest has a Companion Pass offer:
   
   – Book two one-ways or a round-trip by June 27, non-basic economy
   – Fly by August 31
   – Get a Companion Pass for September 11 – November 15
   
   Rebooking any travel booked before May 29 will cause you to lose free checked bags, better cancelation terms, your dignity, etc.
   
5. Kroger has a 4x fuel points promotion on third party gift cards excluding Amazon, and on fixed value Visas and Mastercards running through July 8.
   
   What about Pepper you say? Look, I know an update is overdue, but give it another week or two, everything keeps changing in a static kind of way.
   
6. Giftcards.com has two promotions for select gift cards, which include virtual Visas, Virtual Mastercards, One4All, and Home Depot gift cards:
   
   – $5 free giftcards.com gift card with $50 purchase using promo code BOGO50
   – $10 free giftcards.com gift card with $100 purchase using promo code BOGO100
   
   These codes come and go, so if there’s no inventory now check later and you may find it. Portals specifically exclude these codes from earning, but that doesn’t mean that it won’t work.
   
7. The Bank of America Air France / KLM FlyingBlue Mastercard has a heightened bonus of 70,000 bonus miles and 100 XP after $3,000 spend in 90 days.
   
   Annual bonus XP stacks with these cards, but sign-up bonus XP don’t, and yes, you can get multiple.
   
8. The Chase United Quest card has an increased sign-up bonus of 115,000 MileagePlus miles and 3,000 PQP after $4,000 spend in three months. You’ll need a promotional code from a United Agent for this offer. You can find one in the comments of a DoC post, make one up in the form UA3[XXX] where [XXX] is three random letters and numbers, or you can just use 999999.
   
9. Chase Sapphire news:
   
   – Reserve referral links are now available
   – Preferred has a heightened bonus of 75,000 points after $5,000 spend in three months
   – Pre-June 23 earned points have boosted travel redemptions, post-June 23 earned points don’t (referring to 1.5/1.25 cents per point on the Chase Travel Portal)
   – Points are redeemed in FIFO order (first in, first out)
   – Pay Yourself Back remains
   
   I’m going to do my best to not talk about the Sapphire for the rest of the week, there’s absolutely no need feed the marketing machine.

Happy Wednesday!

Yes it’s about birds, but it might as well be about Sapphire marketing.