Tuesday Quad

1. The Citi Shop Your Way Mastercard has new mid-month targeted spending offers for online spend:
   
   – 200,000 Shop Your Way Rewards after $1,000
   – 250,000 Shop Your Way Rewards after $1,000
   – $30 statement credit after $500
   – $50 statement credit after $750
   – $70 statement credit after $1,000
   
   These offers stack with other ongoing offers leading to $350+ in statement credits monthly for many. Sure the sign-up bonus sucks, but that’s not what this card is about. If only giftcards.com, this offer, and the next news item could form some kind of holy trifecta. (Thanks to Justin O, Dave 37, and birt)
   
2. Two airline portals have back-to-school shopping portal bonuses for cumulative spend through August 12, which is an extremely long time for a shopping portal.
   
   – Southwest Rapid Rewards : 2,000 miles after $500 spend
   – United MileagePlus Shopping: 2,500 miles after $600 spend
   
   Likely Alaska and American will have similar bonuses later this week, and Delta won’t because they don’t believe in holy trifectas (according to sources that I just made up).
   
3. American Express Offers has several new airline offers:
   
   – 30,000 Membership Rewards with $2,000+ spend at ITA Airways through September 30
   – $300 statement credit with $2,000+ spend at Virgin Atlantic through September 16
   
   Normally these are semi-gameable, but ITA is particularly hard to deal with so caveat emptor. (Thanks to Connor and DoC)
   
4. The Chase IHG Premier One Business card has a heightened sign-up bonus of 200,000 points after $9,000 spend in six months, and the $99 annual fee is not waived for the first year. The card also gives $50 in United Travel Bank credit annually, so I’d consider that part of the sign-up bonus too.
   
   We talked about an IHG devaluation last week and now that the dust has settled, the point value should probably be taken as somewhere between 0.45 cpp and 0.85 cpp, or even more if you have the IHG Select card for it’s 10% rebate and you book flexible rates.

Have a nice Tuesday!

The other holy trifecta.