Monday: Discount Gift Cards, Big Bonuses for Spend, New Transfer Bonuses, and a new Bonvoy Card

1. Office Depot / OfficeMax stores have $15 off of $300+ in Visa gift cards through Saturday. It’s almost like it’s predictable that the Visas will go on sale the week after Mastercards do. For best results:
   
   – Buy in even multiples of $200
   – Don’t forget about your American Express Business Gold monthly credit
   – Look for ‘Anywhere cards’ which may be cheaper as long as you can liquidate them
   
   These are Pathward gift cards.
   
2. The Citi Shop Your Way Rewards card, the President of all Mastercards, sent out mid-month February offers. We’ve seen:
   
   – $75 statement credit after in $750 in online spend
   – $100 statement credit after $1,000 in online spend
   – 15,000 ThankYou Points after $1,000 in online spend
   – 250,000 Shop Your Way points after $750 in online spend
   
   It stacks with the other ongoing offers too, obviously. Now we just need Lowe’s or Home Depot to sell Visas or Mastercards online to make the stack even easier. (Thanks to Cashback Cowgirl, Matt, Santosh, and Brandon)
   
3. Citi ThankYou Points has a 20% transfer bonus to Qatar Privilege Club Avios until March 15. Of course you can transfer these Avios to British Airways, FinnAir, Ibera, Aer Lingus, and Vueling after they’re in your Privilege Club account.
   
4. Chase Ultimate Rewards has a 50% transfer bonus to Marriott Bonvoy through the end of March. The main utility here is that Marriott can transfer to JAL Mileage Bank, and you get bonus miles at 60,000 Bonvoy points intervals. The math means:
   
   – 40,000 Ultimate Rewards → 60,000 Bonvoy Points
   – 60,000 Bonvoy Points → 25,000 JAL Mileage Bank miles
   
   In other words, you’re getting a 1:0.625 ratio from Ultimate Rewards to Milage Bank which isn’t great, but isn’t awful for the utility of JAL’s own upgrades and expanded award availability.
   
5. The Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant American Express has a targeted heightened offer of 150,000 Bonvoy points and $250 statement credit after $6,000 spend in six months. See previous discussion on JAL MileageBank for an alternate use for the card.
   
   There is commentary on various forums on the internet that this is a modified link, but I believe the commentary is incorrect and there’s no abnormal risk in this link, rather it’s using a different campaign code than the previous version of the offer.

Happy President’s Day!

The Presidential Citi Shop Your Way Rewards salary beats the average US Government Job *circa 1940.