{"id":12453,"date":"2025-09-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=12453"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:21:25","slug":"weekend-deluge-credit-card-updates-transfer-bonuses-gift-card-promos-and-marriott-bonvoys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/12\/weekend-deluge-credit-card-updates-transfer-bonuses-gift-card-promos-and-marriott-bonvoys\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Deluge: Credit Card Updates, Transfer Bonuses, Gift Card Promos, and Marriott Bonvoys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Apparently it’s promo dump weekend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Celtic Bank’s Mesa Visa card<\/a> has a storied past with sign-up bonuses, and they’re continuing that legacy with another harebrained<\/s> scheme:

    – 5,000 bonus points for one Mesa referral
    – 5,000 additional bonus points for another referral
    – 50,000 bonus points after two referrals and spending $10,000 in 90 days

    The card recently became a churning classic because: (1) you earn points for your, err *cough*<\/em> mortgage, even if you don’t use the card to pay it, and (2) they have interesting transfer partners like SAS EuroBonus and Air Canada Aeroplan.
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  2. The Chase Ink Cash<\/a> and Ink Unlimited<\/a> Visa cards have heightened sign-up bonuses of 90,000 Ultimate Rewards after $6,000 spend in three months. Both cards are no-annual fee cards.

    These are available via referrals and you’ve still got a few weeks left before October 7, when Chase’s referral rules mean there’s no referral bonus if the card applicant already holds a Chase business card.
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  3. Chase Ultimate Rewards has a 20% transfer bonus to AirFrance \/ KLM FlyingBlue<\/a> through September 30.
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  4. Citi ThankYou Points has a 25% transfer bonus to Wyndham Rewards<\/a> through September 20.
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  5. Stop & Shop<\/a>, Giant Foods<\/a>, and Martins<\/a> stores have 2x points earning on Mastercard gift cards through Thursday.

    These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network gift cards.
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  6. Kroger stores have 4x fuel points earning on third party gift cards<\/a> excluding Amazon and fuel cards, and on fixed value Visa and Mastercard gift cards<\/a>.

    Since for some reason we don’t talk about Kroger 4x without talking about Pepper: They’re still quasi-dead, which is to say they’ve been a few days away from relaunch for months.
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  7. Kroger online has 5% off of Visa and Mastercard<\/a> e-gift cards with promo code BDAY2025<\/em> through September 21. Mastercards had been absent from Kroger since they switched issuers from US Bank, but they’re now back.

    These are generally interesting because they earn Kroger fuel points, not because it codes as grocery (it doesn’t). These are Pathward \/ Incomm gift cards.
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  8. Marriott Bonvoy, the loyalty program that takes inspiration from Delta SkyMiles, has removed Asiana Club as a transfer partner<\/a>.
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  9. Several banks have emailed targeted spend bonuses:

    – Discover: $10 off $100+ spend with a virtual card number
    – Bank of America: $75 or 7,500 points with $2,500 spend
    – Chase Freedom: Extra earn with spend thresholds

    (Thanks to Dave and T)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Have a nice weekend friends!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Marriott had to drop support for Asiana transfers to implement this correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Apparently it’s promo dump weekend: Have a nice weekend friends! Marriott had to drop support for Asiana transfers to implement this correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,53,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-hotels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12465,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453\/revisions\/12465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}