{"id":12624,"date":"2025-10-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=12624"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:58:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:58:28","slug":"monday-citi-triple-staples-gcs-odom-gcs-southwest-1000-portal-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/monday-citi-triple-staples-gcs-odom-gcs-southwest-1000-portal-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday: Citi Triple, Staples GCs, ODOM GCs Southwest 1,000 Portal Bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Citi ThankYou has a 20% transfer bonus to Qantas Frequent Flyer<\/a> through November 8.

    Qantas’s highest and best use is typically for Emirates or Qantas F redemptions.
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  2. Citi launched a new “mid-tier” (lulz) AA credit card yesterday. Vitals of the “AAdvantage Globe Mastercard”<\/a>:

    – $350 annual fee, 4x single use AA lounge passes
    – 90,000 AA miles after $5,000 spend in four months
    – 2x earning at restaurants, taxis, and rideshare
    – 3x earning with AA, 6x with AA Hotels (also lulz)
    – 1x everywhere else
    – 1x Loyalty Points regardless of mileage earning
    – $100 inflight purchase rebate, which practically means inflight booze because AA doesn’t really cater buy-on-board food as a general rule
    – Companion certificate, but not until your second year<\/em>

    This card gives United Quest vibes, a card     which I (in)famously hate<\/a>. I guess <\/em>the sign-up bonus is moderately acceptable, but let’s just say I disagree with anyone who says this card belongs with other “best sign-up bonus” list cards.
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  3. The idea of #citigonnaciti went mainstream last week when the WSJ made their Strata Elite 4506-C shenanigans public<\/a>. Their make-good to say sorry about the press getting wind of their incompetence<\/s> is to refund the annual-fee and award the sign-up bonus whether or not you hit minimum spend<\/a>.

    If you fell into the 4506-C hole and didn’t get the make-good offer from Citi, perhaps a phone call to customer service is in order.
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  4. Staples in-store has fee free $200 Visa gift cards through Saturday<\/a>, limit nine per transaction. Predicting that Staples fee-free gift cards are coming the week after a Mastercard scale is about a sure as a bet as putting it all on Joey Chestnut<\/a>.

    These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network gift cards.
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  5. Office Depot \/ OfficeMax stores have $15 off of $300 in Mastercard gift cards<\/a> through Saturday. Buy these in even multiples of $300 for a bigger per-card discount.

    These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network gift cards too.
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  6. Southwest Rapid Rewards shopping has an offer for 1,000 bonus Rapid Rewards points<\/a> with $100+ in spend through today. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Happy Monday!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    The Citi Strata Elite situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy Monday! The Citi Strata Elite situation.<\/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":[54,53,13,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-louse","category-portals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624","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=12624"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12630,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624\/revisions\/12630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}