{"id":5547,"date":"2022-10-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=5547"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:20:08","slug":"the-curious-case-of-capital-one-shopping-and-giftcards-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/14\/the-curious-case-of-capital-one-shopping-and-giftcards-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curious Case of Capital One Shopping and Giftcards.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Giftcards.com in Recent Memory<\/h4>\n<p>Since Summer of 2020, shopping portals have had the following language for purchases giftcards.com: \u201cOrders over $2,000.00 max per month per customer are not eligible\u201d. Of course there\u2019s room to drive a truck through that language. For example, here are vague questions that aren\u2019t answered by the text (but I\u2019ve given my own answer based on experience):<\/p>\n<p>Q: What is a customer anyway?<br \/>A: Roughly speaking a giftcards.com account. By the way, giftcards.com does basic matching of multiple accounts by a single customer so scale requires more than just a new email address.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What if all of your orders are under $2,000 max per month? <br \/>A: You may get lucky and have more than $2,000 in aggregate purchases track, but that\u2019s not a guarantee. Usually $2,000 is indeed the maximum that they\u2019ll pay out on in aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Is it $2,000 per shopping portal?<br \/>A: No. It\u2019s across all portals, with an asterisk described below.<\/p>\n<h4>New Kid on the Block<\/h4>\n<p>In August of this year, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capitaloneshopping.com\/\">Capital One Shopping<\/a> started offering 6% cash-back on giftcards.com. Unlike the other portals, it lacks language about a maximum payout of $2,000 per month. Of course, hitters gonna hit and some people went really big on giftcards.com purchases through the Capital One Shopping portal in August, and continued through September and October. What happened with purchase tracking (and was pointed out to me by AllezSport, thanks!):<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 August: Everything tracked<br \/>\u2013 September: Everything tracked and paid out if it was purchased very early in the month. Afterword, purchases over $2,000 were zeroed out sometime in the last week<br \/>\u2013 October: So far everything is tracking, but I think they\u2019ll also zero out anything over $2,000 before the payout next month<\/p>\n<p>The lesson here? I guess there are two:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stop buying giftcards.com cards through any portal after $2,000 in purchases if the portal payout matters<\/li>\n<li>If giftcards.com appears on a new portal without the $2,000 per month language, go ham early<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And an unsolicited piece of advise: Try large purchases with Capital One Shopping, it probably won\u2019t behave the way you think it will.<\/p>\n<p>Have a nice weekend friends!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image caption-align-center is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5566\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-1024x937.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-1024x937.png 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-300x274.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-768x702.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image.png 1148w\" width=\"420\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Sometimes things are bigger than you expect them to be, like this spoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giftcards.com in Recent Memory Since Summer of 2020, shopping portals have had the following language for purchases giftcards.com: \u201cOrders over $2,000.00 max per month per<\/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":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms-hints","category-portals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547","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=5547"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6924,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions\/6924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}