Originally Posted by
cringle
I wonder why it takes up to 120 days for the credit to be added? Chance of returns?
We'll validate your purchase with the retailer and update your account to show your Points as "Approved". Most purchase will be approved within 45 days, but some retailers may take up to 120 days to acknowledge and approve a purchase. Your purchases are subject to the retailers’ terms and conditions.
All "Approved" Points will be posted to your Elevate account within 24 hours.
my guess is, probably due to return policies. Most store are 30 - 90 days full refund policies. Anything after that is probably store credit and the likes...so they want to take returns into account.
It's even worse for those reservation based rebate sites like Discover, and Ebates (and probably Virgin Elevate booking portal for Avis and Budget). They will wait after your reservation date + 30 days, even if you paid for a non-refundable reservation.
oh well. Charge on!