Originally Posted by
Esther Arellano Harlow
Hi all,
My husband and I got offers from B of A today that we will get $75 in AS credit if we spend $250 at (a) Department Stores; (b) Electronics Stores; (c) Computers and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software Stores; (d) Hobby, Toy and Game Shops; (e) Book Stores; (f) Sporting Goods Stores, Sports Apparel and Riding Apparel Stores by the end of the year.
We don't regularly use the AS card. Anyone know if Amazon is coded as "bookstore" with BofA???
Thanks!
Originally Posted by
philemer
Welcome to FT! Since Amazon sells so many things I'm guessing that they would be coded as one of the 6 categories above. Why not make a small purchase and see how it's coded?
Amazon should code the same on every Visa card.
Now, I don't have any
recent usage of Amazon on a Visa card, but at the end of 2015 when Chase Freedom was doing 10x UR on Amazon purchases, I had a bunch, and those all coded as in the mega-category "entertainment" on my year-end summary. which unfortunately doesn't
sound like it would
likely be any of the 6 categories that you need. But unfortunately, that's so far back I can't find any way to look up exactly how it reported (Chase won't let me search for purchases in 2015 other than through those year-end summaries).
You can't expect Amazon to be in a particular category, given that they sell everything from groceries to streaming video. Any store which sells such a super-variety of stuff tends to not work with most such promotions, unless they name that store specifically (as Discover has done with its 4Q 2017 5% cashback promo for Amazon).