Originally Posted by
Caspavio
just pointing out that the url isnt the crux here. url is really whatever you want to out as your url, it just happens that people will put something relevant in the url, so aa will put aa in their url, and some 3rd parties engaged by aa, ua and dl will put aa in their url to differentiate the dl and ua pages. i can also put "stubhub" in the url for my website, except that i maybe be sued. aa giftcards are still sold by aa, so at least the mcc and merchant code will be correct. aa giftcards sold at grocery store will not be eligible
i know amex and other issuers have given credits for ineligible spend, but at least the merchant name and mcc code is correct, and it is their policy if they want to be lax about the tracking if the actual spend is eligible or not. the former is easily automated, the latter take effort, especially since merchants may not code their items properly, and chase and most issuers cannot see level 5 data
of course you should test and report back, but we are jsut cautioning not to get your hopes up too high
Not to continue beating a dead horse and I'll rest my case after this, but I humbly disagree that URL doesn't matter. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. Delta gcs are processed by cashstar and we know they don't work for airline credits so having delta in the url doesn't matter there.
When you purchase points from a hotel/airline program and you are taken to a page where the URL on the page is storefronts.points.com you can pretty much know with certainty that nothing to do with the name of the program is going to show up on your statement if you are hoping that it would to trigger some credit on that card - there is absolutley no hope there at all. As opposed to when you buy gc or miles from aa or travel bank from united the url has aa.com or united.com in it, so logically you can assume the charge will post on the statement with reference to the airline and you can pin some hope on it that the credit may automatically be triggered (these have been tested and do work for Amex credits so that's why I'm using them as an example). There are no examples where a URL without any reference to the company of the credit you were trying to achieve (i.e. aa, United, or stubhub in this case) worked in achieving that credit. I can go on with using Amex offers as examples as well - there are stores that process their own gift cards and you can buy that to trigger the offer and others that use cashstar or some other 3rd party to process and the offer will not trigger with a gc purchase.
Of course buying aa gc at grocery won't work nor will buying any airline gc at staples.com work for airline credits. But doing a transaction directly on an airline site even if that charge may not be an eligible one, may trigger the credit anyway as we've seen multiple times.
Just to put this to rest I reached out to stubhub and asked to clarify who I am buying an egift card from when I purchase on their website and they said that the purchase is made from them and referred me to #1 under gift card policy on this page.
https://www.stubhub.com/gift-cards
An eGift card is an electronic gift card rather than a physical plastic gift card. eGift cards can be purchased and redeemed at StubHub.com.
If the $150 CSR credit is triggered by this remains to be seen and thank you
jdsva for providing your DP - I'm happy for you that your 6/30 purchase posted as such and used your H1 credit because I was not so lucky with my Edit hotel booking made on 6/30 as well. It posted with 7/1 transaction date and used H2 credit and I'm quite upset about this even though I know full well that waiting until the last day to use an expiring credit is not the smart thing to do but I had just gotten the card and was hoping that Chase will use the time of booking as the transaction date this triggering H1 credit.