Earning points/miles at Amazon.com?
Sep 21, 2015, 7:50 pm
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Last I heard Hawaiian has the only mileage mall that supports Amazon.
Some cards with rotating categories give 5x on Amazon periodically. For example, the Chase Freedom card has announced that Amazon will be one of its 5x participants in the last quarter (Oct-Dec) of this year. Chase Freedom earns Ultimate Rewards points, which cannot be redeemed for airlines/hotels if you only have that card, but there are certain other (annual fee) Chase cards that you can add which will let you transfer any points you earned with Freedom to airlines/hotels (that Ultimate Rewards supports). However, you can't apply for generic (non-partner) personal Chase cards if you applied for (more than) about 5 cards (from any banks) in the past 24 months.
Some cards with rotating categories give 5x on Amazon periodically. For example, the Chase Freedom card has announced that Amazon will be one of its 5x participants in the last quarter (Oct-Dec) of this year. Chase Freedom earns Ultimate Rewards points, which cannot be redeemed for airlines/hotels if you only have that card, but there are certain other (annual fee) Chase cards that you can add which will let you transfer any points you earned with Freedom to airlines/hotels (that Ultimate Rewards supports). However, you can't apply for generic (non-partner) personal Chase cards if you applied for (more than) about 5 cards (from any banks) in the past 24 months.
Sep 23, 2015, 5:38 pm
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Sallie Mae MasterCard (from Barclays) gives 5% cash back for groceries, gas, and book stores, and Amazon qualifies for the latter. Groceries and gas are each limited at $250/mo, and books at $750.
Oct 2, 2015, 3:31 am
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Oct 11, 2015, 8:19 pm
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No, you're purchasing an Amazon giftcard from United so any cards that give bonuses for Amazon.com purchases won't count. Some category bonuses might (they seem to pass along the MCC), and from what I've read AMEX treats it as United purchase (so bonuses for airline).
Oct 12, 2015, 4:16 pm
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Oct 12, 2015, 6:58 pm
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Oct 13, 2015, 11:02 am
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I would give the contrarian advice to re-examine your spending on Amazon and see if other merchants have what you want cheaper and pay portal bonuses.
First of all, do you live in a state where Amazon collects sales tax? That right there is a 5-9% hit to your bottom line. On top of that you either have to pay for prime, or often wait 2 weeks for things to arrive.
I've discovered that I can buy pretty much everything either cheaper, or same price but without the sales tax, and get faster delivery through many other merchants. There are exceptions of course, but to me Amazon is no longer the go-to place. For electronics and photo equipment I usually buy from B&H. A recent large plumbing parts purchase was from build.com, etc..
First of all, do you live in a state where Amazon collects sales tax? That right there is a 5-9% hit to your bottom line. On top of that you either have to pay for prime, or often wait 2 weeks for things to arrive.
I've discovered that I can buy pretty much everything either cheaper, or same price but without the sales tax, and get faster delivery through many other merchants. There are exceptions of course, but to me Amazon is no longer the go-to place. For electronics and photo equipment I usually buy from B&H. A recent large plumbing parts purchase was from build.com, etc..
