Oh interesting! I didn't know you could get cashback. I assumed it was amazon credit or nothing. Thank you!Kyle wrote:So, here's what I do to mitigate that...Michael wrote:In retrospect this credit card is kinda weird and works against itself. I'm racking up a decent amount of amazon credit every month via purchases on amazon and elsewhere which paradoxically means I use my credit card less on amazon to get the 5% discount.
Let's say you accrue $500 in points: you go to Amazon to purchase a tablet for $500. During checkout, it will ask, "hey, do you want to apply $500 worth of points to pay for this?" In this case, you forfeit the discount/cash back. (I think this is what you're referring to?)
Instead, buy the $500 tablet with your Amazon card. You now get the $25 discount/cash back. Now go to your credit card rewards and redeem your points for a $500 statement credit. The net effect is the same, but now you've accrued cash back on your purchase.
Sorry if I misunderstood and this doesn't apply.
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With as much time as I've wasted looking into various travel itineraries booked with points/miles that haven't gone anywhere, I'm giving some thought to moving to something like that Citi card or CapOne's venture. Increasingly the only way to come out ahead with miles redemptions is to have brutal itineraries(e.g. 5 AM departures, hotels far from where you want to be) or for premium upgrades(which require a ton of said miles/points). Going with a cash back card and maybe cycling a card each year for a particularly good signup bonus seems like the lazy man's way to optimize the effort/reward anymore.
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The Amazon Prime Visa now offers 5% back at Whole Foods. Nice!
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Yep, finding "saver level" award availability is getting harder and harder to do. Further complicating the matters are that airlines are opening up fewer and fewer seats for a points redemption, so even though you may have enough miles for that pair of awesome roundtrip business class tickets to Peru that you've been saving up for (in our case), finding an available flight has been absolute hell, which is why we still haven't booked our trip to Macchu Pichu.Transmogrified Tiger wrote:With as much time as I've wasted looking into various travel itineraries booked with points/miles that haven't gone anywhere, I'm giving some thought to moving to something like that Citi card or CapOne's venture. Increasingly the only way to come out ahead with miles redemptions is to have brutal itineraries(e.g. 5 AM departures, hotels far from where you want to be) or for premium upgrades(which require a ton of said miles/points). Going with a cash back card and maybe cycling a card each year for a particularly good signup bonus seems like the lazy man's way to optimize the effort/reward anymore.
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Enjoy now essentially only paying $12/lb for boneless skinless chicken breast instead of $12.50/lb.Michael wrote:The Amazon Prime Visa now offers 5% back at Whole Foods. Nice!
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But they were happy chickens!!Swirls wrote:Enjoy now essentially only paying $12/lb for boneless skinless chicken breast instead of $12.50/lb.Michael wrote:The Amazon Prime Visa now offers 5% back at Whole Foods. Nice!