Another $400 to sign up for a credit card

Just signed up for a Sapphire card offering pretty much the same deal.

I don't suppose you can combine points from competing credit cards, can you?

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Just signed up for a Sapphire card offering pretty much the same deal.

I don't suppose you can combine points from competing credit cards, can you?

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Not unless it was another chase card

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On a rewards basis, this appears to work just like the cap one except the sign up bonus is way better and 10% point return. That sound right?

Cap One needs to step up to match it appears.

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Chase essentially offers 20% return when used for travel

Can you get a $400 statement credit?

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Trying to buy a house?

I just added that barclay nfl card so I'm assuming they would shut me down???

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Nah... I don't have to a desire to buy a house without a yard... and can't afford one w/o a 45 minute commute

I'll continue to rent until I decide to move back south

ETA: I've read that barclay is stricter than most... no need for me to test it. I'd rather have the saints card without an annual fee

$400 cashback or $500 towards travel

Gotcha

I thought you meant all the time.

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Lets be clear - you're getting miles which they value at $400, not cash or statement credit. That said, meh, I'll pass.

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I imagine this works like the Cap One. For every dollar you spend, you earn 2 points which is good.

They are giving you 40,000 points, NOT MILES. When you book travel on any site, it appears, like Cap One, they give you a statement credit of $400 on that travel purchase.

So I honestly don't know what you are talking about or what you were trying to say.

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Cap One does the same thing. Its really $400 that you can apply to your travel purchase or probably afterwards on your statement on the travel purchase. (Capital One lets you do it before or after purchase, can't tell you how Barclay's does it).

ETA: I know this is confusing because airlines do "miles" as well which clearly don't equal a certain monetary amount, ie 40,000 miles on United may equal whatever they want it to equal. However, when credit cards do it, its usually equal to this sort of schedule.

10,000 "miles" = $100 on travel
20,000 miles = $200 and so on,

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So you agree they are miles.

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Well, I don't.

Airlines call them "miles" because they actually are doing some counting of the distance flown. (approx. or what have you)

These are really "points" but they just call them miles. I suppose its a marketing term to market the card as a "travel" card.

And I'm not being a tough guy, you were just disregarding a pretty decent deal because you didn't understand what you had read. I merely tried to help you out.


Another Example:

My USAA card let me have $420 off airfare if I reached 42,000 points.

Cap One will give me $420 off airfare if I reach 42,000 miles.

Its the same thing. USAA is just shitty getting to that number since its all 1 for 1. Ie it costs me 42,000 dollars to get the USAA bonus as opposed to Cap One's 21,000 dollars because Cap One gives you 2x points, like Barclay's.

Redemption hurdles could be different as well.

I'm not much of an air traveler... Any good leads on other rewards cards w/ great bonus sign ups at the moment?

Looking for something to supplement my Chase Freedom.