Anybody Ever Sell Cabela's VISA Points ?

You could use your points to buy a gift card, then turn around and sell the gift card for cash.

Good suggestion, as was the earlier one from Buster180. I'm just looking for a quicker way to wrap it up.

Total for points is in excess of 15k --- maybe as much a 25k (I plan to find out the total tomorrow). It would take me a long time to spend that amount (unless I manage to blow the engine on my bass boat).

I have never had a problem with my Cabela’s Visa card

Sorry -- was trying for huge brag.


To CivilTiger:
We started having this issue after Cabela's sold their credit card business to Capital One. Before the sale, we'd get a call from the fraud folks maybe once every two years. And then it was almost always the case that the card had actually been compromised.

But since the sale (I think it happened at the same time that Bass Pro bought the retail business), we've had at least 8 instances. None involved any fraud.

Up until the last few months I always told people the Cabela's cards were a good deal. Maybe not the best available, but very good. But now I'm definitely going to make a change as soon as it's feasible.

I’ll give you 25 cents on the dollar...

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I’ll give you 25 cents on the dollar...

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Dang. That was really tempting ................. until I saw your Ole Miss Avatar.

Any chance you could put a bulldawg up there? Or at least one of those brown bears?

I think their fraud department is normally pretty good. I use my card for half of my office's expenses we run a lot through it. I get a fraud alert about every month or so. Most of the time it's over cautious however six or seven times over the last few years they have caught fraud. If signed up for text alerts you just reply yes or no to a text and you are good to go again.

As far as the points I too will buy them if you get that far along with this, however it does sound somewhat fishy who couldn't find a way to spend 12-15k in Cabela's? I could do it literally in like 5 minutes.

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I think their fraud department is normally pretty good. I use my card for half of my office's expenses we run a lot through it. I get a fraud alert about every month or so. Most of the time it's over cautious however six or seven times over the last few years they have caught fraud. If signed up for text alerts you just reply yes or no to a text and you are good to go again.

As far as the points I too will buy them if you get that far along with this, I could do it literally in like 5 minutes.

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I think their fraud department was very good -- until they sold the CC business to Capital One. The new metric that frosts me is their saying they will automatically deny most/any out of state purchases unless i call them in advance.

We charge a boatload of purchases thru the Cabela's cards for business stuff, (three employees and I have cards) and I carry another one for personal use.

Up until the changeover we had been happy. But who wants to carry a client to lunch and find out there's a hold on the card due to an online purchase made the day before from an out-of-state vendor.

I guess I should blame the OB. The Academy purchase that tripped the latest Cabela's "hold" was the result of you folks posting the 20% off code.

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however it does sound somewhat fishy who couldn't find a way to spend 12-15k in Cabela's?

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That's me -- fishy.

I called Cabela's this morning to get the "points" total for all the cards. It's $19.8. I have thought about buying some "nice" guns from their "Library," but don't really need more firearms. I don't need a new boat - not that $20 would buy one (and I wouldn't be shopping at Cabela's for a bass boat anyway). Not planning to tear up the engine (250 Pro XS) on my boat, but that's about the only purchase I can think of that would come close to burning up my points.

I guess I'll do what was suggested earlier -- keep the cards (to retain the points), but stop using them. I'll have to do some homework to find out what CC has the best rewards program.

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I am not sure your information is accurate on fraud...

This week on my Cabelas card we charged to the following states:
NY
CA
TN
TX
NC
UT
WA


All the charges were over 1K no fraud issues at all on my end.... (nocking on wood)

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I'm just going by what the "Service Representative" said when I called to get the "hold" removed. I pointed out to him that I had placed an order with the same vendor (Academy), for a larger amount, three days earlier with no problem. He acted like the first order should have been flagged.

When I asked if I would have an issue using the card on out-of-state trips, he said I should call Visa prior to the trip and let them know I'd be traveling. I have other things to do when planning & loading up for a trip.

This set of cards has a $50k line of credit, and we have always paid the balance in full every month. Up until now (~ 12 years) it's been a good card. Capital One has apparently added more stringent "out-of-state" metrics to their fraud detection system.

I'm currently looking into other Visa reward programs. So far, Citibank is looking pretty good.

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Any chance you could put a bulldawg up there? Or at least one of those brown bears?

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Ill put whatever you want for 15 cents on the dollar.