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Citi® Double Cash Card: Balance Transfers Expired

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for 18 Months
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Citi® is offering the Citi® Double Cash Card, which has an Intro APR Period of 18 months on Balance Transfers. Earn 2% cash back on purchases: 1% when you buy plus 1% as you pay. The annual fee is $0.

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Citi® is offering the Citi® Double Cash Card, which has an Intro APR Period of 18 months on Balance Transfers. Earn 2% cash back on purchases: 1% when you buy plus 1% as you pay.

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Always need to consider the transfer fee for balances transfers, and should be included in this post.

"There is a balance transfer fee of either $5 or 3% of the amount of each transfer, whichever is greater."
EDIT FROM MAY 2021-- THIS POST IS TWO YEARS OLD. THE CARD IT MENTIONS IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE TO BE OPENED.

PLEASE STOP REPLYING TO A TWO YEAR OLD POST WONDERING WHY YOU CAN NOT FIND THIS SPECIFIC CARD/DEAL ANYMORE.

(above added after like the 6th person in a year necroed this discussion to reply to this post- original post from 2019 below)

Chase Slate is only 15 months but 0% balance transfer fee.

The slate itself sucks as a card to actually use for anything other than the BT, but if you're mainly concerned about the BT, and the 3 extra months won't kill you, it saves you 3% of however much you're transferring over this... plus once you're done with the BT you can product change it into a genuinely useful card like a Freedom or something.
After years of being on airline miles cards I switched to this card. I am very happy with it. Airline miles are worth an average of 1.3 cents per dollar spent these days. This card is worth 2 cents per dollar to me as a shopper. It takes VERY little effort to redeem the 2% cash back. I enjoy the value and simplicity of this card. I find the citi web site and mobile app to be stronger than alternative bank sites and apps. I don't have the time or desire to manage multiple cards.

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Knightshade
08-21-2020 at 10:08 AM.
08-21-2020 at 10:08 AM.
Quote from RS1985 :
If you like/want to travel (post coronavirus), then you can get this AND the Citi Premier card. All cash back from this card can be converted into Citi Thank You points, which can be used to travel. If you know the right way to use credit card reward points, then it can be one of the best combos in the entire credit card industry.

Prestige is probably a better choice if you're gonna do that, since you can stack 4th night free on hotel point redemption and you get other significant travel perks like priority pass with 2 free guests, a $100 GE credit, etc...


ALSO having a premier as well used to be great since it gave you 25% more value on such point redemption... but that benefit no longer applies to new cardholders (and goes away for old ones April 9th 2021).... they are replacing the 25% thing with a $100 hotel credit, but that DOES NOT stack with 4th night free and requires a $500 minimum stay so it kinda sucks.

The only improvement to the card is 3x supermarkets- but of course this no-fee doublecash essentially gets you 2x there anyway, so you'd need to spend about $10,000 a year specifically at supermarkets to make the premier worth keeping going forward.




All that said, Chase is still probably a better ecosystem overall for travelers than Citi... with the Unlimited, stacked with the CSRs 50% portal bonus, giving you essentially 2.25x back on "non category" spending- versus 2x on the Citi card... and the CSR, Freedom, and Ink Cash giving you 3x-5x plus 50% on lots of category spend.... that's on top of Chase having more/better transfer partners to get even better-than-portal value in many cases on your points.
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RS1985
08-21-2020 at 11:59 AM.
08-21-2020 at 11:59 AM.
Quote from Knightshade :
Prestige is probably a better choice if you're gonna do that, since you can stack 4th night free on hotel point redemption and you get other significant travel perks like priority pass with 2 free guests, a $100 GE credit, etc...


ALSO having a premier as well used to be great since it gave you 25% more value on such point redemption... but that benefit no longer applies to new cardholders (and goes away for old ones April 9th 2021).... they are replacing the 25% thing with a $100 hotel credit, but that DOES NOT stack with 4th night free and requires a $500 minimum stay so it kinda sucks.

The only improvement to the card is 3x supermarkets- but of course this no-fee doublecash essentially gets you 2x there anyway, so you'd need to spend about $10,000 a year specifically at supermarkets to make the premier worth keeping going forward.




All that said, Chase is still probably a better ecosystem overall for travelers than Citi... with the Unlimited, stacked with the CSRs 50% portal bonus, giving you essentially 2.25x back on "non category" spending- versus 2x on the Citi card... and the CSR, Freedom, and Ink Cash giving you 3x-5x plus 50% on lots of category spend.... that's on top of Chase having more/better transfer partners to get even better-than-portal value in many cases on your points.
I agree on the Prestige, only issue is the annual fee. And for what it gives, I'd rather have Chase Reserve for the perks that you mentioned. I only use my Citi points for airline travel, and if you know which one to transfer to, it can be one of the best point redemptions in all of air travel.
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Knightshade
08-21-2020 at 12:56 PM.
08-21-2020 at 12:56 PM.
Quote from RS1985 :
I agree on the Prestige, only issue is the annual fee. And for what it gives, I'd rather have Chase Reserve for the perks that you mentioned. I only use my Citi points for airline travel, and if you know which one to transfer to, it can be one of the best point redemptions in all of air travel.

Problem is it's hard to rack up a TON of citi points because of the restrictions on signups.

Back when I got my prestige I got a 50k signup bonus which combined with the spend got me to... about 55k TYP.

Then you had to sit and wait 24 months to be eligible for another TYP bonus... so your only chance to earn more was normal spend....which wasn't great either since the prestige was my only TYP card because of the 24 month restriction....(and DC didn't offer TYP options till recently)... the after 2 years I got the preferred for another 50k TYP... then it's ANOTHER 2 years before you can get another bonus...



With Chase I was able to rack up about 500,000 UR points via signup bonuses in a similar period of time....and then further earn with "normal" spend is significantly better too since you can get 3-5x in a LOT of categories across those cards.



Being able to easily rack up 10x more points from signups in a similar time period seems to more than make up for Citi having a couple of partners chase doesn't

Hence we've always used our citi points for hotels (stacked 4th night free and the 25% premier bonus on top- though that second one goes away soon so likely cancelling that card when the AF comes around ext) because there was simply no reasonable way to rack up enough of them for cheap enough to be worth doing versus doing much more valuable new signups elsewhere.
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ikonoklast
08-25-2020 at 01:55 PM.
08-25-2020 at 01:55 PM.
Transfer fee = no transfer

Unless you have higher interest CC debt or other debt with greater than the 3% Citi will charge for transfer.
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jomarrod
08-28-2020 at 02:34 PM.
08-28-2020 at 02:34 PM.
How does the 0% APR work? Do I still make payments or can I skip paying for 12 months?
Will it ever reset before 12 months under any circumstances?
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bru_that
08-28-2020 at 02:42 PM.
08-28-2020 at 02:42 PM.
Quote from jomarrod :
How does the 0% APR work? Do I still make payments or can I skip paying for 12 months?
Will it ever reset before 12 months under any circumstances?
You have to make the minimum monthly payment on the balance. If you miss a payment, they can end the promo 0% period at that point.
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hifi1
08-28-2020 at 05:26 PM.
08-28-2020 at 05:26 PM.
Quote from Knightshade :
Chase Slate is only 15 months but 0% balance transfer fee.

The slate itself sucks as a card to actually use for anything other than the BT, but if you're mainly concerned about the BT, and the 3 extra months won't kill you, it saves you 3% of however much you're transferring over this... plus once you're done with the BT you can product change it into a genuinely useful card like a Freedom or something.
I have some student loans at 8%. Can i transfer those to one of these cards with goal to pay it off before 0% ends? I am paying over $200 in interest each month. That would be about $3600 in savings right there if it's at 0% for 18 months.
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Knightshade
08-29-2020 at 07:15 AM.
08-29-2020 at 07:15 AM.
Quote from hifi1 :
I have some student loans at 8%. Can i transfer those to one of these cards with goal to pay it off before 0% ends? I am paying over $200 in interest each month. That would be about $3600 in savings right there if it's at 0% for 18 months.
You could if they hadn't stopped issuing new Slate cards (the post you're replying to is quite old)

You can use one of the 0% offers from other cards like the one in the OP just fine- though you'll pay a 3% fee on the entire amount as a balance transfer fee to do it-

You'll also need to be able to pay off the entire amount by the end of those 18 months or start getting hit with a lot higher than 8% interest on the remaining balance.
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sharartimunda
08-31-2020 at 03:15 PM.
08-31-2020 at 03:15 PM.
Quote from Knightshade :
Chase Slate is only 15 months but 0% balance transfer fee.

The slate itself sucks as a card to actually use for anything other than the BT, but if you're mainly concerned about the BT, and the 3 extra months won't kill you, it saves you 3% of however much you're transferring over this... plus once you're done with the BT you can product change it into a genuinely useful card like a Freedom or something.
Slate will give ULTRA LOW Credit Limits. Its pretty much a waste of an inqury.
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08-31-2020 at 04:31 PM.
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Quote from sharartimunda :
Slate will give ULTRA LOW Credit Limits. Its pretty much a waste of an inqury.

Ah, yet another guy replying to a post from 2019 and not bothering to read any recent content including literally the post above his own to see why his own post was pointless... LMAO
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kingfisher1111
08-31-2020 at 09:17 PM.
08-31-2020 at 09:17 PM.
Instead of balance transfer, can I just get the amount deposited in my checking account- transfer fees?
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snoopyshops
09-02-2020 at 10:52 AM.
09-02-2020 at 10:52 AM.
2% back on every purchase is tempting. If they offered a sign up bonus, I'd be all over this.
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np1050
09-02-2020 at 07:52 PM.
09-02-2020 at 07:52 PM.
In case anyone wants another option: Paypal Cashback Mastercard is also 2%, no minimum needed to redeem, and it has no foreign transaction fees making it 2% abroad as well
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mcali786
09-02-2020 at 09:17 PM.
09-02-2020 at 09:17 PM.
Quote from NITISOOD35 :
Try DiscoverIT credit card. I got 0 APR for 15 months with 0 fee.
I think offer has changed in a year, they now charge 3%.
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lionelhuts
09-04-2020 at 10:28 AM.
09-04-2020 at 10:28 AM.
Quote from MommaFalcon :
I have this card and love it! No frills, no bs, just 2% cash back each month on all purchases. Pay your credit card in full on time each month and you won't have to worry about balance transfers and apr. Credit cards are a free 30 day loan if you pay it off each month.
It can be 60 days if your purchase posts the day after statement closing.
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