Citi Custom Cash℠ Card: Earn $200 after Spending $750 in First 3-Months
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Citi is offering $200 in cash back after you spend $750 on purchases in the first 3 months of account opening for the Citi Custom Cash℠ Card. This bonus offer will be fulfilled as 20,000 ThankYou® Points, which can be redeemed for $200 cash back. No annual fee.
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Citi is offering $200 in cash back after you spend $750 on purchases in the first 3 months of account opening for the Citi Custom Cash℠ Card. This bonus offer will be fulfilled as 20,000 ThankYou® Points, which can be redeemed for $200 cash back. No annual fee.
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Earn $200 in cash back after you spend $750 on purchases in the first 3 months of account opening. This bonus offer will be fulfilled as 20,000 ThankYou® Points, which can be redeemed for $200 cash back.
0% Intro APR on balance transfers and purchases for 15 months. After that, the variable APR will be 16.24% - 26.24%, based on your creditworthiness.
Earn 5% cash back on purchases in your top eligible spend category each billing cycle, up to the first $500 spent, 1% cash back thereafter. Also, earn unlimited 1% cash back on all other purchases.
No rotating bonus categories to sign up for – as your spending changes each billing cycle, your earn adjusts automatically when you spend in any of the eligible categories.
No Annual Fee.
Citi will only issue one Citi Custom Cash℠ Card account per person.
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I just got mine approved. I have been using American Express Blue Cash Preferred for the last several years only for grocery shopping with a 6% cash rebate. I plan to substitute my Amex card with this Citi card. While I will lose 1% cashback, I save $95 annual fee. Since I like Amex's protection programs, I will convert the preferred card to an everyday card.
Thanks It's great deal fro me. Was planning to upgrade to Amex preferred blue before for 6% cash with $95 annual fees. Instead now I applied for this and got it approved . For the first 500 in grocery would use this. Anything above would use Amex blue card 3% cash back. For all online will use BOA 3% cash Reward card. Rest all purchase would use capital one silver card or Amex magnet card 1.5% on any purchase !!
Nice strategy. You may consider Citi Cash Rebate Card which gives 2% cash back on everything upon payments.
Decent deal for a consistent spend category every month, like gas or groceries. I would be all over this but I already get 5.25% across multiple categories with my bank of America relationship and cards.
Also the 500 limit per month doesn't give you a lot of room. Especially for bigger purchases like flight tickets. Wish they did an annual or quarterly limit instead. More workable
People see the percentage and salivate. You have to understand your actual spending to realize if this is worth it to you or not. 2% of $100 is piddly squat.
If you are an adult you are going to spend more than $100 per month.
5 points per $1 on purchases in your top eligible spend category each billing cycle, up to $500 spent and 1 Point per $1 on purchases in that category thereafter.
5 points per $1 on purchases in your top eligible spend category each billing cycle, up to $500 spent and 1 Point per $1 on purchases in that category thereafter.
So, this is pretty much useless.
Thanks for pointing out the 5% is only on your TOP spending category and not all qualifying categories. I didn't realize that. Its going to be harder to maximize savings but I wouldn't call it useless.
"5% cash back on your top eligible spend category up to $500 spent each billing cycle."
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
If I lets say use this card only for restaurants and nothing else, restaurants will be my top spend category every single billing cycle, meaning this card is effectively a no-fee 5% cashback card on restaurants every month of the year?
I just got mine approved. I have been using American Express Blue Cash Preferred for the last several years only for grocery shopping with a 6% cash rebate. I plan to substitute my Amex card with this Citi card. While I will lose 1% cashback, I save $95 annual fee. Since I like Amex's protection programs, I will convert the preferred card to an everyday card.
Did the exact same thing.. 5% on monthly groceries on this card for me..
Did the exact same thing.. 5% on monthly groceries on this card for me..
After just kinda discovering this card and this thread, I think that would be my strategy too. Use this card for single purpose in grocery shopping (up to $500 each month) and the Citi Double Cash for everything else. 5% cash back on groceries (albeit limited to $500 in a month) is not bad for a no annual fee card.
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06-14-2021 at 08:47 AM.
For anyone that does any kind of transcontinental domestic travel, there is a HUGE potential here, when paired with a card like the Citi Premier or Prestige. You can transfer ThankYou points earned to Turkish Airlines to redeem for incredibly cheap domestic flights on United. Since Turkish Airlines prices Star Alliance award flights (UA and Turkish are both part of Star Alliance) by geographic regions, any domestic flight is 7500 miles one way, or 12500 miles in business. That even includes flights to Hawaii from New York. I priced out some dates in the fall, and sure enough, I found 15000 mile round trip fares. The cash price for those tickets are ~$800.
Another way to think of the potential travel value to be had here: if you max out the $500 of bonus category spending on this card each month, that's 2500 ThankYou points obtained. Three months of spending will net you 7500 ThankYou Points, enough for a one-way economy ticket on United anywhere in the US (provided there is availability), yielding you ~$400 in travel value for the example I listed above, on $1500 on spending, or a whopping >26% return!
There are other good examples of travel deals too, like flying cross-country from New York to California, or up to Alaska. All typically pricey cash fares, but all the same cheap 7500 miles on United via Turkish Airlines.
Edit: Note the "$200 cash back" sign-up bonus is actually 20,000 ThankYou points. Sure, you could redeem it 1:1 for $200 in cash back. Or you could transfer those points (again, only if you also had one of the other Citi cards) to Turkish Airlines, and book a round-trip flight anywhere in the US, with 5000 points to spare! Far more than $200 value there.
"5% cash back on your top eligible spend category up to $500 spent each billing cycle."
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
If I lets say use this card only for restaurants and nothing else, restaurants will be my top spend category every single billing cycle, meaning this card is effectively a no-fee 5% cashback card on restaurants every month of the year?
Looking to get this exclusively as grocery card. Can someone tell me what stores are part of this exclusion - Excludes purchases at general merchandise/discount superstores;
Is Walmart/Target part of the "grocery" category or no? Chase I think says they are not part of the 5% category.
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Looking to get this exclusively as grocery card. Can someone tell me what stores are part of this exclusion - Excludes purchases at general merchandise/discount superstores;
My guess is that stores like Target and Walmart are probably excluded from grocery. From the terms and conditions, it all comes down to how a store sends their merchant category code, and I'd guess they wouldn't generally be "grocery". The card is so new, we'll need some additional data points as users start using the card to determine what works and what doesn't.
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Merchant Classification for Rewards Categories
Merchants are assigned a merchant category code ("MCC"), which is determined in accordance with Visa/Mastercard/American Express procedures based on the kinds of products and services the merchants primarily sell. We don't control the assignment of these codes and are not responsible for the codes used by merchants. When you use your card to make a purchase, we're provided an MCC for that purchase. We group similar merchant codes into categories for purposes of identifying your spend category. Sometimes you may expect a purchase to fit within a rewards category, but if the code assigned to the merchant wasn't grouped into that category, your purchase amount will not be included in the spend for that billing cycle.
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nice, but limited to such a small amount.
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Also the 500 limit per month doesn't give you a lot of room. Especially for bigger purchases like flight tickets. Wish they did an annual or quarterly limit instead. More workable
People see the percentage and salivate. You have to understand your actual spending to realize if this is worth it to you or not. 2% of $100 is piddly squat.
If you are an adult you are going to spend more than $100 per month.
So, this is pretty much useless.
So, this is pretty much useless.
Thanks for pointing out the 5% is only on your TOP spending category and not all qualifying categories. I didn't realize that. Its going to be harder to maximize savings but I wouldn't call it useless.
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Please correct me if I'm wrong.
If I lets say use this card only for restaurants and nothing else, restaurants will be my top spend category every single billing cycle, meaning this card is effectively a no-fee 5% cashback card on restaurants every month of the year?
After just kinda discovering this card and this thread, I think that would be my strategy too. Use this card for single purpose in grocery shopping (up to $500 each month) and the Citi Double Cash for everything else. 5% cash back on groceries (albeit limited to $500 in a month) is not bad for a no annual fee card.
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Another way to think of the potential travel value to be had here: if you max out the $500 of bonus category spending on this card each month, that's 2500 ThankYou points obtained. Three months of spending will net you 7500 ThankYou Points, enough for a one-way economy ticket on United anywhere in the US (provided there is availability), yielding you ~$400 in travel value for the example I listed above, on $1500 on spending, or a whopping >26% return!
There are other good examples of travel deals too, like flying cross-country from New York to California, or up to Alaska. All typically pricey cash fares, but all the same cheap 7500 miles on United via Turkish Airlines.
Edit: Note the "$200 cash back" sign-up bonus is actually 20,000 ThankYou points. Sure, you could redeem it 1:1 for $200 in cash back. Or you could transfer those points (again, only if you also had one of the other Citi cards) to Turkish Airlines, and book a round-trip flight anywhere in the US, with 5000 points to spare! Far more than $200 value there.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
If I lets say use this card only for restaurants and nothing else, restaurants will be my top spend category every single billing cycle, meaning this card is effectively a no-fee 5% cashback card on restaurants every month of the year?
that's best part of this card.
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Merchants are assigned a merchant category code ("MCC"), which is determined in accordance with Visa/Mastercard/American Express procedures based on the kinds of products and services the merchants primarily sell. We don't control the assignment of these codes and are not responsible for the codes used by merchants. When you use your card to make a purchase, we're provided an MCC for that purchase. We group similar merchant codes into categories for purposes of identifying your spend category. Sometimes you may expect a purchase to fit within a rewards category, but if the code assigned to the merchant wasn't grouped into that category, your purchase amount will not be included in the spend for that billing cycle.