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Citi Premier® Card: Spend $4K in First 3 Months to Earn 80K ThankYou® Points Expired
For a limited time, earn 80,000 ThankYou Points after you spend $4,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of account opening with the Citi Premier® Card. Annual fee is $95.
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For a limited time, earn 80,000 ThankYou® Points after you spend $4,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of account opening with the Citi Premier® Card. Annual fee is $95.
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- For a limited time, earn 80,000 bonus ThankYou® Points after you spend $4,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of account opening
- Earn 3 Points per $1 spent at Restaurants and Supermarkets
- Earn 3 Points per $1 spent at Gas Stations, Air Travel and Hotels
- Earn 1 Point per $1 spent on all other purchases
- Annual Hotel Savings Benefit
- 80,000 Points are redeemable for $800 in gift cards when redeemed at thankyou.com
- No expiration and no limit to the amount of points you can earn with this card
- No Foreign Transaction Fees on purchases
Created 06-14-2022
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This information should be included in the OP.
2) Earn 80,000 point sign up bonus
3) Downgrade Premier to Double Cash or Custom Cash before you're charged with another annual fee
4) Points balance should carry over from Premier to your downgrade card
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Flowchart: get Premier card -> spend 4k to get 80,000 points -> after 1 year, downgrade to another citi card (custom cash / Double cash). Nothing really complicated here.
You have to pay the $95 annual fee to get the bonus
I was. I had to call and basically confirm everything I had submitted online.
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TU points are also transferable to airlines, where you can potentially get more (sometimes a lot more) than 1 cent per point in cash equivalent value.
For example (different airline/card partner in this example but same basic concept) we recently booked some business class tickets to Europe for 88k points each that cost about $3000 each if we'd paid cash.
Same flights in economy BTW cost almost exactly $800.
So for essentially $80 (the cash equivalent at 1 cent a point of the extra 8000 pts) I got to upgrade a mutli-city international airline ticket from econ to lie-flat business, a ticket that normally cost almost 4x as much.
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Or do you need to wait for the physical card in mail before you can put any spend on it?
The product page only talks about gift card and travel redemption.
"Redeem them for travel rewards or $800 in gift cards at thankyou.com"
I already have a double cash, not sure if Citi would let me have two Double Cash cards!
Does anyone know if the 80K points be used on travel to maximize like 1.25x ? I did read statement credit works so I may just do that at 1 cent a point.
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Or do you need to wait for the physical card in mail before you can put any spend on it?
No you can't and they won't give it to you. They also will not upgrade the delivery speed. You're going to wait like 20 days from sign up to card in hand.
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You'd consider upgrading from economy to business for what ends up being $80 net cost a waste?
Yikes.
I can certainly SIT in econ for 10 hours. I'll arrive tired, grumpy, and having been fed (if at all) garbage food. I'll also have paid extra if I brought a lot of luggage (though I personally don't typically do so)- and I'll have boarded relatively late and hope there's enough overhead. If I need to use the restroom in those 10 hours I'll likely be having to climb over a stranger to do it (or people constantly climbing over ME if the aisle seat or heaven forfend a middle seat because I bought tickets late) and since I usually travel with no more people than my spouse I'll be guaranteed to have a stranger in my row too since flights are mostly full anymore and 3 across (or more) in economy.
In business I'll arrive having gotten a full nights sleep in a bed, having eaten (by airline standards) 2 good meals and free drinks...having boarded first, having as much luggage and storage as I want onboard with plenty of room...and either sitting in a throne seat (and likewise my spouse doing so), or sitting with ONLY my spouse and both of us having direct aisle access at all times without anybody climbing over anybody...because all the seats are only 1 or 2 across and with direct aisle access for all of em in most configs.... and (for those who otherwise don't have access via other means) having enjoyed both much shorter security lines to GET to the plane, and a nice lounge with free food and drinks BEFORE the flight too.
The well-rested and well fed bit alone saves at least 1/2 to 1 full day of your vacation from being wasted or miserable both directions (and the lounge access from paying airport pricing for food/drinks- though granted there are other paths to access those benefits for some)
Seems a worthwhile use of net $80- but YMMV I guess.
I already have a double cash, not sure if Citi would let me have two Double Cash cards!
Citi Rewards+ is the easiest option assuming you want to retain a TU points card. Citi IIRC is the most flexible in downgrades to other ecosystems though last I heard you could downgrade to even something like a co-branded no fee card like Costco (assuming you have a costco membership)