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Citi® Double Cash Card: Earn 2% on Every Purchase and 0% Intro APR on Balance Transfers for 18 Months

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Citi® is offering 2% on every purchase with unlimited 1% cash back when you buy, plus an additional 1% as you pay for those purchases and 0% intro APR on Balance Transfers for 18 months with the Citi® Double Cash Card.

Card Details:
• Earn 2% on every purchase with unlimited 1% cash back when you buy, plus an additional 1% as you pay for those purchases.
• To earn cash back, pay at least the minimum due on time.
• Balance Transfer Only Offer: 0% intro APR on Balance Transfers for 18 months. After that, the variable APR will be 18.99% - 28.99%, based on your creditworthiness.
• Balance Transfers do not earn cash back. Intro APR does not apply to purchases.
• If you transfer a balance, interest will be charged on your purchases unless you pay your entire balance (including balance transfers) by the due date each month.
• There is an intro balance transfer fee of 3% of each transfer (minimum $5) completed within the first 4 months of account opening. After that, your fee will be 5% of each transfer (minimum $5).

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misterzeng
04-01-2023 at 10:17 AM.
04-01-2023 at 10:17 AM.
Get the Citi reward + for sign up bonus then downgrade to double cash
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Integra92
04-04-2023 at 11:23 AM.
04-04-2023 at 11:23 AM.
Quote from SlickCrowd6832 :
I'm similar....

1. Discover / Chase Freedom
2. 5% cash back on select category from Citi.(wife also has one... we use one for gas and the other for groceries)
3. Business, Chase cash back card, it gives me 5% off my cell phone bill
4. Two Marriott Credit cards which we use for the free rooms each year (both cost about $100 per year)
5. Lastly, I have a PayPal Cash back Master card that gives me 2% cash back and 3% when using PayPal at checkout.

And I am a Platinum Honors Bank of America customer... maybe I should look into this a bit more.
I recently went with the BoA premium rewards card. it has a $95 AF, but I was due for TSA precheck renewal, which it will cover. That one gets you 1.5 pts/dollar but the bonus for Plat Honors kicks it up to 3.5 for dining/travel and 2.62 pts for all other purchases (basically 3.5% and 2.62%). Points to $ conversion is easy too. Usually has a 50K point bonus on signup as well after hitting a certain spend.
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Knightshade
04-04-2023 at 12:53 PM.
04-04-2023 at 12:53 PM.
Quote from Integra92 :
I recently went with the BoA premium rewards card. it has a $95 AF, but I was due for TSA precheck renewal, which it will cover.
It also gives you a $100 a year airline credit. So it's net $5 profitable every year as long as you can use the credit (and it's usable for generic credit at at least 2 airlines in addition to incidental costs at others)-- or arguably net $25/yr profitable if you count the average value of the Global Entry credit spread over 5 years.


Quote from Integra92 :
That one gets you 1.5 pts/dollar but the bonus for Plat Honors kicks it up to 3.5 for dining/travel and 2.62 pts for all other purchases (basically 3.5% and 2.62%). Points to $ conversion is easy too. Usually has a 50K point bonus on signup as well after hitting a certain spend.

Anyone with Plat Honors status ought also get at least 1 or 2 of BoAs cash cards as well, for 5.25% back in a category of your choice on each card, plus 3.5% on warehouse clubs.
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HonestWinter437
04-08-2023 at 12:05 AM.
04-08-2023 at 12:05 AM.
Is there an optimal way to spend your Thank You Points? Or should you just cash them out?
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KSilver2000
04-11-2023 at 03:27 PM.
04-11-2023 at 03:27 PM.
Quote from arpitha.mamidala01 :
My everyday card... Literally i use this for everything... Its like 2% discount on any purchase for life..
I do the same with the Amex Blue Business Plus card. 2% everything.No fees. Also, Amex allows points transfers to many travel programs. One of the best no card fee out there, especially for reward travels.
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Chinonoco
04-15-2023 at 07:19 AM.
04-15-2023 at 07:19 AM.
Quote from HonestWinter437 :
Is there an optimal way to spend your Thank You Points? Or should you just cash them out?

Gift card deals are meh... you can find better GC deals on PayPal, Amazon, Costco and the likes. I pair all my Citi cards up with Rewards+ to get the bonus when cashing out. Rewards+ also has a Sub too.
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danmtz
04-15-2023 at 09:00 PM.
04-15-2023 at 09:00 PM.
I've had the Custom Cash for a year and it's been a waste of a card for me because their qualifying categories are way too specific. Would consider closing and getting this one if other benefits otherwise were the same.
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borntooslow
04-16-2023 at 03:31 AM.
04-16-2023 at 03:31 AM.
Customer Service is horrible. Pray you never have fraud on this card. They will fight you
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Knightshade
04-16-2023 at 08:20 AM.
04-16-2023 at 08:20 AM.
Quote from danmtz :
I've had the Custom Cash for a year and it's been a waste of a card for me because their qualifying categories are way too specific. Would consider closing and getting this one if other benefits otherwise were the same.

...Restaurants, Gas Stations, Grocery Stores, Select Travel, Select Transit, Select Streaming Services, Drugstores, Home Improvement Stores, Fitness Clubs and Live Entertainment are the categories.

How's that too specific?

Even better you're not locked into one for any given month- it's whatever you spend the most on.

So when you're NOT getting 5% or better on a rotating category card for groceries (which will be at least half the year for most people) you use the custom cash for all your groceries.

When you're not getting 5% better on gas (or whatever else) that way- use the CC to get it.



tl;dr-
It's a fantastic complement to things like the chase Freedom, DiscoverIT, and Citi Dividend card to cover you in common categories like gas/grocery/restaurant when those cards aren't offering it for that quarter.




Quote from HonestWinter437 :
Is there an optimal way to spend your Thank You Points? Or should you just cash them out?
Optimal is transfer to airlines for business or first class tickets- in terms of getting the most $ value per point anyway.
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danmtz
04-16-2023 at 08:30 AM.
04-16-2023 at 08:30 AM.
Quote from Knightshade :
...Restaurants, Gas Stations, Grocery Stores, Select Travel, Select Transit, Select Streaming Services, Drugstores, Home Improvement Stores, Fitness Clubs and Live Entertainment are the categories.

How's that too specific?

Even better you're not locked into one for any given month- it's whatever you spend the most on.

So when you're NOT getting 5% or better on a rotating category card for groceries (which will be at least half the year for most people) you use the custom cash for all your groceries.

When you're not getting 5% better on gas (or whatever else) that way- use the CC to get it.



tl;dr-
It's a fantastic complement to things like the chase Freedom, DiscoverIT, and Citi Dividend card to cover you in common categories like gas/grocery/restaurant when those cards aren't offering it for that quarter.






Optimal is transfer to airlines for business or first class tickets- in terms of getting the most $ value per point anyway.

You'd think it was that simple, but I've had a lot of odd luck with how they label categories specifically. I've gone to gas stations they labeled as merchandise. I've gone to a Walmart that they've called home improvement and grocery stores considered restaurants or general merch. If I didn't have that string of luck, I'd probably feel different about it. Just hasn't been very consistent with me personally, but perhaps I need to test it better.
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nyc10036
04-16-2023 at 08:33 AM.
04-16-2023 at 08:33 AM.
Quote from danmtz :
You'd think it was that simple, but I've had a lot of odd luck with how they label categories specifically. I've gone to gas stations they labeled as merchandise. I've gone to a Walmart that they've called home improvement and grocery stores considered restaurants or general merch. If I didn't have that string of luck, I'd probably feel different about it. Just hasn't been very consistent with me personally, but perhaps I need to test it better.
What does this have to do with the Double Cash Card?
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danmtz
04-16-2023 at 09:01 AM.
04-16-2023 at 09:01 AM.
Quote from nyc10036 :
What does this have to do with the Double Cash Card?

Because I was commenting about the difference between the custom cash and switching to double cash...
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nyc10036
04-16-2023 at 02:13 PM.
04-16-2023 at 02:13 PM.
Quote from danmtz :
Because I was commenting about the difference between the custom cash and switching to double cash...
And that is relevant how?

Double Cash is straight 2%. That's the beauty of it.​
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sagefool
04-17-2023 at 08:00 PM.
04-17-2023 at 08:00 PM.
Citi magically changed mine to points, wouldn't let me keep the 2% CB. I switched to WF.
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Knightshade
04-17-2023 at 08:37 PM.
04-17-2023 at 08:37 PM.
Quote from sagefool :
Citi magically changed mine to points, wouldn't let me keep the 2% CB. I switched to WF.

uh... what?

TY points are better than cash.

You can still get cash for them 1:1, but you can ALSO use them in other ways for higher value (like transfers to airline partners)

Switching to WF was effectively a downgrade. (apart from the fact you're now dealing with a bank repeatedly fined for defrauding customers I mean)
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