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Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card: $250 Travel Credit + 75,000 Miles ($1,000 Travel Value) Expired

w/ $4,000 Spend in 3 Months
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Capital One is offering $250 to use on Capital One Travel in your first cardholder year, plus earn 75,000 bonus miles once you spend $4,000 on purchases within the first 3 months from account opening (that's equal to $1,000 in travel) with the Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card. There is $95 annual fee.

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Capital One is offering $250 to use on Capital One Travel in your first cardholder year, plus earn 75,000 bonus miles once you spend $4,000 on purchases within the first 3 months from account opening (that's equal to $1,000 in travel) with the Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card. There is $95 annual fee.

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Enjoy $250 to use on Capital One Travel in your first cardholder year, plus earn 75,000 bonus miles once you spend $4,000 on purchases within the first 3 months from account opening - that's equal to $1,000 in travel
Earn unlimited 2X miles on every purchase, every day
Earn 5X miles on hotels, vacation rentals and rental cars booked through Capital One Travel, where you'll get Capital One's best prices on thousands of trip options
Miles won't expire for the life of the account and there's no limit to how many you can earn
Receive up to a $100 credit for Global Entry or TSA PreCheck®
Use your miles to get reimbursed for any travel purchase—or redeem by booking a trip through Capital One Travel
Enjoy a $50 experience credit and other premium benefits with every hotel and vacation rental booked from the Lifestyle Collection
Transfer your miles to your choice of 15+ travel loyalty programs
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For those who might have had this in the past, the $250 credit is no longer a statement credit but a voucher to use in the Capital One portal. The portal is run by Hopper and is absolutely terrible for searching. If you search for 3 people in 1 room and you will get rooms with one bed and an occupancy limit of 2 people. There is also no way to have it sort to include additional fees and taxes - you just get the base rate until you select your room and then they add all the other charges. Even if you're using points, you get charged additional points at reservation to cover the tax. There can be a limited selection of hotels in some areas, with many common brands missing (compared to Booking or Agoda, or even the major flag portals like Bonvoy or Hilton). The prices are nearly always higher in the Hopper/CapOne portal than one of the major 3rd party (Booking/Priceline/Travelocity/Agoda/Expedia/Kayak meta) site for both hotels and cars, and ofter more expensive than booking direct. IMHO, if you're going to roll the dice booking 3rd party, you should be getting a better rate. If you use points for other than travel (statement credit) you get 1/2c per point, so it really is a travel-centric reward system. /end rant

Other than that it's a decent card and the Eno one-time/one-vendor card numbers are very helpful.
I have had this card for a year and there has not been a single deal or opportunity for the points.
Same. 800+ credit score and got rejected twice.

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dealmasti
07-23-2024 at 11:00 PM.
07-23-2024 at 11:00 PM.
Quote from Rookies1000 :
Same. 800+ credit score and got rejected twice.

Cap one is very stringent with their approval
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overzeetop
07-24-2024 at 05:19 AM.
07-24-2024 at 05:19 AM.
Quote from xedrox51 :
Capitalone travel price matches with public sites. I made a booking and then called them and they price matched immediately and gave me travel credit.
That's technically true, but (a) there must be availability after you reserve, so you can't take the last [preferred bed/room type] publicly available at the time (b) you can't price match any rate if you have to log in - which means you're overpaying 10-15% right off the top - for Hilton, Marriott, Priceline, Booking, etc. member and (c) most rates are non-refundable, so if your price match is declined you're stuck with the higher rate. Even Hopper - CapOne's gateway - gives you better rates when you log in - rates which are non-price-matchable. And you can't call and price match ahead of time, because the gateway is online-only.

I don't know anyone of SlickDeals worth who is going to take a public price / from a public site and think that's the best you can do.

Not that's it's the end of the world, it just means that your $250 credit is worth more like $200 if you're a real slickdealer. The play for points, if you're not transferring to an airline partner for a last minute or special redemption, is to use their Offers portal for referrals - click through for Booking, Viator, or Expedia. They offer 10% statement credits on top of points when using the Offers. Instead of getting 5 points* on a questionable rate with a limited selection of properties and mediocre search capabilities, you get a competent hotel aggregator, a better rate, plus the 10% cb referral as a statement credit plus the 2 points per dollar spend which you can use to further reimburse yourself.

*I think Venture is 5 points. VX is 10. I still won't book though them.
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configsys
07-24-2024 at 01:01 PM.
07-24-2024 at 01:01 PM.
Went ahead and pulled the trigger and was approved. Will just cancel my other C1 card and start using this one so I can get the 75,000 miles.
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SeanD1497
07-24-2024 at 01:37 PM.
07-24-2024 at 01:37 PM.
I'm done with Capital One. I'm a long time customer with multiple accounts but they just closed one due to inactivity, without any warning. I was left with no recourse as they said they could do nothing for me, at least that's what the customer service rep seemed to be saying. It was very hard to tell honestly, between his very thick accent and the horrible line quality on his end. Clearly an overseas call center.

So beware, they thank loyal customers, who are responsible with credit and don't always utilize credit they don't need, by doing things that negatively impact their credit scores, and they do so without notice. Lowering your available credit and raising your utilization rate does that. I only found out after logging into my account because I was planning on using the card on vacation, which I can't do now, and wanted to see if I could alert them that I'd be travelling. I've already opened two new accounts with Citi and BoA (with higher initial limits than Capital One gave me after 10+ years) and will be closing my other Capital One accounts. I've had very good experiences with Amex and Discover, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect more.
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shezolmix
07-24-2024 at 03:40 PM.
07-24-2024 at 03:40 PM.
Anyone had luck calling them after being denied for "too many active credit cards". Wondering if I can get this approved, I have excellent credit and really low credit usage %
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publicpersona
07-25-2024 at 07:49 AM.
07-25-2024 at 07:49 AM.
It was unfortunate that they treated you badly. Were you putting a trivial charge on the card every six months or so?
Quote from SeanD1497 :
So beware, they thank loyal customers, who are responsible with credit and don't always utilize credit they don't need,
Customers with excellent credit are not their preferred customers. They call us "deadbeats." Neither are those with bad credit that will never pay their bills. Their primary target customer would be one that usually can't pay more than the minimum but will eventually pay it off.
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nyknicks8
07-27-2024 at 09:29 PM.
07-27-2024 at 09:29 PM.
800+ preapproved then approved. Never carried 1c of balance.
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maxpayne102
07-28-2024 at 02:29 AM.
07-28-2024 at 02:29 AM.
They rejected me because I have too many credit cards 😩
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Wei365
07-28-2024 at 12:57 PM.
07-28-2024 at 12:57 PM.
Quote from overzeetop :
That's technically true, but (a) there must be availability after you reserve, so you can't take the last [preferred bed/room type] publicly available at the time (b) you can't price match any rate if you have to log in - which means you're overpaying 10-15% right off the top - for Hilton, Marriott, Priceline, Booking, etc. member and (c) most rates are non-refundable, so if your price match is declined you're stuck with the higher rate. Even Hopper - CapOne's gateway - gives you better rates when you log in - rates which are non-price-matchable. And you can't call and price match ahead of time, because the gateway is online-only.

I don't know anyone of SlickDeals worth who is going to take a public price / from a public site and think that's the best you can do.

Not that's it's the end of the world, it just means that your $250 credit is worth more like $200 if you're a real slickdealer. The play for points, if you're not transferring to an airline partner for a last minute or special redemption, is to use their Offers portal for referrals - click through for Booking, Viator, or Expedia. They offer 10% statement credits on top of points when using the Offers. Instead of getting 5 points* on a questionable rate with a limited selection of properties and mediocre search capabilities, you get a competent hotel aggregator, a better rate, plus the 10% cb referral as a statement credit plus the 2 points per dollar spend which you can use to further reimburse yourself.

*I think Venture is 5 points. VX is 10. I still won't book though them.
This seems interesting. How to "use their Offers portal for referrals"?
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IronFist7
07-28-2024 at 01:32 PM.
07-28-2024 at 01:32 PM.
Quote from overzeetop :
For those who might have had this in the past, the $250 credit is no longer a statement credit but a voucher to use in the Capital One portal. The portal is run by Hopper and is absolutely terrible for searching. If you search for 3 people in 1 room and you will get rooms with one bed and an occupancy limit of 2 people. There is also no way to have it sort to include additional fees and taxes - you just get the base rate until you select your room and then they add all the other charges. Even if you're using points, you get charged additional points at reservation to cover the tax. There can be a limited selection of hotels in some areas, with many common brands missing (compared to Booking or Agoda, or even the major flag portals like Bonvoy or Hilton). The prices are nearly always higher in the Hopper/CapOne portal than one of the major 3rd party (Booking/Priceline/Travelocity/Agoda/Expedia/Kayak meta) site for both hotels and cars, and ofter more expensive than booking direct. IMHO, if you're going to roll the dice booking 3rd party, you should be getting a better rate. If you use points for other than travel (statement credit) you get 1/2c per point, so it really is a travel-centric reward system. /end rant

Other than that it's a decent card and the Eno one-time/one-vendor card numbers are very helpful.

They price match other sites if you book and given them a ring in 24hours of booking. This way you get the best price if the difference is worth the phone call.
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selvaspk
07-28-2024 at 07:48 PM.
07-28-2024 at 07:48 PM.
Applied pre-approval, got approved it for wife.

I got ventrue x already this year. can i get lounge access for wife using mine? or add her as additional card holder if she got the Venture card?

We dont travel much now, but she like the lounge access and may start more travel starting next year.

I thought may be get this card now, get the bonus and if we going to travel, then upgrade.

75k + 250 credit - 100 = $150 better than venture x card (until we use much of travel benefits). Is there any reason for me to upgrade her now to venture x card? Is my logic flawed?
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dealdigger101
07-29-2024 at 02:15 AM.
07-29-2024 at 02:15 AM.
Quote from likeundu :
I applied for this card, but got rejected. Not sure why, my credit history is good!

They will tell you the reason but mostly capital one takes 3 hits and rejects often churners especially ones with good credit as they want people who actually overspend and carry a balance, they ask this same question when applying
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FancyHerring5969
07-29-2024 at 05:31 AM.
07-29-2024 at 05:31 AM.
Quote from ed.de :
No. Only if you have Venture. I checked this with Capital One.

This is just not true. You can absolutely transfer to travel partners with the Venture. I have the card. For those who don't know what to do with your points, look into 10x Travel. I have cruised, flown business class, gotten hotels, etc. with my points. Done properly, it'll be worth much more than $1000.
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Enike
07-29-2024 at 07:59 AM.
07-29-2024 at 07:59 AM.
Quote from peterl1365 :
C1's target customer is someone with pretty-good credit that will carry a balance. You were probably overqualified.

I have a high credit score and don't carry balances and was approved. Must be magic lmao
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Enike
07-29-2024 at 08:09 AM.
07-29-2024 at 08:09 AM.
Quote from mclashm15 :
I have the card too.
The main issue is that you cannot transfer the miles\points to some other reward system. However, you still can convert it to cash with a 1.5% rate. 75,000 might be around $400.

You can book travel on any site and pay with the card and they reimburse you with a statement credit from your miles balance. I'm not sure why people think you can only use this with C1's portal like other cards force you to do. I can book on Delta or with Hilton or in some third party site and they simply reimburse out of the miles balance. It doesn't restrict you to any carrier or chain. It's been amusing watching people hate on this care while I've killed using it. There are ways of transferring but often you lose too much in the process.
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