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Chase Sapphire Preferred (CSP) 100K bonus points offer

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This is the best Chase Sapphire Preferred (CSP) bonus points offer I have seen recently.

Get 100K bonus points when you get the Chase Sapphire Preferred (CSP) and spend $5K within the first 3 months. This is a 66% additional bonus points from the standard 60K bonus points offer for CSP! You can also get the Chase Sapphire Reserve (CSR) for the standard 60K bonus points (I recommend waiting for a higher bonus offer for the CSR). Note that CSP has a $95 annual fee and the CSR has a $550 annual fee.

Pro Tip: Save the bonus points and transfer them to Hyatt to maximize the benefit. With most Hyatt Hotels, you get more than a 2x benefit e.g. if a hotel is $200 per night, you can get it for 10K Hyatt points.

> Get the Chase Sapphire Preferred (CSP) 100K bonus points offer here

 

 

Get 50% off your Spotify Premium subscription with the Capital One Quicksilver card

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Get 50% off your Spotify Premium subscription till April 2018 if you have a Capital One Quicksilver card :). Great to see Capital One and Spotify teaming up to bring customers a money saving way to listen to more music.

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Citibank’s Virtual Account Numbers

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I knew that Citibank credit cards provide the “Virtual Account Number” option (also called “Controlled Payment Number” or “One-Time-Use Credit Card”). But I never used this feature previously. I tried out this feature today and was pleasantly surprised.


Image Courtesy: Citibank
Virtual Account Numbers are credit card numbers which are generated on the fly and can be used for online transactions. This is very helpful if you do not want to reveal your actual credit card number for online transactions. I always assumed that these numbers are one-time use only. But with the Citibank Virtual Account Numbers, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that you can set up the numbers to be multiple use and also specify limits and expiration dates (up to 12 months in the future). Bank of America credit cards also have this feature but I have not used it.
The “Virtual Account Number” is a great feature for credit card companies who constantly aspire to be “first in wallet”.
Update (7/2/2008): Bank of America’s one-time-use credit card feature is called ShopSafe.
Related Links:
– Citibank Virtual Account Numbers FAQs
– Controlled Payment Number – Wikipedia
– Orbiscom – the company which developed the technology