Why are Capital One Venture credit limits so much higher than Quicksilver?

[taxi818]

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@changeworthy wrote:

I just wanted to chime in that I plan to redeem my Venture sign-up bonus for $400 in gift cards that I'll either use towards back-to-school shopping or save for Christmas.  Works for me. 

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Not sure you can. It's not cash back. Or you get less. Only travel related items is full value. 

[Anonymous]

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@taxi818 wrote:

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@changeworthy wrote:

I just wanted to chime in that I plan to redeem my Venture sign-up bonus for $400 in gift cards that I'll either use towards back-to-school shopping or save for Christmas.  Works for me. 

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Not sure you can. It's not cash back. Or you get less. Only travel related items is full value. 

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He could probably buy gift cards using United MileagePlus X and redeem the points against that.  I don't know if this works with Capital One though like it does with American Express.

https://hub.united.com/en-us/flyerfriendly/Pages/mileageplus/MileagePlus-X.aspx?mobile=0

[changeworthy]

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@taxi818 wrote:

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@changeworthy wrote:

I just wanted to chime in that I plan to redeem my Venture sign-up bonus for $400 in gift cards that I'll either use towards back-to-school shopping or save for Christmas.  Works for me. 

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Not sure you can. It's not cash back. Or you get less. Only travel related items is full value. 

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I'm pretty sure you can, I just went back to try it and was able to put $400 worth of gift cards in my card to redeem.  I know the cash back is at half-value. 

[Anonymous]

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@changeworthy wrote:

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@taxi818 wrote:

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@changeworthy wrote:

I just wanted to chime in that I plan to redeem my Venture sign-up bonus for $400 in gift cards that I'll either use towards back-to-school shopping or save for Christmas.  Works for me. 

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Not sure you can. It's not cash back. Or you get less. Only travel related items is full value. 

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I'm pretty sure you can, I just went back to try it and was able to put $400 worth of gift cards in my card to redeem.  I know the cash back is at half-value. 

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Where were the gift cards purchased from?

EDIT: Nevermind, I see you meant you redeemed them through Capital One.

[morgacj2004]

I have a Quicksilver with initial CL of 1.5 k. Is now at 3k. I applied for the venture and was given an ICL of 20K. So go figure?