topic Re: Altitude Reserve Targeted Mail Spend Offer in Credit Cards

Altitude Reserve Targeted Mail Spend Offer

digitek — Sat, 29 May 2021 00:14:09 GMT

Just got this in the mail from US Bank about my Altitude Reserve card.

It is for 20% more points on purchases after you have spent $6600 on it, up to 2000 points. The spending time period is from June 1 through July 31. It is worded strangely, though, in that it says you "will be awarded a bonus .2 point per dollar spent". This makes it sound like no matter what the spend is on or reward category you will only get .2 extra points per dollar, not really 20% more points. Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but if I use it for Mobile Wallet and get x3 points, I would get 3.2 points and not 3.6 points which would be 20% more actual points than x3.

Have to enroll with a promo code that is in there.

So long story short they will give you $20 if you spend something like $16660 in 2 months. Actually closer to $30 I guess if you redeem at x1.5 through the portal or Real Time Rewards.

Their timing sucks I don't have any big purchases planned for a long time, I just got done putting a lot of spend on this card in the last few months and that might be why they sent me the offer.

Re: Altitude Reserve Targeted Mail Spend Offer

Anonymous — Sat, 29 May 2021 01:29:35 GMT

@digitek wrote:
Just got this in the mail from US Bank about my Altitude Reserve card.

It is for 20% more points on purchases after you have spent $6600 on it, up to 2000 points. The spending time period is from June 1 through July 31. It is worded strangely, though, in that it says you "will be awarded a bonus .2 point per dollar spent". This makes it sound like no matter what the spend is on or reward category you will only get .2 extra points per dollar, not really 20% more points. Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but if I use it for Mobile Wallet and get x3 points, I would get 3.2 points and not 3.6 points which would be 20% more actual points than x3.

Have to enroll with a promo code that is in there.

So long story short they will give you $20 if you spend something like $16660 in 2 months. Actually closer to $30 I guess if you redeem at x1.5 through the portal or Real Time Rewards.

Their timing sucks I don't have any big purchases planned for a long time, I just got done putting a lot of spend on this card in the last few months and that might be why they sent me the offer.

While the 2,000 points (and the 0.2 points bonus) seems constant, the threshold varies. My daughter needed to spend $1,950, mine was for $1,750, yours $6,600 seems huge

Re: Altitude Reserve Targeted Mail Spend Offer

Remedios — Sat, 29 May 2021 03:59:00 GMT

Mine is for $2100

Also, why send it snail mail 🤷‍♀️

Re: Altitude Reserve Targeted Mail Spend Offer

Anonymous — Sat, 29 May 2021 15:04:50 GMT

Mine is for over $650. Shows I haven't been spending very much thanks to pandemic

Re: Altitude Reserve Targeted Mail Spend Offer

UncleB — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 04:57:56 GMT

I got the mailer as well... my offer is to spend $3400 from 6/1 to 7/31 to get the bonus points.

I've not pulled out the calculator, but this looks to be just slightly more than a rough average of my usual spend over two months so ordinarily it would be very doable organically. But since I'm now shifting my spend away from the AR to earn the bonus on the Altitude Connect (AC?) it's not gonna happen.

Re: Altitude Reserve Targeted Mail Spend Offer

NRB525 — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 19:39:26 GMT

@Remedios wrote:
Mine is for $2100
Also, why send it snail mail 🤷‍♀️

It makes it easier to run the maths and see how laughable these US Bank offers are.

I love Altitude Reserve and my two Cash+, but every "extra earning" offer I've ever seen for these cards is peanuts for the effort and spend required.

One of the offers a while back required spending on the order of $10,000 for an additional $20 reward.

Re: Altitude Reserve Targeted Mail Spend Offer

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 20:24:45 GMT

@NRB525 wrote:
@Remedios wrote:
Mine is for $2100
Also, why send it snail mail 🤷‍♀️
It makes it easier to run the maths and see how laughable these US Bank offers are.

I love Altitude Reserve and my two Cash+, but every "extra earning" offer I've ever seen for these cards is peanuts for the effort and spend required.

One of the offers a while back required spending on the order of $10,000 for an additional $20 reward.

Yes, it amuses me when people get excited (or rather, complain if they don't get them) at some Citi offers, because the maximum reward is an extra $25. But those are much generous in comparison to these ones.

That said, I had $5500 of dental treatment today, conveniently June 1, so I (hopefully) have met the requirement and am earning 3.2 points per $ on mobile. So...., I LOVE US BANK!!!!

Re: Altitude Reserve Targeted Mail Spend Offer

Remedios — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 20:31:25 GMT

I totally agree. While I'd be putting spend on it anyway, if I really needed $20.00 that bad, I'd skip two trips to Starbucks instead of spending thousands 🤷‍♀️