@Kforce wrote:I see the employee that Ok'd that email's wording not having a good holiday season
Or... maybe they'll be laughing all the way because they approved it on their last day of doing a job they hated.
@Curious_George2 wrote:
@Kforce wrote:I see the employee that Ok'd that email's wording not having a good holiday season
Or... maybe they'll be laughing all the way because they approved it on their last day of doing a job they hated.
^^^ This might be what happened !
I got it too, lets gooooo! Either they missed adding word points, a decimal, or $. Either way, this card only earnss cashback for me so I don't know how points would work. Even if it's $10.00 cash though it's still 3.33% as long as spend not much over the minimum spend, I'll bite and try to hold them to it.
The opposite sounds more realistic! Spend $1,000, get $75. Wow, crazy. Please do keep us updated!
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mine only shows $20 after $75 spending
@Curious_George2 wrote:I love this time of year! Credit card companies compete with each other to grab shares of our holiday spend by dangling special offers. It's nice to get 10x points on gas from Chase, $10 back on $50 of retail spend from US Bank, and an extra 2% back on everything from BofA.
But Elan outdid them all with this targeted offer I received today on my Max Cash Preferred card, via email:
I know what you're thinking: does that mean 1,000 points? I don't see how it can; the Max Cash Preferred doesn't earn points. It earns cash. I don't see any way to interpret it other than meaning $1,000 cash back.
I quickly executed four online transactions totaling more than $75. Now, I wait to see if they will honor the offer. Anyone want to make a prediction about that?
My prediction is that you certainly won't get $1000 back. The offer implies that you will get 1,000 somethings, it's your interpretation to decide it must mean dollars. Could be cents just as equally! (And they could possibly say it's 1,000 points, each valued at 1c)
And I think any judge/jury would rule that the average reasonable person would not expect the offer to imply $1000 back. But hey, I could be wrong. If I am, just to let you know, the only reasonable interpretation of "Anyone want to make a prediction about that?" is "I will pay $100 for each prediction posted here".
They absolutely meant 1,000 points, which equals $10 in their system.
The problem is they have a couple of card set up different ways... The Everday Rewards card is a Cashback card that awards points, for example. So if they reused some text between mailers, easy for them to get mixed up.
Also, please note that the Visa and MC MCPs do get different deals when they are generic Elan (I have one of each).
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