From now till 31 October, Citibank Rewards cardholders can get 8 miles per S$1 spent on Amazon.com. (EDIT: Extended to 30 June 2017)
No registration is required for this. The maximum bonus you can earn is 8,000 miles or S$1,000 spend per statement period (which may or may not be calendar month).
I know everyone is holding out for the Black Friday sales on Amazon in November. No worries, you can prepay your Black Friday balance by buying an Amazon Gift Card now.
The cap applies per card, not per account. What this means is that if you have both the Citibank Rewards Visa and MC you can get up to 16,000 miles per statement period (spending $1,000 each on the Visa and MC).
The downside of Citibank is that they make it difficult to pool your points for redemptions. I understand that if you dial in you can ask the CSO to pool your points so that you only pay one conversion fee but I’ve not tried this before.
If you need someone to mule your Amazon purchases back home, try AirFrov.
if i were to value each mile conservatively at 2 cents, spending $1000 gets me 8000 miles valued at $160. that suggests 16% rebate? 😮
Correct! 🙂
Based on more recent HWZ forum postings, it’s no longer possible to pool points from different Citi cards. =(
“The maximum amount of Citi Dollars that each Eligible Cardholder can earn under this Promotion is capped at 20,000 Citi Dollars per statement cycle.”
Doesn’t this mean the max is 8,000 miles per month even if one holds both Visa and MC?
Also, I note on the Amazon website that gift cards are “sold and delivered by ACI Gift Cards, Inc., an Amazon company.” There’s a risk that gift cards might not count towards Amazon.com retail spend?
interesting. let me snoop around about that
placed an order for a $5 gift card, will let you know how it posts.
Excellent. Thanks!
to answer this qn, here’s how the transaction posted. It looks the same as all my other amazon transactions. suffice to say i think we are good to go
AMAZON.COM AMZN.COM/BI AMZN.COM/BILL WA
It definitely does count as Amazon retail spend. I’ve bought on multiple occasions & no problem at all.
nope- eligible cardholder means 1 card. if you hold both the visa and mc, you are two “eligible cardholders”. does that make sense?
I know where you’re coming from; I just have a different interpretation of the T&C. I think cardholder = customer, who can hold several cards, and the miles are capped at 8,000 at the customer level. Just curious – did you check with anyone from Citi? Happy to call them myself if you haven’t.
my rationale is based on the knowledge that both the citibank visa and MC have their own caps when it comes to computing the limit on the 10x bonus on shopping and online shopping. you should call them up and check to double confirm on this specific promotion though. thanks!
Spent 4 mins fumbling through the annoying phone system before Citi deigned to let me speak to a human being… who didn’t sound very knowledgeable. But she said that the cap is at the card level.
out of curioustiy, what are people buying off amazon?
i’ve had my eye on a surface 3 with 4g for a while, but I don’t need it just yet. actually, any laptop with integrated 4g will do (yes i know you can get a usb dongle but suppose i dont want to)
clothes, shoes, books, toys, electronics!
Still subjected to a cap of $12k bonus. In other words, 4 miles or 8 miles, the theoretical cap per statement year is 48,000 miles? Miles expires 5 years later so 240k miles max for a miles transfer.
The extra 4 miles are not subject to the annual cap of 120,000 points. They have a separate cap.
Seems like the promotion has been extended to 31st Dec 2016.
As LT pointed out and after checking T&C’s on the site they did extend the promotion to the rest of the calendar year.
While ordering from Amazon US website, is there any cash back or URL referral website that we can use? Krisflyer spree doesn’t seem to support Amazon.
amazon doesn’t have cashback in general (only a few selected departments via topcashback)
8 miles on Amazon US extended until 31st March 2017
whats worth buying?
Pet supplies seems interesting but the brand I use don’t qualify for free shipping to Singapore
Could i please check if a CitiPrestige MC is eligible for this 8mpd?
Thanks a lot!
no.
Hi Aaron,
The promo here’s been extend to the end of June 2017.
“Shop at Amazon & get 20X* Rewards (20 points or 8 Miles for every S$1 spent). Valid till 30 June 2017.”
thanks for the heads up!
Interesting! Got the mailer for qoo10 but not amazon. And I need to have a chat with the cso. They keep declining my amazon transactions now :/
They might as well make this a Card value proposition. Extended to July 2017 now 🙂
Shop at Amazon & get 20X Rewards* (20 points or 8 Miles for every S$1 spent). Valid till 31 July 2017.
does anyone know if this has been extended into July?
We are now into the 8th day of August
does anyone know if this has been extended into August?
I didn’t see anything on citibank’s website so I’m going to say no