Capital One boosts rewards for Black Friday weekend
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Capital One last week announced plans for a special Black Friday promotion for holders of its rewards credit cards. From Nov. 25 to Nov. 28, you can gain enhanced points and cash back by using the company’s Perk Central online shopping portal to make purchases from more than 40 retailers.
Extra rewards for Black Friday
Normal rewards (both points and cash) will be boosted by up to 100 percent on goods or services bought from these online outlets. They include:
- Gamestop.com: +40 percent
- Landsend.com: +100 percent
- Lego.com: +100 percent
- Lenovo.com: +100 percent
- Macys.com: +40 percent
- TigerDirect.com: +67 percent
There are no caps on the extent of the rewards you can earn with Capital One, and they never expire as long as your account is open.
Leverage existing rewards points on certain items
As Capital One says, points on its rewards credit cards can be redeemed at any time. But it’s also running a special pre-holiday redemption promotion from Nov. 18 to Nov. 21 that could help you augment the value of the points you’ve already accumulated on your Capital One card. Items being promoted include:
- Magellan Roadmate 1324 satellite navigation devices
- Sharp Aquos 60″ LCD HDTV televisions
- TaylorMade Bumer SuperFast 2.0 Driver golf clubs
If you know a golfer, adventurer or home entertainment enthusiast, then this promotion could turn out to be a thrifty way to kick off your holiday gift shopping.
Rewards credit cards offer more
Of course, as regular readers already know, Capital One’s promotions are just the latest in a long line of marketing initiatives designed to increase card use. Right now, credit card companies are fighting hard for market share, with rewards being their principal battleground.
And their customers appear to like that. Last month, Capital One published the latest results of its continuing survey of consumers’ attitudes to rewards across all card issuers’ products. All those polled held rewards credit cards. The findings included:
- The proportion of customers who were “completely satisfied” with their rewards credit cards increased between the first and third quarters: up to 23.9 percent from 21.7 percent.
- As many as 47 percent of respondents had redeemed at least some of their rewards during the third quarter.
- Some 27.8 percent of cardholders were saving up rewards for holiday shopping.
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