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The targeted language is being enforced. If you applied for the 50,000 offer in good faith then I’d recommend complaining to both Synchrony and Stash regarding the offer.
The Offer
- Stash Hotel Rewards Visa Card is offering a bonus of 50,000 points after $3,000 in spend within 90 days of account opening
Card Details
- This offer is valid only for the intended email recipient and is non-transferable. No idea if this is enforced or not.
- Card arns at the following rates:
- 3x points at Stash hotels
- 2x points at all other hotels, dining & gas purchases
- 1x points on all other purchases
- Sign up bonus of 10,000 Stash points after $1,500 in purchases within three months of signing up
- Annual fee of $85 is waived the first year
- 10% rebate of your points when you redeem them for a participating stay
- Card is issued by Synchrony Bank
- Valid until November 16th, 2017
Our Verdict
Normally the sign up bonus on this card is 10,000 points. Points can only be redeemed for Stash hotels and points never expire. They use a dynamic pricing model, so there is no award chart or different categories to follow. We talk more about the points value in our dedicated review of this card. The nice thing is you can search for hotels here and see how much they cost in points. Here is a brief summary of what we saw last time we looked into this:
- Elan Hotel Los Angeles 24th to 25th of October: 16,262 points or $189 (1.16¢ per point)
- Cranwell Resort, Spa, and Golf Clu (7th to 8th of November): 29,749 points or $315 (1.06¢ per point)
- Princess Anne Hotel 4th to 5th of December: 13,142 points or $247 (1.88¢ per point)
Unfortunately some hotels require you to request availability and don’t show their price in points. That being said it looks like points are worth around 1¢+, making this bonus worth $500+ towards independent hotels. Some things to keep in mind:
- Make sure you’ll actually be able to use the points
- This card is issued by Synchrony Bank. They are sensitive to too many new accounts, they don’t really care about inquiries. I’d recommend reading this post if your new to Synchrony cards (they also have a big offer of 50,000 on the Cathay Pacific card as well).
If you’re new to Stash make sure you sign up here to get 1,000 bonus points as well and then another 200 when you complete your profile.
Hat tip to r9anirudh on /r/churning
This calls for making purchases, getting the 10k points, and returning purchases. Thanks for the useless card Synchrony/Stash…
Received the card and completed the $3,000 spend requirement. After receiving the first statement, I only got 10,000 bonus points. Sigh…
Contacted chat and they gave the spiel about it only being available for people who got the email. They put in a request with the rewards team to see what they can do, but I’m not holding my breath.
What other recourse do we have in this situation?
Did they get back to you on matching the 40k points yet?
Yes, sadly they just pasted the terms of the offer in the email and said I was not on the list of recipients for the 50k offer, so I would only qualify for the 10k offer.
Thanks, was about to apply for this (says expired up top but the link is still working), I’ll pass & hope to receive the 50k email someday….
Don’t forget to send in arbitration removal letter incase you have to battle. It’s in the terms that you can send it within 60 days of opening.
Since reddit won’t let me post because of my karma ill put my DP here, Wife applied and approved, received platinum version of the card with the little 10k paper. Called and costumer service rep confirmed 10k + 40k was tied to my account as long as I applied through the email. We’ll see how much this is enforced, might require some annoying phone calls. definitely YMMV
Did you receive the offer via email or just say you applied through the email? I’m curious if there’s a way to verify that on their end.
Kinda have a bad feeling about this one… after chatting with the customer service online and trying to get confirmation about the 50k offer linked to my account, she kept saying as long as you received the offer sent out on 10/9 directly from us and applied through the link. Oh well, I guess ill just have to do the $3k spend and see how it goes. Maybe play dumb and act like I didnt realize I didnt qualify if that doesnt work, get a courtesy match
One thing to temember when signing up:
“If you do not qualify for a Stash Hotel Rewards Visa Signature card you will automatically be considered for the Stash Hotel Rewards Visa Platinum card”
So you might get approved for a Statsh lower version just like i once got approved for BOA Alaska Airlines for a lower version and only recieved 5K points instead of 30K.
Do you know till when the elevated bonus will be available? With 5% cash back on freedom & discover etc, spending another $3k will be difficult, so asking what’s the last date if you know from your sources?
Please ignore, found in terms & conditions. Valid through 16/11.
Do we know if targeted language is enforced by synchrony in general? Since below is in the terms on the signup page.
“This offer is valid only for the intended email recipient and is non-transferable”
Missed that before, added it to the post. No idea if enforced or not.
On top of the 1,000 points, you can also get another 200 points for “completing your profile”. There is a link in the new member email
Thanks, added to the post.
Applied for Cathay first and then Stash later on the same day. Resulted in 2 transunion inquiries. Stash was auto approved. Cathay is still pending.
Looks like I was approved for both. applied on the same day, but two inquiries
Applied for Cathay card, got pending message. Applied for stash card later on the same day, auto approved.