The Offer
- Shop at qualifying merchants using the Shopyourway portal and get 25% back
To max out this offer, make a purchase of $200 and get $50 back. Sounds like you only get the 25% on one purchase, so you’ll have to make a $200 purchase to max out.
The Fine Print
Getting 25% back from a shopping portal at popular merchants is awesome, but of course you have to factor in the hassle of dealing with SYW points. Personally, it was never worth my while for a few dollars, but at $50 it’s tempting.
It might even be 25% on top of the standard portal earnings (so Nike with be 35%, for example), but more likely the 25% replaces the regular portal earnings.
The SYW deal is also valid for Raise purchases as stated, but Raise typically pays out only for new users (up to $1k in purchases). While the SYW portal doesn’t mention this limitation, it seems to be enforced nonetheless. Buying gift cards from Raise probably won’t trigger the 25% bonus for veteran Raise customers.
Hat tip to reader Deb
Points posted on 11/18, total 15362 points, worth $15.36 towards purchase on SYW. However, the ratio is only 8%
9/18 One purchase $192.03 on Raise.com
11/18 Bonus points – SYW Affiliate – Raise Gift Cards – Points to be awarded real time and valid for 12 months
I did use a raise.com weekend promotion code to save a total of $2.79 so paying $189.24 indeed. Not sure if the remaining 17% will be posted at the end of the 45th day from purchase. Don’t know what I did wrong.
same here.
15,609 points posted on 11/18 for about $200 raise.com purchase.
They awarded the points but gave you a same negative balance at the very beginning. Anyone in the same boat?
Just in time for the last day of this promo, RAISE just released a special weekend promotion adding a 4% discount to any gc purchases…. (email announcement subject line, “long story short, it’s a weekend sale”)
btw, if I try to max out on this syw deal today via raise, does the $200 need to be in the purchase of just a single gift card, or can it be through a single transaction, comprised of more than one gc, totalling $200 or more, (I’m guessing the latter — yet am I missing something — any data points out there?)
I think it needs to be a single purchase. No data points, though.
Bought another set of gift cards on raise.com by using my major shop your way account, also used their promo code WEEKEND which expires on 9/18 @ 11:59 PM CST. Will advise once 25% shop your way points posted.
Do SYW points have to be used at Sears? In which case this is a hard sell as I struggle to find anything to buy at Sears at all these days…
Kmart too, check out this Frequentmiler post http://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/2016/05/20/how-to-buy-stuff-that-doesnt-suck-with-shop-your-way-rewards/
Lowes should combine with the Amex sync offer if you got it. I wonder if you could buy a lowes physical gift card online to stack both offers. Does anyone know if that works? Thanks
Nice! I assume gift cards don’t work, but gotta search data points