[Targeted] Capital One Venture X 50,000 Point Upgrade Offer

The Offer

No direct link to offer, sent out via e-mail. Subject line is ‘Your limited-time upgrade invitation: Earn 50,000 bonus miles’

  • Some existing Capital One Venture cardholders are being offered an upgrade to the Capital One Venture X card and a bonus of 50,000 points after $5,000 in spend within three months

Our Verdict

The Capital One Venture X card currently has a 100,000 point bonus that most people will prefer. The advantage to this upgrade offer is that it will probably be easier to get approved for.

Hat tip to Points Yak

View Comments (21)

  • Today I got the offer but for 75,000 miles! Email title: “Your limited-time upgrade invitation: Earn 75,000 bonus miles”. Deadline 12/22/2022.

    Seems like a good offer, I might actually do it!

  • I got this email today:
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    Quicksilver Visa ending in ....
    .........., you're invited to experience Venture X

    Earn 50,000 bonus miles when you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months after you upgrade.

    See upgrade offer (link)

    We value you as a Capital One customer—that’s why we’re excited to offer you an opportunity to experience Venture X without applying. All you have to do is claim your offer to upgrade by December 22, 2022.

    When you upgrade your current card to Venture X, you’ll keep the same account number, APR, credit line and payment due date.

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    I won't be accepting this offer. Besides the difficulty in meeting $4000 in minimum spend, I just don't trust Capital One to actually approve me, even with this direct invitation... and even IF they "value" me as a customer.

    I'll probably close my Quicksilver, eventually. I still have their 360 Checking, just for the no-FTF international ATM withdrawals.

  • I am kicking myself for closing venture and 360 account 5 months ago. I hope BoA offers a premium card better than Venture X. My AF was only $59.

  • Can I assume if I get the offer that I'm preapproved? Or am I going to get 3 hard credit pulls and a rejection?

    • If you received the offer you are pre approved. They aren’t doing any hard pulls; you’ll receive an instant upgrade. This is the language in the email:

      “We value you as a Capital One customer—that’s why we’re excited to offer you an opportunity to experience Venture X WITHOUT APPLYING. All you have to do is claim your offer to upgrade by December 02, 2021.”

      I was on the verge of upgrading a couple weeks ago but held off at the last minute and received this offer last night. I have all 3 credit bureaus locked, and just clicked the button in the email with instant success. So no HP’s and a 5/24 spot is preserved for future use. Not a bad deal.

        • and avoided $5,000 extra spend.

          Not hard to find a card to spend $5k on that would use what you gained to get a better return, and probably still getting inquiries on fewer bureaus.

        • I don’t think I would have been approved for it otherwise. I took advantage of the CSP 100,000 UR’s offer in mid October, and also got a Barclay’s card around the same time. That’s too many recent inquiries/cards in a short period of time for Cap1. So this was the best option for me at this time.

  • I got a targeted offer before from them - not an upgrade - and still got denied.
    Can people post if they successfully upgraded with no problem if you got the targeted upgrade offer (just curious)?

    Thank you

  • I hate being jealous. How are all you people qualifying for Capital One? I’ve got like 500,000 pulls from them and zero cards.

  • I would definitely do this. I just downgraded my $30k savor card to venture one. i have two capital one cards I’ve totally outgrown. I would use venture X, but I’m not applying for another card.

    • @guest_1286085 so u got an upgrade offer for venture X card after already applying for venture X? approved?

        • Casey W Kaim can you forward me youe email? I deleted mine and capital one is telling me it didnt have 50,000 miles in there so I upgraded and they wont honor it. Could you forward it or screenshot and email to derekleblanc80@gmail.com?