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SPG vs Capital One
« on: February 22, 2017, 11:23:09 AM »
For someone that doesn’t stay much in hotels and books airline tickets at whim (not much time to wait for points to transfer), what is a better credit card to accumulate points on? AMEX SPG or Capital One?

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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2017, 12:00:14 PM »
For someone that doesn’t stay much in hotels and books airline tickets at whim (not much time to wait for points to transfer), what is a better credit card to accumulate points on? AMEX SPG or Capital One?
You basically sound like you made a decision already. It sounds like your question can be rephrased as a statement: "Being that I have no use for spg points, should I just accumulate points on capitol one for a 1% cash back"

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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2017, 01:00:32 PM »
For someone that doesn’t stay much in hotels and books airline tickets at whim (not much time to wait for points to transfer), what is a better credit card to accumulate points on? AMEX SPG or Capital One?
Why are those the only options?
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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2017, 01:09:09 PM »
Have not made any decision yet. Have been using SPG for years accumulating many many points and then selling them for about 1.65 cents per point. Someone recommended Capital One Business which offers 2 cents cash back on every dollar charged (so I was told). Asking for people with experience if it makes sense to start using a Capital One Business card going forward. If there are other (better) options, I'd love to hear them please.

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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2017, 01:11:08 PM »
Have not made any decision yet. Have been using SPG for years accumulating many many points and then selling them for about 1.65 cents per point. Someone recommended Capital One Business which offers 2 cents cash back on every dollar charged (so I was told). Asking for people with experience if it makes sense to start using a Capital One Business card going forward. If there are other (better) options, I'd love to hear them please.
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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2017, 01:49:27 PM »
For someone that doesn’t stay much in hotels and books airline tickets at whim (not much time to wait for points to transfer), what is a better credit card to accumulate points on? AMEX SPG or Capital One?
If all you do is selling the value of spg at 1.6 why wouldn't it make sense to get a value of 2 CPP plus not having to deal with selling it

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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2017, 01:53:59 PM »
FU= 1.5 PPD x ~ 1.4-1.5 CPP= 2.1-2.25 CPP
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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2017, 02:15:44 PM »
FU= 1.5 PPD x ~ 1.4-1.5 CPP= 2.1-2.25 CPP
Please explain for the lay person. I don't understand your brevity.

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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2017, 02:22:05 PM »
FU= 1.5 PPD x ~ 1.4-1.5 CPP= 2.1-2.25 CPP
He would probably need the CSR to get that level of CPP. If it is not d done yet I will explain what she and I wrote soon.
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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2017, 02:31:06 PM »
FU= 1.5 PPD x ~ 1.4-1.5 CPP= 2.1-2.25 CPP
Please explain for the lay person. I don't understand your brevity.
Freedom unlimited will give you 1.5 points per dollar, multiplied by approximately 1.4 to 1.5 cents per point [via grey market sale, or redemption value, which gives you a net of either] 2.1 or 2.5 cents per point.

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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #10 on: February 22, 2017, 03:37:11 PM »
Freedom unlimited will give you 1.5 points per dollar, multiplied by approximately 1.4 to 1.5 cents per point [via grey market sale, or redemption value, which gives you a net of either] 2.1 or 2.5 cents per point.
And I added that with Chase sapphire reserve it would them give a redemption value of .015 per point fur travel through Chase
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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2018, 11:54:58 PM »
Have not made any decision yet. Have been using SPG for years accumulating many many points and then selling them for about 1.65 cents per point. Someone recommended Capital One Business which offers 2 cents cash back on every dollar charged (so I was told). Asking for people with experience if it makes sense to start using a Capital One Business card going forward. If there are other (better) options, I'd love to hear them please.
of course, that or a CITI double cash, no annual fee.
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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2018, 12:19:46 AM »
of course, that or a CITI double cash, no annual fee.
Why are you responding to a post from almost a year ago?
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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2018, 12:26:05 AM »
Why are you responding to a post from almost a year ago?
my specialty ;D

saw the topic after doing a search for capital one, figured might as well chime in -still a good good resources for all. 
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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2018, 10:47:15 AM »
No one asked if the CC was for personal or business spend.

No one asked what the OPs spend patterns are.


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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #15 on: April 22, 2018, 12:02:00 AM »
Never looked into capital one but got a mail offer of 100k and 2ppd.....Anything worth doing or stay away?

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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #16 on: April 22, 2018, 01:32:31 AM »
Never looked into capital one but got a mail offer of 100k and 2ppd.....Anything worth doing or stay away?

Pretty good, why not do it?
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Re: SPG vs Capital One
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2018, 12:45:21 AM »
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