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Life is truly amazing. I was just going over some potential trip options with a friend, and one of the best ways to exact the trip she wanted, was utilizing starpoints. The problem…she was short and they weren’t on sale. I’d said to her that they very well could go back on sale, and if so, it would dramatically drop the price of her trip, but who knows when or if that will happen. VOILA – the Universe has responded. SPG has put their points on sale once more, this time until July 20th – clocking in at $0.02275 a point when you buy the max 30k points.
30k isn’t just an offer max, it’s the max you can purchase in a calendar year per account.
The total amount you can purchase in a year is 30k points.
The “potential” work around.
If you and your partner share an address, you can technically move points between accounts that share the same address. However, since the maximum points that can be purchased in a calendar year is 30k, some people have run into problems when both accounts purchase 30k and try to consolidate into one account with 60k. I haven’t personally attempted to do this, so I can’t comment on it myself, but anecdotally it seems many are still able to execute the 60k, but some have not. Just a word of caution before you attempt.
Per SPG:
Unlimited Starpoint transfers may occur if the following requirements are met:
- Both members live at the same address. (Starwood Vacation Network Owners (“Owners”) may transfer Starpoints between two designated Starwood Vacation Network Preferred Membership accounts, regardless of whether the accounts have the same residential address.)
- The recipient is not an employee of Starwood Hotels & Resorts.
- Neither member transferring to/from has a P.O. Box, APO, or SPO as their address.
- The addresses of both accounts must match for a minimum of 30 days prior to transfer.
- Both accounts must have been active for at least 30 days.
- Transfers must be done with a minimum of 1,000 Starpoints and in 1,000 Starpoint increments.
- Please allow up to 10 business days for the transfer to be completed or rejected.
Using Starpoints for airline redemptions
Remember for most transfer partners, 20k SPG points will convert into 25k airline miles. If you were able to combine two accounts into one, 30k purchases each – so 60k total, and then transferred those into an airline program like Asiana Club you’d wind up with 75k Airline miles. This is a great deal seeing as though you can fly from the US to Europe in Lufthansa First Class for just 50k miles. But watch out for added surcharges which can rack up fast.
If you just did one account and transferred the 30k, you’d end up with 35k – roughly 1.95 cents a point. Here’s a full list of transfer partners:
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2027.
- $95 Annual Fee
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
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