The following credit card promotions below are offering $100 cash rewards or gift cards simply for signing up for a credit card with their company. You can easily cancel the card after you activate and receive your reward without any cost or obligation.
If you need a credit card for Christmas Shopping it may make sense to get one of these reward cards to take advantage of the rewards offered by these programs.
The Citi® Professional Card offers you 0% APR on all purchases for 9 months and no annual fee, so you can borrow money for FREE for 9 months and then keep the card for FREE as well as get the $100 bonus Gift Card.
The American Express® Preferred Rewards Gold Card gives you 0% APR on all purchases for 12 months and is fee free for the first year so you can borrow money for FREE on this card PLUS get a $100 Gift Card as an added bonus.
The American Express® Starwood Preferred Guest Card gives you 2.9% APR on all purchases and is fee free for the first year, but it offers better hotel and airlines rewards than the other cards. So it only makes sense to get this card if you plan on using it for it’s travel rewards. It aso has the $100 Gift Card as an added signon bonus like the others.
Citi Professional Card - Get a $100 Gift Card
Citibank is offering 10,000 bonus ThankYou Points after your first purchase that can then be redeemed for a $100 gift card.
You also get 3 ThankYou Points for every dollar you spend on purchases at restaurants, gas stations, on auto rentals and at certain office supply merchants and 1 point for every dollar you spend on other purchases. These points can be redeemed for air travel, statement credit, gift cards and certificates, merchandise or to create your own reward.
Note: If you have a pop-up blocker, turn it off temporarily. Now click on the application link above, and then try to close the window by hitting the X. You may score an pop-up offer for 5,000 extra ThankYou points, for a total of $150 in gift cards!
American Express Preferred Rewards Gold Card - Get a $100 Gift Card
American Express is offering 10,000 Membership Rewards® Bonus points after your first purchase which is good for a $100 Gift Card at a variety of different merchants.
With this card you are also eligible for their Membership Rewards Program and various other offers.
NOTE: This card has no annual fee for the first year, but does carry a $125 annual fee if you have the card over 12 months.
American Express Starwood Preferred Guest Card - Get a $100 Gift Card
Another offer from American Express is the Starwood Preferred Guest Card which is currently giving out 10,000 Starwood points after your first purchase. That’s enough for a $100 Gift Card to Amazon.com, Gap, Nordstrom, Banana Republic, and over a hundred other preferred merchants.
These 10,000 points are also good for up to 3 free nights at Starwood hotels like Four Points Sheraton. If you like airline miles, you can get 1.25 frequent flier miles per point, 25% more than other airline-specific cards and use them at over 30 different airlines without any blackout dates! This card is great for people who like to travel and make the most of their existing frequent flier miles!
NOTE: This card has no annual fee for the first year, but does carry a $125 annual fee if you have the card over 12 months.
I signed up for all three of these cards and promply received my $100 Reward Card for each within 14 days of activating my card. The Citibank card only took only days to show up. I would recommend doing this for anyone with good credit. It took me very little time to sign up for all three cards above, receive them in the mail, activate them, receive my reward gift cards for $100 each, and then cancel all three cards.
The total cost was $0 and less than 2 hours of time. The total reward was $300.