It all makes sense. Your spending the money anyway, so with a bit of planning you can strech the dollar quite a bit it seems. Looking at the "on-line" mall along with all the other retail partners, I've realized IF I had known.....My first trip on Amtrak, Nov '14, I went round trip to Dallas and back. I spent two weeks in East Texas Panhandle visiting relations. Had a rental car from Enterprise all 2 weeks, had I known.............and with what I buy at Home Depot to keep up this house.....and so on. I'll definatly be studying this for the rest of the day and getting familiar with it all. Once again, Much THANKS to all for sharing all your knowledge and experience.
some clarification, please...
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To make it clear for OP, let me elaborate on your comment. "You have to do all your shopping through the AGR website" makes it sound like you can't get any points if you don't do all your shopping there. The only way to get points is when you use their link. Going direct or through any other portal means you don't get points for that transaction.
For everyone, let's say you are searching and find what you want at a store then go to the portal. You are not likely to get your points because of previous cookies. For example, I use dealnews.com to find deals. If I find a deal at walmart.com and check the deal on Wally's site, cookies are placed by both wally and dealnews. I then clear all those cookies in my browser (or use a different browser) then go to Amtrak's portal, go to wally's site from there then order my item.
You do NOT need an AGR credit card to use the AGR shopping portal. You can use any payment method accepted by the retailer. You will still get the shopping points, you'll just not earn the credit card points. If you do use the AGR credit card, you will get the shopping points PLUS the 1 point/$ earned by use of the AGR credit card. Going through the "shopping portal "will (should)" get your AGR info to the retailer.
That's VERY IMPORTANT INFO to know, about clearing "cookies", etc. THANK YOU
Further clarification, if anyone knows for certain....I understand most of the previous post Frensicpic wrote... BUT...... if I buy an item thru the Amtrak Guest Rewards Mall "program", (or whatever it's called), and use a credit card OTHER THAN the "Amtrak" B of A rewards card, MY credit card, be it Citibank, Chase or....I'll still get whathatever points THAT credit card offers on purchases, ... correct or no???
Further clarification, if anyone knows for certain....I understand most of the previous post Frensicpic wrote... BUT...... if I buy an item thru the Amtrak Guest Rewards Mall "program", (or whatever it's called), and use a credit card OTHER THAN the "Amtrak" B of A rewards card, MY credit card, be it Citibank, Chase or....I'll still get whathatever points THAT credit card offers on purchases, ... correct or no???
Ryan
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Hello all and again Thank You to all who have contributed info to this series of postings. I, for one, am very grateful to all. I just completed my first purchase through the Amtrak Guest Rewards "Mall", booking a hotel in Seattle. Used my normal credit card. In all, I think I got 7000 points for the transaction, 4,000 for the hotel & 3000 bonus for signing up with Rocket-something ..don't know for certain until it all done appears on the Guest Rewards account.
....................."It ain't over 'till it's over." (Yogi B,, rest in peace, brave man)
....................."It ain't over 'till it's over." (Yogi B,, rest in peace, brave man)
