Southwest cardmembers, redeem for gift cards for 20% fewer points through Dec 15th, 2011

kwest said:   Well not really a good deal but thanks for sharing.

Math:
Value/pt @ Amazon = 50/4000 or $0.0125
Value/pt @ SW Flight = 1/60 or $0.0167

True, but you can't buy pots and pans/video games/kindles/toilet paper/crackers (not in that order) on Southwest.com, so this is good for those of us who have more points that we can use in the near future as an alternative

kwest said:   Well not really a good deal but thanks for sharing.

Math:
Value/pt @ Amazon = 50/4000 or $0.0125
Value/pt @ SW Flight = 1/60 or $0.0167

It's only a matter of time before Amazon adds tavel booking business.

mysteryAgain said:   kwest said:   Well not really a good deal but thanks for sharing.

Math:
Value/pt @ Amazon = 50/4000 or $0.0125
Value/pt @ SW Flight = 1/60 or $0.0167

It's only a matter of time before Amazon adds tavel booking business.

You are funny. I like it.

sbjagan said:   Guys, may be this is a dumb question. I already have chase southwest card my rewards statement says i have 50000 points credited. Now how do i redeem it. I went and created a southwest account, now how to get this 50000 points to the southwest website account?. please help

Usually what happens is that Chase or Southwest will credit a new account if they can't find a current SW account that matches your name and address. So what likely happened is that somewhere out there, there is 50,000 points in a SW account, you just have to find out the account number. Chase may know (try customer service on the back of your card), or Southwest may be able to look it up as well via their customer service.

Others may have dealt with this in the past, so they may have more info, but my advice would be to call and ask what SW account # the points were deposited too (via Chase customer service or SW customer service).

THANKS OP, Amazon etc at 20% off, great for us wingless birds.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

diljs said:   Is anyone else unable to order?

I sign into my rapid rewards account, follow the link to order gift cards, and when I click "add to cart" the site says:

In order to add items to your cart you must be a Rapid Rewards Credit Cardmember.

1. If you are already a Cardmember, but are not logged into your Rapid Rewards account, click here to login.
2. If you are not a Cardmember and would like to learn more about the benefits of the card, click here.

If I click to login in link 1, it sends me through an endless cycle of the same process.[/

It worked for me on Friday night, when I tried it again on Saturday I got the same error as yours. Maybe they are down this weekend. I guess we can try again later.

sbjagan said:   Guys, may be this is a dumb question. I already have chase southwest card my rewards statement says i have 50000 points credited. Now how do i redeem it. I went and created a southwest account, now how to get this 50000 points to the southwest website account?. please help

Your printed/pdf Chase statement should list the southwest RR #, I think.

I'm getting the same problem:

"I sign into my rapid rewards account, follow the link to order gift cards, and when I click "add to cart" the site says:

In order to add items to your cart you must be a Rapid Rewards Credit Cardmember.

1. If you are already a Cardmember, but are not logged into your Rapid Rewards account, click here to login.
2. If you are not a Cardmember and would like to learn more about the benefits of the card, click here.

If I click to login in link 1, it sends me through an endless cycle of the same process."

I called Chase when getting the same error (In order to add items to your cart you must be a Rapid Rewards Credit Cardmember.) -- They quickly told me it was a known issue and to try again on the 27th. That was yesterday - I still got the error, tried again today (Friday 28th) and it's STILL not working. Very frustrated & disappointed.

Edit: Actually -- I called Southwest FIRST and was told they couldn't help me. They tried to give me a number to something called 'Member Rewards' but gave me the number to a random Marriott hotel instead. I then called CHASE who stated the above. I'm going to call back today & will update.

tjguitar85 said:   So I redeemed for 14 $50 Amazon gift cards. They sent me 28 $25 gift cards. This is going to be a lot of claim codes to enter. LoL.

How is it possible? Was it a glitch?

HumDoHamaraDo said:   I got packet full of $25 Amazon gift cards too, actually not a bad way to gift someone.

Thinking of exploiting this option, too. Still as to whether better alternative to cash those points.

nthony said:   I called Chase when getting the same error (In order to add items to your cart you must be a Rapid Rewards Credit Cardmember.) -- They quickly told me it was a known issue and to try again on the 27th. That was yesterday - I still got the error, tried again today (Friday 28th) and it's STILL not working. Very frustrated & disappointed.

Edit: Actually -- I called Southwest FIRST and was told they couldn't help me. They tried to give me a number to something called 'Member Rewards' but gave me the number to a random Marriott hotel instead. I then called CHASE who stated the above. I'm going to call back today & will update.

Did you ever fix the problem?

SRI3456 said:   I still get this message. Any workaround for this? Thanks.

In order to add items to your cart you must be a Rapid Rewards Credit Cardmember.

1. If you are already a Cardmember, but are not logged into your Rapid Rewards account, click here to login.
2. If you are not a Cardmember and would like to learn more about the benefits of the card, click here.

what you need to do:
1. Log into your SW account on any browser.
2. then go to my account, on the left side, RIGHT CLICK on Redeem for more reward (blue text), select copy link location, or if you are on IE, select Properties, then copy the whole URL
3. Paste the link into another tab, change the last part ....Flag=False to Flat=true
4. It should work this way. enjoy~

Credits go to Yumikogirl from SD.

BTPlayer said:   SRI3456 said:   I still get this message. Any workaround for this? Thanks.

In order to add items to your cart you must be a Rapid Rewards Credit Cardmember.

1. If you are already a Cardmember, but are not logged into your Rapid Rewards account, click here to login.
2. If you are not a Cardmember and would like to learn more about the benefits of the card, click here.

what you need to do:
1. Log into your SW account on any browser.
2. then go to my account, on the left side, RIGHT CLICK on Redeem for more reward (blue text), select copy link location, or if you are on IE, select Properties, then copy the whole URL
3. Paste the link into another tab, change the last part ....Flag=False to Flat=true
4. It should work this way. enjoy~

Credits go to Yumikogirl from SD.

FINALLY a fix, thanks for reposting that here.

Thanks for the post, I saw it awhile ago and just redeemed $500 worth of WalMart GC, I use em at Sam's, and going to reallocate the $500 towards some hotel costs in Cambodia.

It does NOT work placing an order online. I tried every methods.

it took me about 1.5 months to set up the rewards account. I'd advise to call again and hope next representative will be more accommodating.

Hello, I called customer service 3 times today and they said that I can no longer order through phone for the Amazon gc. I am getting the same error.

Has anyone seen 20% off deals like this in the past with Southwest?

I just got my 50k points and am debating if I redeem them now or later. My chief concern with holding the points for too long is that if they begin to devalue them in the future, it could impact how much I get.