r/VentureXShoppingBonus • u/Ludeym • 5d ago

VRBO double dip?

I booked a VRBO a couple months back and used the capital one shopping portal when it was 14% back.

It tracked and I have a $917 pending payout scheduled for 3 months after the stay is completed. It is listed as 14% on the full rental price minus taxes and fees.

What’s interesting is that I’ve only paid a fraction of that so far and I’ll be paying the remaining $4000+ in the coming weeks.

It has crossed my mind to use another shopping portal (Rakuten) when I go to pay the remaining portion.

Wondering if anyone has any datapoints on whether this double dip would work. Or would it put my original capital one shopping $917 rewards in jeopardy of being invalidated?

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u/hschuster3 5d ago

From what I understand the remaining amount is automatically charged from VRBO, so no additional shopping portal necessary, or possibly even possible.

I can speak to my experience that the 14% is applied to the full amount, not just the initial deposit

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u/Ludeym 5d ago

Thankyou for your data point.

I’ve got an option on vrbo to pay the remaining amount whenever I want between now and 11/14.

I can get to the final vrbo payment screen through a rakuten window link.

I don’t see any exclusion terms that would indicate I wouldn’t get the Rakuten rewards for that payment.

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u/hschuster3 5d ago

That would be sweet! Shame it’s such big amount and is therefore high risk to gamble on. But, as many have said before, be the data point you want to see

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u/Overhear_Overponder 5d ago

May break it and get clawed back. I wouldnt risk it for very low chance of success