Several of the bank points do allow you to transfer your points to another user such as a spouse. Specifically, I know that Chase Ultimate Rewards do allow this, as I just did it. When I closed out my Sapphire Preferred account, leaving me without a “premium” Chase account, I transferred my rewards to my wife’s account – since she has a new Ink card, we’ll still be able to transfer them to their range of partners.
I had a recent trip where I rented a car, and used my Barclay Arrival card to pay for it. Following my handy guide in how to redeem them, I got to the redemption page, only to find…..
Well shoot! I don’t have quite enough to pay for it. Ironically, if I redeemed 20,000 miles towards it, I would get another 2000 miles back as a rebate, which would almost be enough to pay the rest of it, but they do have a rule that says you can only redeem points against a particular transaction one time.
So my next thought was that my wife also has an Arrival card, and has a decent number of points there. So…
Can you transfer points from one account to another?
NO!
There, now that makes a short blog post, right? :-D.
I looked for ways to do that on the website and did not find a way. I searched the Internet and there did not seem to be any indication that you could do it.
I sent a message to Barclay customer service asking for clarification and I’ll let you know what they say, but until then, I think the answer is no. If anyone has had any luck doing so, please let us know in the comments.
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I’ll split up my travel purchases for situations such as this one. I’ll put part on mine and part on my wife’s so that we can cover the costs between our two cards.
Yeah if I had realized how much it would be then I think that I would have done something like that.