Got a fun little e-mail in my inbox a few minutes ago. Plastiq is offering one fee free dollar for every dollar spent with a Mastercard on Plastiq through October 31, 2018.
You must:
- Pay with a Mastercard credit card (though I tried a gift card, we’ll see)
- Initiate payment on or after 10/11/2018
- Have payment scheduled for 10/31/2018 or before
- Pay the regular 2.5% fee on your payment (you cannot apply fee free dollars)
- Be targeted – check your e-mails
The e-mail subject to search is “Earn FFDs when you pay with Mastercard”
If my math is correct, you can basically cut your payments down to a 1.25% fee, provided you use the fee free dollars in the future. I am now regretting recently completing my Mastercard minimum spend! 🙂
Plastiq says FFDs will be credited on 11/1/2018.
Hope you were targeted!
My rental company charges a 3% surcharge for using a credit card to pay (rather than a bank transfer). As such I never really wanted to fuss with Plastiq over the .5%. I usually pay by CC when I’m meeting a 3 month minimum spend marathon, so that extra .5% over 3 months does increase the ‘cost’ of the points a bit, I always found it to be an ok trade off. But a 1.25% fee is kinda tempting, but it’s too bad it’s for such a limited time.