I have a love and hate relationship with the Cap1 portal. I only love it because it will sometimes pay an outrageously higher rate than any other portal out there. But they are so trigger happy to ban you for any random reason. Anyway, I was about to buy some phones from HSN the other day. I didn’t go through with the purchase at the time. The next day, the Cap1 portal sends me a targetted email for 30% (mind you, the next best public portal was something like 10-15% at the time. By the way, you’ll want the extension installed for this so they can big brother you. I believe the following day, they upped it to 40%. Then another one of my accounts eventually got a 50% offer. UNREAL.
The lesson learned here is – before you buy something from like Saks… browse the Saks website, add some things to cart; possibly bail on checkout. Then wait a day or so and Cap1 should send you a ridiculously good offer. Just don’t go too nuts and get banned.