Is there no limit to what banking rewards programs will cover these days? Flights, hotel rooms, rental cars, electronics, women. Wait — what?
Consumerist reader F. is a member of Citi’s Extra Cash rewards program and saw they could earn 100 points just for taking this survey. But when F. got to this question about “What products or services are you considering purchasing using your Extra Cash?”, they noticed that apparently Extra Cash can be spent on adult human females.
We’re sending this to Citi, because we’re pretty sure this isn’t what the survey was meant to say.
[UPDATE: As we'd guessed, a rep for Citi confirms, "This appears to be an input error with our vendor. The correct category should have been 'Women's Apparel.' Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The error has now been corrected."]
And it gives us a reason to run this clip from the Blues Brothers:
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Sadly, the first thing I thought of was also that Blues Brothers clip.
There’s nothing sad about that!
My God! Why would that make you sad!?
Perhaps that he’s on the internet, and not watching that awesome movie.
Orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip?
Waitress, three orange whips!
Also, isn’t all money, ultimately, spent on women?
/ducks
First you spend money trying to get them to marry, you, then they get what’s left when they divorce you.
This is glue….. Strong stuff.
R.I.P. John Candy….
Also, “We’re on a Mission from God.”
John Candy? I can’t watch the the video, but I think that it is Belushi.
Yeah…don’t recall John Candy being in Blues Brothers.
Yep, he was a parole officer working with the state troopers.
OOOOOOOoooooooo…ok
I recently learned that Duck Dunn passed earlier this year, too.
“Are you the police?”
“No, ma’am. We’re musicians.”
Let’s be honest, I be the women option is winning
And, of course, Citi has some affiliated businesses that will be happy to take those extra monies or points to provide you with “women.”
How sexist. There should be an option for men as well.
The bank knows that no one really wants to buy men.
They’re a dime a dozen!
and it never just rains women.
Hallelujah!
They should have at least added Marijuana as well.
If it’s good enough for Target, why not?
(A couple years ago, someone broke into Target’s website and added marijuana as an online purchase. Wish I’d screenshot’d it!)
Whoever wrote that survey must’ve come off a gig at the Boston Phoenix… HI-YOOOOO
As an IT programmer, I think this is hysterical but also alarming that
the Citi IT people didn’t even check the survey before it went live.
This is the sort of thing that is pretty harmless and most often gets
caught way ahead of “opening night” so I say go for it.
gross.
gross.
Sorry, didn’t see it had submitted.