Citi Has Some Very Strange Ideas On How I Plan To Spend My Extra Cash Points

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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