Update 6/22/26: Reposting as a reminder to use your $150 Stubhub credit before the 6/30 deadline. You can also get 10x back from Rakuten today. And if you check out with Paze you can get 10x rewards on the purchase + $10 back.
Chase added $300 in annual StubHub credits to the Sapphire Reserve card, split into $150 from January through June and $150 from July through December. This benefit is available at least through December 2027.
Using The $150 StubHub Credit
- Activate: This is the only Chase Sapphire Reserve credit must be activated before making a purchase. Card > Card Benefits > StubHub > Activate. (The terms indicate that you just need to activate one time before your first use and it’ll be set up for all future years without requiring activation.) If you forget to activate before purchase, try activating soon-after and you might be pleasantly surprised to see it work.
- Gift card purchases: Gift card purchases on StubHub or Viagogo will not work to trigger the credit. It’s excluded in the terms and reports confirm this does not work.
- Purchase timing: The credit triggers based on when the purchase posts, not the date of the event. For example, you can buy tickets on StubHub on December 20, 2025 for an event in March 2026, and you’ll use up your 2025 StubHub credit on the purchase since payment posted before December 31, 2025.
- Viagogo purchases: Any ticket purchased directly through StubHub.com or its sister site Viagogo.com works. Viagogo shows the same inventory as StubHub and sometimes tickets are cheaper there. Purchases in the StubHub and Viagogo app work as well.
- Taxes and fees; small purchases: All taxes and fees will get credited. E.g. if you buy a ticket for $130 and it comes out to $151 after taxes/fees, you’ll get a full $150 credit. If it comes out to $147, you’ll get $147 credit. If the total is $1 you’ll get a $1 credit and you can then make another purchase to use up the remaining $149 credit. (Personally, when I checked out a purchase on Stubhub there were no fees/taxes added at all. That might not always be the case.)
- Credit posting: Chase says to allow 2 billing cycles for credit, though most post within a few days.
- Payment types: Aside from direct credit card payments, StubHub accepts Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Paypal. Using your Sapphire Reserve via Apple or Google Pay should work to trigger the credit. We have confirmed reports of getting the credit when using Paypal. (See this post for general discussion on electronic wallets. Paypal is often trickier, and there is a chance that Chase support won’t manually credit in the event that something goes wrong with the automatic credit posting, so there is a slight risk to using Paypal.)
- Split payments: StubHub does not allow splitting payments between two cards. Reportedly, Paypal does offer the split-payment option for Stubhub purchases. That’s useful for a household with two Sapphire Reserve card and they want to make one large Stubhub purchase – if you get the split payment option via Paypal you can put part on one card and part on the other.
Here are the full Chase terms for the credit:
One-time activation required on chase.com or the Chase Mobile® app. A statement credit will be automatically applied to your account for qualifying purchases with StubHub and viagogo up to a maximum accumulation of $150 in statement credits from January 1 through June 30 and up to $150 from July 1 through December 31, for a total maximum accumulation of $300 in statement credits each calendar year through 12/31/27. Calendar year means January 1 through December 31 of that same year. Statement credit periods end at 11:59 PM ET on the last day of the period. Please note that merchant delays in the processing or submission of transactions can cause purchases made during one statement credit period to be allocated to the next period. Qualifying purchases are when you or an authorized user of the account use the card for purchases (excluding gift cards) made directly with StubHub and viagogo through stubhub.com and the StubHub app and viagogo.com and the viagogo app. Please note that purchases for events in the UK cannot be completed through stubhub.com and you will be redirected to stubhub.co.uk, operated by StubHub International, to complete these purchases; StubHub is not affiliated with StubHub International and these purchases will not qualify. Call the number on the back of your card to find out eligibility for your next $300 Annual StubHub Credit. The $300 Annual StubHub Credit must be available at the time qualifying purchases are made to be applied to your account. Please allow 6 to 8 weeks for statement credit(s) to appear on your monthly credit card billing statement. We may reverse statement credits if an eligible purchase is returned, canceled, or modified or if you close your account within 90 days of receiving a statement credit. No minimum purchase required.
Maximizing & Stacking
- Paze payment stack: If you have the Paze offer for 10x, you can pay on Stubhub with your Sapphire Reserve card via Paze and get an extra 10x back. Valid through December 2026.
- Paze payment stack: Checkout on Stubhub with Paze and get $10 back. Valid through 9/10/26.
- Shopping portal: Before buying, check the shopping portal rates. Consider timing your purchase with a high shopping portal offer. We’ve seen Rakuten offer 10x at StubHub, for example. (Also always worth clicking around in the Capital One Shopping portal and waiting a day to see if they email you a special offer. See also this Rove portal offer for Stubhub.)
- Reselling StubHub: You can buy a ticket on StubHub and resell it on StubHub. Just keep in mind the risk of the ticket going unsold – especially important for amateur sellers who are unfamiliar with ticket market trends. You’ll also get hit with 10-15% seller fees from StubHub so you won’t end up with a full $150 profit.
- Check Viagogo: As noted, Viagogo purchases work for the StubHub credit. Viagogo carries the same inventory and sometimes has lower prices than StubHub.
- Stack with discounted gift cards: As noted, buying gift cards on StubHub will not work to trigger the Chase StubHub credit. However, you can use gift cards to your advantage in another way: if you find StubHub gift cards on sale, buy them and apply them to your StubHub account. Then, when making a large StubHub purchase, the gift card can cover most of the cost and you’ll put the final $150 on your Sapphire card. Check this link to see if we covered any StubHub gift card deals on DoC.
- Important: you can’t tell StubHub how much to put on the gift card balance, and so you’ll have to plan out how high your gift card balance is. For example, if you want a $500 StubHub purchase, apply $350 in gift cards to your StubHub account and then the final $150 will be able to go on your Sapphire card.
- StubHub gift cards work on Viagogo and vice versa.
- Timing your purchase: Sometimes StubHub prices will be better as you get closer to an event. If you’re flexible with planning you might be able to get a better buy.
- Split Payment: As noted, there are reports that the credit works with Paypal. Thus, you can split your StubHub purchase between two Sapphire Reserve cards via Paypal.
- Pay for Parking: It’s been noted that you can pay for parking at venues on Stubhub (and cost could be the same as paying direct).
- Backup plan: If you don’t have any use for StubHub, here are some things to consider:
- Gift: Buy a ticket as a gift for a friend.
- Resell: Buy a ticket and try reselling it on StubHub. If you’re not a ticket expert, buy something as close to $150 as possible (after taxes and fees) so that you don’t have anything to lose.
- Portal: Do it for the portal – even without reselling the ticket, you can buy a ticket which comes out to exactly $150 after taxes and fees and you’ll net the portal rewards. Small win.
Let us know what we’re missing or if anything here is incorrect.
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There are “instant download” tickets, you can search for these tickets if you check this option in search settings. This is the kind of tickets your P2 bought because your P1 uploaded the ticket to Stubhub, so it is instantly available for download. Otherwise you can be waiting for the ticket up to the event time, your P1 was lucky to get it soon after purchase. Your P2 can sell to P3. P3 can use P1’s CSR, preferably through PayPal to distinguish it from P1 using the same card.
Correct… which was not explained by the comments that I saw… Those recommending playing hot potato with the same tickets as the months roll by have to wait until the ticketed event happens to get paid. Then there is the “PROTIP” DP below, which might be on to something, but didn’t explain it well enough. Probably because whatever it is, it’s less than legit. I’d love to hear more on how this works, XP1 .
Massive offers at C1S for me today. 30% back on the website/app, and 60% via email. Guess which one I used, heh. Should’ve waited and checked my email but still a decent offer, especially if you have a CSR credit to use.
If you sell or resell a ticket on Stubhub, you will not get paid by Stubhub until the event (concert, sport, or whatever the ticket is for) day comes, correct?
12% on Rakuten on 7/15
P2’s purchase did eventually track on Capital One Shopping. Took two days instead of one. Payout projected as Aug 24th. Pretty sure the plan mentioned in #2295099 will not work. Did anyone actually see this work, same ticket, passed back and forth? I don’t believe it will work because my P1 will not get paid for the original ticket sale until after the show actually happens. (Feb 2027) It would be silly to keep buying/selling the same ticket between two parties in the interim. I’m reducing the price on my ticket and hopefully it will sell. Probably would have made more sense to buy a pair of tickets at a cheaper event/worse section, as few people buy singles, I imagine. Lessons learned. This half of the year I will probably try to use the credit the legit way and not resell. 1st world problems.
PROTIP: Find a ticket that is 1+ cardmember year. It will likely not have an actual ticket to transfer yet. That way, you can do the triple dip and resell the same ticket (P1 to Pn) without delivering/transferring any tickets.
Just thought I’d share my experience for my first time buying and reselling a ticket using Stubhub. Bought a BTS ticket for about $143. Went through capital one rewards since I had some $100 offer booking an entertainment ticket. After ticket was purchased, had to accept the ticket through Ticketmaster. Initially had issues accepting ticket since was getting error messages. Ticketmaster is a bit of a pain because they are very fraud sensitive. If you try to login to your account multiple places (app, desktop, etc) your account will get flagged easily and get some error just getting to the site like ‘Your browsing has been paused’. Had to call them the next morning and somehow things started working when on the call with a representative. Finally accepted my ticket in the system. Listed the ticket on Stubhub. I had to transfer the ticket to some automated email address Stubhub gave so it can automatically distribute the ticket when sold. Listed my ticket for $150 and sold several days later. I’m only getting $135 back in cash due to Stubhub fees. Received Capital One $100 rewards notification email. Although it took some steps, I’ll definitely be more comfortable selling a ticket the next time around.
I didn’t see the split option on Brave or Chrome on Windows or Android. Per @Josh I’ll try iOS next half.
I didn’t see the split option in my Brave browser (chromium). Did on my phone as well as macOS Safari. Shows up with a “Stubhub” logo with just a text of PayPal underneath in Chase so looks good.
6/26/2026 Purchased 3 StubHub tickets for already planned sports game $438.05. Split payment using PayPal with P1 (Me) and P2 (Father). P1 and P2 live in different states with different addresses. Payment processed and credited $150 for StubHub credit to both P1 and P2. Stacked with Capital One shopping portal offer of $100 back on $100. Shopping portal offer tracked and is pending payout August 26, 2026. Total: $438.05 P1 Credit: -$150 P2 Credit: -$150 C1 Reward: -$100 Net Cost: $38.05 We had the sports event planned before we both got the CSR.
P1’s purchase tracked at Capital One Shopping. P2’s did not, so far. Went to submit a ticket, and Capital One Shopping submission form says: “If your purchase date is within the last 30 days, hang tight! Your Rewards may still be processing. We are unable to investigate missing Rewards for purchases made within the last 30 days.”
Ok, after stepping through this, selling the ticket is all automated. You have to transfer the ticket to StubHub before you can even list it. P2’s purchased ticket transfer almost instantly appeared in P2’s inbox. Not sure why the flow was slightly different for P1’s purchase. All the fees… I’ve never seriously considering using StubHub for this reason, and without promos, probably never would. P1 sold the ticket to P2… gets $116.10 into PayPal someday. P2 “paid” $159. Not sure why P1 paid about $15 less in fees, but whatever. Who knows if Capital One Shopping will track? P2 also had the $100 off $100 offer. Neither of the portals are showing anything in shopping trips. Time will tell.
Ok, first time StubHub user… so there is that. Noob factor! Was going to try the magic mentioned in comment #2295099 , but not so sure it’s going to work as planned. Buying and selling the same ticket over and over, P1 & P2, semiannually. Found a single ticket for $144 (close enough to $150) for an event in Feb 2027. Just for clarity, the total price shown IS what is paid at checkout. When you hover on the price, it says fees are included, but I expected taxes to also be added on later. It wasn’t. Went thru Capital One Shopping ($100 rebate on $100+ via StubHub), used Paze to pay ($10 gain), and used CSR ($144 rebate). Seems like that is all going to go to plan, hopefully. Just purchased today, so I understand tracking won’t be instant. The problem I found with the super plan to keep buying and selling the same ticket via P1 & P2 is you are not guaranteed to get the original ticket instantly. My confirmation email says they have until Feb 2027 to provide the ticket. 🙁 You cannot resell something you don’t have in your possession. https://support.stubhub.com/articles/61000276297-when-youll-receive-your-tickets So, are there some events that actually provide the ticket almost instantly? Update: Just as I was about to post… Someone is transferring the ticket to me via Ticketmaster. Luckily, I got a quick acting seller… Time for Phase two. P1 selling and P2 buying. So, just a guess, but Ticketmaster events are probably the way to go. I am not sure about tossing the same ticket back and forth for a 2nd or 3rd round, as it could be against StubHub terms though? Probably just have P2 list it for a reasonable price and leave at that until later this year, then see what happens.
my experience…bought a ticket to a show. the seller didnt fufil the order. called stubhub 30 mins before the show…sorry, here’s your refund. im like hey I flew to this show, the band is going on in 30 mins, there’s a ticket for $40 more on your site..I want it. well then go buy it they said. they refused to honor my buy. I am not alone, there are 100s of ppl like me on the sh complaints fb page. just an opinion..stay far away
Look at last minute deals in your area on stubhub. You will see events in that range
you don’t even need to buy. Can just “sell” a ticket to yourself.
I have bought parking on StubHub before. Usually ends up being cheaper than buying direct as well.
Yes, you are missing something Tim . Player 2 exists. P1 isn’t selling to P1, they’re selling to P2 and P2 has their own card. P1 gets paid $110 and P2 gets a reimbursement from Chase for $150.
damn that’s a good idea
i only have $16 remaining.. probably not worth buying anything.. the cheapest tickets I can find are $50+ anyone find any good tickets between $15 – $20?
“You sell the ticket to yourself for $150 on StubHub. After the fees you make $110. So now you are down $40” – No, I get $150 credit (2nd card), which makes it net $110. I do this multiple times and finally sell it to someone else at a cheaper price. Btw you need two cards (P1, P2).
Maybe I’m missing something, but the math doesn’t seem to check out. You buy a ticket for $150 and then you get the Chase credit for $150 and now you are net $0 plus you have a ticket. You sell the ticket to yourself for $150 on StubHub. After the fees you make $110. So now you are down $40.
So let me get this straight? I can buy say a ticket to a concert on Ticketmaster for $100. Then list it on StubHub for $150 and buy it from myself? Using the same CSR for both transactions?
Got some crazy ideas, don’t know if this makes sense – December – P1 bought a July event ticket for $150, listed it for sale at $150 December – P2 bought that ticket for $150 from P2 ( $110 profit after fees). January – P1 listed that ticket for $150, and P2 bought it again for $150 ( $110 profit after fees) January – P1 bought it back for $150 ( $110 profit after fees) July – Planning to buy & sell again ( 2x$110 profit after fees) July – Finally list it for really cheap and expected to make at least $50 Also made about $50 from the portal. Total of $650 profit before downgrading my card in August.
Buy *cheap* ticket on ticketmaster/stubhub/… [$10 local comedy club/open mic /indie band ], list it on Stubhub for 150 (more like 130 and after taxes it comes up to 150), buy it from yourself. You’ll loose on fees, double dip with portals for both transactions to cancel out some of the fees. Some portals are sometimes very lucrative (capital one 250 off 250 or Rakuten 40%, if you’re willing to time it) You can resell the ticket for cheap at this point for extra cash.
Interesting DP I bought tickets to a show I’m planning on attending in Canada and purchased through Stubhub International. Didn’t see until after that Stubhub International is excluded from qualifying for the credit. However, the transaction was in USD and coded as Stubhub on Chase and received $150 credit within 2 days. I also clicked through topcashback link for Stubhub International on this transaction and received 10% cashback, which tracked within 24 hours and is pending.
DP Bought 2 tickets on 2025-12-30 for $137.85 total. Credited on 2026-01-01. Will update once I determine which year the credit applies to (CY25 or 1H26). Immediately put them up for resale on StubHub. Sold within a few hours. Net $72 scheduled to arrive a few days after the event (2026-01-05). I think I’d re-listed them as $45/ticket.
Chase offers have worked this way AFAIK: I have at least a couple times made the purchase then looked at Chase offers and then activated and it has credited every single time.
I don’t go to any events. I’m trying to utilize this credit so I can justify the annual fee. Anyone know if there is a way to monetize this offer quickly and without much wastage?