Chase is offering
80,000 Bonus Points ($1,000 towards travel)
w/ $4,000 Spent in the First 3 Months of Account Opening for their
Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card with $95 Annual Fee.
Card Details:
- Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening. That's $750 when you redeem through Chase Ultimate Rewards®.
- Enjoy benefits such as a $50 annual Ultimate Rewards Hotel Credit, 5x on travel purchased through Chase Ultimate Rewards®, 3x on dining and 2x on all other travel purchases, plus more.
- Get 25% more value when you redeem for airfare, hotels, car rentals and cruises through Chase Ultimate Rewards®. For example, 60,000 points are worth $750 toward travel.
- With Pay Yourself BackSM, your points are worth 25% more during the current offer when you redeem them for statement credits against existing purchases in select, rotating categories
- Count on Trip Cancellation/Interruption Insurance, Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver, Lost Luggage Insurance and more.
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2024.
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For that, you would have to wait 48 months from the date they give you your Preferred welcome bonus points, downgrade your Preferred to a Freedom card and then apply for the Reserve and get approved.
Hope that helps!
Yes I just went in today and fee is waived automatically. He even called to have it expedited. Needed the card to book my mini trip to Pismo Beach next weekend.
Do you happen to know if there's any rule about any waiting period before you can apply for another Sapphire card (after downgrading/cancelling the first one of course).
Someone mentioned that we have to wait 2 years between applying for Sapphire card?
What I want to do is to apply for the Preferred now, and downgrade it to a Freedom once I get the sign on bonus, then apply for a Reserve again since I can't upgrade it. I know there's no sign up bonus when I apply for the Reserve, just wanted the benefits.
IF there IS a 2 year wait, maybe I'll just downgrade my existing Reserve and apply for a new Reserve to get the 60k bonus (instead of 80k for Preferred).
They wont i tried to call
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I did the same exact thing. Ups is delivering the card today.
Do you happen to know if there's any rule about any waiting period before you can apply for another Sapphire card (after downgrading/cancelling the first one of course).
Someone mentioned that we have to wait 2 years between applying for Sapphire card?
What I want to do is to apply for the Preferred now, and downgrade it to a Freedom once I get the sign on bonus, then apply for a Reserve again since I can't upgrade it. I know there's no sign up bonus when I apply for the Reserve, just wanted the benefits.
IF there IS a 2 year wait, maybe I'll just downgrade my existing Reserve and apply for a new Reserve to get the 60k bonus (instead of 80k for Preferred).
If it were for the bonus it's be a 4 year wait, not 2 (48 months since last bonus- open/close date of firs card irrelevant)
You can certainly PRODUCT CHANGE to a sapphire card much sooner if you don't currently have one open (and the card you are changing FROM has been open at least 12 months already)....
But you can not open a NEW sapphire card - at all even if you don't care about the bonus- until 48 months after you received your last sapphire bonus.
That's the terms for getting the card at all not just getting the bonus.
Now, if you already HAVE a non-sapphire chase card (say you already have a freedom or freedom unlimited) you could:
Downgrade your CSP to a no-fee card (a second freedom for example, or a freedom unlimited if you lack one)
Then product change one of the existing free cards up to a CSR (as long as you've had that free card 12 months or longer).
But otherwise your fastest route to a CSR at this point will be wait till you've had the CSP 12 months then upgrade to CSR.
I may still switch eventually if for no other reason than I'd like the expanded lounge access, but apples to apples I still give the nod to the CSR.
I may still switch eventually if for no other reason than I'd like the expanded lounge access, but apples to apples I still give the nod to the CSR.
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You can certainly PRODUCT CHANGE to a sapphire card much sooner if you don't currently have one open (and the card you are changing FROM has been open at least 12 months already)....
But you can not open a NEW sapphire card - at all even if you don't care about the bonus- until 48 months after you received your last sapphire bonus.
That's the terms for getting the card at all not just getting the bonus.
Now, if you already HAVE a non-sapphire chase card (say you already have a freedom or freedom unlimited) you could:
Downgrade your CSP to a no-fee card (a second freedom for example, or a freedom unlimited if you lack one)
Then product change one of the existing free cards up to a CSR (as long as you've had that free card 12 months or longer).
But otherwise your fastest route to a CSR at this point will be wait till you've had the CSP 12 months then upgrade to CSR.