I have called the CSR costumer care to explore about the retention offer. The representative gave me $150 statement credit. It may be worth to give a call if you have your annual fee ($550) due now!
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No since I accepted the offer, they didn't go through creating the new card. I haven't received the credit on my account yet, but my annual fee hasn't posted yet either. Will call back if I don't see it after it posts.
called today and talked to the retention, but there is no offer in my account. was told to call back in Feb to check again. my annual fee is due 2/1. got it last year. maybe it is too early? When did you call with regard to the annual fee due date?
Honestly this isn't for everyone. This card does come with a pretty high annual fee, but if you travel a bit, and can utilize some of the other benefits it pays for itself. Some of the benefits that help offset some of those fees -
- $300 annual travel credit
- Free DashPass subscription
- $5 monthly credit for Doordash (can be carried forward upto 3 times so max 15 redemption)
- 1 year of complimentary Instacart+ membership and up to $15 monthly statement credits.
- Priority Lounge access
- Lyft Pink+ membership
The other things folks forget is you REQUIRE an annual fee chase card to transfer to airlines--- which is where the real value in chase points lies... especially if you are able to funnel a significant amount of your annual spend through cards that give you 5x points (Freedom, Ink Cash, etc)
The cheapest such fee card costs a $95 annual fee and offers far less benefits.... so that's the real "competition" for this card....
Anyway, $250 is the "net" cost on CSR after the travel credit. Versus $95 for one of the other paid chase cards.
Meaning you only need find $155 in value from all the other stuff you listed (and the instacart $15/mo plus + membership alone is worth more than that... as would be 3 annual uses of the $56 for two PP airport restaurant credit, or many other options)
So while I'll certainly give asking for a retention bonus another try when my fee comes around again this fall, I'd still be keeping the card either way because it's trivial to make it profitable even without it.
There was no retention offer for me so got $550 credit by downgrading to freedom unlimited,
Already got 300 travel credit for this year so even better.
I had been a member since this card started 5-6 years back and I did get 3 iphones for the reward points when they offered 50% bonus on apple redemption but they are no longer competitive with Venture X and Platinum offerings
Called twice this month and they refused to offer any retention credits. They are citing return to travel as a reason not to. I guess it's time to downgrade and move on to Venture X
The other things folks forget is you REQUIRE an annual fee chase card to transfer to airlines--- which is where the real value in chase points lies... especially if you are able to funnel a significant amount of your annual spend through cards that give you 5x points (Freedom, Ink Cash, etc)
The cheapest such fee card costs a $95 annual fee and offers far less benefits.... so that's the real "competition" for this card....
Anyway, $250 is the "net" cost on CSR after the travel credit. Versus $95 for one of the other paid chase cards.
Meaning you only need find $155 in value from all the other stuff you listed (and the instacart $15/mo plus + membership alone is worth more than that... as would be 3 annual uses of the $56 for two PP airport restaurant credit, or many other options)
So while I'll certainly give asking for a retention bonus another try when my fee comes around again this fall, I'd still be keeping the card either way because it's trivial to make it profitable even without it.
I forgot to use the 2022 travel credit-anyone have any luck in getting them to comp for that?
Also-is there a site recommending using the UR points? I have a bunch and I've never cashed them in. TIA
I forgot to use the 2022 travel credit-anyone have any luck in getting them to comp for that?
Not that I've heard of
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Also-is there a site recommending using the UR points? I have a bunch and I've never cashed them in. TIA
Best use is transferring to travel partners-- which partner will depend where and how you travel.
Transfer to Hyatt is the only hotel one worth looking at and pretty routinely exceeds 2 cents a point compared to cash room rates--- but if you don't tend to stay at Hyatt type hotels this might have less value to you.
Transfers to airlines will (apart from maybe Southwest) generally beat the 1.5c/pt you get in the travel portal... potentially by 2-3x for business or first class tickets... but which airline depends where you are flying from, to, when, etc.... generally googling "best use of points for X" with X being your destination will turn up useful links.
No luck for me, they say not seeing any retention offer for me. May be because they credited $150 last year when I called after they raised annual fee.
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Just trying to see how determined I should be in attempting to cancel the card
For those who got the $250 credit, do you have a lot of accounts with Chase ?
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- $300 annual travel credit
- Free DashPass subscription
- $5 monthly credit for Doordash (can be carried forward upto 3 times so max 15 redemption)
- 1 year of complimentary Instacart+ membership and up to $15 monthly statement credits.
- Priority Lounge access
- Lyft Pink+ membership
The other things folks forget is you REQUIRE an annual fee chase card to transfer to airlines--- which is where the real value in chase points lies... especially if you are able to funnel a significant amount of your annual spend through cards that give you 5x points (Freedom, Ink Cash, etc)
The cheapest such fee card costs a $95 annual fee and offers far less benefits.... so that's the real "competition" for this card....
Anyway, $250 is the "net" cost on CSR after the travel credit. Versus $95 for one of the other paid chase cards.
Meaning you only need find $155 in value from all the other stuff you listed (and the instacart $15/mo plus + membership alone is worth more than that... as would be 3 annual uses of the $56 for two PP airport restaurant credit, or many other options)
So while I'll certainly give asking for a retention bonus another try when my fee comes around again this fall, I'd still be keeping the card either way because it's trivial to make it profitable even without it.
Already got 300 travel credit for this year so even better.
I had been a member since this card started 5-6 years back and I did get 3 iphones for the reward points when they offered 50% bonus on apple redemption but they are no longer competitive with Venture X and Platinum offerings
The cheapest such fee card costs a $95 annual fee and offers far less benefits.... so that's the real "competition" for this card....
Anyway, $250 is the "net" cost on CSR after the travel credit. Versus $95 for one of the other paid chase cards.
Meaning you only need find $155 in value from all the other stuff you listed (and the instacart $15/mo plus + membership alone is worth more than that... as would be 3 annual uses of the $56 for two PP airport restaurant credit, or many other options)
So while I'll certainly give asking for a retention bonus another try when my fee comes around again this fall, I'd still be keeping the card either way because it's trivial to make it profitable even without it.
Also-is there a site recommending using the UR points? I have a bunch and I've never cashed them in. TIA
Also-is there a site recommending using the UR points? I have a bunch and I've never cashed them in. TIA
Best use is transferring to travel partners-- which partner will depend where and how you travel.
Transfer to Hyatt is the only hotel one worth looking at and pretty routinely exceeds 2 cents a point compared to cash room rates--- but if you don't tend to stay at Hyatt type hotels this might have less value to you.
Transfers to airlines will (apart from maybe Southwest) generally beat the 1.5c/pt you get in the travel portal... potentially by 2-3x for business or first class tickets... but which airline depends where you are flying from, to, when, etc.... generally googling "best use of points for X" with X being your destination will turn up useful links.
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