Chase is offering 80,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening for their Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card. Annual fee is $95.
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Chase is offering 80,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening for their Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card. Annual fee is $95.
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Earn 80,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening. That's $1,000 when you redeem through Chase Ultimate Rewards®.
Enjoy benefits such as 5x on travel purchased through Chase Ultimate Rewards®, 3x on dining, and 2x on all other travel purchases, and $50 annual Ultimate Rewards Hotel Credit, plus more.
Get 25% more value when you redeem for airfare, hotels, car rentals and cruises through Chase Ultimate Rewards®. For example, 80,000 points are worth $1,000 toward travel.
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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Nice deal, Pity I still have the Ink Business Preferred active and just applied for Freedom Unlimited... A word of caution with their UR Travel service. I had very negative experience with them lately.
On one occasion, I planned my conference and booked the hotel with UR Travel instead of using the conference link. The price was similar, so I decided to earn a few points... That was bad choice because:
They charged the full amount immediately instead of placing a hold.
When I wanted to shorten my stay, it took me almost 2 hour on the phone to change it. And even then, their portal still shows the old travel dates and it took them 2 weeks to refund the difference, so that I had to pay the balance first.
On the other occasion, I tried to book a cruise with them - even worse headache. They do have some cruises online but not all of them. And definitely they don't have any of the optional packages the cruise lines now have to sweeten the deal. My cruise was not available on the portal so I ended up spending 2-3 hours on the phone with very ignorant UR rewards employee who wanted nothing more than to end the call.
And most importantly... The Ultimate Rewards Travel has been outsorurced abroad, to multiple call centers in at least 2 multiple locations (I heard 2 different type of accents, both equally bad). The UR Travel call center used to be 100% English speaking, very knowledgeable, very nice and attentive representatives. Not anymore. Upon your call you are getting to the badly accented employee who is clueless as to what you are asking such that you have to repeat yourself 2-3 times. Mid you, English is my second language too, so I don't mind repeating, knowing that my accent is also bad. But I also know that it is not that bad so I have to repeat myself so much so it gets tiring. There is also bad lag between you talking and call center responding. This is confirmed on every occasion I had to interact with them. The only way to solve this is to immediately request the US Representative. At least for now this works, but who knows for how long.
Thanks for the heads up. Refer my wife to sign up. That's 15k for referral and 80,000 once the spending requirements are met.
That's what OP said. 80k + 10k in branch.
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I signed up for the Sapphire card back in mid February this year and received the 60k points last month. At this point I figured there was no way I was going to be able to receive the additional 20K. I decided to call customer support 2 weeks ago and politely asked if it was possible to get the the additional 20K. The agent said she would place a "memo" on my account and it would be reviewed by the "marketing team". I checked my account last week out of curiosity and I see the points were retroactively credited to my account. I didn't think they were going to approve it.
Hopefully they can still honor it. I think the main factor is how long ago the account was open. Good luck!
I called. They gave me the "marketing team" line as well. Finger crossed
You only need to wait 4 days for product changes. Waiting 5-7 days would be the safe route. 30 days is for cancellations. Disregard what the rep says, they're just regurgitating the official word.
Went to Chase branch to apply for this, Banker said he wasn't able to select any Sapphire cards for me to apply, it shows all others. He asked me to wait until Product Change is reported to credit bureaus..
If beyond the 48 month SUB period form last Chase card. Would there be a conflict to downgrade the CSP to CFU and then immediately reapplying for the CSP to get the 80k/90 bonus?
Should wait 7 days after downgrading, 5 days minimum.
Now, would appreciate if anyone can share tips on how to maximize benefits using this card vs others (I have Citi 2%, Costco, Discover 5% rotational, WF Autograph). TIA, cheers 🎉
Google "chase trifecta"; basic strategy is the same whether you have all Chase cards or a mix --list what cards are optimized for which types of spending.
In practice, that's typically too much finesse for me during the SUB period because it's sometimes a challenge to generate the minimum spend just using the new card.
Google "chase trifecta"; basic strategy is the same whether you have all Chase cards or a mix --list what cards are optimized for which types of spending.
In practice, that's typically too much finesse for me during the SUB period because it's sometimes a challenge to generate the minimum spend just using the new card.
As an example I just looked at a Hyatt near my local airport- it's 6500 points, fully cancelable/refundable to book a night in the middle of the week... the same room for cash is $163 for a non-refundable rate or $170 refundable. So the like for like I'm getting the cash equivalent of 2.615 cents per point...so actually slightly better than the range I mentioned.
It's pretty common to get something in the roughly 2-2.5 cent a point range with Hyatt this way- though occasionally you'll find slightly better or worse redemptions.... and for a small # of cases you can do MUCH better-
That's 4 that are getting you 3.7 on the low end and north of 7 on the high end... but that's pretty niche.
Anyway, speaking more broadly-- you get 1:1 chase to "whatever" with various airlines and hotels.
But the value of the points in the new currency can vary wildly.
Marriot is a garbage transfer because those are worth LESS than 1 cent a point... even with a 50% bonus you're not getting much value out of that transfer (possibly less than just using the portal, let alone other better transfers) and without the bonus you're flat out losing money. Same with all the hotel partners other than Hyatt.
Airlines you can usually do better than the portal (by relatively small amounts) for coach fares.. and a LOT better for business and first class...(for example my last two business class redemptions were in the 6-7 cents a point range) but it'll vary a bit from airline to airline... and especially for the super high value ones requires some flexibility compared to paying cash.
All that said, I rarely use points for even Hyatt redemptions, because I really like flying international business class so I'd rather be getting even higher value biz flights with my points than the still-beats-the-portal Hyatt rates... but if you tend to fly coach primarily then Hyatt offers quite good value for your points.
This is so helpful! I am needing to redeem my rewards for Marriott, so since transferring points is not a good idea, can I make the purchase for the hotel nights, then redeem my UR points after the fact for that "travel purchase" making the points worth 25% more?
credit card companies are charging annual fee within in two months of opening an account. happend to me with capital one. does anyone know if chase is also doing it.
This is so helpful! I am needing to redeem my rewards for Marriott, so since transferring points is not a good idea, can I make the purchase for the hotel nights, then redeem my UR points after the fact for that "travel purchase" making the points worth 25% more?
CSPs 25% bonus value on your points applies only when booking through the chase travel portal, not directly with hotels.
If you want to book directly with the hotel the best you'll get for the points is 1 cent a point using them as a statement credit.
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Can I use the 80K bonus points to purchase airfare directly from an airline (e.g. Eva, China Airlines, etc.)?
You can transfer the points to an airline and use them to book a ticket. This is usually the highest value way to use them.
For Eva you'd need to transfer to a star alliance partner that Chase points can transfer to, and then book a partner award.
Aeroplan (air canada) and United would be the most obvious choices... some more on this here: https://upgradedpoints.com/travel...ess-class/
(they also discuss other partner options when you have amex or other points to use instead of chase)
For China airlines it's Skyteam, so Flying Blue is your only chase transfer option there
Alternatively, you can book through the chase portal (rather than the airline) and use the points at 1.25c per point in value.
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On one occasion, I planned my conference and booked the hotel with UR Travel instead of using the conference link. The price was similar, so I decided to earn a few points... That was bad choice because:
They charged the full amount immediately instead of placing a hold.
When I wanted to shorten my stay, it took me almost 2 hour on the phone to change it. And even then, their portal still shows the old travel dates and it took them 2 weeks to refund the difference, so that I had to pay the balance first.
On the other occasion, I tried to book a cruise with them - even worse headache. They do have some cruises online but not all of them. And definitely they don't have any of the optional packages the cruise lines now have to sweeten the deal. My cruise was not available on the portal so I ended up spending 2-3 hours on the phone with very ignorant UR rewards employee who wanted nothing more than to end the call.
And most importantly... The Ultimate Rewards Travel has been outsorurced abroad, to multiple call centers in at least 2 multiple locations (I heard 2 different type of accents, both equally bad). The UR Travel call center used to be 100% English speaking, very knowledgeable, very nice and attentive representatives. Not anymore. Upon your call you are getting to the badly accented employee who is clueless as to what you are asking such that you have to repeat yourself 2-3 times. Mid you, English is my second language too, so I don't mind repeating, knowing that my accent is also bad. But I also know that it is not that bad so I have to repeat myself so much so it gets tiring. There is also bad lag between you talking and call center responding. This is confirmed on every occasion I had to interact with them. The only way to solve this is to immediately request the US Representative. At least for now this works, but who knows for how long.
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Hopefully they can still honor it. I think the main factor is how long ago the account was open. Good luck!
Went to Chase branch to apply for this, Banker said he wasn't able to select any Sapphire cards for me to apply, it shows all others. He asked me to wait until Product Change is reported to credit bureaus..
Now, would appreciate if anyone can share tips on how to maximize benefits using this card vs others (I have Citi 2%, Costco, Discover 5% rotational, WF Autograph). TIA, cheers 🎉
In practice, that's typically too much finesse for me during the SUB period because it's sometimes a challenge to generate the minimum spend just using the new card.
In practice, that's typically too much finesse for me during the SUB period because it's sometimes a challenge to generate the minimum spend just using the new card.
Thank you, that looks interesting.
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But Hyatt points are worth more
As an example I just looked at a Hyatt near my local airport- it's 6500 points, fully cancelable/refundable to book a night in the middle of the week... the same room for cash is $163 for a non-refundable rate or $170 refundable. So the like for like I'm getting the cash equivalent of 2.615 cents per point...so actually slightly better than the range I mentioned.
It's pretty common to get something in the roughly 2-2.5 cent a point range with Hyatt this way- though occasionally you'll find slightly better or worse redemptions.... and for a small # of cases you can do MUCH better-
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That's 4 that are getting you 3.7 on the low end and north of 7 on the high end... but that's pretty niche.
Anyway, speaking more broadly-- you get 1:1 chase to "whatever" with various airlines and hotels.
But the value of the points in the new currency can vary wildly.
Marriot is a garbage transfer because those are worth LESS than 1 cent a point... even with a 50% bonus you're not getting much value out of that transfer (possibly less than just using the portal, let alone other better transfers) and without the bonus you're flat out losing money. Same with all the hotel partners other than Hyatt.
Airlines you can usually do better than the portal (by relatively small amounts) for coach fares.. and a LOT better for business and first class...(for example my last two business class redemptions were in the 6-7 cents a point range) but it'll vary a bit from airline to airline... and especially for the super high value ones requires some flexibility compared to paying cash.
All that said, I rarely use points for even Hyatt redemptions, because I really like flying international business class so I'd rather be getting even higher value biz flights with my points than the still-beats-the-portal Hyatt rates... but if you tend to fly coach primarily then Hyatt offers quite good value for your points.
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If you want to book directly with the hotel the best you'll get for the points is 1 cent a point using them as a statement credit.
For Eva you'd need to transfer to a star alliance partner that Chase points can transfer to, and then book a partner award.
Aeroplan (air canada) and United would be the most obvious choices... some more on this here:
https://upgradedpoints.
(they also discuss other partner options when you have amex or other points to use instead of chase)
For China airlines it's Skyteam, so Flying Blue is your only chase transfer option there
Alternatively, you can book through the chase portal (rather than the airline) and use the points at 1.25c per point in value.