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Chase Sapphire Reserve points are worth 50% more for apple products

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Last Edited by sbessire May 1, 2023 at 03:43 PM
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Chase Sapphire Reserve points are worth 50% more for apple product.
Use ultimate rewards portal to redeem.

https://www.chase.com/personal/cr...te-rewards

Reserve: 50% (multiply price by 0.67)
Preferred: 25% (multiply price by 0.8)
Others: 10%
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Jhingalala
05-02-2023 at 03:38 PM.
05-02-2023 at 03:38 PM.
Quote from Knightshade :
Exactly.

With the portal, or this apple deal, you're only getting 1.25 cents per point cash replacement value (or 1.5 cents if you have a CSR).

Transferring points to Hyatt will routinely get you ~2 cents or more per point, and transferring to airlines will frequently get similar values in coach, 4-6 cents a point in business, and even higher values in first.
That's great! Can you point to directions for getting 4-6 cents or higher per point? Have over 700k points accumulated
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Knightshade
05-02-2023 at 04:13 PM.
05-02-2023 at 04:13 PM.
Quote from Jhingalala :
That's great! Can you point to directions for getting 4-6 cents or higher per point? Have over 700k points accumulated

Generally just googling "best use of points to X business class" where X is where you want to travel will turn up multiple links from the usual suspects (TPG, upgradedpoints, millionmilesecrets, etc).

Couple recentish examples from me--- ~$750 plus 85,000 ANA points (though this is an amex transfer if you want to do it for 85k there's slightly higher cost partner options via chase) for roundtrip business class to japan on ANA, which is a $7000 cash fare ticket so over 7 cents a point.... and 144k Singapore miles (chase, amex, and more can do this) plus $135 fees for roundtrip business JFK to Frankfurt, a roughly $6000 cash fare so about 4.2 cents per point.
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btcharpied
05-02-2023 at 05:34 PM.
05-02-2023 at 05:34 PM.
Don't assume everyone needs to use points for travel. My and my wife's travel are 100% covered by our employers and we travel a lot so we turn those into vacations. I run conferences around the world. I literally cannot spend points as fast as I accumulate them with those two combined factors. So, yeah, blow them on something fun. Who gives a damn when the other uses are already covered for you.

Considering I just drove off with my new iPad Air on my car roof last week, I'm in the market for a new one 😆

FYI this iPad Air appears to be the 2022 model and not the 2020 that we more commonly see on SD. It's a pretty damn good deal.
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BertrmaH
05-02-2023 at 06:37 PM.
05-02-2023 at 06:37 PM.
Quote from sbessire :
Yes, we did the same thing (actually I opened a Sapphire for her and have been transferring the points across, which you have to call to do)...but, combined with the sign up bonus, which more than tackles the annual fee and $300 credit for hotel/travel, it is worthwhile to keep/get the reserve for us for sure).

Absolutely worth it not only your points are worth a lot more but extra benefits like $300 yearly travel credit ( if apply to you and you use them ) dash pass plus monthly credit , instacart+ membership and monthly credit , unlimited priority pass visits along with 3 guest each visit to name few , all of these pay the yearly fee themselves
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GreyFog3694
05-02-2023 at 10:28 PM.
05-02-2023 at 10:28 PM.
Quote from VulnoX :
Man I just bought something using points three days ago. I haven't received a shipping notification, I wonder if I can cancel or get an adjustment.

yes you should be able to, you'll just have to call to cancel. The number should be in the order details.
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hondaman82
05-02-2023 at 10:32 PM.
05-02-2023 at 10:32 PM.
great deal, got 2 Iphone 14 Promax 1TB for my niece and nephew... time to burn some of those 40 millions Chase points Smilie... proof screenshot lol https://ibb.co/hCj0zkn
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VulnoX
05-03-2023 at 05:13 AM.
05-03-2023 at 05:13 AM.
Quote from GreyFog3694 :
yes you should be able to, you'll just have to call to cancel. The number should be in the order details.

Thanks! I called yesterday and was able to cancel it seems as the points are back in my UR pool again.
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ThriftyStag375
05-03-2023 at 06:02 AM.
05-03-2023 at 06:02 AM.
Yea, the 4x-6x points value are usually for higher end tickets, but like most people say, these points are best used for travel, if you travel, but this apple deal seems pretty good. Kills me when people use them the 1x gift cards or to pay off a balance.

Used 600K points to cover almost all of a 10 day Hawaii vacation for an east coast family of 4
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BoniJ
05-03-2023 at 06:42 AM.
05-03-2023 at 06:42 AM.
Quote from hondaman82 :
great deal, got 2 Iphone 14 Promax 1TB for my niece and nephew... time to burn some of those 40 millions Chase points Smilie... proof screenshot lol https://ibb.co/hCj0zkn

You may be able to buy Apple in its entirely with that.
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Hkxyz
05-03-2023 at 06:43 AM.
05-03-2023 at 06:43 AM.
Quote from a300johnnguyen :
Points are worth much more when redeem for airlines travel, why do you waste your miles to redeem for those overpriced Apple electronics?

Exactly, this is the way to go, booked a $7300 flight for 67k points and a $1800 flight for 34k points recently
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dragonroot
05-03-2023 at 07:13 AM.
05-03-2023 at 07:13 AM.
Quote from hondaman82 :
great deal, got 2 Iphone 14 Promax 1TB for my niece and nephew... time to burn some of those 40 millions Chase points Smilie... proof screenshot lol https://ibb.co/hCj0zkn
geez, if you need some help to use those points, I'm glad to help you out.
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ugadawgs311
05-03-2023 at 07:16 AM.
05-03-2023 at 07:16 AM.
Dang! I jumped on the new Mini deal on Amazon about a month ago, and my return window closed yesterday! Could've spent just $30 more and gotten double the hard drive space. Oh well, I'm pretty content with the computer.
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loadcreate
05-03-2023 at 08:27 AM.
05-03-2023 at 08:27 AM.
Quote from max1001 :
Who the heck get the card for Apple products instead of travel? I save my point for travel and instead of gambling with Apple redeem process.
We like traveling and going thru the UR website for flights vs google flight prices, we seem to get cheaper prices with the latter. This apple deal is a good option to make use of the points, specially if you are in the market for an apple product.
And I don't get the "gamble" part - the website shows exactly the points you'll use and how much it's worth and how much you save. Am I missing something?
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kalatoker
05-03-2023 at 09:35 AM.
05-03-2023 at 09:35 AM.
Would be slick if we could use the apple edu discount as well. Oh well.
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