Chase Cardholders: Ultimate Rewards Gift Card Redemption Discounts: Apple
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Chase is offering its Cardholders: Redeem Ultimate Rewards Points on Select Gift Cards and get up to 15% off as listed below.
Thanks to community member jaav0229 for sharing this deal.
Note, log in to your Chase account and navigate to the Chase Ultimate Rewards Dashboard. Click on 'Gift Cards' to view the discounts listed below and to redeem available points for discounted gift cards (physical or digital).
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To any newbies to the points game, redeeming your points for gift cards, physical items, or even statement credit is a poor use of points.
This is effectively 1.15 cents per point value (plus buying an apple product at MSRP), whereas flights or hotels, you can get ~1.8 cents per point valuation
Uhm, isn't 'Pay yourself back' better value?
Travel partners point transfer.
My First Class United flight from San Diego to Geneva was 70k points for a $3,500 flight. Effectively 5 cents per point.
With this redemption on Apple, 70k points will get you an 11" iPad Pro or effectively $805.00.
A poor example if you don't travel and love electronics but, essentially, you get more bang for your buck when you redeem for travel.
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I think getting 25% more additional from booking travel inside chase's system is good enough. People who try to make a case for transferring out the points are exaggerating the benefit of a specific scenario. To be able to get the 1.8x benefit, you need to want to book first class/business travel, and the point transfer from chase to airlines are advantageous, which is not true for the majority of the users. So I think these guys really should stop showing off those less applicable achievement.
Booking travel inside chase is a lot better because then you know what you get exactly, instead of taking on the risk for what happens between point transfer and travel.
I think getting 25% more additional from booking travel inside chase's system is good enough. People who try to make a case for transferring out the points are exaggerating the benefit of a specific scenario. To be able to get the 1.8x benefit, you need to want to book first class/business travel,
Not really.
You can get 1.5-2.5 cents a point in coach on quite a lot of flights- also for Hyatt hotel bookings.
Business or first you should be getting more like 4-8 cents a point. My recent business class booking to Japan for example was about 7.4 cents a point...
(and if you think there's no substantive difference worth paying anything for on a 14 hour flight between coach and business you've clearly never flown business)
Plus booking via transfers let's you apply status benefits with the hotel or airline if you have em.... travel agency bookings like through the chase portal do not.
At only the 1.15 cents a point people are willing to use to buy apple stuff you'd need to find a cash fare for $258 roundtrip to make it worth using the points for the apple stuff instead of the plane ticket via point transfer.
You just cited $700 as the cash cost of that ticket though-- which would be 3.1 cents a point in value
(disclaimer- cash fare, and point fare availability, will vary with dates, exact city pairs, etc.... but again it ain't hard to beat this deal with point transfers for both airlines and hotels)
You're not utilizing the full value of your points by flying somewhere first class. So on one hand someone says you aren't getting the full value of your points by getting gift cards, then turns around to use them on a superfluous first class flight.
For domestic flights, I don't mind flying economy and getting "full value" but for 19 hours of travel time, it's well worth the 40k extra points to "splurge" on First.
At 6'0" and 190 lbs., falling asleep in LIE-FLAT seating for a whole flight is a game changer. Not to mention, priority boarding, priority bag handling, Polaris Lounge, upgraded meals, and whatever freebies they toss on the flight.
At only the 1.15 cents a point people are willing to use to buy apple stuff you'd need to find a cash fare for $258 roundtrip to make it worth using the points for the apple stuff instead of the plane ticket via point transfer.
You just cited $700 as the cash cost of that ticket though-- which would be 3.1 cents a point in value
(disclaimer- cash fare, and point fare availability, will vary with dates, exact city pairs, etc.... but again it ain't hard to beat this deal with point transfers for both airlines and hotels)
How I can't transfer wirh chase ultimate ? I can't see any option
I've tried a couple of searches comparing Chase rewards to Google flights, and I haven't found a lower price on chase compared to Google. On the opposite, Chase doesn't show all airlines and the prices are slightly higher than google flights
I've had the same experience. Hotels are always much higher through Chase than Expedia or directly to the hotel. Sometimes you can get lucky and find a flight that's not marked up too bad on Chase.
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This is effectively 1.15 cents per point value (plus buying an apple product at MSRP), whereas flights or hotels, you can get ~1.8 cents per point valuation
My First Class United flight from San Diego to Geneva was 70k points for a $3,500 flight. Effectively 5 cents per point.
With this redemption on Apple, 70k points will get you an 11" iPad Pro or effectively $805.00.
A poor example if you don't travel and love electronics but, essentially, you get more bang for your buck when you redeem for travel.
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Booking travel inside chase is a lot better because then you know what you get exactly, instead of taking on the risk for what happens between point transfer and travel.
Not really.
You can get 1.5-2.5 cents a point in coach on quite a lot of flights- also for Hyatt hotel bookings.
Business or first you should be getting more like 4-8 cents a point. My recent business class booking to Japan for example was about 7.4 cents a point...
(and if you think there's no substantive difference worth paying anything for on a 14 hour flight between coach and business you've clearly never flown business)
Plus booking via transfers let's you apply status benefits with the hotel or airline if you have em.... travel agency bookings like through the chase portal do not.
My First Class United flight from San Diego to Geneva was 70k points for a $3,500 flight. Effectively 5 cents per point.
With this redemption on Apple, 70k points will get you an 11" iPad Pro or effectively $805.00.
A poor example if you don't travel and love electronics but, essentially, you get more bang for your buck when you redeem for travel.
He said point transfer. You just quoted travel portal instead.
Not remotely the same thing.
Here's a deal going right now via points transfer from NYC (well, Newark) to various cities in Europe for 22,500 points roundtrip in coach:
https://thepointsguy.co
At only the 1.15 cents a point people are willing to use to buy apple stuff you'd need to find a cash fare for $258 roundtrip to make it worth using the points for the apple stuff instead of the plane ticket via point transfer.
You just cited $700 as the cash cost of that ticket though-- which would be 3.1 cents a point in value
(disclaimer- cash fare, and point fare availability, will vary with dates, exact city pairs, etc.... but again it ain't hard to beat this deal with point transfers for both airlines and hotels)
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For domestic flights, I don't mind flying economy and getting "full value" but for 19 hours of travel time, it's well worth the 40k extra points to "splurge" on First.
At 6'0" and 190 lbs., falling asleep in LIE-FLAT seating for a whole flight is a game changer. Not to mention, priority boarding, priority bag handling, Polaris Lounge, upgraded meals, and whatever freebies they toss on the flight.
Not remotely the same thing.
Here's a deal going right now via points transfer from NYC (well, Newark) to various cities in Europe for 22,500 points roundtrip in coach:
https://thepointsguy.com/deals/fl...o-rewards/ [thepointsguy.com]
At only the 1.15 cents a point people are willing to use to buy apple stuff you'd need to find a cash fare for $258 roundtrip to make it worth using the points for the apple stuff instead of the plane ticket via point transfer.
You just cited $700 as the cash cost of that ticket though-- which would be 3.1 cents a point in value
(disclaimer- cash fare, and point fare availability, will vary with dates, exact city pairs, etc.... but again it ain't hard to beat this deal with point transfers for both airlines and hotels)
apple GCs can be used for digital stuff also
Thank you for your answer.
This was already explained about 25 posts ago in some detail, here:
https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=
I've tried a couple of searches comparing Chase rewards to Google flights, and I haven't found a lower price on chase compared to Google. On the opposite, Chase doesn't show all airlines and the prices are slightly higher than google flights
I've had the same experience. Hotels are always much higher through Chase than Expedia or directly to the hotel. Sometimes you can get lucky and find a flight that's not marked up too bad on Chase.
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How long time this card is available ?