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Select Chase Freedom/Flex Cardholders: Paypal, Wholesale Clubs, Select Charities Expired

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Chase is offering select Chase Freedom/Freedom Flex Cardholders: 5% Back on Eligible Purchases at PayPal, Wholesale Clubs, and Select Charities when you activate this offer on your qualifying card. Offer valid from October 1 to December 31, 2023 for these bonus categories.

Thanks to community member unknownanonymous for sharing this deal.

Note, must enter your info on the promotion page to activate the 5% back on your qualifying card. You may earn 5% cash back on up to $1,500 in combined purchases in bonus categories each quarter (on each eligible account).

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Chase Freedom/Freedom Flex 5% bonus cashback categories for Oct-Dec 2023 are
  • PayPal
  • Wholesale Clubs
  • Select Charities
You can activate by visiting below site from Sept 15th to Dec 14th:
https://www.chasebonus.com/
Merchant list: https://creditcards.chase.com/fre.../merchants
It can also be enabled after logging into your account and going to 5% cashback. calendar.
Remember it can be activated tomorrow i.e. Sept 15th onwards.

Gas, fuel, wholesale specialty service purchases such as travel, insurance, cell phone and home improvement will not qualify in this category. Mastercard not accepted at Costco warehouses or at gas stations.

Tip: Buying Costco cash card at costco.com with Freedom mastercard is eligible for 5% cashback. Use this Costco cash card in Costco stores and gas station. I did that for Discover card earlier this year and got 5% cashback.
Max cashback in total: $75 (total of $1500 in purchase)
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Yup-including buying costco giftcards at costco.com making this quarter pretty terrific and damn easy to max both of my Freedom cards.
First thing to know is you need a "paid" Chase card- that is, one with an annual fee.

There's several that are $95 a year but don't really offer much other than the ability to transfer points--- if you don't travel significantly then your best route to max point value for travel is when you ARE finally planning a big trip, get the signup bonus for one of those cards (which will vastly outweigh the $95 fee) and do your transfers under that 1 year of $95 fee.

But if you travel a significant amount then getting- and keeping- the much higher fee CSR can be pretty profitable- especially if you can use some of the various monthly and annual credits for other things it offers.


Either way you have 2 routes to book travel with Chase in general-


ALL cards even free ones can use the chase travel portal... but free cards only get 1 cent per point this way so it's a waste of your time- just take 1 cent cash instead.

The $95 fee cards get 1.25 cents a point- which is still not terrific compared to most point transfer options.

The CSR gets 1.5 cents a point- which CAN be worthwhile in a few specific cases rather than transfers (for example to book Southwest Airlines-- because transfers to them usually only get you ~1.4 cents a point).

Chase points if you have a paid card transfer 1:1 to a bunch of Airlines...and several hotels (though only Hyatt is ever worth considering the rest suck for value of points).

For most airlines though (and also Hyatt hotels) you can usually get nearer 2 cents a point at the low end for coach fares or Hyatt hotels.... and often 4-6 cents a point or more for business or first class flights.



Typically if you just google something like "best use of chase points to X" where X is where you're wanting to go, you'll find all the usual travel blogs with posts about the best airlines and programs and values.

There's also more general ones lilke:

https://thepointsguy.com/guide/re...mum-value/

https://upgradedpoints.com/credit...ds-points/

https://onemileatatime.com/guides...ds-points/

as examples.
Yes, but only visa cards like freedom can be used in warehouse, not mastercard (flex). Last time discover had warehouse as 5 percent category earlier this year, i had purchased gift cards online to use in store so that 5 percent Cashback would apply.

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macphisto23
10-03-2023 at 07:21 PM.
10-03-2023 at 07:21 PM.
Quote from ProVic :
Anyone having issues trying to buy costco GCs online?
I bought (3) $500 this morning without issue.
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ProVic
10-04-2023 at 11:26 AM.
10-04-2023 at 11:26 AM.
Quote from macphisto23 :
I bought (3) $500 this morning without issue.
Thanks! For some some reason, I have issues on purchasing these GC lately. I never had any issues prior.
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SouthPawNd
10-04-2023 at 11:50 AM.
10-04-2023 at 11:50 AM.
Tried to use my Flex card at Costco B&M yesterday for the 5%. No go, since it's a Mastercard. Darn wished I never converted my Freedom (Visa) to Flex (Mastercard)
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Knightshade
10-04-2023 at 12:28 PM.
10-04-2023 at 12:28 PM.
Quote from SouthPawNd :
Tried to use my Flex card at Costco B&M yesterday for the 5%. No go, since it's a Mastercard. Darn wished I never converted my Freedom (Visa) to Flex (Mastercard)

As already discussed a bunch, you just buy costco cash cards at costo.com with your flex and you get the same 5x as you would buying instore with a visa freedom.
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keung
10-04-2023 at 05:43 PM.
10-04-2023 at 05:43 PM.
Quote from Knightshade :
For most airlines though (and also Hyatt hotels) you can usually get nearer 2 cents a point at the low end for coach fares or Hyatt hotels.... and often 4-6 cents a point or more for business or first class flights.



Typically if you just google something like "best use of chase points to X" where X is where you're wanting to go, you'll find all the usual travel blogs with posts about the best airlines and programs and values.

There's also more general ones lilke:

https://thepointsguy.com/guide/re...mum-value/ [thepointsguy.com]

https://upgradedpoints.com/credit...ds-points/ [upgradedpoints.com]

https://onemileatatime.com/guides...ds-points/ [onemileatatime.com]

as examples.
First class is more likes "10 cents plus" a points
I recently transfer UR to Virgin Atlantic with 30% bonus (until 11/15), redeemed ANA First class for SFO-NRT with 72500
72500 / 1.3 = 55769 let say 56000 UR POINT

First class ticket on the same day would cost
1,529,550 YEN exchange for USD at 1USD/149 yen is $10265 USD

ANA First class ticket SFO-NRT = $10265 USD
$10265 USD / 56000 UR = 018 which is 18 cents per dollar

7500 UR point x 0.18 = $1350

P.s. My redeemed ticket is actually the Full Flex one since I already reserved my seat, anyway not going to redo whole calculation LMAO
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mrgamers
10-04-2023 at 10:26 PM.
10-04-2023 at 10:26 PM.
Has anyone brought the electronic shop card from Costco?

It is like a a bar code in your e-mail to scan at register?
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BTC007
10-06-2023 at 06:01 AM.
10-06-2023 at 06:01 AM.
Does this stack with the 3% drug store cash back if you were to purchase gift cards in store at places like CVS using Paypal?
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esit
10-09-2023 at 03:43 AM.
10-09-2023 at 03:43 AM.
Quote from BTC007 :
Does this stack with the 3% drug store cash back if you were to purchase gift cards in store at places like CVS using Paypal?

Yes it does. You will get 7 percent back.
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BTC007
10-09-2023 at 06:56 AM.
10-09-2023 at 06:56 AM.
Quote from esit :
Yes it does. You will get 7 percent back.
That's what I thought, but wanted to confirm/get other opinions. I know when I first signed up for the Freedom Flex there was something going on where you could get 9% or 10% back on drug store purchases when paying via Paypal. I'm not sure if it was a new card member promo or what, but it was pretty cool.
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FaithfulRoom319
10-09-2023 at 02:47 PM.
10-09-2023 at 02:47 PM.
Quote from mrgamers :
Has anyone brought the electronic shop card from Costco?

It is like a a bar code in your e-mail to scan at register?

Yes yes
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Realhugoperez2005
10-11-2023 at 02:46 AM.
10-11-2023 at 02:46 AM.
Hello! Quick question is best buy a wholesale club?? Will a purchase at best buy qualify for the 5% cash back from chase freedom credit card?? Please help
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DepravedBandit
10-11-2023 at 07:35 AM.
10-11-2023 at 07:35 AM.
Nope Best buy is not wholesale club like BJ, Sams and Costco. Also Chase I just added 5% on gas for a year and will not match even if you signed up under 30 days.
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Wildpir8
10-11-2023 at 07:50 AM.
10-11-2023 at 07:50 AM.
Quote from Realhugoperez2005 :
Hello! Quick question is best buy a wholesale club?? Will a purchase at best buy qualify for the 5% cash back from chase freedom credit card?? Please help
Best Buy isn't a wholesale club. But PayPal is also a 5% back category this quarter and you can use PayPal for Best Buy purchases.
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CalmPear884
10-12-2023 at 04:46 AM.
10-12-2023 at 04:46 AM.
Quote from esit :
Yes it does. You will get 7 percent back.

Did you mean 8%cb? 5+3?
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swantz1984
10-12-2023 at 05:00 AM.
10-12-2023 at 05:00 AM.
Does BJ's sell gift cards instore for BJ's or I have to order online?
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