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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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rhaxter
10-12-2023 at 06:09 AM.
10-12-2023 at 06:09 AM.
Is there an easy way to tell when you've maximized the cash back award? Discover has a progress bar in their app that makes this simple. Does Chase have anything similar?
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hmm
10-12-2023 at 06:34 AM.
10-12-2023 at 06:34 AM.
Can you get this through Chase when paid via f&f via PayPal? I take some private classes and pay my tutor via that.
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Knightshade
10-12-2023 at 09:44 AM.
10-12-2023 at 09:44 AM.
Quote from hmm :
Can you get this through Chase when paid via f&f via PayPal? I take some private classes and pay my tutor via that.

If you don't mind the fees you get hit with for using a credit card for f&f on paypal, sure. IIRC it's 2.9% plus 30 cents.
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p_s_shah
10-12-2023 at 09:47 AM.
10-12-2023 at 09:47 AM.
Quote from rhaxter :
Is there an easy way to tell when you've maximized the cash back award? Discover has a progress bar in their app that makes this simple. Does Chase have anything similar?

There is progress bar in app. But it does not get reflected till bill is generated afaik.
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ElDanger6969
10-14-2023 at 12:31 PM.
10-14-2023 at 12:31 PM.
Quote from Knightshade :
Yup-including buying costco giftcards at costco.com making this quarter pretty terrific and damn easy to max both of my Freedom cards.

Both? Those are rookie numbers
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Arfyfish
10-16-2023 at 07:36 AM.
10-16-2023 at 07:36 AM.
Quote from MidnightX :
From the FAQs. What is included in the Select Charities category:
  • American Red Cross
  • Equal Justice Initiatives
  • Feeding America
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • International Medical Corps
  • International Rescue Committee
  • Leadership Conference Education Fund
  • NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
  • National Urban League
  • Thurgood Marshall College Fund
  • United Negro College Fund
  • UNICEF USA
  • United Way
  • World Central Kitchen
  • GLSEN
  • Out and Equal
  • Sage
To ensure your charitable donation is eligible for the 5% Cash Back reward, be sure to donate directly to the charity's parent organization. Local chapters may not be eligible due to transaction processing procedures.

For those who want to donate to charity but your organization of choice is not included…you can search PayPal Giving Fund to see if it is there.
I have successfully donated to charities via that route (obviously using a linked Freedom or Freedom Flex to my PayPal account) and received the 5% for using PayPal.
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rc9238
10-16-2023 at 06:44 PM.
10-16-2023 at 06:44 PM.
Quote from CalmPear884 :
Did you mean 8%cb? 5+3?
No, it's only 7%. The 3% is actually the normal 1% + bonus 2%, and you don't get the normal 1% cashback in this case.
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MKdeals99
10-17-2023 at 04:30 AM.
10-17-2023 at 04:30 AM.
Good deal
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HellaSupBro
10-20-2023 at 03:56 PM.
10-20-2023 at 03:56 PM.
my freedom flex is a mastercard, which i dont think costco accepts. Do others have Flex VISAs?
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tenderidol
10-20-2023 at 05:31 PM.
10-20-2023 at 05:31 PM.
Quote from HellaSupBro :
my freedom flex is a mastercard, which i dont think costco accepts. Do others have Flex VISAs?
Not in store, but you can use it online.
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travelnshot
10-22-2023 at 09:50 AM.
10-22-2023 at 09:50 AM.
Quote from keung :
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
Great use of UR points. Do you use any site or tool to search for award ticket? TiA
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SkillfulCabbage6423
11-04-2023 at 04:32 AM.
11-04-2023 at 04:32 AM.
Quote from dapperdeals55 :
Does "wholesale clubs" generally include Costco?

Yes it does
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teryyz
11-04-2023 at 10:26 AM.
11-04-2023 at 10:26 AM.
I've previously purchased prepaid Mastercard gift cards from their website, which takes PayPal and is more convenient than physically going to CVS or wherever. Recently, my purchases via PayPal have all failed. I've tried multiple cards with no luck. Anyone else experience this issue?

https://www.mastercardgiftcard.co...type=email

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biggiebody
11-04-2023 at 08:40 PM.
11-04-2023 at 08:40 PM.
Here's a tip for these freedom cards. You can get 6 months of 5% gas. Some gas stations accept PayPal for payments, Chevron and Phillips 66 come to mind. So you can the quarter that has gas, and this quarter that has PayPal to pay for gas.
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CrimsonFruit7666
11-05-2023 at 05:44 AM.
11-05-2023 at 05:44 AM.
You can also buy GiftCards at CardCash and pay via PayPal which is linked to your Chase rewards CC. Texas Road house like 11% of that way.
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