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Chase is offering
75,000 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.
Card Details:
Earn 75,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening. That's over $900 when you redeem through Chase Travel℠.
Enjoy benefits such as 5x on travel purchased through Chase Travel℠, 3x on dining, select streaming services and online groceries, 2x on all other travel purchases, 1x on all other purchases, $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit, plus more.
Get 25% more value when you redeem for airfare, hotels, car rentals and cruises through Chase Travel℠. For example, 75,000 points are worth $937.50 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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For me, the math on the CSR is becoming hard to justify. The lounge benefit is losing restaurants, the annual fee increased, I don't get a ton of value out of the DoorDash benefit. This is probably my last year, but I might be enticed by another signup bonus like this.
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2. You must downgrade or cancel the Sapphire card
3. Must be a new application to receive the bonus
2. You must downgrade or cancel the Sapphire card
3. Must be a new application to receive the bonus
I got the bonus offer about 5 years ago. I have had the downgraded no-fee chase sapphire for about 3 years (I don't really use it). The issue is that the credit limit on it is $25K and I would hate to lose that. I have a Freedom no-fee, too (I wonder if I should relocate credit line instead - or if it would hurt when I re-apply???)
Do you have any suggestion on how to approach this?
Thanks!
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From past threads it may be best to wait two weeks after you cancel your current card to apply for a new one.
Worst case is you call them to verify you no longer have a sapphire card.
If you have a large amount of spending to do, you could instead go for the in branch offer, 75k for 4k spend in 3 months and 10k more points if you spend total 6k.
There's some guess work if you have multiple credit cards from the same bank, because in creditkarma they'll all be listed as a Chase card, a Citi card, an Amex card, etc. But you should be able to figure out which is which.
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30 days. There's no particular reason for you to cancel the plain Sapphire, instead of downgrading it to another Freedom card. Downgrading means that you can apply for the new Sapphire Reserve account in 4 days, instead of waiting a full month.
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For me, the math on the CSR is becoming hard to justify. The lounge benefit is losing restaurants, the annual fee increased, I don't get a ton of value out of the DoorDash benefit. This is probably my last year, but I might be enticed by another signup bonus like this.
So, basically got $600 in travel credits for about $600 in Annual Fee you paid for 1 year.
This is popularly called double dipping!!
What are eligible for travel credit?
Even if you are not a big traveller, things like uber, toll bills are eligible for a refund.
As soon as 12th month statement is generated, I usually prepay $300 towards toll bill and get a $300 within a week and then cancel it.
Is the reserve a better value?
Also can you sign up for both cards to get both sign ons?
Finally is 75k considered good now? Don't they go up to 100k every now and again?
Also can you sign up for both cards to get both sign ons?
Finally is 75k considered good now? Don't they go up to 100k every now and again?
Chase only allows one Sapphire per person, so you either choose the CSP or CSR. In my opinion, if you factor annual fee, the CSR is better. If you take into account the $300 annual travel credit, etc. It will balance the fee out.
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Ok, maybe not if your situation isn't right for it (don't travel much) or credit score isn't 750+. But I never thought I'd be willing to spend a ridiculous $550/year fee for any credit card, but all the perks have easily covered and leaped past the fee in the year that I've had it.
Plus those psychos gave me a $50k limit since I have a ~815 credit score, no debt aside form a mortgage. I'm just shy of a six figure income and think it's pretty insane and even scary that they gave me a limit of over half my pre-tax yearly income.
I pay off in full every month and have with every credit card I've had over the past decade, and of course this card has been no different, but that limit gives an equally 'hell yeah' and scared AF of somehow my stupid ass maxing it out like I did on my first CC with a $700 limit back in freshman year of college.
Still, it's oddly satisfying knowing that I could just buy a car or two on this stupid card.