It's been posted here by others that one can no longer apply for multiple Freedom accounts.
In fact, after being solicited for the Freedom Visa Signature many times, and being told by customer service to apply for a new card, tonight I withdrew the new application. I ended up keeping a 16 year old Mastercard and am hopeful that their computer system will give me a Siggy Visa when they convert it from MC to Visa. I talked with customer service and they sang the same song that the other Visa's I have can't be 'upgraded' to Signature. 
It was funny hearing that they really want to convert my Freedom Visa & MC over to Chase Sapphire, but on my Chase Amazon Visa, there are *NO* conversion options other than to consolidate the credit line onto something else.
@CreditUnionFan wrote:It's been posted here by others that one can no longer apply for multiple Freedom accounts.
In fact, after being solicited for the Freedom Visa Signature many times, and being told by customer service to apply for a new card, tonight I withdrew the new application. I ended up keeping a 16 year old Mastercard and am hopeful that their computer system will give me a Siggy Visa when they convert it from MC to Visa. I talked with customer service and they sang the same song that the other Visa's I have can't be 'upgraded' to Signature.
It was funny hearing that they really want to convert my Freedom Visa & MC over to Chase Sapphire, but on my Chase Amazon Visa, there are *NO* conversion options other than to consolidate the credit line onto something else.
i was reading an article about this just now. It looks like chase is going to be following amex lead with trying to stop churners.
@mongstradamus wrote:
@CreditUnionFan wrote:It's been posted here by others that one can no longer apply for multiple Freedom accounts.
In fact, after being solicited for the Freedom Visa Signature many times, and being told by customer service to apply for a new card, tonight I withdrew the new application. I ended up keeping a 16 year old Mastercard and am hopeful that their computer system will give me a Siggy Visa when they convert it from MC to Visa. I talked with customer service and they sang the same song that the other Visa's I have can't be 'upgraded' to Signature.
It was funny hearing that they really want to convert my Freedom Visa & MC over to Chase Sapphire, but on my Chase Amazon Visa, there are *NO* conversion options other than to consolidate the credit line onto something else.
i was reading an article about this just now. It looks like chase is going to be following amex lead with trying to stop churners.
I wasn't trying to "churn"., but seek out an upgrade into the "Signature" offering of the same card. I've talked to both Lending Services as well as their Customer Service and they keep repeating that if you have a non-signature version of the card it seems the only way to upgrade is to close out the account and then re-open another.
The typical "churner" is solely going after the sign-up bonus, with no intent on keeping the card once the bonus is paid out.
Both Freedom cards never started as Freedom cards; the was a FirstUSA card from 2001, and the MC started its life as the Bell Atlantic MC from '98.
@CreditUnionFan wrote:
@mongstradamus wrote:
@CreditUnionFan wrote:It's been posted here by others that one can no longer apply for multiple Freedom accounts.
In fact, after being solicited for the Freedom Visa Signature many times, and being told by customer service to apply for a new card, tonight I withdrew the new application. I ended up keeping a 16 year old Mastercard and am hopeful that their computer system will give me a Siggy Visa when they convert it from MC to Visa. I talked with customer service and they sang the same song that the other Visa's I have can't be 'upgraded' to Signature.
It was funny hearing that they really want to convert my Freedom Visa & MC over to Chase Sapphire, but on my Chase Amazon Visa, there are *NO* conversion options other than to consolidate the credit line onto something else.
i was reading an article about this just now. It looks like chase is going to be following amex lead with trying to stop churners.
I wasn't trying to "churn"., but seek out an upgrade into the "Signature" offering of the same card. I've talked to both Lending Services as well as their Customer Service and they keep repeating that if you have a non-signature version of the card it seems the only way to upgrade is to close out the account and then re-open another.
The typical "churner" is solely going after the sign-up bonus, with no intent on keeping the card once the bonus is paid out.
Both Freedom cards never started as Freedom cards; the was a FirstUSA card from 2001, and the MC started its life as the Bell Atlantic MC from '98.
What reason are the telling you that your can't upgrade? I'm thinking once your cards are no longer mastercards you won't run into this issue any longer. I can tell you if you message them using the secured message center a response will be given if you qualify. It took a few days for me to get a reply but I finally recieved one from a "Senior Service Specialist" who was able to grant the request. So I believe there is still some hope for you to be upgraded to the signature version you just need to find out what they don't like about your relationship/histroy.
My experience has been that when they converted my Freedom MC to a Visa (about a month or two ago) it was a plain Visa....my other Freedom is a Signature...so not sure what the criteria is for a Sig??? I will just combine the new Freedom Visa to the existing Sig Freedom and have one card.....
@CreditUnionFan wrote:
@odd_dog wrote:My experience has been that when they converted my Freedom MC to a Visa (about a month or two ago) it was a plain Visa....my other Freedom is a Signature...so not sure what the criteria is for a Sig??? I will just combine the new Freedom Visa to the existing Sig Freedom and have one card.....
If you're on of the lucky ones to have two same cards of any type, you may want to think twice about it.
One reason that comes to mind is that when one card is declined, the other card may get approved.
The other reason is that for any card with limits or caps to their benefits, having a second card (or more) allows you to multiply that reward/benefit. The local banker accused me of trying this. I didn't, since both cards were previously something else in their lives and it was Chase that forced the migration.
Hi CUF! Thanks I hear ya, my one Freedom was converted by Chase years ago after I already had a Freedom hence two of them...what you say is true, but even I get that I have way too many cards, so I am trying to consolidate....I got rewards up the ying-yang and I am tired of spreading my "reward earnings" thin......UR are OK but I cant transfer them to American Airlines...my new favorite airline, so they become useless to me in that respect....and I have the CSP so gets really redundant in my card stable...LOL I hope you are able to upgrade!!
