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Mine must have changed to a Chase Rewards card of some sort, because when I checked the account today, it had a link to my rewards. I originally had a Providian VIsa that became a WAMU Visa.
@ralbusta wrote:
I give up, got the your account is not eligible for any type of product change. I guess I'll just see what the letter says. Congrats to everyone that was able to convert!
When you called them, did you request a product change to a specific card? I should note that the rep I spoke with told me that he couldn't change my non-rewards WaMu Platinum to the Chase Freedom or the Amazon card, but could change it to the PerfectCard as well as a few others. So perhaps there are limitations.
Which is odd because Freedom and PerfectCard are similar in terms of rewards.
If you have the time, I'd recommend making a few more calls until you reach someone who will do it. If they keep saying "you're not eligible", I'd ask them to be more specific as to why.
Good luck!
Just go off the phone with Chase CC customer service and requested to convert my account to a Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Visa, but he said it was too soon. They did offer to change it to a Freedom Card now and I could check back in a couple months to see if the Southwest might be available. I went ahead and accepted the Freedom Visa. This account was previously a Wamu PetSmart PetPerks Visa... I had received noticed from Chase last month that they had ended the PetSmart product and my account was going to a Chase Fexible Rewards Visa. I have a $9500 CL on this card. He said my APR terms would stay the same at 11.24% and I would get a new card in 5-7 days.
This was cool because I have another regular Wamu Platinum Visa (15K CL) that I wanted to convert to a Freedom, but was reading here that others were only succesfull in getting a Chase Perfect Visa. I asked to change this account or as the CSR put upgrade my account to the Perfect Visa. He said to keep using the same card, so I will request a replacement in a couple of weeks or so.
I'm thinking that in a few months I'll check back to see if I can convert either to a Southwest Rapid Rewards or possibly just combine the 2 credit lines into the Chase Freedom. Either way, I'm really happy to be with Chase now since I have my checking and auto loan with them also.
@Anonymous wrote:
@ralbusta wrote:
I give up, got the your account is not eligible for any type of product change. I guess I'll just see what the letter says. Congrats to everyone that was able to convert!When you called them, did you request a product change to a specific card? I should note that the rep I spoke with told me that he couldn't change my non-rewards WaMu Platinum to the Chase Freedom or the Amazon card, but could change it to the PerfectCard as well as a few others. So perhaps there are limitations.
3 strikes and I was out:
Call 1: Asked for change to Freedom
Call 2: Asked for change to Home Improvement rewards
Call 3: Asked for a product change in general
Which is odd because Freedom and PerfectCard are similar in terms of rewards.
If you have the time, I'd recommend making a few more calls until you reach someone who will do it. If they keep saying "you're not eligible", I'd ask them to be more specific as to why.
I think I'm really going to wait to get the letter before I attempt again. Don't know if I could take 4 rejections in a week!! Lol!
Good luck!
I called the backdoor number on the 9th of March and told them I wanted to do a product change from the Wamu platinum to the Freedom Plus card and was transferred to their customer service department, the rep said that would be know problem and that it would not be necessary for them to put an inquiry for this change. He said the new benefits would go into effect in three days and my card would be sent out that day.
Hey Ralbusta wanted to bump this up to make sure you saw the other thread regarding Wamu/Chase product changes. Those who have been successful appear to be calling the number on the back of their WaMu card and not Chase directly. Not sure who you contacted, but I hope this helps.
For those of you have made the change or thinking about it, I would still like to know what benefit there is. I'm not sure if this something I need to do, I just seem to be following the crowd and most of the time that gets me in trouble
@ralbusta wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@ralbusta wrote:
I give up, got the your account is not eligible for any type of product change. I guess I'll just see what the letter says. Congrats to everyone that was able to convert!When you called them, did you request a product change to a specific card? I should note that the rep I spoke with told me that he couldn't change my non-rewards WaMu Platinum to the Chase Freedom or the Amazon card, but could change it to the PerfectCard as well as a few others. So perhaps there are limitations.
3 strikes and I was out:
Call 1: Asked for change to Freedom
Call 2: Asked for change to Home Improvement rewards
Call 3: Asked for a product change in general
Which is odd because Freedom and PerfectCard are similar in terms of rewards.
If you have the time, I'd recommend making a few more calls until you reach someone who will do it. If they keep saying "you're not eligible", I'd ask them to be more specific as to why.
I think I'm really going to wait to get the letter before I attempt again. Don't know if I could take 4 rejections in a week!! Lol!
Good luck!
Well I got the letter:
We regret that we are not able to trade your account to another type of account. Your current account does not qualify for a trade.
That answered nothing. I was looking for something specific, oh well.
People that did convert, did you ask to convert to a rewards card or the perfectcard specifically?
@ralbusta wrote:People that did convert, did you ask to convert to a rewards card or the perfectcard specifically?
I told them that I wanted to do a product change to something which carried a rewards program. The rep asked "Do you have a specific card in mind?" I told him that Freedom, PerfectCard, and Amazon all appealed to me. He put me on hold, came back a minute later and told me that he couldn't convert to Freedom or Amazon, but could convert to 3 other cards: 1) PerfectCard, 2) a travel rewards card (can't recall the name), and 3) a somewhat generic-sounding card (can't recall that one either).
Perhaps if you call and simply say "I'd like to add the PerfectCard (or Freedom) rewards program to my account."
I really hope it works out for you. Good luck!