Possible to Get a Discontinued Card?

[ckinninger]

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@SamsungHDTV wrote:

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@TM82 wrote:
No chance. The company the card is based on isn't even around anymore. From my understanding Chase doesn't even allow joint cardholders anymore.

Plus the type of spending required to get any meaningful EQM's is insane. To even get to Silver you'd have to out $125,000 through it just to get 25,000 EQM's. and the benefits for Silver aren't that great. You'd be better off with the new Club card and putting the same type of spend that you'd need to on the old card you end up with 187,500 miles.

The best way to get status is the old fashioned BIS.

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Your understanding is correct. As of earlier this year, Chase no longer accepts applications to add a joint owner on credit cards.

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I see.  I mispoke about being added as an authorized user.  I mean joint.  I had no idea that any banks removed the option to add a joint owner.  It seems so fundamental but they're in charge.  If you can't be added as jointly repsonsible the aggressive idea is DOA.  The idea was to get on as joint owner, then request to remove the old sole owner.

[TM82]

Actually 75k in spend will not get you Premier Platinum. You get 1,000 EQM's per $5,000 in spend, so $75k in spend will get you 15k EQM'S or not even silver. Again the easiest way to get status is the old fashioned BIS.

I'd much rather get 1.5 miles per dollar than the old PP EQM'S. If you spend $100k with the new Club you'll get 150k RDM's or 6 saver domestic award travels, rather than 4 saver awards and only 20k EQM's. Which if you use award travel you won't even get elite miles.

[CreditScholar]

+1. Since I can't quote, that's the exact same conclusion I came to TM. PQMs are fairly useless to me anyways since for flights over 3 hours I'll be in J/F, and for short flights I'm off the plane so fast it really doesn't matter. E+ is good enough for me on 1-2 hour flights.

[TM82]

Same, I like E+ for shorter flights, the last time I flew Economy for a flight to Asia it was barely tolerable. I've started to ditch my Amex, even for Costco purchases I've been buying Costco Cash cards using my Club card.

[CreditScholar]

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@TM82 wrote:
Same, I like E+ for shorter flights, the last time I flew Economy for a flight to Asia it was barely tolerable. I've started to ditch my Amex, even for Costco purchases I've been buying Costco Cash cards using my Club card.

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Exactly. I was on a flight from SFO-BUR a few months ago, and IMO there wasn't much difference between F and E+. Definitely not worth the difference in price for a 1 hour flight.