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How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 06:12:03 GMT

So I go to activate my Marriott card which did arrive today UPS (2 business days good job). And I'm talking to "Angel" from somewhere in Missouri. She starts like any normal activation and then something must have popped up in her screen. [MBSS has sent two secured messages regarding the 70,000 pts / 2k spending offer. He won't shut up about it. MBSS got $500 dollars from us in bonuses from his checking acct and Freedom and immediately funneled that money over to American Express]

She had started doing the normal activation. "Would you like to hear more about the benefits of your card Mr. MBSS?" Then she stops and mentions how I wanted the 70,000 pts. She then launches into a long spiel about what constitutues appropriate bonus spending. "Balance transfers are not eligible, nor are cash advances or cash equivalents, or blah blah blah check blah blah annoying csr fake happy lilting voice accent blah blah." They think I'm a MS'er or churner.

I bugged them too much about the 70,000 pts. I sent two messages because after the first one they wouldn't get back to me in 24 hrs like they promised. "Angel" knows my goal in life is to take money from Jamie Dimon. I need to hide.

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 06:16:20 GMT

I think thats the standard line..

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 06:18:39 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I think thats the standard line..

They gave you the same spiel. Oh good.

I'm just paranoid.

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 06:19:45 GMT

BTW, jsucool, they are still doing the 70,000. Apparently you just have to bug them enough and they give it to you.

I'm not the type to quit after one try.

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 06:20:03 GMT

Well....I activated my cards online.

I verified my bonus when calling to expedite my cards though.

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 06:21:44 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Well....I activated my cards online.

I verified my bonus when calling to expedite my cards though.

It's a pretty blk card.

It came already with one scratch on it in the lower right hand corner. Can't say I wasn't warned.

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 06:28:38 GMT

Yeah it scratches super easy.

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 06:32:01 GMT

What was your experience redeeming your free night at a Marriott 1-4? Do you stay at a lot of their hotels?

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

Membersince2013 — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 06:54:00 GMT

The 70k bonus is on my Marriot account. I still haven't redeemed it. I'm just going to wait for a couple of months.

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

AintYouADaisy — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 15:27:30 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
So I go to activate my Marriott card which did arrive today UPS (2 business days good job). And I'm talking to "Angel" from somewhere in Missouri. She starts like any normal activation and then something must have popped up in her screen. [MBSS has sent two secured messages regarding the 70,000 pts / 2k spending offer. He won't shut up about it. MBSS got $500 dollars from us in bonuses from his checking acct and Freedom and immediately funneled that money over to American Express]

She had started doing the normal activation. "Would you like to hear more about the benefits of your card Mr. MBSS?" Then she stops and mentions how I wanted the 70,000 pts. She then launches into a long spiel about what constitutues appropriate bonus spending. "Balance transfers are not eligible, nor are cash advances or cash equivalents, or blah blah blah check blah blah annoying csr fake happy lilting voice accent blah blah." They think I'm a MS'er or churner.

I bugged them too much about the 70,000 pts. I sent two messages because after the first one they wouldn't get back to me in 24 hrs like they promised. "Angel" knows my goal in life is to take money from Jamie Dimon. I need to hide.

Hey MBSS, how does one go about sm'ing them to expedite the new card if I have no account number yet with them? In order for a sm to be sent, I have to set up the acct, in which an acct # is req'd. I didn't want to have to call... though I suppose that's what it will take...

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

jsucool76 — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:08:24 GMT

Glad to hear they're still doing the 70k.

The cat 1-4s are decent. There happens to be a cat 4 hotel in Gainesville, Florida, where I go fairly often, so I'll find use for it.

Category doesn't necessarily tell you how nice the hotel is. It's mostly based on location, and how often people travel there, so there is some pretty nice, but low cat, hotels around the world.

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 17:44:26 GMT

I stated at a Cat 4 recently. Pretty decent and booking was easy.

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

lord_kinbote — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:20:37 GMT

@jsucool76 wrote:
Glad to hear they're still doing the 70k.

The cat 1-4s are decent. There happens to be a cat 4 hotel in Gainesville, Florida, where I go fairly often, so I'll find use for it.

Category doesn't necessarily tell you how nice the hotel is. It's mostly based on location, and how often people travel there, so there is some pretty nice, but low cat, hotels around the world.

Well, I was just approved for the Chase Marriott card today and I am using the SM route to try and obtain the 70k points, after I meet the spend requirement. I tried a bunch of links today, but the only way you could obtain the 70k was if you had an existing Marriott rewards account and your member level was at a min of "Silver". So, I had to apply using the 50k link.

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

jsucool76 — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:45:43 GMT

Yeah the only offer I saw was the elite one as well. Shouldn't be a problem to get it matched by chase though. They just take forever to respond to SMs.

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

takeshi74 — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:04:07 GMT

@AintYouADaisy wrote:
Hey MBSS, how does one go about sm'ing them to expedite the new card if I have no account number yet with them?

Call.

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

lord_kinbote — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:29:17 GMT

@jsucool76 wrote:
Yeah the only offer I saw was the elite one as well. Shouldn't be a problem to get it matched by chase though. They just take forever to respond to SMs.

The CSR seemed agreeable to Chase honoring the 70k offer. As a matter of fact, I believe it states that they will honor any potential signup bons within the first 90 days after applying. Anyway, the rep submitted the request and said I would receive a letter in the mail confirming or denying my request. I told them I could see the offer now when I login to my Marriott account. Of course, the reason I am eligible now is because my member level got bumped due to the recent Marriott Rewards app. I am not sure how that will play out, but it does permit Chase room to balk. I do not foresee this being an issue, but I have my screenshots saved and ready to go.

Re: How Chase customized my Marriott activation.

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:20:40 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
What was your experience redeeming your free night at a Marriott 1-4? Do you stay at a lot of their hotels?

I got my approval (after a lengthy fraud verification proccess) I got a bunch of emails about my Silver status and the free reward night had posted. I go to login to my previous existing Marriott Rewards number and don't see anything. Hmm, maybe it takes a while to show up. I try back in a couple days... same thing. It wasn't until I re-read the email saying the bonus night posted that I saw they generated another Marriott number for me Bummer. I was able to get my nights and points from my existing Marriott number to the new account that's engraved on the back of my Marriott CC.

Once I created the account I saw the certificate was there and available for immediate use, despite the warning that it could take 6-8 weeks to post. My wife and I are travelling to Key West for my brother's wedding in April and we live in the middle of Nowhere Louisiana, so we figured since Key West locations are category 8 at minimum lol, that we'll use the free night for Houston the night before we fly out, and that way we can catch an earlier flight too There were a couple of nice hotels in Houston very close to the airport that were category 4 but unfortunately "FULL" and out of rooms for reward redemptions lol. We found a decent looking Marriott Courtyard in Kingwood about 15 minutes from the airport. The redemption was super easy, book with the option of using Rewards and instead of points it asked if I wanted to use my Certificate for the stay...