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Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

amakol — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:04:16 GMT

Apologies if this was posted but I didn't see anything on the last 2 pages.

Got an email an hour ago from Chase promoting the Freedom as an everyday use card. You have to put $500 in spend (any spend, quarterly category or general) every month from July to December this year and will get an extra $100 after 12/31 on top of otherwise accumulated cash back.

I'm at work otherwise I would copy and paste. Letting others know in case anyone wants to secure message if they haven't gotten an email.

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

amakol — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:06:25 GMT

I'll add that this means an extra 3.33% back on general spend across the board so the card becomes 4.33-8.33% if you only meet the minimum spend requirements.

Between this, discover for 10% categories and double cash for quick 2% on everything else, cash back has really been awesome this year compared to the last couple.

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

CreditCuriosity — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:08:08 GMT

I have not seen this yet... please post it when you can.. Probably stepping up game to compete with disocover recent promot for a year..

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

longtime_lurker — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:15:46 GMT

@bonehead88 wrote:
Apologies if this was posted but I didn't see anything on the last 2 pages.

Got an email an hour ago from Chase promoting the Freedom as an everyday use card. You have to put $500 in spend (any spend, quarterly category or general) every month from July to December this year and will get an extra $100 after 12/31 on top of otherwise accumulated cash back.

I'm at work otherwise I would copy and paste. Letting others know in case anyone wants to secure message if they haven't gotten an email.

This would be awesome, look forward to seeing this email. Thanks for the headsup, OP

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:47:25 GMT

No sight of it here. Would be fantastic

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 22:09:19 GMT

This is just too much! You're killin' me, Smalls!

I haven't got the message yet, but presuming I do, then means I've got:

Extra 3.5k points on $24k spending on USBank Travel Rewards (about 75% complete) by August.

Extra 20k LQ points on $10k spending on LQ Visa (about 80% complete) before EOY.

Double cashback on Discover it (2%/10%/?% on normal/category/portal) through June 2016.

Double cashback on Discover it Miles (3% on everything + 0% APR) through June 2016.

Spend $1k on CCU Visa per month to get 5.09% interest on checking (ongoing) and $100 for spending $1k by mid-August.

Chase Freedom $100CB on $500 per month between July and December (times 2 Freedom cards!)

???What next???

I mean, I love all of these deals, but do they all have to come at once?

Chris.

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 22:54:16 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
This is just too much! You're killin' me, Smalls!

I haven't got the message yet, but presuming I do, then means I've got:

Extra 3.5k points on $24k spending on USBank Travel Rewards (about 75% complete) by August.
Extra 20k LQ points on $10k spending on LQ Visa (about 80% complete) before EOY.
Double cashback on Discover it (2%/10%/?% on normal/category/portal) through June 2016.
Double cashback on Discover it Miles (3% on everything + 0% APR) through June 2016.
Spend $1k on CCU Visa per month to get 5.09% interest on checking (ongoing) and $100 for spending $1k by mid-August.
Chase Freedom $100CB on $500 per month between July and December (times 2 Freedom cards!)

???What next???

I mean, I love all of these deals, but do they all have to come at once?

Chris.

no email for me, sounds great though.

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 23:33:48 GMT

No email for me either but I will wait in anticipation. And if I haven't gotten anything by the end of the week, I might send a message to Chase to check eligibility.

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 23:44:48 GMT

Looks like they saw the response to this quarter's bonus categories was a big "meh", haha. I assume this would be in the form of 10,000 UR points?

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

amakol — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 23:43:30 GMT

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

amakol — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 23:45:06 GMT

I hope the last picture isn't too big. I'll be at work until 12 tonight so I posted a screenshot of the email on my phone from mobile.

Mods, please adjust as needed. Thanks.

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

yfan — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 23:47:45 GMT

Nice. This definitely looks like Chase trying to respond to Discover's Double Cashback offer. There's no indication though that Chase's is an offer available to everyone with a Freedom card - looks more like a targeted offer to use the card. I don't have a Freedom, but I get these offers from time to time to use my other cards. The Orbitz Visa sends different targeted offers about every other month. Citi Diamond Preferred sends offers of extra Easy Deal Points for a certain amount of use.

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 23:53:43 GMT

Maybe it's a limited targeted offer because if it was widespread we would have seen others posting about it.

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

kdm31091 — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:17:31 GMT

To me, it's still not as good as the Discover offer. No matter how much you spend with this, you get $100. At least Discover's is unlimited (for the 2% anyway).

I dunno. Meh. To me, Freedom is just far behind Discover (on its own, cash back merits, not with the CSP transfer thing).

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:25:04 GMT

@kdm31091 wrote:
To me, it's still not as good as the Discover offer. No matter how much you spend with this, you get $100. At least Discover's is unlimited (for the 2% anyway).

I dunno. Meh. To me, Freedom is just far behind Discover (on its own, cash back merits, not with the CSP transfer thing).

Sort of depends. This is $100 extra, so to get that on "normal" discover spend, you would need to spend $10K in those 6 months (and not get the bonus for another 6 months). But if you can max out the 5% categories, you would get $150 extra so Discover would win there

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

longtime_lurker — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:44:14 GMT

@kdm31091 wrote:
To me, it's still not as good as the Discover offer. No matter how much you spend with this, you get $100. At least Discover's is unlimited (for the 2% anyway).

I dunno. Meh. To me, Freedom is just far behind Discover (on its own, cash back merits, not with the CSP transfer thing).

I agree with LTL on this, you could get (best case scenario) $450 back on 3,000 spend - much better than Discover.

But I do think that this was targeted and thus not a very exciting promotion!

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

CreditCuriosity — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 01:22:09 GMT

Hope they take on Discover with this and it goes widespead.. It is a win for everyone Discover and Freedom holders alike and people that have both.. Competition is healthly and the consumer usually wins.. Hope to wake up to an email about this or see within the next day or two or more people having this offer! Would love to transfer those 10k extra UR's plus whatever the regular UR's are from spending the amount.

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

Callandra — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 01:50:58 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
No sight of it here. Would be fantastic

Same here -- I have some big purchases coming up that I could spread out too for it (going to buy my fiance a PS4, need new contact lenses, etc.).

I never get special offers.

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

CreditCuriosity — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 01:54:32 GMT

I don't know if this is targeted or if we will start seeing emails shortly.. Since it starts july-dec.. I think it is going to be rolled out to most or maybe people with both Discover and the Freedom? We will deffinetly see more of these for sure, if not for everyone that has the Freedom.. Keep hooe people, I expect to see alot more email coming during the night hopefully!

Re: Chase Freedom extra $100 CB on $3000

selena — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 01:57:24 GMT

I recieved the email earlier today while I was a work. I've been putting most of my spending on another card to meet a spend bonus, maybe that's why.