topic Re: Chase Amazon 2% in Credit Cards

Chase Amazon 2%

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:33:24 GMT

Looks like Chase Amazon is moving to 2% on everything till early Jan 2022, at least for those with a recent credit increase (just got email).

Nice, but not very useful, except for those without a flat 2+% card.

ETA: by "everything" I mean everything that is usually 1%! So still 5% on Amazon/WF

Re: Chase Amazon 2%

Adkins — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:46:03 GMT

Thanks for the info! 😀

Re: Chase Amazon 2%

Save-n-Invest — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:05:42 GMT

Discover card holders enjoy Amazon as a bonus quarter seller this quarter, 5% cash back.

Re: Chase Amazon 2%

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:32:34 GMT

@Save-n-Invest wrote:
Discover card holders enjoy Amazon as a bonus quarter seller this quarter, 5% cash back.

Yes, but the Chase card is still 5% there, uncapped

Re: Chase Amazon 2%

Alephbet — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 16:57:30 GMT

I received this same offer earlier this year prior to my automatic CLI. Did you also? I checked on Chase's MyBonus site also and did not find any offers there. I also received a credit increase recently from $8500 to $22000.

Re: Chase Amazon 2%

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:52:49 GMT

@Alephbet wrote:
I received this same offer earlier this year prior to my automatic CLI. Did you also? I checked on Chase's MyBonus site also and did not find any offers there. I also received a credit increase recently from $8500 to $22000.

Not as far as I remember. I got the automatic CLI in the recent "batch" and the email is:

LTL, give your new spending power a boost with 2% Back everywhere

On top of your recent credit line increase, you will now earn a total of 2% Back on all your everyday purchases until January 5, 2022 with your Amazon Rewards Visa Signature Credit Card.1

so I assumed it was being offered to those with a recent CLI.

Wonder when it starts. Yesterday my wife accidentally used this in her mobile wallet rather than the correct Altitude Reserve. This terrible mistake cost a total of $1.57 in rewards! However, if it got 2% the loss goes down to a slightly more bearable $1.12

Re: Chase Amazon 2%

CreditMarathoner — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 22:35:08 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Not as far as I remember. I got the automatic CLI in the recent "batch" and the email is:

LTL, give your new spending power a boost with 2% Back everywhere
On top of your recent credit line increase, you will now earn a total of 2% Back on all your everyday purchases until January 5, 2022 with your Amazon Rewards Visa Signature Credit Card.1

so I assumed it was being offered to those with a recent CLI.

Wonder when it starts. Yesterday my wife accidentally used this in her mobile wallet rather than the correct Altitude Reserve. This terrible mistake cost a total of $1.57 in rewards! However, if it got 2% the loss goes down to a slightly more bearable $1.12

I would guess it starts when you received the email, or when you activate the offer (if there's an activation needed). It also could have started when you received your CLI. When did you get the CLI? It seems a lot of those occurred around August. If the transaction has posted, you can look at the details online to see what amount of cash back points you received.

To add a data point, I didn't receive any auto CLI, nor any email about 2% cashback on mine.

Re: Chase Amazon 2%

uoyankee — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 23:13:24 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Looks like Chase Amazon is moving to 2% on everything till early Jan 2022, at least for those with a recent credit increase (just got email).
Nice, but not very useful, except for those without a flat 2+% card.

ETA: by "everything" I mean everything that is usually 1%! So still 5% on Amazon/WF

Nada here for me, I've had the card for a little over 5 years now and have m never had a CLI. It started at 10k and has sat there since. It's more than enough for a glorified store card but it would be nice to get these offers from Chase once in a while!

Re: Chase Amazon 2%

Alephbet — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 23:51:42 GMT

@uoyankee wrote:
Nada here for me, I've had the card for a little over 5 years now and have m never had a CLI. It started at 10k and has sat there since. It's more than enough for a glorified store card but it would be nice to get these offers from Chase once in a while!

I have no idea how Chase's auto CLI system works. The Amazon Prime Rewards was my first Chase card in December of 2019 and they gave me a starting limit of $5400. After about 15 months, I received an auto CLI to $8500 on 03/22/2021. That was with charging $3000-$4500 per month and PIF every single time and most of the time to a zero statement closing balance. Then I received an auto CLI to to $22000 on 07/29/2021 without warning. I was quite surpised but apparently lots of people got them (possibly due to Amazon maybe considering leaving Chase as a partner but who knows). That 2% on everything offer came once and I never used it at all. I have only used the card for Amazon and Whole Foods and nothing else.

Re: Chase Amazon 2%

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 12:36:06 GMT

@Alephbet wrote:
@uoyankee wrote:
Nada here for me, I've had the card for a little over 5 years now and have m never had a CLI. It started at 10k and has sat there since. It's more than enough for a glorified store card but it would be nice to get these offers from Chase once in a while!
I have no idea how Chase's auto CLI system works. The Amazon Prime Rewards was my first Chase card in December of 2019 and they gave me a starting limit of $5400. After about 15 months, I received an auto CLI to $8500 on 03/22/2021. That was with charging $3000-$4500 per month and PIF every single time and most of the time to a zero statement closing balance. Then I received an auto CLI to to $22000 on 07/29/2021 without warning. I was quite surpised but apparently lots of people got them (possibly due to Amazon maybe considering leaving Chase as a partner but who knows). That 2% on everything offer came once and I never used it at all. I have only used the card for Amazon and Whole Foods and nothing else.

I got the card in 2004 (yes, before most of you were born, ok not quite!) The auto-cli I got at the beginning of August was the very first on this card.

Re: Chase Amazon 2%

lgtwriter — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 19:44:45 GMT

I just got the 2% offer earlier this week as well. This is the first time Chase has offered me 2% on non-Amazon/Wholefoods purchases. I only use the card on Amazon and at Whole foods. Maybe they are targeting those of us that don't use the card outside the Amazon ecosystem?

Re: Chase Amazon 2%

LADave — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 07:02:59 GMT

I somehow missed this news until now. I got a Chase Amazon Prime card in early September 2021 with a $2,000 limit and no CLIs to date. Besides Amazon, I sometimes use it for gas and dining which earn 2 percent. I did use it for a "regular" charge earlier this past week and I'm only seeing 1 percent rewards for it.

Do I really need to wait for an automatic CLI to get 2 percent rewards on all non-Amazon purchases, or is there a way to initiate it through a phone call or some other way without requesting a CLI, which generates a hard pull? Any tips on how I can get considered for an automatic CLI sooner?

Or were the 2 percent rewards really only offered through early January 2022, as the OP seems to have been saying?

Re: Chase Amazon 2%

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 16:03:12 GMT

@LADave wrote:
I somehow missed this news until now. I got a Chase Amazon Prime card in early September 2021 with a $2,000 limit and no CLIs to date. Besides Amazon, I sometimes use it for gas and dining which earn 2 percent. I did use it for a "regular" charge earlier this past week and I'm only seeing 1 percent rewards for it.

Do I really need to wait for an automatic CLI to get 2 percent rewards on all non-Amazon purchases, or is there a way to initiate it through a phone call or some other way without requesting a CLI, which generates a hard pull? Any tips on how I can get considered for an automatic CLI sooner?

Or were the 2 percent rewards really only offered through early January 2022, as the OP seems to have been saying?

It was a special offer, time limited to Jan 2022. Obviously, this sort of offer can happen again.

Re: Chase Amazon 2%

LADave — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 16:24:34 GMT

Thanks @Anonymous! I see that the 2 percent CB for everything non-Amazon was for a very limited time, so it doesn't look that attractive. One can only hope this was a test run to see if it was worth it to roll it out on a wider (and more permanent) basis.

Re: Chase Amazon 2%

LADave — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 01:42:49 GMT

Update that I got an offer for minimum 2 percent cash back on everything with my Chase Amazon Prime card through the end of 2022, as part of a bonus package if I open a checking account and set up direct deposit, with a total of direct deposits of at least $500. The other bonus is a $225 cash bonus when that happens. (I would continue to get 5 percent cash back on Amazon purchases.)

I have other 2 percent cards with Wells Fargo and Apple/GS, but the cash back offer is tempting. I'd be more inclined to do it if I believed I'd get offered another Chase card (preferably Sapphire Preferred and/or Freedom Flex) before I'm out of my 5/24 period, which won't happen sooner than December. Can anyone suggest if that's possible or likely?

Re: Chase Amazon 2%

Crowhelm — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 01:45:40 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Looks like Chase Amazon is moving to 2% on everything till early Jan 2022, at least for those with a recent credit increase (just got email).
Nice, but not very useful, except for those without a flat 2+% card.

ETA: by "everything" I mean everything that is usually 1%! So still 5% on Amazon/WF

I got a 3% back offer email on that card for everything that is usually 2% back until the end of March, But who cares, I got the AOD card now :-)