Amazon Prime Upgrade Email & Screenshots

[credit_is_crack]

got an email today from Chase and looks like they've made a few changes. I do like the updated look (quicksivler) lol checked the link that redirected me to my amazon account and it showed the new card as my default card. i guess it got upgraded 

[Anonymous]

You might see a few other threads on this.  Been a hot toipic!

[Anonymous]

It totally looks like the Quicksilver, but in another thread they were saying it is a metal card. If so, it looks pretty cool!

[credit_is_crack]

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@Anonymous wrote:

You might see a few other threads on this.  Been a hot toipic!

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after i posted i started reading and saw quite a few. guess its the flavor of the week!

[credit_is_crack]

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@Anonymous wrote:

It totally looks like the Quicksilver, but in another thread they were saying it is a metal card. If so, it looks pretty cool!

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i hadnt notice the metal chat until reading a few other posts here. i'm curious to see what it will feel like compared to my ritz infinite...

[Anonymous]

kind of interesting they made it have no foreign transaction fees... it's not really something you'd want to use abroad really.

[credit_is_crack]

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@Anonymous wrote:

kind of interesting they made it have no foreign transaction fees... it's not really something you'd want to use abroad really.

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+1...it seemed like an odd feature to boast about for a card that's never really been socialized as a card you would take abroad. I read the announcement and thought...."awwwkward" haha

[yfan]

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@Anonymous wrote:

kind of interesting they made it have no foreign transaction fees... it's not really something you'd want to use abroad really.

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There are actually a lot of people who are Amazon devotees but not credit card aficionados. They use their cards everywhere because they are brand-loyal to Amazon (think of it as wearing your favorite sports team's jersey), and a good enough number of them travel for Chase and Amazon to keep them in the fold so they don't go wondering elsewhere because of the FTFs.

[fltireguy]

I'm almost thinking...

-They relaxed the approval criteria (That is pretty much a given, there have been a lot of borderline approvals that would be deials in the past )

-They are pushing it to the masses as a rewards card, with much better everyday rewards than any current MC/Visa offering from anyone else

-They are trying to get it to be the daily driver for the less-informed

[Revelate]

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@credit_is_crack wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

kind of interesting they made it have no foreign transaction fees... it's not really something you'd want to use abroad really.

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+1...it seemed like an odd feature to boast about for a card that's never really been socialized as a card you would take abroad. I read the announcement and thought...."awwwkward" haha

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Amazon is a multinational company, it may simply be paving the way towards future use cases.  Maybe.  I will say a crapload of people based on anecdotal reports from me and others seem to swipe this card anyway, and if you're out of the country and swiping as an average consumer, it's a useful benefit I guess.

In any event I'll be taking mine on the year long tour around the world as a backup card, it's basically as good for my purposes as my Quicksilver if my primary two get stolen or whatever and when I really think about it I take at least two issuers everywhere in case one has a network or fraud booboo, so 2 backup cards makes rational sense to me at any rate.  It's getting left in my room of course by default.