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-Chase Freedom Visa–Until 12/17 only you can earn 20,000 Ultimate Rewards points (double the normal bonus) when you spend $500 in 3 months plus 2,500 points for adding an additional user and making a single purchase in 3 months.
This is marketed as a $200 signup bonus, but is actually 20,000 points that can be used for $200 cash back, though the points are more valuable when transferred into airline/hotel/train miles.
There is no annual fee for Chase Freedom!
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2015 bonus categories:
You can now activate your 2015 Q1 Chase Freedom 5% categories.
Between 01/01/15 and 03/31/15 you will earn 5 points per dollar at grocery stores (excluding Target and WalMart), Movie theaters, and Starbucks.
You’ll earn 5 points per dollar or 5.5 points per dollar if you have a Chase checking account.
Grocery stores and gas stations are always awesome categories as you can find Visa cards there that can be liquidated.
Upcoming categories include:
Q2: Restaurants and more to be announced.
Q3: Gas stations and more to be announced.
Q4: Amazon.com and more to be announced.
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2014 Q4:
Q4 bonus spending ends 12/31/14.
Although they are called “5% categories” you really get 5 Ultimate Rewards points per dollar spent which can be cashed out for 5% cash. For $1,500 in spending you will earn at least 7,500 Ultimate Rewards points. If you or your spouse has a Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card, Ink Plus, or Ink Bold card you can transfer Freedom points over to one of those cards and then transfer them at a 1:1 ratio into much more valuable airline miles (United, British Airways, Southwest, Korean, Singapore, etc) or hotel points (Hyatt, etc). The $1,500 quarterly limit is per Freedom card, so if you’re like me and you have downgraded Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card s into multiple Freedom cards then you can spend $1,500 on each Freedom card.
If you have a Chase checking account you will also earn a 10% bonus on all points earned. That means you’ll earn a whopping 5.5 points per dollar in these categories or 8,250 points each quarter. Those points post in February for the previous year. That benefit ends in February 2016.
1. You can shop from millions of items on Amazon.com
2. You can buy an Amazon.com email gift card or you can buy a physical Amazon.com gift card. Once you have the gift card code you can save it to your Amazon account via this link where it will never expire.
Or give an Amazon gift card as a holiday gift and you can be sure that the recipient will be able to get something they’ll love while you earn 5-5.5 points per dollar spent!
3. You can buy gift cards from Amazon for lots of other stores as well:
-You can buy gift cards for clothing, shoes, and accessory stores on Amazon.com
-You can buy gift cards for grocery, gourmet, and floral stores on Amazon.com
-You can buy gift cards for restaurants and coffee shops on Amazon.com
-You can buy gift cards for department stores on Amazon.com
-You can buy gift cards for travel on Amazon.com
-You can buy gift cards for books, music, and movie theaters on Amazon.com
-You can buy gift cards for Home Improvement on Amazon.com
You can’t use Amazon gift cards to buy gift cards to other stores, but you can earn 5-5.5 points per dollar with Freedom!
4. You can shop for shoes and clothing on Zappos.com or you can buy a gift card from Zappos.
5. Shop at department stores such as:
-Find more valid department stores here.
Some stores like Kohl’s and Sears also sell gift cards to other stores!
Of course if you have an Ink Plus or Ink Cash card you will earn 5 Ultimate Rewards points per dollar spent all year round on telecom, cable, internet, as well as everything from office supply stores, which includes gift cards to other stores and prepaid cash cards that can be used anywhere.With the Bold/Plus cards that’s capped at $50,000 per year and with the Cash card that’s capped at $25,000 per year. Plus the Ink Visa cards earn 1% cash back on top of 5 points per dollar for $200+ purchases at Staples and other stores with Visa Savings Edge. The cards also earn 2 points per dollar year-round at gas stations and either hotels (Bold/Plus) or dining (Cash).
But Freedom has the advantage of earning 5.5 points per dollar through 12/31/15 if you have a Chase checking account.
So, where will you use your Freedom card this quarter?
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My $30 canon cash code came in and is not working. Anyone else have this issue?
Does anyone else find it ironic that Chase explicitly excludes Walmart and Target? It’s almost like they are speaking directly to us!
Is theres a list to what stores come up as groceries
@Dan, if you add an AU (spouse), can that person then sign up for the card independently (since ss# is not used when adding an AU)? Thanks and sorry for the beginner q.
@LG:
You can try this: https://www.visa.com/supplierlocator/search/index.jsp
Any store that’s categorized as grocery will work.
@David:
Yes.
my freedom authorized user card has same exact number as my main card. Is that normal? How do they know if I made the single purchase.
@Jason:
Yes.
What is a single purchase and why does it matter who made it?
Thanks Dan – your post says “Chase Freedom Visa-Until 12/17 only you can earn 20,000 Ultimate Rewards points (double the normal bonus) when you spend $500 in 3 months plus 2,500 points for adding an additional user and making a single purchase in 3 months.”
For the second part of that – how can they tell that the additional user card has made the purchase when its the same exact number as my main card? I’m trying to get the extra 2,500 points.
@Jason:
Bingo, don’t actually need to make the purchase on the AU card 😀
I’m just relaying the terms.
Ok thank you for clarifying!
Hi dan can I make a large purchase as Bloomingdales or Nordstrom with my cc to gain points I need now and then return the item to my chase debit card ? Or will they give me chase in the thousands..?
Does Chase allow me to transfer from my daughter’s Freedom card (living at the same address) to my Ink, or is it only a spouse?
Thank You
@zow: Interesting, not ironic.There’s no irony here.