Comments on: Chase Freedom Plus - received third statement

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:44:28 +0000

I have both the Chase Freedom and the Chase Freedom Plus cards. For my spending habits i do not really benefit from having the Chase Plus card. It is not worth the $30 membership fee for me. Out of the 15 categories, I only spend a significant amount of money in 3 of them. Chase sent me applications for 3 different cards in the same month. Those 2 and a Chase Freedom Matercard. I applied for and recieved all 3 with a $100 bonus on all of them. I am going to cancel the Chase Freedom Plus and the Chase Freedom Mastercard.

By: KN

KN — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:40:06 +0000

For the plus account, do you need to pay $30 a year “rewards fee” or “membership fee”

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:02:15 +0000

Hmm… They told us it was impossible to convert it back to the Plus account when they “downgraded” my wife’s card. We complained, they submitted a request to some other department, and said we’d be receiving a letter with the results. About a week later, we received the letter that basically said there was nothing they could do. I thought it was a glitch in their system or something, so we just closed her account since I also had mine. Well, about a week ago I changed my reward type from miles to cash, and now I’m going through exactly the same process. I spoke to them last night, they once again submitted a request to change my account back to Plus, and said it may take up to 30 days before that happens. In the mean time, we’re accumulating the regular Freedom rewards, which is capped at $600 per month. Since we spend on average $5000 per month using our credit card(s), Freedom Plus was the perfect card for us, but now the AmEx Blue Cash card is starting to look better and better…

By: Yan

Yan — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:02:21 +0000

Alex, the same thing happened to me but they did convert it back to “plus” and kept my rewards. I am still at miles though even though I want to move to cash. Will have to call Cahse again.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:03:17 +0000

Be careful when you switch your rewards type from miles to rewards (cash back) on your Freedom Plus card. When you do, Chase will most likely downgrade your Plus account to just a regular Freedom card. It’s happened to us twice now - first my wife’s Plus card, and now my Plus card. Once that happens, they will not be able to convert it back to Plus account (don’t know why). I’m pretty pissed about it; we’ve been using Chase as our primary bank for everything (checking and all credit cards), but I’m to the point where I’m ready to close all my accounts and move on to AmEx.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:14:28 +0000

Chase Freedom has a new promotion I got in the mail recently called Travel Statement Credit. Can anyone shed some light on this? I called Chase about it but even they couldn’t explain how this works very clearly.

By: user

user — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:36:20 +0000

I’m still interested in using this card for Amazon.com. Does anyone know what rewards this card will give for Amazon purchases? Does it matter if you use Amazon Prime?

By: sandra

sandra — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:14:19 +0000

Is there a list of points needed to redeem airline tickets somewhere? What about international tickets?

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:51:49 +0000

Yan,

Sorry for the lack of clarification. The “Get25″ promotion is only for Chase customers with a checking account and a corresponding Check Card (Debit Card). The promotion pays back $25 for every $250 you spend with your Check Card (up to $750). You have to make the purchases as a Credit, i.e. without using your pin…so no Costco unfortunately

By: Yan

Yan — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:46:50 +0000

KF: you can use Chase Freedom to collect either miles or points. I will try to find more about other good credit cards that give you miles as rewards and will write about in a separate blog post.