Chase Officially Announces Amazon Prime 5% Cash Back card
Jan 15, 2017, 3:52 pm
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There's a pattern, Chase is complacent. They let the British Airways card drift until American Express added BA as a transfer partner, then refreshed the BA VISA with a 100,000 mile offer, no foreign transaction fees, etc. In this example they waiting until Amazon allowed another bank to offer a card with better rewards, and they have refreshed the product. Competition is wonderful.
Jan 17, 2017, 8:50 pm
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I have the prime version, it is plastic.
Note that the prime version has the numbers in the front, the amazon prime logo is not reflective/shinny like the amazon logo on the regular one. The blue one is better looking and the sides are orange, it looks very nice. They have it on orange, white, blue and prime gray.
Note that the prime version has the numbers in the front, the amazon prime logo is not reflective/shinny like the amazon logo on the regular one. The blue one is better looking and the sides are orange, it looks very nice. They have it on orange, white, blue and prime gray.
Jan 17, 2017, 9:00 pm
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I wonder if, once again (like with the RC and CSR cards), Chase has unexpectedly depleted its inventory of metal cards due to demand? Others with the new Prime card have posted pictures elsewhere, and they did in fact receive a metal card with only the name embossed on the front.
Jan 18, 2017, 7:12 am
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The term metal does appear in this Amazon press release which is published on a Chase site:
https://media.chase.com/content/pr/a...ards-visa-card
...but is there anything actually written by Chase that uses the term metal?
https://media.chase.com/content/pr/a...ards-visa-card
...but is there anything actually written by Chase that uses the term metal?
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Jan 20, 2017, 8:29 am
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The term metal does appear in this Amazon press release which is published on a Chase site:
https://media.chase.com/content/pr/a...ards-visa-card
...but is there anything actually written by Chase that uses the term metal?
https://media.chase.com/content/pr/a...ards-visa-card
...but is there anything actually written by Chase that uses the term metal?
Jan 20, 2017, 8:34 am
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Thank you. Conflicting reports. Is Chase sending different cards to different individuals -or- do individuals differ in their perception of what qualifies as a metal card?
Jan 20, 2017, 8:41 am
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The picture posted earlier of the "plastic" version of the Prime card does indeed seem to be a different card because the numbers are embossed on the front whereas pictures people have posted (here and elsewhere) of the metal version only have the name embossed on the front.
Jan 20, 2017, 1:45 pm
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Yep, mine is 100% plastic. I have the CSP CSR and Ritz, those are metal/plastic and metal cards. My prime card is 100% ugly plastic.
Jan 20, 2017, 11:39 pm
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Jan 23, 2017, 9:25 am
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I just got my card on Friday and its metal....compared it to my CSR card and seems same material and thickness.....different color of course...