Originally Posted by
rahmanbar
The issue was not one of the validity period for a Chase Visa cat 5 free night certificate nor one having to do with capacity controls. My point was that "category creep" out of category 5 would cause not only a additiional devaluing of points needed for a property award, but in addition filution of the value of the Chase Visa 6 months free night certificate.
This is an excellent point.
The Chase Visa has an annual fee. Many of us justify paying the fee because the Cat 5 certificate presently is pretty valuable. There are a lot of very nice Cat 5 properties. However, if all of the good Cat 5s become Cat 6s, then the cert issued with the Visa renewal will be much less valuable. It could cause many of us to drop the Visa, especially when combined with the general points devaluation. There are a lot of other cards out there.