Originally Posted by
mnscout
I would advise against Chase Amazon. It's a lousy card, and it's Chase of which you can never have too many. I would close that card in a heartbeat if I haven't had it since the 90s. But wasting a Chase account on this now doesn't make sense in my book. Use Chase Freedom for the next 3 months or Discover like others suggested. Chase Freedom is a very valuable card and you will want to keep it beyond Amazon.
I agree. If this wasn't one of my older (2003) cards, I'd get rid of it. I'm honestly not sure what to do when I want another Chase card now, as I don't really want to cancel any of the ones I have. For Amazon I get lazy and just use this card most of the time. I have 100k points I don't know what to do with, because it seems like a waste to only get $0.01 per point when travel options can be better. The problem is I haven't found tickets expensive enough (3 weeks out, Saturday stay, domestic roundtrip all on the same airline) to bother using them. Maybe I should just buy a camera lens (but the ones I want would take more points than that.) I don't use the card for anything other than Amazon purchases. I have bought a few Vanilla Reloads with it, because it's technically profitable (2 pts/$ at CVS), but I stopped bothering with that. I've spent a LOT at Amazon the last decade it seems, though a lot of purchases are for my parents that I get reimbursed for because they know I do better with the rewards than they do, and I have Prime.
For Amazon purchases, if I wasn't so lazy, I'd go to the Staples 5 minutes away and buy Kindle GCs (good on anything at Amazon) with my Ink Bold for 5 UR/$.