Originally Posted by
emcampbe
Sorry, but want to go back to Nexus for a minute.
Appears they won't reimburse Nexus (instead, of, obviously) GE. Forgetting about the stupidity of this (Nexus is 50% of the cost), anyone had any luck manually having the charge credited instead?
I'd love to have 2 credited (wife and I both renew next year) since its the same price as GE, but I'd like try for at least one. Thoughts? Any idea if there is enough demand to to perhaps convince for an addition of this instead eventually (i.e. up to $100 credit for Truster Traveller program every 4 years instaad of "GE/Precheck").
I doubt Chase thought of the GE/PreCheck credit all on its own. They seem to have simply copied what several other cards do, and as mentioned before, those other cards don't reimburse Nexus.
So keep in mind that you're asking for Chase to do is to go beyond what they (apparently) copied from other banks, and become the
first bank to reimburse Nexus.
While that's a noble goal, when looked at that way, doesn't is seem more uphill? Are there enough people interested in Nexus (over GE/PreCheck) for Chase to use this as a selling points for CSR? If not, what's in for them to add this? (Their goal is not give money away, their goal is to gain/keep people using this card, but is anyone really going to decide whether to get or keep or drop CSR based on whether once every 5 years they can get a Nexus or 2 credited, when no other card from any other bank can do it either? And if it makes no difference to the number of CSR users Chase gets, why would they want to just give away more money?
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Again, whether it's one GE or 2 x Nexus, it's once every 5 years, so $20/year. What's $20/year to someone willing to pay $450 (and even net $150) for a credit card annual fee?
Finally, do you have Nexus already? If not, do you realize you have to travel to Canada to complete the interview? So you can get travel credit on the trip to Canada, and/or 3x points on that. (That's probably one of the reasons Nexus costs less, because for many people it incurs greater signup costs on their own than GE does.)