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Old Jan 13, 2018, 2:47 pm
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iowa guy
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Iowa
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Originally Posted by iowa guy
If I was to downgrade the Sapphire Reserve to a different card, could I 'upgrade' the card in about 8 months or would that be considered applying for the card?
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Originally Posted by mia
The number of points does not change when moved from Freedom Unlimited to Sapphire Reserve. It's still 1,500 points, and they are worth $0.015 each only if used to purchase travel through Connexions, which is fraught with problems.
Is Connexions the portal that is used on the Chase Ultimate Rewards site?

Originally Posted by Happy
Key point here. Would bet on the percentage of cardholders using all their points on the travel booking is less than 50%. This household only used a whopping 6500 pts this way the past 16 months since obtaining the CSRs because of the not trivial problems experienced.
What would the other 50% be using their points on/for?

Originally Posted by Happy
ecause of the not trivial problems experienced.
not trivial problems?
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