According to The Points Guy
Even though Chase has yet to officially announce the 5x bonus categories on its Chase Freedom credit card for the remaining quarters of 2018, the bank’s phone agents appear to already have the information in hand. Reports have emerged that the categories are set for April, May and June, and that customer service reps are sharing the details with customers who call and inquire. A call from the TPG staff to Chase’s front line reps confirmed this and was consistent with other reports, so even though we likely won’t get official word from the bank until early next week, we’re confident in sharing that the second quarter categories for 2018 will be: Groceries PayPal Chase Pay Walmart (Online only) Best Buy (Chase pay app) &pizza (Chase pay app) Potbelly (Chase pay app) Several others. |
Originally Posted by fr3qu3ntfly3r
(Post 29510018)
Chase Pay Merchants include:
. https://www.chase.com/digital/digita...chant-partners |
I can hit this one on groceries alone. Glad Chase has made the first two quarters so easy to hit.
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Originally Posted by HawkeyeFlyer
(Post 29511584)
I can hit this one on groceries alone. Glad Chase has made the first two quarters so easy to hit.
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I do not MS or want to deal with GCs anymore, very disappointing that Chase keeps copying Discover each quarter with few exceptions for the major category. Chase pay is useless to me, PayPal has some use.
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A bit disappointed in these categories for this quarter because of the fact that we will be on a vacation at some point during this quarter so something like restaurants would have been perfect. But I can get gc's at the grocery stores as well as gc's from Wal-Mart.com So definitely will max this quarter out...
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Originally Posted by fr3qu3ntfly3r
(Post 29511594)
It's not official since chase hasn't updated the bonus categories website yet. However, multiple sites are mentioning those categories for quarter two.
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Originally Posted by pdxer
(Post 29519601)
Actually, they have, at least for groceries. The 'coming soon' graphic on the Freedom calendar is named cal_icon_groceries.png. Unfortunately, no clues for the next two categories.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...New-Category-5 |
PayPal - which can be used online, on mobile or in-app across more than 18 million large, mid-sized and small businesses around the world |
Originally Posted by mia
(Post 29519825)
I do not have a PayPal account, but many small online merchants use PayPal as their payment processor. I simply enter my card details and decline the annoying opportunity to create an account. Would we expect that type of transaction to qualify for the bonus?
Please, if anyone knows, speak up. |
I'm a big fan of the Paypal option -- I use it fairly frequently to pay for purchases at smaller online stores ... mainly because I am too lazy to type in my address and credit card number. (I feel a little bad for some small merchants because as I understand it, Paypal charges outrageous merchant fees, well above what Amex or any other credit card company would charge ... but oh well. Perhaps Paypal is sharing some of that bounty with Chase this quarter to make this promotion possible.)
Keep in mind -- many bigger clothing/shoes/accessories/etc. retailers and department stores are Shop Through Chase partners *and* accept Paypal payments. There are some pretty nice rates of return possible. It also seems like Chase is trying to be crafty about getting people to change their default cards for recurring bills to Freedom, and hoping that people won't bother to change it back to something else afterwards. This quarter, there was an incentive to change your phone and cable bill, as well as your Netflix bill, to your Freedom card, and I'm sure many people won't bother to change it back even though it will only earn 1% going forward. Similar with making Freedom your default Apple/Android Pay card, and now your default Paypal card. @mia -- I suspect using PayPal without setting up an account will work the same and qualify for bonus points either way. |
Originally Posted by mia
(Post 29519825)
I do not have a PayPal account, but many small online merchants use PayPal as their payment processor. I simply enter my card details and decline the annoying opportunity to create an account. Would we expect that type of transaction to qualify for the bonus?
I have a PayPal account simply because I was buying stuff regularly on ebay years ago. Back then, it was the only way to pay on ebay with a credit card (and I've been wanting to earn miles/points with credit cards for getting close to two decades now). And back then, eBay was the easiest place to find certain used stuff (especially stuff "out of print" or otherwise no longer available new). Nowadays Amazon has much more of that than they did a decade ago, so I use eBay much more rarely. Also, though I don't have any Citi AT&T Access card yet, per the wiki in the Citi Forum AT&T Access More card thread, it says that some online stores don't earn 2x/3x if you pay directly but do if you pay via PayPal. So that's another reason to use PayPal, if you have one of those cards and want to shop at one of those stores. |
Originally Posted by mia
(Post 29510566)
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Originally Posted by tmiw
(Post 29521996)
...Shell gas stations now accept Chase Pay inside (and some outside too)....
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Originally Posted by mia
(Post 29523608)
If I understand correctly, Chase Pay displays a QR code. The pump would have a scanner that can read it, or does Chase Pay also support another technology?
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