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Chase "My Bonus" promotions (targeted category bonuses).

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Chase regularly offers 3-month spending bonuses at chase.com/mybonus.
Chase Spend and Get Offers | My Bonus | Chase.com

These bonuses have the following characteristics:
  • Offers are not visible in your Chase online account. You can view them only through the portal at the link above. Viewing an offer automatically registers your card for it.
  • Offers are individually targeted. You may receive a different offer, or none at all, on a card type for which another FTer reports a bonus.
  • A given card will have, at most, one applicable bonus offer at a time.
  • Offers are typically for higher multiples of miles/points per dollar spent. Note that when an offer is for 10x on gas spend, that means 10 points or miles per dollar total, including any category bonus native to the relevant card.
    • If you downgrade a qualifying card during an offer period, the offer will still apply, but you will receive only the incremental benefit relative to the new cards built-in category bonus, if any. For example, the Chase IHG Premier card always earns 5x on dining, so a 10x quarterly offer is worth an extra 5 points/dollar. If you downgrade to the IHG Traveler card (native 3x dining bonus), you will receive 8 total points per dollar (native 3x plus the promotional 5 points/dollar) for spending during the offer period.
    • On very rare occasions, an offer may be for a fixed bonus contingent on the cardholder making a certain number of transactions of a minimum value. (For an early 2022 instance of this5,000 UR for making 15 purchases of at least $2 eachsee this post.)
  • Most offers are for generic categories (gas, grocery, dining, etc.). On occasion, however, an offer may be for purchases with a specific Chase partner using the applicable co-branded card (e.g., United Airlines, Hyatt, IHG) or for a large merchant such as Amazon (Q422).
  • Offers are usually capped at $1500 in spend. In some cases, however, the cap may be higher, e.g., extra miles on up to $6,000 in purchases from United Airlines on a United card.
  • Bonuses are typically for standard quarterly periods, but offers may also run for other three-month periods (e.g., June/July/August). It is generally worth checking on, or even shortly before, the first of each month for any card that doesnt currently have an associated offer.
    • If you have a Q3 offer, you wont be able to see any Q4 offer on that card until the Q3 offer expires. That said, Chase may send you an email notification a few days before the cutoff allowing you to view & pre-register for the upcoming offer.
For discussion of Chase Offersshort-term (usually <30 days) percentage discounts with specific merchants (not categories)see "Chase Offers" (merchant branded discounts or rebates on specific cards), including the wiki at the top of each page.


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Old Sep 27, 23, 2:59 pm
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Originally Posted by txpenny
Switch to what?
A version of your browser that does not track cookies, so once you close it and reopen it, it doesnt remember that you already have 5 failed attempts
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Old Sep 27, 23, 3:45 pm
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Originally Posted by txpenny
Switch to what?
Your brower may call it Private rather than Incognito mode.
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Old Sep 27, 23, 4:02 pm
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Originally Posted by txpenny
[...] I get this message: "We are currently unable to identify your account. Please contact us using the number on the back of your card."[...]
Originally Posted by Dr Jabadski
[...] Need to close the window and allow some time, on the order of 30-60 minutes IIRC, to pass until another 4 valid inquires.
[...]
5th: chase.com/mybonus/fivetimesretry Thank you for your interest We are currently unable to identify your account. Please contact us using the number on the back of your card.
[...]
I have gotten that "unable to identify" message on multiple personal cards in the past year, and not after four previous attempts (and sometimes on the first attempt). I don't believe I have ever gotten it on a business card (but I don't believe I have ever gotten an offer on a business card, either).

I don't doubt that the message will appear on the fifth attempt, but I no longer make five attempts in the same window. Similar to what Schnit mentioned, I use a private browsing window, check a maximum of four cards, close and open a new window and keep checking.

My opinion is that Chase's web site is squirrelly and sometimes gives that message randomly (and maybe consistently after five attempts).
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Old Sep 27, 23, 4:47 pm
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Originally Posted by mia
Your brower may call it Private rather than Incognito mode.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privat...pular_browsers

for browser-specific terminology, and keyboard shortcut for opening a private/incognito window.
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Old Sep 27, 23, 8:06 pm
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Originally Posted by Dr Jabadski
It's suspected that these offers are almost surgically targeted to specific users, the details of that targeting being unknown but seem to be for less common card users (to incentivize future use).
This is the conclusion I have come to.

While I always check the box of every Chase Offer as they pop up [usually 60-70 a month], I have never received even one of these invite-only bonus offers on any of my cards.

I've come to believe that it's because I put an average of 20 "swipes" a month on each of my cards, which I use for everything from a pack of gum to significant travel and durable goods purchases. I don't even know where my Chase debit card is anymore. OK, I always have it in my Apple wallet, but I don't remember the last time i actually used it.
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Old Sep 28, 23, 5:13 pm
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$5 for $100 utility spend on both the Chase Freedom Unlimited and Amazon Prime
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Old Sep 28, 23, 7:23 pm
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I got a targeted United Quest email for bonus miles for total spend in Q4

​​​​​​it was a sliding scale and I got to pick which one I wanted
$1,000 for 600mi
$2,000 for 1,500mi
$5,000 for 9,000mi
(I forgot to write down $3k and $4k)

I picked $5k for 9k as that will give me at least 2.8 miles per dollar.
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Old Sep 28, 23, 8:23 pm
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Originally Posted by N104UA
I got a targeted United Quest email for bonus miles for total spend in Q4

​​​​​​it was a sliding scale and I got to pick which one I wanted
$1,000 for 600mi
$2,000 for 1,500mi
$5,000 for 9,000mi
(I forgot to write down $3k and $4k)

I picked $5k for 9k as that will give me at least 2.8 miles per dollar.
That’s not a MyBonus offer. It came from United, and would stack if you also got a MyBonus targeted offer. Here you can see what others got for their United cards:

UA/Chase Spend Offer Q4/2023
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Old Sep 29, 23, 3:58 am
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Several Q4 offers announced via email:
  • Earn 5 Bonus Points Total At Grocery Stores, Gas Stations And Amazon.com — Hyatt card
  • Earn 7 Bonus Points Total At Grocery Stores, Gas Stations And Amazon.com — IHG Premier card
  • Earn 5 Bonus Points Total At Grocery Stores, Gas Stations And Amazon.com —IHG Select card
All capped at $1K in spend.
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Old Sep 29, 23, 11:54 am
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Originally Posted by beltway
... 5 Bonus Points ... 7 Bonus Points ... 5 Bonus Points ...
Color me envious. Mom always did like you best and you always got the best Xmas presents !
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Old Sep 29, 23, 2:02 pm
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Color me envious. Mom always did like you best and you always got the best Xmas presents !
No email for me and the web links returned lumps of coal for all my cards so far. This is shocking - my spreadsheet shows this hasnt happened since the beginning of time. Apparently I am spending too much on Chase cards. But thats okay: my grocery and gas spend for Q4 will go to the Citi Premier card (3X each) to help with diversifying my points portfolio more.
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Old Sep 29, 23, 2:40 pm
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Originally Posted by notquiteaff
... spend for Q4 will go to ... to help with diversifying my points portfolio ...
Yup, me too, (trying) to make lemonade out of lemons .
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Old Sep 29, 23, 3:24 pm
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Got this one on several cards:

Earn Bonus Points with Chase Travel: With this bonus offer, cardmembers who have not purchased travel through Ultimate Rewards/Chase Travel since 9/30/22 (“New Bookers”) can earn 7,000 bonus points when they first activate this offer and then purchase a flight and hotel stay totaling $105.00 or more through Chase Travel that are both completed by 1/31/24 11:59 PM ET.
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Old Sep 29, 23, 3:38 pm
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Got this one on several cards:
On UR cards, presumably? Can you tell us which ones? And was it via email or the MyBonus website? Or both?
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Old Sep 29, 23, 5:46 pm
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Originally Posted by txpenny
Got this one on several cards:

Earn Bonus Points with Chase Travel: With this bonus offer, cardmembers who have not purchased travel through Ultimate Rewards/Chase Travel since 9/30/22 (New Bookers) can earn 7,000 bonus points when they first activate this offer and then purchase a flight and hotel stay totaling $105.00 or more through Chase Travel that are both completed by 1/31/24 11:59 PM ET.
Originally Posted by notquiteaff
On UR cards, presumably? Can you tell us which ones? And was it via email or the MyBonus website? Or both?
Just found it on my CSP by checking the MyBonus website. Thanks for the tip, OP!
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