Can anyone tell us whether this offer was for a specified time period? If so, does anyone have the fine print that accompanied this promotion?

The Chase Currency to Go program is not a promotion. It is a service offered by Chase to buy foreign currency and charge them to your c/c as a purchase (no interest and miles)

Well, another item they sell are US Dollars travelers checks at face value. If you order more than $500, they overnight them to you for free.

You then deposit the checks into the bank account from which you pay your bill, and the charges balance out.

Your net reward: Free miles!!

Has anyone used their Sheraton Optima AMX card to make a purchase and if so do they treat it as a purchase, NOT a cash advance?

They only take Visa and Mastercard.

Has anybody placed & received their order lately?

Has anybody placed & received their order lately?

Has anybody placed & received their order lately?

Yes, just last week I ordered 20,000 yen and $750 in USD travellers checks. Received via overnight mail with no charge for shipping and billed to my Visa as a purchase.

Okay guys, I think i figured this one out. What sends off the alarms at Chase is not the frequency with which you buy the checks, but WHERE you are cashing them. Remember, these are Travellers Checks. So if you live in Dogpatch, USA and buy $900 worth of travellers checks then cash them the next day in Dogpatch, obviously you are not using the checks for their intended purpose. The Chase computers are probably programmed to pick up on the location of where the checks were cashed, which is why so many of you got cut off after just one purchase. The solution: you need to work in tandem with a trusted relative or friend who lives at another location, the farther away the better. This way you can order the checks and then send them unsigned to this person. They then use the money from the checks to order their own set which they then send to you to begin the process anew and avoid THE LETTER. I will be recruiting relatives to try this out and keep you posted.

I'm not so sure that it is the location the checks are cashed in that gets their attention. I still had my checks from my previous orders (I was about to go overseas) when I got the letter. I'm convinced it was because I made three orders - each one week apart - using the same address and CC number.

I just received my fifth set of cheques today each for $950. All of my orders were about two weeks apart so maybe this is why I haven't received the "letter". Of my first four sets, they were cashed in two different locations, both local, but in different suburbs than where I live. I'll be ordering again in about two weeks and hope to continue until I receive the "letter".

Anyone else have any updates?

bpfsr:

As a former banker, the only way that I know of determining where a check was cashed is to manually examine the endorsements. To the best of my knowledge, in the present system there's just no way to computerize it.

"The Letter" is more likely tied to the frequency and amount of orders (ie, too often and for the same amount). Computers are good at spotting trends like that and I'm sure Chase's are no exception.

It has nothing to do with cashing the checks. I had received letters and NO checks had been cashed. It is tied to the ADDRESS. Even using different names and different credit cards, and different phone numbers can do it if the address is the same. They say that their limit is 4 per 12 month period, although they didn't deliver my 4th, but when I called and added some foreign currency to the order, I got it. However my daughter who did not have 4 did not have her order filled (including foreign currency), no letter, just no sending. I will try it again by phone.

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