Chase Travelers Checks
 

Tried to buy my normal $950 worth of Travel Checks Friday and find that Chase no longer offers them through Currency To Go.

Anyone have a replacement program?

Some people have been able to have the processing fee waived by ordering TC through Chase's 800#. There are a few threads in the SPAM forum that discuss this.

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From here to there.

Yes, I was able to order $1000 by calling and telling them that I couldn't access the web. The fee was waived.

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DtG

Check out this thread in SPAM. Currency to go is no longer accepting any orders (via web or phone):

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/001160.html

With ATMs in even remote parts of even remote foriegn countries, and there being no fee for using them, and the exchange rate is so much less, is there still any benefit to using Traveler's Checks instead of your ATM or charge card?

The benefit is that you buy them with your airline credit card and get miles for the purchase. If you buy at the beginning of your credit card cycle, you can get maybe 45 days' free interest, plus the miles. You just take the traveler's checks and deposit them in your account. No one I know of actually uses them to travel with. Foreign countries want you to show ID and do not understand that the whole point of traveler's checks is that the signature is the ID.

Doakes

I had no idea you could buy T Chks with a credit card. Like you can't buy a money order with a credit card (or can you do that now, too). Anyway, thanks for the tip, Doakes. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

hey there!

i live in canada and i've always been told that buying traveller's cheques is treated as a cash advance and, as such, you can't collect reward miles.

anyone else hear this?

regards
firefly

The purchase normally is considered a cash advance, that's what made the Citibank website/service so incredible.

Buy the t-checks, get miles, get the t-checks and deposit them for the float before the bill arrives and I believe they also were givng free shipping and a 60 minute phone card at one point.

They lost a little on every deal, but made up for it with volume!

I'm sorry to hear that they have closed down their operation. Someone said that had an office in the world trade center. Hopefully it is only temporary. I would carry TC as back up money when I traveled to not have too much cash, but usually used an ATM and credit cards for purchases.

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DtG

Tchecks are nice to have if you are in an area that may not have a lot of ATM's. There are parts of Hawaii that, thankfully, are still rustic and don't have ATM's right outside the Starbucks.

Any new developments here?

Doesn't look like it. The website still states that Chase stopped taking web orders as of November 23, 2001.

http://www.chase.com/cm/cs?pagename=...s/currencytogo

Any other options for purchasing travelers checks for miles?

American Express sells traveler's checks online and charges your credit card. Max purchase is $1000 every 14 days, and there's a $10 fee/$4 shipping charge per order. I called the company that handles the transaction (checks-on-line, Inc.) and they said that TC purchases are credited as 'purchases', not cash advances.

That works out to 1000 miles for $14 - 1.4 cents per mile. Not bad, I guess.

- Sameer

Moving this thread from "MilesBuzz" to S.P.A.M. in order to keep it with peer topics.

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