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How many nuts do you have now?

That's a good one.

Mine's a bit more practical. I re-charge my subway pass with 5 $1 transactions - never have to even see another person.

:D Actually you are both wrong. :D To avoid the monthly fee you have to make 5 debit card purchases. PIN or NON-PIN is not relevant as far as the monthly fee is concerned. Just have to make 5 purchases one way or the other or a combination of the two.

However to earn the miles for the purchase themselves it must be a NON-PIN transaction.

To earn the 15,000 bonus you must make at least one NON-PIN transaction.

From a Flyertalk perspective NON-PIN transactions are always better because even if you only spend a dollar or two, you have one more mile than you had before.

Businesses do get charged a fee for accepting debit card transactions. Although it is slightly lower than credit card transactions there is still a fee.

Make purchases at CVS and Walgreen
 

I do my 5 non pin purchases at CVS and Walgreen when I pick up some sales items, candy, gums, FAR items. Not difficut to fulfill the 5 purchases requirements. HTH.

Get 10,000 bonus miles when you open a Chase CheckingSM account and make 5 debit card purchases or set up direct deposit1

Get another 15,000 bonus miles2 after your first qualifying purchase3 if you open a Chase Continental Airlines Preferred Debit Card (annual fee applies)4

So 5 X $0.01 purchases get the 25K miles? Am I too aggressive? :confused:

That is a bit aggressive, to find someplace that will accept a .01 charge is alot more work and not worth the dumb looks you will get then buying a $1 double cheeseburger somewhere through a drive thru 5 different times.

I have already placed 6 purchases (ranging from 1 to 12 cents) so the question is will it work ...

I try to eat healthy :)

Good job finding something that low to charge, and it should work, i havent seen anything with a minimum purchase amount, and i cant afford to eat unhealthy, even though its so cheap to.

can this offer be combined with the CO credit card offer? 25k points for each?

I am sure what you mean combine, but you can open checking before Mar 31, and open cc anytime, but suggest opening it after April 1

True, the checking account with the debit card and the CC are 2 different and unrelated products.

Yuel, I noticed that you opened this thread. In the past, did Chase post a link before the expiration of the then prevailing one? I think this is an important data point for those who want to wait for the Milesathon.

Do you know if once I made the five purchases (do we need 6 or one is good for both components?), is there a way to tell that I fulfilled the obligation or I need to wait for the miles to post?

Not sure about others but my 22500 is posted the day after fifth debit transaction was posted^ Still waiting for the rest 2500 though...

I'm not sure I understand why you would even do any transactions with a pin-code, the way I understand it, in no instance would that ever generate miles. Okay, if you are withdrawing cash, or you really use the account for normal life, but if it is just to meet the quota, why wouldn't you try to get the miles as well?

I think 25? I do it for mine and my wife's card, and have a couple more months to go before hitting the 6 month mark.

My first 22,500 miles posted within about ten days of the first 5 purchases. Curious, what did you find that was less than six cents?