Great In-Branch Offer on Top Card

travel hacking Apr 14, 2023

Readers of this newsletter know that I regularly recommend the Chase Sapphire Preferred card as one of the best cards to get started on your Travel Hacking journey.

The bonus on this card is most often 50,000-60,000 points - a great bonus!

Right now, many Chase branches are offering this card with a 90,000 point bonus if you apply within a Chase branch.

My wife and I both had this card and it was coming up on her 4-year anniversary. The terms of the Chase Sapphire are that you can get the welcome bonus once every 4 years.

Wanting to take advantage of this great in-branch offer, we downgraded her current card to a no annual fee Chase Flex card, waited 3 weeks for the old card to be removed from the system, and they reapplied for the Chase Sapphire again at our local Chase branch.

She was instantly approved.

We have to spend $6,000 on the card in 6 months to get the full 90,000 points which will be no problem.

I’ll hit my 4 year anniversary with the Sapphire card this month also, so I’m currently downgrading my card, waiting a few weeks for the card to leave the system, and then I’ll go into the branch to apply for the same bonus.

90,000 Chase points is equivalent to approximately $1,800 in free travel. That’s $3,600 together when we both hit this bonus. And all we did was reapply for the cards.

If you’re coming up on 4 years with the Chase Sapphire or you’ve never had one, now is a great time to get it with the current promotion.

Travel Hacking is a great way to get started with tentmaking because it puts money back in your pocket you would’ve otherwise spent on travel. Awesome!

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