This is a quick reminder to activate the Q1 (January, February, and March) 5x point categories at Gas Stations, Drug Stores, and Starbucks. Although you have until the end of the month to get your 5x points up to $1,500, you only have until TODAY (March 14th) to activate. You will get the points for… Read full article

If you’ve been following this blog you are probably well aware that the Chase Sapphire Preferred credit card pays out an annual 7% bonus on all points earned. Typically you’ll get this at some point in February for the prior year once your statement closes. My credit card statement closes on the 16th of every… Read full article

The Chase Freedom credit card is fairly popular with it’s 5% cash back rotating categories. Many people will strategically maximize the $1,500 spend limit during the quarterly category and possibly not use it for any other purchases throughout the year. Originally, the 2013 5% cash back categories included: January-March: Gas Stations, Drugstores, Starbucks April-June: Restaurants and Movie… Read full article

Yesterday I posted that the bonus categories for the Chase Freedom card have changed since it is the start of a new quarter. Throughout the post I referred to the bonus points as 5x points. A reader commented on this as it is always referred to as 5% cash back, not in points. This is… Read full article

Q1 for 2013 just started yesterday, which means that Chase Freedom just updated their 5x point categories. For the months of January, February, and March you will receive 5x points at Gas Stations, Drug Stores, and Starbucks. You must activate this bonus until March 14, 2013, but all purchases prior to activation will still count… Read full article

UPDATE: Looks like this was a false alarm and for right now the spending minimum has sayed the same with the $5k minimum spend in three months for the 50k points. As of now I have no idea when this offer will change, if ever. I’ve been noticing around the blogsphere that some have been… Read full article

This is a quick reminder to activate the Q4 (October, November, and December) 5x point categories at hotels, airlines, Best Buy, and Kohl’s. Although you have until the end of the month to get your 5x points up to $1,500, you only have until TODAY (December 14th) to activate. You will get the points for all prior purchases as… Read full article

Last month when there were major flight delays/cancellations due to the hurricane, I did some research on the credit cards that offer travel delay reimbursement. I’ve never really looking into this much, but came to find out that some of the Chase cards can offer great benefits when when you incur a flight delay. Now,… Read full article

Throughout the year the Chase Freedom credit card offers 5x points on certain spend categories. These are quarterly bonuses where the 5x points is capped at $1,500 spend per month, thus giving you a total of 7,500 Ultimate Reward points (1,500 from regular spend and 6,000 bonus points). The offers for 2012 were pretty good… Read full article

A few days ago I posted that all four Chase Ink Business cards were changing their sign up bonus offers. At that time both the old and the new links were available – if you were in the market for one of these cards you could apply for the offer that worked best for you…. Read full article