Chase Sapphire Preferred for direct purchase?

[Steelers0854]

Dang! I just put my dues and my pay off of my contract on my existing CSR thinking it would never code as a hotel. Bummer! But thats awesome for you!

 

[Dafoo17]

Whoa!!! My direct DVC purchase coded as "Hotels" and the CSR Business card gave me 4x points!!! That's $1000 in extra points on top of the crazy perks I already got with the card:

- 200,000 points sign up bonus (requires $30k spend)
- $300 travel credit
- 132,000 points earned on the purchase at 4x
- $100 in giftcards per year

Based on the 2.1 cents per point max redemption value, that's about $7k in points. It's $3320 in cash back, which would be more than 10% of the total cost!

Do you have to split the charges for the $300? When it says that you won't earn points on purchases eligible for $300, does that mean you earn points on $29,700 still, or would it try to ignore the entire $30k

 

[DoubleBaconBLT]

Dang! I just put my dues and my pay off of my contract on my existing CSR thinking it would never code as a hotel. Bummer! But thats awesome for you!

Do you also have the CSR Business card? Did this code differently for you?

 

[DoubleBaconBLT]

Do you have to split the charges for the $300? When it says that you won't earn points on purchases eligible for $300, does that mean you earn points on $29,700 still, or would it try to ignore the entire $30k

I didn't need to. It had already applied a few travel charges, so only $260 was left. Then when I made the initial DVC payment, it went through in one $xx,xxx.xx chunk but the rewards log shows it split the rest of the $260 out, refunded it, and gave me 4x points on the rest of the charged amount. Pretty awesome.