I love credit cards so much!

[amalone1013]

I also SM'd Chase for the SW match and received a reply already! I'm so excited because I had just pulled the trigger on the Plus, and we were going to spend unnecessary money on flowers to get our last points for CP. I've got the Biz card so now we'll have 125k points

@Albort Sorry to hear about your grandma. I hope the credit card stuff is as painless as possible so you can focus on family

 

[Moneypenny]

Quick question about the SW Visa...I have one and DH is an AU on that. Can DH apply for his own SW Visa for the 60,000 point offer, or will it not work since he's already an AU on my card? Thanks!

 

[eeyoresmom]

If I were to apply for the SW plus and premier to earn a CP should I apply for both on the same day or spread them out??? @Albort, sorry to hear about your grandmother. Thoughts and prayers for you and your family.

 

[Lain]

Quick question about the SW Visa...I have one and DH is an AU on that. Can DH apply for his own SW Visa for the 60,000 point offer, or will it not work since he's already an AU on my card? Thanks!

Shouldn't be a problem. I had my wife as an AU on my CSR when she applied for her own CSR. After she was approved, I removed her as an AU on my CSR.

 

[Moneypenny]

Shouldn't be a problem. I had my wife as an AU on my CSR when she applied for her own CSR. After she was approved, I removed her as an AU on my CSR.

Awesome. Thank you!

 

[2TxAgs]

On the SWA companion pass - do you 'buy' the CP with your 120,000 pts, or do you earn it and still have the 120,000 left to use for travel?

 

[peel]

I got my bonuses back in February so I'm not going to bother asking for the increase. But my mother just got her Plus card a few weeks ago with only a 40K bonus so I just let her know to SM Chase ASAP, and I've almost convinced her to go for the Premier. She thinks I'm making her do something nefarious.

DM got her extra 20K! Now she's excited to go for the 2nd card.

 

[amalone1013]

On the SWA companion pass - do you 'buy' the CP with your 120,000 pts, or do you earn it and still have the 120,000 left to use for travel?

You still have the points to use for travel

 

[mhartman09]

On the SWA companion pass - do you 'buy' the CP with your 120,000 pts, or do you earn it and still have the 120,000 left to use for travel?

You earn the CP by earning 110,000 points in a calendar year. You will still have the points to redeem.

 

[Texans_loyal]

I wanted to thank everyone for posting about the 60K SW deal. I contacted chase and they will apply the 60k as soon as i spend $2k.

 

[peel]

Has anyone seen a cutoff date for the SW 60K bonus? I want to wait and see if the referrals increase to 60K so DM can use mine for her Premier app, but I'm afraid the offer is going to go away and she'll miss out.

EDIT: Never mind, she couldn't wait another minute and applied for the Premier with instant approval. She's hooked.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Anyone looking at UR points for Universal tickets: Chase UR portal only has 2+ day tickets to Universal Studios. (We changed our schedule to just 1 day at the dark side & when I went to check the price on UR it wasn't available so I called and they said they don't sell the one day tickets.) The kicker? I started to think through our other options and then realized the Undercover Tourist Amex offer that expired yesterday would have been perfect...

 

[peel]

Looking at the Aviator Red with the increased bonus. Should I try for a double dip with the Arrival+? I don't have any Barclaycards yet. Has the Arrival+ been good for any of you? Is it a keeper after year one?

 

[Hatwriter456]

Has anyone seen a cutoff date for the SW 60K bonus? I want to wait and see if the referrals increase to 60K so DM can use mine for her Premier app, but I'm afraid the offer is going to go away and she'll miss out.

EDIT: Never mind, she couldn't wait another minute and applied for the Premier with instant approval. She's hooked.

I read somewhere that the offer is good through 6/29/17.

 

[mhartman09]

I read somewhere that the offer is good through 6/29/17.

I saw this posted on reddit, but I don't know where the original information came from.

 

[marsh0013]

I saw this posted on reddit, but I don't know where the original information came from.

I got an email from chase for this promo and it had the 6/29/17 end date.

Edit: I was wrong I knew I saw it somewhere wasn't my email it was a Facebook ad from southwest. I just signed into Facebook and there it was.

 

[Angrose]

Looking at the Aviator Red with the increased bonus. Should I try for a double dip with the Arrival+? I don't have any Barclaycards yet. Has the Arrival+ been good for any of you? Is it a keeper after year one?

I don't fly AA so the Aviator Red wouldn't be very useful for me, but I do have the Arrival+ and so far it's been fine. I made the MS really quickly and the bonus points posted within a few days. I got it to wipe out the cost of one night at the Disneyland Hotel. I will also use it on my upcoming trip to Europe because it is a true chip and PIN which will be useful when I'm there. I will not keep it after our trip because I get a better return on other cards. I have heard it's churnable though, so I will close it and apply for it again next year.

 

[Lain]

Some questions about applying for the CIP, which I'm seriously considering doing for the signup bonus.

Last week, the word on Reddit and DoC was that if you applied through a referral link and SMed Chase to "check" on the signup bonus, a lot of people were receiving replies that they had a 100k offer attached to their account instead of 80k. Recent DPs suggest this loophole has closed, so other than altruism there's no benefit for me to apply through a referral rather than Chase's official site, right?

Secondly, the CIP bonus categories don't apply to me much since the CSR already offers 3x on travel, I won't do any advertising, and shipping, internet, cable and phone services don't make up a big portion of my expenses. I could product change the CIP to an Ink Cash card, right?

Some background -- I did a bunch of independent consulting work back in 2014-15, got paid personally and filed taxes on 1099-MISCs, then took a step back from it; but there are some opportunities opening up for me in the next few months, and I immediately thought this might be a perfectly good time (and colorable argument) for a business card. Since this is work for the same or similar kind of clients as my previous work, I'd date the age of my business back at least three years. But since I didn't generate any income in 2016 or YTD, I'm assuming I can use my household income as annual income? ETA: I'm 3/24 (4/24 if Chase decides to count an AU account), low-800s on the three credit bureaus. Any thoughts, issues I might be missing?

 

[peel]

I don't fly AA so the Aviator Red wouldn't be very useful for me, but I do have the Arrival+ and so far it's been fine. I made the MS really quickly and the bonus points posted within a few days. I got it to wipe out the cost of one night at the Disneyland Hotel. I will also use it on my upcoming trip to Europe because it is a true chip and PIN which will be useful when I'm there. I will not keep it after our trip because I get a better return on other cards. I have heard it's churnable though, so I will close it and apply for it again next year.

Good to know it might be churnable. I haven't paid any attention to Barclaycard until now. I guess I'd better do some reading!

 

[CyndiLouWho]

I read somewhere that the offer is good through 6/29/17.

That's a bummer. I'm working on spend for CSP so I could get some SW miles. If I'd waited 2 weeks, this would have been ideal. No way I can meet both.