Chase Cash Plus Rewards 5% on everyday purchase + $100 bonus (update 6/17/2007)

pyro123 said:
wrong.. Please read

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The guys doesn't know how to spell 'grocerries' and has very indirect relationship with Chase... Please find a better source.

pyro123 said: craig10x said: supermarkets most definately DO qualify...just not the superstore types like superwalmart, etc that sell food items....Here in NYC, i shop at Food Emporium, which is a chain supermarket owned by A & P (not a grocery store)...i get my 5% all the time!

You can't go by the coding, either..they usually appear as "Other" but you still get the bonus...

wrong.. Please read

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Not wrong...the only 5% purchases i make are when i swipe my card at Food Emporium which is a supermarket...Chase considers supermarkets the same as grocery stores for qualifying for the 5%....i have no car, so i don't get the 5% for gas...and i rarely use my card for the drugs stores.....i don't care what that link says...if I could show you my statement, you would see for yourself....my food emporium purchases are listed with those bonus points as clear as a bell....what's right...a stupid article or my statement with the points on it????

pyro123 said: My mistake, i doublechecked with chase and supermarkets are considered groceries and still qualify under the 5% rewards.. Initially, i got a rep that gave me the wrong info.

No problem ...i just didn't want people to think that supermarkets are no longer considered in the 5% catagory...i know i do get the extra points every statement (i use the card at the supermarket every week)....the confusion is because they are no longer giving 5% for certain types of super-department stores that also sell food items, and many are mis-interpreting it to mean that no supermarkets count anymore...

Dave, he could try calling and asking, but tell him not to get his hopes up...while it was quite easy to convert from one to another (ex: cash plus to rewards plus) and i had done it myself in the past, but that was when the cards were still being actively marketed...now that they aren't anymore...from what i have seen of past posters on fw, they were not successful in getting them to convert at this point...

Chase is very nice about converting rewards programs, as long as they are still in active marketing phase....

Thanks for the help craig10x.

Was going to suggest he call and try too, but knowing how folks get different answers to questions like this, and with his lacking a speakerphone , I thought I'd see if we could get at least one recent success story.

So I have chase rewards plus, but CSR is saying I didn't get 5% on the following gas stations:

RACETRAC504 00005041(Vehicle Expenses)
KROGER FUEL #7577 Q66(Vehicle Expenses)

WTH??? Then the guy has the nerve to tell me to call up racetrac and find out why.

Also he said this did qualify:

KROGER #0577 SL9(Other)

Even though it's listed as other. He said there is no way for me to find out online what qualifies unless i call in.

AlexTheMan said: I used also to get 5% at Super WalMart's and Super Target's using my Chase Cash Plus since I got the card back in 2005. This seems to have ended as of my May's statement. Well, it was good while it lasted.

FYI - I was also disappointed with the loss of 5% at Wal-Mart so I started using my Citi Diamond Preferred card. Last month it gave me 5% back in Thank You points for Wal-Mart purchases so that's what we'll continue using for now until that 5% well dries up. Other Citi cards may work but I haven't tried them. I may also try my Simplicity card to see if that works.

GeneValgene said: i may be late on this discussion, but i did receive a statement in the mail saying stores like super walmarts and super targets are no longer classified as grocery stores
Yes, you are way late. See Snakebit12's post on 4/4/2007.

SpeedDragon

Grifman said: pyro123 said: My mistake, i doublechecked with chase and supermarkets are considered groceries and still qualify under the 5% rewards.. Initially, i got a rep that gave me the wrong info.

What's the difference between a grocery store and a supermarket? Where I live we use the same term for both.

The difference is often supermarkets are larger in physical size, and often carry a large variety of stuff, and that they are part of large chains (grocery stores are usually smaller, individually owned places)....

Chase is just no longer covering super department stores that carry food as well, like say, Super-WalMart....

But for rewards purposes, there is no difference between a grocery store and a supermarket....

I haven't had any problems getting the full 5% with RaceTrac. They do show that way before a statement is issued though.

Received a letter from chase today. This card reward program is changing to chase freedom reward program. No more 5% Cash Back.

No more scan. Here is some highlight:

Earn 3% Cash Back on eligible purchases in the top 3 categories where you spend the most each month
Earn 1% Cash Back on all other purchases
Switch between Cash Back and points
Any earned rewards will transfer to your new chase freedom rewards program

nomansland said: Received a letter from chase today. This card reward program is changing to chase freedom reward program. No more 5% Cash Back.

I still haven't received the letter. When will that happen?

Dang....This news makes me wish I applied for the Freedom card with the $250 bonus rather then chasing after the Cash Plus. card.

My wife got a letter from Chase - twice - offering to convert her Chase Plus to Freedom with 15 3% rewards categories, but not forcing it. I tried to convert mine (we applied for Cash Plus simultaneously a few years ago), but they said no. So, she converted hers then. It unlocked the Chase Rewards Plus+ shopping portal access.

zenob said: just got my letter - gonna try some mega complaints.

(FYI, in case it matters, the ONLY items ever charged to this card were gas, groceries, and drug stores for 5% Cash Back, each - and I only ever redeemeed the 5,000 points=$50 cash checks.



While i can understand your disapointment at losing the 5%, i am not sure how long you have had the card, but you do realize that unlike Citi, with it's 5% dividend cash rewards, Chase was nice enough to extend the 5% privilege LONG AFTER the cards were no longer available to new applicants....

When they introduced the 3% Freedom (which still beats Citi's 2% deal....and even made better if you wait until $200 to cash out since they give a $50 bonus with it every time), you had to realize that EVENTUALLY they would start eliminating the 5% cards...so what is there really to complain about to them?

And there is little doubt in my mind that, now that these letters are going out, all Cash Plus and Rewards Plus customers will receive this letter.

Enjoy your new Freedom Card...it's the next best thing to the ol' 5% deal!

nomansland said: Received a letter from chase today. This card reward program is changing to chase freedom reward program. No more 5% Cash Back.

You're obviously lying. The 17th (date of your post) is a Sunday, and USPS doesn't deliver on Sundays! I'm going to call chase and complain about your fraudulent post!

j/k, thanks for the info. Too bad. I guess Freedom's 3% is the next best thing, and the Penfed card for 5% on gas.

dewolfxy said: nomansland said: Received a letter from chase today. This card reward program is changing to chase freedom reward program. No more 5% Cash Back.

You're obviously lying. The 17th (date of your post) is a Sunday, and USPS doesn't deliver on Sundays! I'm going to call chase and complain about your fraudulent post!


j/k, thanks for the info. Too bad. I guess Freedom's 3% is the next best thing, and the Penfed card for 5% on gas.

Now two have posted getting the letter...and you can't assume the first poster was lying just because it was a sunday when he posted about just receiving the letter....He could have received it saturday and didn't getting around to posting about it until Sunday, or he could have been away for the weekend, and just picked up his mail on Sunday night or whatever....Or, were you just kidding? (lol)
If these letters are indeed going out, i am sure we will see more posts about it in the next couple of days...but if it is true, you didn't really think the 5% would last forever did you (lol)???

Got the letter yesterday. Now I need to figure out a gas card.

craig10x said: zenob said: just got my letter - gonna try some mega complaints.

(FYI, in case it matters, the ONLY items ever charged to this card were gas, groceries, and drug stores for 5% Cash Back, each - and I only ever redeemeed the 5,000 points=$50 cash checks.



While i can understand your disapointment at losing the 5%, i am not sure how long you have had the card, but you do realize that unlike Citi, with it's 5% dividend cash rewards, Chase was nice enough to extend the 5% privilege LONG AFTER the cards were no longer available to new applicants....

When they introduced the 3% Freedom (which still beats Citi's 2% deal....and even made better if you wait until $200 to cash out since they give a $50 bonus with it every time), you had to realize that EVENTUALLY they would start eliminating the 5% cards...so what is there really to complain about to them?

And there is little doubt in my mind that, now that these letters are going out, all Cash Plus and Rewards Plus customers will receive this letter.

Enjoy your new Freedom Card...it's the next best thing to the ol' 5% deal!

Not sure why that matters that there was a longer time between no new apps and reward cancellation. On the flip side I can say that Citi gave a longer lead time for the Dividend cancellation which gave one time to prepare.

All I can say is there were more years where the 5% Dividend was active than when the Cash Plus 5% was active. In the end that is all I care about, not the length of "grandfathering".