Offer End Date
We reported on the increased bonus on the Chase Freedom and Sapphire cards. We also noted that the Sapphire offer via referrals goes for quite a while – until March 5, 2016.
The Freedom referrals are now coming through via email (it takes a few days) and it’s showing an end-date of December 17, 2015.
Surprising that there is such a disparity in the length of the offers between Freedom and Sapphire, but so it is.
We don’t know when the public Freedom offer of $175 will end, but the referrals go only until 12/17/15 and there’s a chance that the public offer will end then as well.
Instant Referrals
As noted in the previous post, Chase Freedom referrals at chasereferafriend.com are not showing the Twitter or Facebook option. This leaves the email option which is actually a virtual snail-mail as it takes a few days until it comes through; I sent one to myself and it took 2 days.
Two tricks to get an instant referral:
- @esthery notes that the referrral link is the same as the link from previous Freedom offers. Worth keeping your link saved somewhere since the link apparently stays the same.
- Demflyers shows how your referral link is actually hidden into the source code of the referral page on Chasereferafriend.com. Awesome hack!
Bonus Terms
A big downside of the Freedom links is that they don’t show the bonus terms clearly on the page the way the Sapphire referrals do. The reason is simple: since they are meant as an email referral, the details are clear in the email and Chase didn’t feel the need to put it on the offer page. This doesn’t bode well, however, for those of us who want to paste referrals links on Twitter or wherever, as the user of the link doesn’t have that secure feeling of seeing the offer clearly on the application page.
There isn’t much risk since Chase matches bonuses anyway, but it still feels better seeing the offer clearly and taking a screenshot of it. The only way to have the referral and the clarity is to get an actual email referral from someone and apply through the email.
[Note: Please do not leave any referral in the comments. Please go to the previous page to do so.]
SO NO $200 OR BETTER BONUS ANY TIME SOON PROBABLY?