The Offer
- People have reported receiving a targeted offer by e-mail for the following bonus on the Chase Marriott Personal Premier Card:
- 40,000 bonus points after $3,000 in spend within three months
- $200 statement credit after your first purchase within three months
- 5,000 bonus points for adding an authorized user and them making their first purchase within three months
- Annual fee of $85 is waived for the first year
Card Benefits
- Annual fee of $85 is waived the first year
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 5x points per $1 spent at Marriott & Ritz Carlton locations
- 2x points per $1 spent on airline tickets purchased directly with the Airline, at car rental agencies and at restaurants
- 1x points per $1 spent on all other purchases
- Anniversary bonus of a free night certificate for a category 1-5 property.
- 15 credits towards Elite membership after approval and every year after account anniversary
- 1 elite credit for every $3,000 spent
- This product is available to you if you do not have this card and have not received a new cardmember bonus for this card in the past 24 months. New 5/24 rules might also apply
Our Verdict
People will have two questions about this offer:
- Do the new Chase 5/24 rules apply to it? Honestly we’re not sure, we think that targeted offers might be excluded at this stage but don’t know for sure (share DP below). Read more about getting around this here.
- How does it compare to the public offer of 80,000 points + 7,500 for adding an authorized user with the annual fee not waived?
Let’s try and answer the second question. Both offers have the same minimum spend requirement, the 80,000 offer gets you an additional 42,500 points (40,000 more bonus points from spend and an extra 2,500 from the authorized user) but you pay the $85 annual fee and missed out on the $200 statement credit.
Simply put those 42,500 points cost you $285. You’d need to value Marriott points at 0.67¢ each for the public offer to be better. I don’t value Marriott points at that much, but everybody has different valuations. There is also another offer targeted at elite, but only $150 statement credit.
Hat tip to reader  holymacaronibatman on /r/churning
Interesting that the links that were sent to me for this and the 80,000 offer take me to a landing page that doesn’t display the offer. Hard to argue after the fact if there is a problem.
Got matched after some back and forth with SM..
I was targeted and applied this morning, but was denied due to “too many accounts opened in the past 2 years”
For those who cannot get an AU for themselves or their pet, the extra 40000 points on the 80k card ‘cost $285, or 0.7125c each.
Nice find. Any chance Chase will raise the bonuses later this year in the Fall? I’ want their 70,000 points after $2k spend with 1st AF waived; or, their 50,000 points after $3k spend with 1st AF waived and get $200 marriott giftcard after spend (ended January 31,2016).
I have the 80,000 points offer, and Chase refused to match when I contacted them via secure message. Do I have any other option?
You can try and get matched again, but no guarantees.
To play Devil’s Advocate, those 42,500 could get you a Cat 8 stay in NYC (Courtyard Times Square, for example), which is running $320 weekends and $400 weeknights now – and 45,000 would get you the Renaissance which is actually about the same rates as Courtyard just on opposite days. Depending upon your travel plans, the extra points could still be well worth it, even if you normally would value them lower.
I got $150. Any chance Chase will match?
Try it and tell us
Anywhere to check a check box to opt in for Chase targeted offers?
Read here https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0148-prescreened-credit-and-insurance-offers
Opt in here https://www.optoutprescreen.com/?rf=t
But.. I’ve never opted out and opted in few times few years ago and never got Chase CC offer. I bank w/ Chase and get some banking offers but not credit card offers. Other banks send me offers all the time though