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At the moment Chase Freedom, Freedom Unlimited, Sapphire & Sapphire Preferred cardholders can get 2,000 Chase UR points when they spend $20+ at eBags.com. Let’s look at how to maximize this deal.
Stacking The Deal
- Gift card purchases work. You’re limited to using one gift card per order, but you can use a gift card and a credit card. This means if you have two cards that are eligible for this offer you should purchase a $20 gift card with the first card and on the second card you will be able to apply this gift card and then put the remaining balance on your second card. You can do this deal once per card, it’s not limited to one per account.
- They have a referral program that gives you $10 off your first order. This requires using a promo code and doesn’t work on gift card purchases, but should work on purchases that use a gift card. My referral link is here, you can share yours here.
- Use a shopping portal. Best rate is currently 18% cash back. Not sure if this will track correctly if you use a referral code but it’s worth a shot. You are better off using the $10 referral if you’re purchase is under $56, otherwise skip that and just use the portal.
- You can get free shipping on purchases over $49 and also via ShopRunner as well. Keep in mind not all items are shoprunner eligible.
If you have two cards it will look something like this:
- Purchase $20 gift card, get 2,000 in points back
- Use $10 referral code
- Purchase $50 item. $10 off via referral, $20 off via gift card further $20 goes onto second eligible card. Get 2,000 points back
- Hopefully portal tracks for another $7.2 cash back
- Get free shipping
Chase UR points are worth a minimum of 1¢ each so you’re at least breaking even and getting a free item and you might get another $7.2 cash back as well. If you only have one card then it’s basically the same but without the gift card step.
What Items To Get
This really depends and varies individual to individual. That being said, readers will be interested at items at the following price points (note this section contains our affiliate links. If you use our links the shopping portal will not track):
- $20 (one card with no referral bonus)
- GoToob 3 oz – 3 Pack: $19.99 (not shoprunner eligible and you can get non brand name ones for much cheaper)
- PowerCube Extended Cable And Adapter: $19.99
- Fujifilm One-Time-Use Underwater 35mm Camera: $19.99 (not shoprunner eligible)
- Travelon MuV Digital Scale (not shoprunner eligible)
- Shoe Sleeves – Set of 2 (shoprunner eligible)
- Everest Gym Bag with Wet Pocket $22.45 after 20% promo code (shoprunner eligible)
- Items starting at $18.99 (should be $20+ after taxes & fees)
- $30 (one card with referral bonus)
- Samsonite Classic 15.6″ Shuttle: $28.99
- Trtl Travel Pillow: $29.99 (shoprunner eligible)
- Items starting at $28.99 (should be $30+ after taxes & fees)
- $40 (one card with no referral bonus)
- Three pairs of socks after 20% discount
- Items starting at $38.99 (should be $30+ after taxes & fees)
- $50 (two cards with referral bonus)
- Items starting at $48.99 (should be $30+ after taxes & fees)
- $50+ (two cards with referral bonus, not caring that you’ll be out of pocket just wanting to get a useful item).
This page shows all the items listed on eBags in order from lowest to highest price. I’m sure I missed some good items, so please share what you purchased in the comments below and I’ll give away some Amazon gift cards to good suggestions.
Made a mistake of ordering two items. EBags posted the purchase as two separate charges with different dates. Had to call Chase to get my points, which took almost an hour and included 3 CS reps and a supervisor. 🙁
I went the route of purchasing a $20 GC w/ my Chase SR on Chase Pay. Used the $20 GC + Chase Freedom to purchase about $45+ worth of stuff. The 2000 points showed up on my Freedom account, but didn’t appear for my Chase SR. Did anyone else encounter this issue?
CF, CFU, CS, CSP qualify. CSR did not qualify.
Just tried to use the referral code but it would not work with an item that wanted that was a “steal of the day”. I used the chat feature and asked about the referral code not working and the agent said he would credit me with $10 in my ebags reward account so I could still get the discount! Also I keep getting the error message while I was trying to check out the second time (I was able to use the chase pay for the gift card). I decided to try sending a SM to chase and just ask for the 2,000 points. We will see!!
It looks like you can enter 2 gift cards on checkout, did anyone try that? I don’t want to buy two and get stuck with an extra.
Can it be an e-gift card and still qualify?
Yes
Sorry for what I’m sure is a stupid question…but I’m new to Chase Pay…just signed up using my Sapphire Preferred and presumably can use that for the first transaction – getting the points/$ on gift card. How do I use my Freedom card on Chase pay for the second transaction – do I set up a second Pay account or change the primary card on my account? TIA.
Change card
If I order today, but say the charge doesn’t post until 2018, will I still qualify for the deal?
No, it needs to ship before the 31st because it posts when it ships but I’ve found eBags’ estimates are way off. I ordered yesterday (Dec 28), estimate delivery was Jan 5 but it shipped the same day and UPS tracking status says it will be delivered today (Dec 29).
Seems the cashback portal (I used TopCashBack) gets tracked by prefilling out the promo code box, if that changes anyone’s plans. Thanks for the post, though, Doc!
So basically, you can’t use both a referral and a portal for the same purchase.
Thanks for the post!
These packing cubes have 5 star rating, with 8,893 review, and 98% recommendation.
$49.98 list price
https://www.ebags.com/product/ebags/packing-cubes-6pc-value-set/288518
After $10 referral discount, free shoprunner shipping total with tax comes to $42.28
After two Chase 2,000 UR refunds, total out of pocket is only $2.28
-It’s actually a money maker if you can transfer your UR points to your Reserve and redeem for 1.5x on travel.
$49.99 item: solar-powered power bank (8000 mAh) no shoprunner … 25% off first order is -$12.50, so use that over the $10 referral.
https://www.ebags.com/product/toughtested/solar-power-bank-8000mah-with-flashlight/347256?productid=10579733
Does this offer apply to the CSR?
no, csr is not eligible