You probably heard that the Chase Sapphire Preferred card is now offering 100,000 points signup bonus for new cardholders who sign up and spend $5,000 within 3 months.
Initially the offer was only available in Chase branches, and today it became available online as well. No one knows how long the offer will last, but I’d guess it’ll stick around for at least a month and hopefully longer.
The question on everyone’s mind: will this offer become available via referral links? That would spruce up the offer for those in 2-player mode as your spouse/friend can refer you and they’ll get 10,000 bonus points as well.
Unfortunately no one knows for certain whether the 100k offer will become available via referral. The Reddit rumors are saying referrals it will happen on April 8th. We’ll see. (Update: one reader says they heard the April 8th date from a Chase phone rep.)
The good news is that we’ve already heard multiple reports of Chase being willing to match the 100,000 points offer. It takes a simple request via Secure Message and they’ll apply the match.
I’d be pretty confident in applying via referral link and then doing the match. That said, for added security, I’ll wait around for a couple of weeks to see if the referral link becomes available directly.
Reminder, Chase Sapphire Preferred and Sapphire Reserve are part of the same referral family. If your friend/spouse has either card they can refer you to apply for the Sapphire Preferred.
If you don’t have any Chase Sapphire card, this is a great offer to consider. If you do, you can product change the card to become a Freedom card, then wait 2-4 days, and then apply for this offer. Just remember, the signup bonus offer is only for those who have not gotten any Sapphire card bonus within the last 48 months.
No referrals in the comments below.
