Chase has revealed the third quarter categories for the Chase Freedom 5% card which will run during July, August, and September. These categories aren’t yet showing on the public site, but were released in a press release. We’ll add an image tomorrow or Friday when it’s showing.
- Gas stations
- Walgreen’s
- Lyft
Gas is a staple, and some gas stations sell gift cards too. Walgreen’s sells gift cards. Lyft can be useful as well. Just keep in mind that some Walgreen’s locations won’t allow using a credit card for variable-load Visa/MC/Amex gift cards, or they’ll limit you to just one $500 card.
Not as good, in my opinion, as this quarter’s categories of Paypal, grocery, and Chase Pay (a few weeks left to take advantage of these!) but still useful categories. Gas in Q3 is actually a repeat of Q1 when the categories were gas, mobile payments, and communications.
Discover Q3 category will be restaurants, so I guess that’s nice to see Chase and Discover with differing categories to spread the wealth. Remember, these have a $1,500 limit per card. We’ll do a more complete roundup post on June 15th when all the category cards are live for signup.
for mine, had to activate from or at the UR link
first got an error msg, but was able to activate all 3 cards after selecting each acct from the UR link that shows ‘activate with 1 click’
I activated successfully 4 Chase F the last week of June. I’ve already completed spend on all at WAG and drained at grocery store for WUMOs.
Got 5% CB fine on both Freedom cards.
This is not good. Just learned today that if you have more than 1 freedom card, you can only activate the 5% on one card, cannot activate the 5% on another one. I guess Chase has done something in the background to limit one freedom card per person to avoid ppl to take advantage of using the 5% on multiple freedom cards.
I can not only confirm this is true, but it may go even further and be a HOUSEHOLD limit. Across 4 primary cards between my wife and I only 1 was successfully activated.
Wife and I have each have 2 primary cards and are AU across all. I hadn’t activated Q3 yet on any of our cards and wasn’t planning on it until reading this data point.
First card was activated without any issue but the second one was not. I then log into my account and on my first try get the error. Puzzled, I look at my second card thinking maybe I had already activated it. Nope. Clicked activate and got the same error. Neither card would allow me to add it.
I really hope this is just a glitch or perhaps Chase is working on things behind the scenes and all will be fine going forward. If not, this will cause huge ripples in the chase ecosystem. I personally will cancel at least two to free up my total Chase credit limit if it’s true.
On another note, specifically with a tin foil hat, could the $330m hit on redeeming rewards have caused this?
I bet it’s technical, but if it’s not, I would recommend converting one to FU. You can reduce the credit line on existing cards as well. You never know what future conversion options may come up and you’re golden staying within UR.
Can you just clarify that you have 2 primary cards and 2 AUs? First you said 4 primary cards and the next sentence says 2 primaries and 2 AUs
We each have 2 primary cards and are AU to each other on all.
I activated mine early on and the 5x is posting from the last couple days of purchases, so far. The activation did seem a little clunk when I did it, so maybe it’s just technical. Did you try clicking on the e-mail activation link?
Well this will be easy to max out. I’ve got a Walgreens right next to my local grocery store. Even at one card a day I can max this out in a week.
Chase 5% third quarter is NOW AVAILABLE to activate.
Does Walgreens include Duane Reade and DBA Rite Aid?
In my area (SW Ohio), Walgreen’s has up to $500 gift card, whereas the gas stations around only have up to $200.
Walgreens bought Duane Reade,NYC chain, and is gradually transitioning the brand. There’s one every 2 blocks, so convenient if it works. Receipts say “Duane Reade by Walgreens.” Wonder if that will trigger the bonus.
I guess we’ll find out for sure soon enough, but any idea if “Walgreens” includes Duane Reade? There are far more DRs in NYC, and I know from experience with Drop that cash back at Walgreens doesn’t necessarily mean at DR.
Hoping it’ll work, we’ll have to wait for a data point or a mention from Chase.
I’m REALLY hoping Discover has been taking note of Chase’s involvement with mobile pay, and LEAPS onto the bandwagon. I’ve actually mentioned it to at least a few of their customer service reps, politely hinting that they’re losing some business to that effect