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The Offer
No direct link, check for email subject: Well deserved: <your name>, you’re welcome to earn an extra $5 Cash Back
- Chase is sending out a targeted email offer to get a bonus 500 Ultimate Rewards points when you replace your card with a contactless card and then use the Tap & Go three times between March 1 – May 31, 2022. Each of the purchases needs to be at least $1.75.
People are getting this on various versions of the Freedom card.
The Fine Print
- You’ll earn an additional 500 bonus points, which can be redeemed for $5 cash back for 3 contactless purchases from 03/01/2022 through 05/31/2022 using your product during checkout. Each contactless purchase must be a minimum of $1.75. Purchases are when you, or an authorized user, use a card to make purchases of products and services, minus returns or refunds. Please allow 6 to 8 weeks after the qualifying purchase(s) post(s) to your account for bonus points to post to your credit card account. To qualify, your account must be open and not in default at the time of fulfillment. If you change your credit card product during the promotional period you will forfeit this offer. This offer is non-transferable. We may terminate this offer at any time without notice.
Our Verdict
I’ve been using the card at the grocery store for 5x and was finding it annoying that it didn’t have the contactless option, so this is good news. You need to first request the contactless card with the link in the email and then use it three times for the 500/$5 bonus. Hopefully we don’t land up getting a 1099 for this.
I think it’s 500/$5 total, but it’s not entirely clear; it might be 500 x 3 = 1,500 total bonus points.
Followed the link in the first email I got for this offer to replace my Freedom Flex (even though it was already contactless). Replacement came in mid March. Made 2 purchases at Subway and 1 purchase at Whataburger using the card (contactless). Third purchase was made on 5/12, and in the Chase dashboard a “+Bonus on purchases” appeared for 500 points (in addition to “+2% on Dining” and “+1% on all purchases”). Confirmed that I got the 500 points with the statement that went out to me on 6/6.
Got this for Prime Rewards.
Had this before on the freedom and can never get it to trigger after making the contactless payments. Not worth the effort trying to track down why it doesn’t work for 5$
Why do all these issuers send emails but not–unless I’m just not seeing it–in your account on their website? My employer has been inundating us with phishing tests recently, and my first instinct on receiving this email was “Hm…there’s a chance that this is a phishing attempt. I’ll log into my account and activate the offer there.” And then…it wasn’t there. Until seeing this post, I figured I’d just delete the email rather than chancing it.
Got this on freedom unlimited
I received this on my Marriot Bonvoy
Would Apple Pay work?
Pfft. Nothing on my account. I was looking forward to making three $1.75 transactions at the gas pump and watching the line build up behind me.
My offer is for the Freedom Unlimited®.
I’ll add that
I got different “environment friendly” offer
Tap your Freedom FlexSM credit card 3x from March 1, 2022 through May 31, 2022 and Mastercard will make a $6 donation – the cost of planting 3 trees – to Conservation International, a 501(c)(3) organization, in support of the Priceless Planet Coalition’s goal of restoring 100 million trees by 2025.
Same here