JonLuca found a working link for the Chase Sapphire Reserve with a lower $450 annual fee.
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The annual fee on the Sapphire Reserve increased from $450 to $550 around a week ago for new applications, so it’s nice to see a link with the lower fee still available.
Note: no signup bonus shows clearly at the link. Presumably, the standard 50,000 points offer will be attached to the signup. Even if it isn’t, you can presumably get the 50k bonus ‘matched’ and attached to the account.
I assume all regular rules including the 48-month Sapphire rule and the Chase 5/24 rule apply to this application. In my view there isn’t much risk in using a backdoor kind of link like this, but it’s never certain how a bank will choose to react.
