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Chase Freedom Flex and Freedom are excellent no annual fee cards thanks to their quarterly 5% categories. While the rewards are marketed as 5% cash back, you’ll actually get 5 Ultimate Rewards points per dollar spent which can be worth much more than 5% cash.
If you max out the $1,500 in bonus spending per quarter you will earn at least 30,000 Ultimate Rewards points over the course of a year (7,500 points per quarter at 5 points per dollar spent) per Freedom card.
Today is the final day to activate Chase Freedom Q3 5% categories. If you activate today you will retroactively receive 5 points per dollar for all bonus spending since the beginning of this quarter!
Q3 spending is valid on $1,500 of spending from 7/1-9/30 for:
- EV Charging
- Gas stations
- This includes gas and anything sold inside gas stations as well.
- Select Live Entertainment and movie theaters
- Includes in-person entertainment such as major sporting events, zoos and aquariums, concerts, theatrical productions, museums, tourist attractions and exhibits, amusement parks, circuses, carnivals, bands, and entertainers. Ticket agencies selling on behalf of the entertainment venue are included.
You can track your Freedom bonus spending here.
Starting tomorrow, you can register for Q4 spending, which will be valid on $1,500 of spending from 10/1-12/31 for:
- Paypal, including purchases from anyone and charity donations made via Paypal. This also includes paying utility bills via Paypal and Paypal Giving Fund donations to any charity with no processing fees!
- Pet Shops and Vet Services
- McDonald’s
- Select Charities
The value of the points will be based on where you use them, but if you use those points for a trip worth where they are worth 2 cents each then you’ll have effectively earned 10% back on those “5 point categories.” The sky is the limit of the value of airline miles as they aren’t tied to the cost of a ticket. That’s good for people in the know and bad for those who are not. 1 mile can be worth 0.25 cents or it can be worth 25 cents, it all just depends on how you use them!
Where will you make your Q3 and Q4 purchases?
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Hint: to avoid a lot of frustration the zip code required for utilities using PayPal is the utility company’s not yours.
It is not letting me activate, I am getting this message “We’re making some updates to our site.
Please try again later. Thanks for your patience.”
Try calling.
PayPal has drastically reduced the vendors it serves for bill pay. I used to have eight or so accounts to pay and now I only see one.