Final Day To Register For Chase Freedom Q3 Spending, Q4 Registration Begins Tomorrow With Another Shot Fired In The Amazon-Walmart War

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Today is the final day to activate this quarter’s Chase Freedom 5% categories.

You must register for Q3 bonus spending at restaurants and movie theaters by today and complete spending by 9/30.

Some grocery stores have restaurants or cafes in them that qualify for 5 points per dollar and will sell items like gift cards that are for sale in the grocery store.

Otherwise, you can buy gift cards at your favorite restaurants to lock in 5 points per dollar.

Tomorrow you’ll be able to register for 2017 Q4 spending at Walmart, Walmart.com, and department stores from 10/1-12/31.

In the past Q4 has often been a bonus category for Amazon.com. With Walmart in all-out war mode against Amazon, it’s fitting that they took over as the Q4 featured merchant on the Freedom card. It’s still a big surprise though, as Chase issues Amazon’s co-branded credit card.

Chase Freedom is an excellent no annual fee card thanks to its quarterly 5% categories. While they call it 5% cash back, you’ll really get 5 Ultimate Rewards points per dollar spent which can be worth much more than 5% cash. For $1,500 in 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).

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While Chase Freedom is a great card for the bonus categories, it’s not a great card for everyday spending. However the Chase Freedom Unlimited® card also has no annual fee and is excellent for everyday spending.

Freedom or Freedom Unlimited alone can’t transfer points into much more lucrative airline or hotel miles, but if you or your spouse has a Sapphire Reserve, Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card, Ink Bold, Ink Plus, or Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card then you can transfer points from Freedom to one of those cards and from there to your favorite travel currency. You can read at the end of this post on great uses of Chase mileage transfers. The Freedom or Freedom Unlimited card can also keep your points alive for free if you do close one of those premium cards.

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!

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