170. Earn 10x Chase Points! The Paze Strategy Explained
Point Me To First Class
Devon Gimbel MD
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Have you heard about the quiet Chase promotion that could be one of the biggest points-earning opportunities we've seen in years?
In May 2026, Chase launched a promotion through the digital payment platform Paze that allows cardholders to earn 10 times Chase Ultimate Rewards points on eligible transactions—and up to 14 times on certain cards through the end of 2026. Dr. Michelle Walther and I discuss why we were initially skeptical of this opportunity and why we've become convinced it could be genuinely significant for points enthusiasts.
Michelle and I break down how the Paze platform works, which Chase personal cards are eligible, what merchants currently accept Paze, and the surprising opportunities we've already discovered to maximize this promotion. We share the real purchases we've tested, the points we've already earned, the glitches we've encountered, and the stacking strategies that could generate enormous numbers of Chase points over the next seven months. We also discuss everything from Disney gift cards to DoorDash to gift card retailers like Newegg that make this promotion far more valuable than the merchant list initially suggests.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Point Me to First Class, the only show for employed professionals, entrepreneurs, and business owners who are looking to optimize their higher than average expenses to travel the world. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm your host, Devin Gimble, and I believe that your expenses are your greatest untapped asset, if you know how to leverage them. |
| 0:17.8 | Ready to dive into the world of credit card points and miles so you can travel more, travel better, and travel often. Let's get started. Welcome back to the PointMeet |
| 0:31.2 | to First Class podcast, everybody. Today, we are talking about a brand new points earning |
| 0:36.2 | opportunity that has the potential to be one of the |
| 0:38.8 | most lucrative Chase promotions we've seen in years. Now, while many of us were just mining our |
| 0:44.1 | own business, Chase quietly rolled out what I think could be the biggest Chase points game |
| 0:48.9 | changer for many of us for the remainder of this year. The ability to earn 10 times Chase ultimate rewards points |
| 0:55.4 | when checking out through the digital payment platform pays using eligible Chase personal credit |
| 1:00.7 | cards. And when I first saw this, my immediate reaction was, what? Not only had I never heard |
| 1:07.2 | of pays before, but also because outside of a welcome bonus or maybe a very limited temporary promotion, there is basically no world in which we typically see the opportunity to earn 10 times transferable points on spend, especially not chase points. |
| 1:24.4 | And it gets even more interesting because this isn't just 10 times total points. |
| 1:29.6 | Depending on which Chase personal credit card you use, you can actually earn 11, 11 and a half |
| 1:35.3 | times, even up to 14 times Chase Ultimate Rewards points on eligible purchases through |
| 1:41.0 | pays. That is a truly wild earning rate, especially when that earning has a |
| 1:46.5 | generous cap on up to $1,500 spent monthly per Chase credit card. Now, before you go, trying to buy |
| 1:53.1 | every single thing in sight with Pays, there are still a lot of unanswered questions. |
| 1:58.1 | This promotion is still very new if you're listening in real time when |
| 2:01.4 | this episode first airs. There are glitches. The merchant list is surprisingly small. Some cards |
| 2:06.9 | are linking easily while others are throwing error messages. And there's still a lot we don't know |
| 2:12.3 | about how long this opportunity will realistically last in its current form. But the more that my guest today, Dr. Michelle |
| 2:18.6 | Walther and I have been digging into this, the more we started realizing that this could |
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