Chase Sapphire Reserve: Compelling UR cash out rate? The latest in COVID credit card changes. | Ep48
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Greg & Nick discuss:
-Chase COVID enhancements to CSR and CSP
-Should anyone consider redeeming Chase points at 1.5c each for groceries? Is it only for those who are cash-strapped - or should more people think about this option?
-Confession time, question of the week, and more
Timestamps & links:
1:58 Confession Time: Greg's Airline Incidental Sin
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/amex-airline-fee-reimbursements-still-works/
10:50 Why Nick doesn't like Early Bird Check-in
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/complete-guide-southwest-companion-pass/#Early_Bird_CheckIn
14:21 What crazy thing did Citi do this week? (Er - What didn't they do?)
17:12 Chase's big new COVID offer
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/wow-chase-responds-with-new-covid-benefits-on-csr-and-csp/
22:44 Is redeeming points for 1.5cpp a good deal?
35:13 Does it make sense to sign up for the CSR now?
37:46 Upgrade to the CSR now?
41:18 How about the Ritz card? Will Chase do anything for us?
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/ritz-fee-credits-what-works/
48:43 Capital One's forgotten COVID enhancement
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/capital-one-adds-restaurant-and-streaming-redemptions/
53:26 Question of the week: Can you double-dip Chase grocery rewards with an upgrade?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to Freakutmiler on the air. |
| 0:13.6 | Hey, Nick. |
| 0:14.4 | How's it going? |
| 0:14.9 | It's going great. |
| 0:16.5 | My goodness. |
| 0:17.0 | We had snow like two weeks ago. |
| 0:18.8 | I kid you not. |
| 0:19.7 | And this week it's been like 80. It's |
| 0:21.7 | not. A nice change though. I like that. So I'm pretty happy. It's been pretty good these last few days. |
| 0:27.9 | It sure is. I remember that happened last year too, at least here in Michigan, where it went right |
| 0:32.6 | from winter to summer and we had very little spring and uh that sort of happened now although this time |
| 0:39.9 | we kind of had a spring for a little bit and then it went back to being cold and and then suddenly |
| 0:44.4 | summer hit yeah so yeah i mean i'm happy i'm happy to have summer here that's right yeah i mean |
| 0:50.2 | so nice just to be able to go out without i put on a big coats and boots and the whole the whole thing, right? I just got sandals and it is and with this whole you know sort of quarantine-ish sort of situation that we've been having you know for this period here it's nice to finally get some really nice weather because I do happen to live in the middle of nowhere where I can spend a lot of time outside. And so it's nice to be able to do that now and not feel cold. Exactly. Every time I kept seeing snow, I was like, oh, man, is this ever going to be over? I just want to get out of the house. But, you know, so now than cabin fever is, is definitely cured. |
| 1:32.5 | Good. Good, good, good, good, good to hear it. So today's episode, we're going to talk all about COVID credit card enhancements because Chase has been fighting back. So we'll talk all |
| 1:39.8 | about what Chase has in store for us. And a little bit, we're going to also mention something we had sort of, or at least I had |
| 1:51.1 | forgotten about Capital One, what Capital One was doing. |
| 1:53.5 | So we'll get into that in a moment. |
| 1:56.5 | First, now it's supposed to be feedback time. |
| 2:00.6 | It is supposed to be, I agree. |
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