{"id":466,"date":"2011-06-20T13:56:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2012-08-31T09:02:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T15:02:16","slug":"chase-sapphire-50k-bonus-points-possible-50k-points-100k-of-wanderlust-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Chase Sapphire 50k Bonus Points + Possible 50k Points =100k of Wanderlust Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before last night, I already had my eyes on the Chase Sapphire card with 50k reward miles, but after some of the posts I&#8217;ve read, I&#8217;m convinced that I&#8217;m going to give it a shot today.\u00a0 It seems that they&#8217;ve begun offering pre-approved 100k reward miles offers, which gives me a chance to take the 50k, and then ask for 50k more\u00a0in my &#8220;pretty-please&#8221; voice.<\/p>\n<p>100k bonus points on the Chase Sapphire reward card is essentially $1250 in travel cash &#8211; a very large reward for the small price of a few points on my credit rating for the inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/millionmilesecrets.com\/2011\/06\/19\/emily-gets-50000-extra-bonus-points-for-chase-sapphire-preferred-credit-card\/#more-1480\">story<\/a> from a fellow travel blogger who tells how he pulled this deal off.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re the kind who would prefer to apply for the card by phone, the number you can dial is 1-866-814-6960.\u00a0 I called this morning hoping to get the 100k deal right off the bat, but all he could offer was the 50k.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d rather apply online, use our link on the right hand side for the 50k and follow up with a courteous email asking them to top you off with 100k.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The annual fee is waived for the first year on this card, so worst-case you only land 50k&#8230; not too shabby when you figure that Chase&#8217;s Sapphire program lets you redeem 50,000 points for 2\u00a0flights up to $312.50 each.<\/li>\n<li>This card also spares you the expense of foreign transaction fees, something that would have saved me at least $30 in Colombia.<\/li>\n<li>If you need a few more Delta, or American miles to pull off a trip, you can transfer these points to each of those programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wanderlust with us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before last night, I already had my eyes on the Chase Sapphire card with 50k reward miles, but after some of the posts I&#8217;ve read, I&#8217;m convinced that I&#8217;m going to give it a shot today.\u00a0 It seems that they&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=466\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[119,130,55],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DhXV-7w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}