[Targeted] Chase Freedom Unlimited $300 Sign Up Bonus After $500 In Spend

Contents

1 The Offer
2 Card Details
3 Our Verdict

The Offer

No direct link to offer, sent out via e-mail. Unknown subject line

Chase has sent out an e-mail offer for $300 after $500 in spend within the first three months on the Chase Freedom Unlimited card

Card Details

No annual fee
Card earns 1.5% cash back on all purchases
Chase 5/24 rule applies to this card
0% Introductory APR for the first 15 months
Full review

Read: Chase Freedom Vs Chase Freedom Unlimited – Which Card Is Better?]

Our Verdict

Most readers won’t be eligible for this card due to the 5/24 rule. If you are eligible it might make sense to apply for another Chase card instead (e.g Chase Sapphire Preferred or Chase Sapphire Reserve) and then downgrade to this card at a later stage if you value the 1.5x points earning. Standard offer is $150 after $500 in spend, we frequently see $200 after $500 in spend and there was a $225 offer that required $5,000 in total spend recently.

This is a strong offer for this specific card, just up to you to decide if you want to go for this card/bonus or another Chase card really. We’ve also seen a bonus of $300 on this card previously as well. As always if you have any questions about Chase, read this post first.

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huy1456789 (@guest_720639)

February 11, 2019 20:27

#720639

Is there a way to get this? I didn’t receive the email, I’m currently a college student looking to apply for CFU. Does anyone receive this email and have no use for it, can forward it to me ??
Does it work like that ??
Thank you

googlre10 (@guest_708208)

January 18, 2019 11:59

#708208

nice deal. i just received my card few months back. DW has this card for last 2 years. will chase give more than 1 card to the customers?

Amol (@guest_708116)

January 18, 2019 03:05

#708116

Didn’t get an email but saw a $300 Chase Freedom (5%/1%) offer on the credit journey page. Another offer was 60000 points for Sapphire Preferred after $4K in spend.

toddo (@guest_708128)

January 18, 2019 06:00

#708128

Amol

weird but my chase site never shows any credit card offers

Michael (@guest_708134)

January 18, 2019 07:40

#708134

Is that like a banner or something? Want to apply freedom for a while but the not interested on the low bonus

syd (@guest_708289)

January 18, 2019 13:15

#708289

please post a link the the credit journey page

Andrew (@guest_708108)

January 18, 2019 01:49

#708108

Will Chase match this if I had this offer in the past and just signed up at $200?

atexit8 (@guest_708065)

January 17, 2019 23:08

#708065

For folks not interested in miles, it seems this is the better offer.

$500 to get $300
vs
$4000 to get $500 for Chase Sapphire Preffered

8x more spend to get 1.67x more rewards $
doesn’t seem worthwhile to me.

Lrdx (@guest_708008)

January 17, 2019 19:47

#708008

AFAICT the $225 offer only requires $5000 spend, not $5500.

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William Charles(@will)

January 17, 2019 22:52

#708056

Lrdx

Fixed, thanks

Mali (@guest_707936)

January 17, 2019 18:29

#707936

Can this kind of target offer override 5/24?

Lrdx (@guest_707955)

January 17, 2019 18:54

#707955

Mali

Probably not.

Denis (@guest_707964)

January 17, 2019 19:02

#707964

I don’t think so. Got a similar offer last year (not via email, but as a pop-up in online bank), applied and got rejected due to 5/24

Brandon (@guest_707932)

January 17, 2019 18:24

#707932

How do you guys get Chase target emails? I never received target emails like that, guess its because I opted out promotion email?

Peter (@guest_707945)

January 17, 2019 18:37

#707945

Brandon

I never received target emails either.

86 (@guest_707966)

January 17, 2019 19:04

#707966

If you ever opted out of receiving marketing materials from Chase you’ll never get promo emails again for that email address. There’s no way to change that, according to Chase. You need to change your email address and not opt out. But I can tell you that for me the emails are far and few between, and I’m never targeted either beyond what’s shown under the “Just for you” section for my account online.

mytake (@guest_708069)

January 17, 2019 23:29

#708069

Dont use their products:) I rarely pull out CSP and CFU and get promo emails nearly every week for something or another.

Jason (@guest_707913)

January 17, 2019 17:56

#707913

If you’re under 5/24 and value the 1.5x earning, there’s always the Ink Unlimited, with the same 1.5x earning and a $500/50k signup bonus and without impacting your 5/24 count.

Chris (@guest_707917)

January 17, 2019 18:04

#707917

Jason

is chase ink cash better than the ink unlimited? and another question – is it worth getting the chase freedom that has 5% cash quarterly?

Joe (@guest_707965)

January 17, 2019 19:03

#707965

Chris

Ink cash and Ink Unlimited are both very good cards to have and keep for different reasons.

Ink Cash give 5x at office supply stores, telecommunications and Cable/Internet providers.

Ink Unlimited offers 1.5x on all purchases, so it’s great for unbonused spend.

Chase freedom categories offer the 5x on rotating categories which are sometimes easy (sometimes not) to max out at $1500 spend. No reason not to have the card.

All with $0 annual fee

Jason (@guest_709566)

January 21, 2019 19:37

#709566

Joe

I’d caveat that the rotating-categories Freedom is generally not worth using up a 5/24 slot on for most people. Better to PC from a CSR or CSP instead of signing up for it directly.