Author Topic: Chase ink preferred merchant codes not being recognized as bonus categories  (Read 705 times)

Offline 2_Vino

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Has anyone else been having this issue?
Have you had any success convincing Chase that these are actually bonus categories?
The Chase ink preferred officially states "Earn 3 points per $1 on the first $150,000 spent in combined purchases on travel, shipping purchases, Internet, cable and phone services, and on advertising purchases made with social media sites and search engines each account anniversary year."
I have charges with "AMI MAGAZINE" which I cannot seem to get 3 points per dollar as they didn't code themselves properly with Visa. I told them I have the physical advertisement that was placed and I didn't buy $1,000 worth of magazines but to no avail. Maybe if I fax a copy of the ad they will have it looked into.
Similarly, I have charges with AirBnB and VRBO that register as travel, but when booking thru other vendors for the same vacation rental, it does not register as travel.
Thoughts or input.
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What makes you think that print advertising is included?
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Hamodia has a merchant code as a Newspaper and was given bonus points.
The question is has anyone been successful in chase crediting bonus points to merchants who are coded "incorrectly"?
I argued that I do not control my vendor's relationship with their credit card processor, but I can show what the charges were essentially for; an ad or a vacation rental. This was unsuccessful, even after going to a supervisor.


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Given that newspaper isn't officially a valid category for this card, I'd say you're out of luck.
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