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Chase Sapphire Freferred vs Amex SPG - Which Card Do You Reach For First?

Chase Sapphire Preferred (or other UR earning card)
32 (43.2%)
Amex SPG
42 (56.8%)

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Re: Chase Sapphire Preferred vs Amex SPG - Which Card Do You Reach For First?
« Reply #280 on: February 08, 2012, 10:34:20 PM »
Good job Dan on the UR card chart  :)

That should have a lot of peoples heads hurting for the next few days  :P
+1 :)

Basically you should have in your pocket a Chase freedom with a linked checking account and a SPG

It there wasnt a factor of the Chase UR Mall bonus points ... They really could add up

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Re: Chase Sapphire Preferred vs Amex SPG - Which Card Do You Reach For First?
« Reply #281 on: February 09, 2012, 03:24:52 PM »
Dan, we exchanged some comments on one of the other boards yesterday (I was MYS) on the cards I might switch to from Amex Hilton and Citi AA to SPG/Sapphire/Rewards with a Chase account.  (I applied for the SPG business from your links, but am waiting for an answer.)  For the life of me, I can't find those posts, to respond there.  My question is, after reading 19 pages of these posts, to consider the Ink Bold instead of the Sapphire?  Both would really be used primarily to transfer to the Rewards card.  Thanks.

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Re: Chase Sapphire Preferred vs Amex SPG - Which Card Do You Reach For First?
« Reply #282 on: February 09, 2012, 03:29:17 PM »
As you can see from the chart, The new Ink Bold beats Sapphire in fuel, telecom, and office supply stores (including gift cards from office supply stores) and loses to it in every other categoriy.
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Re: Chase Sapphire Preferred vs Amex SPG - Which Card Do You Reach For First?
« Reply #283 on: February 13, 2012, 07:28:00 PM »
updated with the capability to change bonus categories manually (and named tabs for ashero)  :)

obviously a bunch of my cc data is obsolete by now though  :(

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Re: Chase Sapphire Preferred vs Amex SPG - Which Card Do You Reach For First?
« Reply #284 on: February 14, 2012, 11:33:23 AM »
I don't travel much.  I try to escape to FL in January (and to date used Hilton Points for an Embassy Suites). Any downside, to avoid the $95 fee, to use the Freedom card, and if and when I need to travel, apply for the SP, and then transfer the points?  Especially because its unlikely that domestic flights are a worthwhile expenditure of points and I like the Embassy Suits I have stayed in.  I suppopse I could lose the sign up bonus.

Am I making sense?  Thanks.