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Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« on: August 13, 2012, 02:25:08 PM »
With the new muni meters in NYC, you could park your car, and feed the meter with $0.25 and get most of it back.

Just use a Freedom or Sapphire Chase CC, when linked to your Chase Checking, you get ten points per transaction, plus one point for the 25 cents spent, and at a rate of 1.7 per point you just got back 18.7 cents!!!!

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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2012, 02:26:07 PM »
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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2012, 02:53:23 PM »
I was actually just thinking today that I have to remember to stop using quarters instead of CC, especially with the Freedom in my wallet.

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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2012, 02:54:58 PM »
that works if your doing a quick stay

if i am parking somewhere for 3-4 hours, i dont really wanna run back what... every 7 minutes ?  :-\

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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2012, 03:03:09 PM »
that works if your doing a quick stay

if i am parking somewhere for 3-4 hours, i dont really wanna run back what... every 7 minutes ?  :-\

Good point, if your gonna be there a while or when your there you can't be disturbed (like a meeting)!!!

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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2012, 03:06:08 PM »
I was told by a Chase rep a while back that the Saphire preferred card i have isnt eleigible to be linked to a chase checking account to get the boune 10 points per purchase, only the freedom card is.... do i need to call them back and ask again?

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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2012, 03:07:47 PM »
I was told by a Chase rep a while back that the Saphire preferred card i have isnt eleigible to be linked to a chase checking account to get the boune 10 points per purchase, only the freedom card is.... do i need to call them back and ask again?

as long as you have both cards, its irrelevant, as you can bounce your points from the freedom to sapphire
just use the freedom, i thinks thats what he meant

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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2012, 03:37:23 PM »
So to be clear i have a sapphire and not a freedom, can i get it linked with my chase checking?

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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2012, 03:42:56 PM »
BUt chase can shut you for doing this?

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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2012, 03:44:40 PM »
So to be clear i have a sapphire and not a freedom, can i get it linked with my chase checking?
no, its only the freedom card that gets the 10 bonus points, not the freedom.  (Ink bold also gets a bonus for being a chase checking customer)

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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2012, 03:45:39 PM »
BUt chase can shut you for doing this?
For paying for your parking? I dont think so, unless you are doing a great deal of these transactions.

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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2012, 03:46:41 PM »
no, its only the freedom card that gets the 10 bonus points, not the Sapphire/SP.  (Ink bold also gets a bonus for being a chase checking customer)

FTFY (I think)

For paying for your parking? I dont think so, unless you are doing a great deal of these transactions.

Methinks that's what aryeh1 is talking about...
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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #12 on: August 13, 2012, 03:52:54 PM »
For paying for your parking? I dont think so, unless you are doing a great deal of these transactions.

that would be the point of doing this i presume

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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #13 on: August 13, 2012, 09:02:14 PM »
FTFY (I think)
Yes, thank you.  Meant sapphire

Methinks that's what aryeh1 is talking about...
As someone pointed out its really annoying to pay for 7 or even 15 minutes of parking at a time (thats what a quarter gets you in the city).  I cant think of anyone doing this for more than 3 or 4 straight transactions.  What are you doing in the city that you need to park but have time to run out every 14 minutes for an hour or more.  Doing it a few times is not going to be an issue with chase.  I recently was parking somewhere in brooklyn where I was getting 30 minutes for a quarter and thought it was a quick stop and kept thinking I would only be another 10 minutes but ended up being much longer so I did like 5 straight .25 transactions on my freedom, maybe even 7 or 8 since I was paying for a 2nd car as well some of the time.  Chase wouldnt care about that.  I would guess you would have to be doing 40+ a week for them to care or even notice.

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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #14 on: August 13, 2012, 11:51:53 PM »
math is not correct on op
its either 1.7 per point on sapphire or 10 points per transaction on freedom

i was actually thinking of this today - which one to use

in california i pay for parking most days.... and basically all meters take cc

q is can u swipe for 25 cents and then immediately swipe for another 25 cents, giving u 50 cents worth of time? or will the second swipe cancel out the time on the first? bec (at least here in ca) there is talk of when u add money to the meter it cancels the time left so that each person is paying for their own parking and not using a previous persons

just remember 2 points
one of the benefits to the govt for having cc at meters (bec of course they lose out on tickets from all the ppl that dont have any or enough change) is that when they decide to increase the amount per hour, there wont be a ruckus bec u dont feel the increase when ur swiping as opposed to change

secondly, the increments are in 25 cents so most people would rather have too much then too little time. so u will swipe 50 cents even though u only need 30 - 35 cents...


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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #15 on: August 14, 2012, 12:10:36 AM »
In LA it added to the time.
In NYC I don't think it adds to the existing time.

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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #16 on: August 14, 2012, 12:43:04 AM »
Waiting for a NYT article about frumme yiddien walking up & down NYC streets and paying for empty parking spaces...
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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #17 on: August 14, 2012, 12:51:20 AM »
In LA it added to the time.
In NYC I don't think it adds to the existing time.

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In NYC most of them are munimeters where you pay and get a ticket to display in your car, so 2 swipes wont get you any extra time, it will just give you two tickets that expire the same time.

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Re: Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #18 on: August 14, 2012, 03:03:58 AM »
math is not correct on op
its either 1.7 per point on sapphire or 10 points per transaction on freedom

Freedom is the same points as SP as long as you have an open SP card. Therefore, the 10 freedom points are worth 17 cents in this equation.

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Parking in NYC for 7 cents
« Reply #19 on: August 14, 2012, 10:37:31 PM »
Another cool thing with these meters:

Someone  didn't pay for parking and got a ticket. She walked over to the someone that was leaving, asked him for his meter ticket and is disputing the ticket :D saying she payed the meter :)
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