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Activate Your Chase Freedom 5X Bonus for Q2 2004 for Amazon and Select Streaming Services. Very unfortunately, unlike Q2 2024, there are no 5X bonuses for hotels or restaurants. You can activate the bonus now, although the 5X bonus will only apply to spend made April-June 2025.
What Counts as Eligible 5X Spend
The easiest category to maximize the bonus on is Amazon, and note that 5X is earned not only at Amazon.com, but also for Whole Foods spend, both online and in physical stores. That means that if you're still working on your Q1 2025 5X bonus in grocery stores, it makes sense to get gift cards at the other grocery stores you buy from, excluding Whole Foods; we'll be using ours up at Trader Joe's and our favorite local Japanese grocery store.
Each time we product change a Chase card from an annual fee card we get it changed to a Chase Freedom Flex card with the 5X quarterly bonus categories. While each Chase Freedom card has a maximum of $1500 spend per quarter that receives the 5X bonus, by having 6 Chase Freedom cards and maxing out the 5X bonus, that's 45,000 Ultimate Rewards points for the quarter instead of only 7500 points. For Q1 and Q2 that's 90,000 points, about as much (or more) than the signup bonus for many credit cards, and on spend we'd incur anyway on grocery stores (Q1), and Whole Foods or Amazon spend (Q2).
In order to maximize the value of the points you earn, make sure you have a Chase card such as the Chase Sapphire Reserve or the Ink Business Preferred so that you can combine your Freedom points and transfer them as Ultimate Rewards points to partners such as Aeroplan, British Airways, Singapore KrisFlyer, United MileagePlus, Virgin Atlantic Flying Club, Air France/KLM Flying Blue, and others. What's especially valuable is taking advantage of periodic transfer bonuses to frequent flyer programs, most often to British Airways/Iberia/Aer Lingus, Aeroplan, and Virgin Atlantic. We've used our points for ANA First Class Suites, SWISS Business Class, Iberia Business Class, Aer Lingus Business Class, Qatar First Class, and Qatar Qsuites Business Class, among others.
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