Chase Pop-up: Is This A New Retention Offer System?
In the miles and points world we have been conditioned to fear the pop-up. The term pop-up was given negative connotations by none other than American Express. It appears there is one pop-up we shouldn’t fear, one that actually works in our favor. It is the Chase pop-up that some are getting when making a retention phone call.
Chase Pop-up Offer Details
Reader John B. reached out to share his experience with us when he recently called Chase. He was calling about the Chase Bonvoy Boundless card for himself and his wife. He was looking for some sort of retention offer or he was going to close them both. John figured it would be difficult to use the annual free night cert over the next 12 months and didn’t put much spend on the cards. Because of that it didn’t seem prudent to pay the annual fee.
The rep told him that their policy was to not waive credit card fees and there were no retention offers on his account. He said thanks for checking and to go ahead and process the closure of the card.
As the rep was going through the shut down process, he said “Oh wait, here’s a popup you might be interested in?” He said that if John kept the card they would issue a statement credit of $100 with no spending or other requirements. The rep said the statement credit wouldn’t post for 60 days so John would have to pay the $95 renewal fee and later get the statement credit.
John accepted the offer knowing the credit would cover the annual fee plus some ($5 to the good). He would have a chance to use the free night certificate too. This is a no risk high reward type of situation, just the way we like it.
John had the agent try the same thing with his wife’s card. Once again the offer came up only after the agent started the closure process. There were no retention offers showing prior to starting the closure process.
The credit for both posted a few days later.
Final Thoughts
I thought this new Chase pop-up was interesting and it is nice to see one that actually works in our favor. Has anyone else run across this as well? It appears that you may still have a shot at a retention offer even when nothing is showing available on the account.
It does make it more difficult for people just looking for a retention offer and not actually considering cancelling their account. Maybe that is why Chase is starting to set it up this way, to weed out the fakers?
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Thanks for the pointer. I tried twice with my old IHG card and got nothing. I had also called yesterday. I mentioned the whole “start the process thing” and the both reps said something like “of course I tried that.” So I think this is an open secret and likely how they normally check for offers. With that being said, offers on hotel cards are rare to begin with so YMMV!
Interesting – thanks for sharing
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Useful post for me, with the AF now posted on United business card.
Good luck on the retention Mike!
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Does this really work in our favor? Sound like they’re less likely to make offers (and know about offers) until the point of no return.
I wonder if product changes may trigger the same pop-up.
I guess it depends on if it is really a change to the way they handle things going forward. If this is in addition to the normal retention offers it is a plus. If it is them trying to only give it to people that go all the way through closing a card then it is a negative overall. Only time will tell.
Amex offered me $40 credit to keep a $600 Platinum card with benefits that are now basically unuseable. Said no thanks, and cancelled the card. Not sure why anybody would keep it now.
$40 is such a random offer – weird.
I think your speculation might be on point. It certainly does seem to be designed to weed out fakers as it only showed at the last possible moment after someone might have said they would keep the card, but rather only showed once into the cancellation process, post-decision point. Clever of them indeed!
It is a pretty genius plan if that is in fact what they are doing.
If this “popup” happens before they say “Do you authorize us to close the account” then can’t we continue saying that we want to close the account? Is it verified that the popup comes up before it’s too late to change your mind? Thanks
I would assume it would come right before that so I guess you could play the game and pull out at the last second.