Meh -- I just use Amazon preferred account/card on Amazon. That gives 5% back too (or financing on large purchases)
I'm missing what is special/new about this except the nominal percentages elsewhere.
That article is behind a paywall, is it talking about the Synchrony card?
Chase Amazon Visa gives 3% back and is a Visa card.
Synchrony Bank's Prime card is a "store card" that gives 5% back but is not usable anywhere else.
Amazon probably pays less in processing fees by cutting out Visa from the loop, and Synchrony makes their money from the suckers who carry a balance.
The old one only had 3% back on Amazon. And it's pretty good to get 2% on restaurants and gas too.
That article is behind a paywall, is it talking about the Synchrony card?
Chase Amazon Visa gives 3% back and is a Visa card.
Synchrony Bank's Prime card is a "store card" that gives 5% back but is not usable anywhere else.
Amazon probably pays less in processing fees by cutting out Visa from the loop, and Synchrony makes their money from the suckers who carry a balance.
That article is behind a paywall, is it talking about the Synchrony card?
Chase Amazon Visa gives 3% back and is a Visa card.
Synchrony Bank's Prime card is a "store card" that gives 5% back but is not usable anywhere else.
Amazon probably pays less in processing fees by cutting out Visa from the loop, and Synchrony makes their money from the suckers who carry a balance.
Article is from USAToday and is not a paywall b/c I could access it.
Nice, I get upgraded automatically.
What?! That's crap. So I have to delete my other credit cards to qualify? If I delete them now, I wonder if I can qualify, then just add them back.criteria include having the card as your exclusive payment method in your Amazon wallet
What?! That's crap. So I have to delete my other credit cards to qualify? If I delete them now, I wonder if I can qualify, then just add them back.
Well shit, I just deleted my other cards, then noticed this card says 5% now and is shown as a gray color (one in my physical wallet is green).
I probably already qualified and deleted my other cards unnecessarily. Oh well, I rarely used them on Amazon anyway.
You'll need to add your card to her account and then activate the upgrade from there.
At that point your account should have it.
Other possible solution have her add you as a household member.
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I don't know if you can delete the card from her account, it may need to stay there.
There's a thread going on /r/churning including talk of workarounds for situations that didn't get the auto-upgrade. No mention however of being able to remove the card after that's complete. There is discussion of one prime account only being able to upgrade one card.
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