I could not pass up a limited time bonus offer for the Chase Marriott Rewards Premier Credit Card. The OFFER is to earn 80,000 Marriott Rewards bonus points after you spend $3,000 on purchases in 3 months from account opening. This bonus expires August 31, 2015. This bonus points offer is available as long as you have not received a new cardmember bonus in the past 24 months for the product you are applying for. Guess what, I had gotten a 50,000 bonus point offer about 26 months prior (Whew!) and since then canceled the card when the annual fee became due. So I was ripe to take advantage of this bonus once again!
However, I was a little nervous about not being approved because I just recently applied for and was approved for the Chase IHG Rewards Club Select Credit Card and Chase usually does not approve you for more than one credit card every 6 months. In fact, when I completed my credit application online, I did not get automatically approved as is usually the case but instead was told I would get a decision in 30 days.
But I really wanted these 80,000 Marriott Rewards! So to get around this, I called Chase to ask them to move some of my credit from my Chase Sapphire Preferred Card to this new Marriott Premier Rewards credit card. Chase happily obliged. After all, why shouldn’t Chase do this? Chase is not extending me any additional credit, and I am at least going to use this new card to spend at least $3,000 (the minimum spend requirement). The two numbers, that I am aware of, to call to reallocate your Chase credit are 888-609-7805 and 888-270-2127. If you want this card and get deferred, or denied, call these numbers and speak to them about what it is you want. They are usually happy to approve you if you are only reallocating credit!
Note, with this bonus offer, the annual fee of $85 is not waived the first year as it is with other offers for the card. (Like this 70,000 Marriott Rewards offer). But that did not matter to me. $85 totally worth 80,000 Marriott Rewards points.