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Today, July 15th, Chase Sapphire Reserve® cardholders will have the opportunity to earn over 8000 points with $0 out of pocket. How? By stacking multiple offers and credits on a single purchase during Rakuten’s Black Friday in July promotion optimizing a new pay at checkout option called Paze. Here’s how it works.
Links you need
- $50 Rakuten Referral
- Activate Stubhub Credit in your Chase account
- Activate Paze here
Before anything. You need to have a Rakuten Account – it’s a key part of this deal. $50 referral link here
If you don’t have Rakuten – You can get $50 or 5000 points after you spend $50…which you will do with this Stubhub deal.
Next – Make sure your Stubhub credit is activated – use Chase mobile for ease
Sapphire Reserve cardholders get $300 of Stubhub credit every year broken into 2 – $150 semi annual credits. Those just reset on July 1st, so ya’ll have a brand new $150 to spend. Log in to your account and make sure it’s activated.
Then – activate Paze – it’s a new mobile payments app from Zelle offering 10x points for Chase cards
You go here, enter your email or phone number associated with your credit cards and it’ll do the rest. Make sure your Sapphire Reserve is on the list ( it’s not showing here because this is my account and my wife has the Reserve )
For a limited time – Paze is offering 10x on purchases on multiple retailers including StubHub
Now…get ready for July 15th. Rakuten is having their Black Friday in July promotion = 12x points on Stubhub
You can choose how you want to earn your 12% 12x points
- 12% Cashback
- 12x Amex points
- 12x Bilt Points
Go to Stubhub – select your event
Select your event – choose Paze – and then pay your Sapphire Reserve ( not pictured here but choose yours ). When you do so you’ll earn 10x on that purchase.
note that some people are having issues seeing Paze as an option. For some reason the StubHub app isn’t populating Paze so try mobile browser and/or a private/incognito browser. I just tried it myself this morning and it was showing fine ( July 15th ).
How you earn over 8000 points with $0 out of pocket
You just spent $150 at StubHub with your Sapphire Reserve, via Paze, seeded by Rakuten. You’ll earn the points down below AND get a statement credit of $150. $0 out of pocket. If there isn’t an event that you’re intersted in going to, you could buy a ticket for something popular and resell it, or just do this to earn the bonus points.
Earning
- Rakuten
- 5000 Amex or Bilt points when you sign up with my link
- Rakuten
- 12x points on $150 = 1800 Amex or Bilt points
- Paze
- 10x Chase points on $150 = 1500
8300 total points = 1500 Chase Ultimate Rewards + 6800 Amex or Bilt Points.
FlyingBlue ( Air Franc and KLM ) are partnered with all three programs
If you don’t select a date when you’re searching you can see an entire calendar of Delta award avail when searching in the US. 8300 points is enough for me to fly one way in economy from Indianapolis to Atlanta on Delta using Flying Blue. Not too bad!
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card went through a major refresh in 2026 adding new bonus categories, travel protections, statement credits, and remains one of the best travel starter cards in the market. It earns Premium Ultimate Rewards that can be transferred into over a dozen partners many of which are US based including Hyatt, Southwest, United, IHG, and Marriott. Note that Hyatt is now a 4:3 transfer partner
Welcome Offer
Earn 75,000 bonus points after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
Earn
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x points on gas and EV charging
- 3x points on vacation homes at top brands
- Cardmembers will earn 3x points on vacation homes at these top brands: Airbnb, Vrbo, Plu Guide, HomeAway, Homestay.com and Vacasa.
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- 2x on all other travel
- 1x on everyday purchases
Benefits and Credits
- Earn up to $100 in statement credits each account anniversary year for hotel stays through Chase Travel℠
- Count on Trip Cancellation/Interruption Insurance, Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver, Emergency Evacuation and Transportation and more
- Get a year of complimentary Apple TV when activated by December 31, 2026 – a value of $156.
- Complimentary DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees & lower service fees for 12 months when you activate by12/31/27. Plus, a $10 promo each month on non-restaurant orders.
- Receive one statement credit of up to $120 every four years as reimbursement for the application fee charged to your card for a Global Entry, TSA Precheck® or NEXUS application.
- Transfer points to leading airline and hotel loyalty programs
- Member FDIC
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card is great starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Chase Ink Business Cash® , Chase Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into the Sapphire Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee remains quite low at $95 a year and it has great bonus categories and useful statement credits that not only enhance your travel, but help offset the annual fee.
One thing that is a bummer is Chase lowered the transfer ratio to World of Hyatt from 1:1 to 4:3.
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