Roughly a year ago I signed up for the Chase United Mileage Plus card for the 25,000 bonus miles. The annual fee of $60 is waived for the first year, I forgot about it and recently logged onto my Chase account online to see a recent activity balance of $60. I haven’t been charging much to the card since I decided to switch over charging more on my Citi AAdvantage card.
So what happens next is I call up Chase and the CSR said in order for the fee to be waived I have to meet certain mileage requirements which I obviously didn’t meet. However I asked if the fee can be waived if I convert my card’s platinum status which earns 1 mile for every dollar charge to a non-platinum card which earns 1 mile for every 2 dollars charged and the CSR agreed. So in the next week or so I’ll be getting a new card with same CC number but I just get downgraded to non-platinum status.
This works out pretty well as I can charge things to the card every now and then to reset the expiration clock on my 37,000 or so miles with United until I get around to using them.
