Chase Sapphire Reserve is changing... Alternative cards with high points for MVC maintenance fee payments?

[daviator]

No intent of 'gaming the system'.
I made the Edit reservation to use the Edit coupon/credit but later canceled once HGVC's insane black Friday sale came up (& I could get a far nicer room for a fraction of the price & hence canceled Edit with no intent of keeping the credit).
Historically, Chase (& AmEx) gave credit when booking made & if things came up & folks had to cancel, they did not claw back the credit; now, they have changed it, and hence sharing the datapoint...
TY!

Just to be clear – because I wasn’t, very – I wasn’t intending to accuse you of trying to game the system. My statement was intended to refer to “you” generally, meaning anyone, as in “you can’t fight city hall.” But if they allowed cancellation of reservations without clawing back the associated credits, very quickly, thousands of people would be doing so. It would be quite tempting.

If they let people get away with this in the past, I’m sure they found it was heavily abused and they have now closed that loophole.

I’m going to guess that this perk is subsidized, at least in part, by the hotels involved, so they may also have an interest in ensuring that the credit is reversed if an associated reservation is cancelled.

 

[mountainboy]

nw; totally understand !
Without a good use case for Edit for me, takes out some of the largest new coupons/credits with CSR (along with DoorDash useless credits for my use case), making it an easy downgrade to CSP next October for me & hopefully Boundless to Ritz Carlton to keep Chase lounge benefit unless dramatic changes to RC card...
TY!