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The Mastermind Behind Chase’s Sapphire Reserve Card Sets Her Sights on Banking

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Re: The Mastermind Behind Chase’s Sapphire Reserve Card Sets Her Sights on Banking

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"Mastermind" - giving away a ton of points for a card that is doing it's best to be an Amex Platinum? I don't see how "copy the most successful prestige card" and "Give a huge point bonus higher in value to the consumer than the cost of the card to the consumer" is a mastermind strategy.

It seems like the most visionary idea in America these days is "just buy your customers by giving away a lot of money."

Chase, Uber, Amazon all seem to enjoy it as well as many wannabe startups.

Re: The Mastermind Behind Chase’s Sapphire Reserve Card Sets Her Sights on Banking

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post #8

"Mastermind" - giving away a ton of points for a card that is doing it's best to be an Amex Platinum? I don't see how "copy the most successful prestige card" and "Give a huge point bonus higher in value to the consumer than the cost of the card to the consumer" is a mastermind strategy.

It’s anecdotal but Chase Sapphire Reserve is easily the best card I own and I have an Amex Platinum.

Re: The Mastermind Behind Chase’s Sapphire Reserve Card Sets Her Sights on Banking

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post #8

"Mastermind" - giving away a ton of points for a card that is doing it's best to be an Amex Platinum? I don't see how "copy the most successful prestige card" and "Give a huge point bonus higher in value to the consumer than the cost of the card to the consumer" is a mastermind strategy.

It’s anecdotal but Chase Sapphire Reserve is easily the best card I own and I have an Amex Platinum.

How so?

Re: The Mastermind Behind Chase’s Sapphire Reserve Card Sets Her Sights on Banking

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post #8

"Mastermind" - giving away a ton of points for a card that is doing it's best to be an Amex Platinum? I don't see how "copy the most successful prestige card" and "Give a huge point bonus higher in value to the consumer than the cost of the card to the consumer" is a mastermind strategy.

It’s anecdotal but Chase Sapphire Reserve is easily the best card I own and I have an Amex Platinum.

I'm also curious how so.

Re: The Mastermind Behind Chase’s Sapphire Reserve Card Sets Her Sights on Banking

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s anecdotal but Chase Sapphire Reserve is easily the best card I own and I have an Amex Platinum.

How so?

There’s endless articles comparing the two online but to give my personal input I find quite a few of the perks Amex Platinum offers really don’t matter to me, and the reward points and travel credit for Chase Sapphire Reserve are just way better.

Re: The Mastermind Behind Chase’s Sapphire Reserve Card Sets Her Sights on Banking

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s anecdotal but Chase Sapphire Reserve is easily the best card I own and I have an Amex Platinum.

I'm also curious how so.

10,000 points sign up bonus. $300 towards traveling every year^.

Basically they pay her/him to have the card.

^Without the ridiculous restrictions that Amex has in its equivalent perk.

Re: The Mastermind Behind Chase’s Sapphire Reserve Card Sets Her Sights on Banking

#17
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it was simply a matter of giving away benefits and points for free, why is it (as alleged by the OP) that Chase/JP Morgan managed to such a major encroachment into the premium market due to the Sapphire? Sure, “anyone” can brainstorm a benefits package and viral branding and yet Chase seems to have dominated this phase at the particular moment.

Because they were giving people $1500 to sign up for their card effectively. I am one of those people that signed up. I signed up for no reason other than I am getting a tremendous amount more than what I am paying for. Last December Chase announced that they lost about 2-300 million off their profits due to the generous promotion. If I taped a dollar bill to every can of Coke and sold them for 50 cents and the sales…

> As long as it does I will keep the card.

So you see value in their product and you're a satisfied customer. Is it even possible for a bank to offer anything more?

Re: The Mastermind Behind Chase’s Sapphire Reserve Card Sets Her Sights on Banking

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post #8

"Mastermind" - giving away a ton of points for a card that is doing it's best to be an Amex Platinum? I don't see how "copy the most successful prestige card" and "Give a huge point bonus higher in value to the consumer than the cost of the card to the consumer" is a mastermind strategy.

It seems like the most visionary idea in America these days is "just buy your customers by giving away a lot of money." Chase, Uber, Amazon all seem to enjoy it as well as many wannabe startups.

See also: Jet.com before it got bought.

Re: The Mastermind Behind Chase’s Sapphire Reserve Card Sets Her Sights on Banking

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So she’s a marketing genius for selling $2300 of rewards for $450? (100k points at around $0.02 per point [0] plus $300 of travel credit) Also, you had to go on a “listening tour” to discover that wealthy young professionals enjoy traveling and eating at restaurants? [0]: https://thepointsguy.com/2015/03/redeeming-chase-ultimate-re...

They beat amex at their own game. That’s a big deal.

Re: The Mastermind Behind Chase’s Sapphire Reserve Card Sets Her Sights on Banking

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because they were giving people $1500 to sign up for their card effectively. I am one of those people that signed up. I signed up for no reason other than I am getting a tremendous amount more than what I am paying for. Last December Chase announced that they lost about 2-300 million off their profits due to the generous promotion. If I taped a dollar bill to every can of Coke and sold them for 50 cents and the sales…

> As long as it does I will keep the card. So you see value in their product and you're a satisfied customer. Is it even possible for a bank to offer anything more?

I think you're missing his point. He never said that the card isn't valuable, or that the rewards were not worth it. All he said was that it's not considered "genius" if you need to continuously lose money hand over fist by giving away freebies to attract people to your product. It's "genius" when you don't have to do that.
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