{"id":664731,"date":"2010-02-15T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002147"},"modified":"2010-02-15T13:03:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:03:02","slug":"chase-doesnt-want-your-paltry-16-haiti-relief-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/664731","title":{"rendered":"Chase Doesn’t Want Your Paltry $16 Haiti Relief Donation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chris writes that while closing a Chase credit card, he had to decide what to do with his leftover rewards credit. He tried to donate his rewards to charity, but learned that $16 isn’t enough to be considered a valid donation. Bwuh?<\/p>\n

I just closed a credit card with Chase yesterday. I had $16 in “rewards.” I told Chase to donate it to Haiti but apparently they only take donations in $25 increments. I then just said to them, “do whatever you want with it.” I was being charged around 26% interest with them and just needed to get out. <\/p>\n

$16 not worth donating? Come on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It could be that rewards simply can’t be redeemed at all until they reach $25, but closing a card forever and donating the reward balance to charity has to count for something, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n

Next time, just tell them they can keep the money and use it to help repay TARP funds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris writes that while closing a Chase credit card, he had to decide what to do with his leftover rewards credit. He tried to donate his rewards to charity, but learned that $16 isn’t enough to be considered a valid donation. Bwuh? I just closed a credit card with Chase yesterday. I had $16 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MVt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}