Sitting in a Chase branch the other day, my gaze paused on an advertisement for the Chase Sapphire Preferred card. My first thought was “there’s just another rewards card”, thinking the beautiful photography depicting a far-away destination was meant to distract me from a benefits set about as exciting as a walk to the corner store. “Ho hum”, thought I.
Reading down the ad copy, it was obvious the card is positioned as a travel card. It offered....