What to do With a Chase Shutdown

We’re in an extended period of Chase shutdowns that started a week ago, and while we don’t know the complete causes, related factors might be:

• Heavy use at a manufactured spender fitness club
  
• Earning a sign-up bonus at a manufactured spender fitness club or popular rebate site, even with light spending
  
• Using Chase Ink card links that bypassed backend business approval logic

If you’re caught up in shutdowns, there are options to squeeze Chase back, not all is lost:

• Call or write the Chase Executive office and open a case
  This is only likely to be fruitful if you’re shutdown for rewards abuse and don’t have heavy manufactured spend, or if you’re shutdown due to bust-out risk. For body builders, I don’t expect a ton of success here
  
• Exercise the arbitration clause in your account agreements
  I’m not an attorney and I’m definitely not your attorney, so don’t take this as legal advice. I imagine that having a manufactured spend friendly attorney on your side couldn’t hurt though
  
• Wait seven to ten years and you may find yourself back in
  Yes it’s a long time, but it’s not forever
  
• Find new players
  Isolate addresses to avoid any contagion spread through
  
• Try and open a Chase Private Client account in branch
  Wait six months to do it, and you’ll need $100,000 or more in assets typically
  
• Pivot to other banks for cash, United, and Hyatt
  Bilt is an option. You weren’t using Ultimate Rewards for much else, I assume?

Fortunately there are thousands of banks and credit unions out there that offer credit cards that still want your business. Always be probing!

Squeezing Chase if Chase were a GM car.