Chase 1% Balance Transfer Fee Special

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I recently noted that Discover was offering 0% no fee balance transfers to select customers via snail mail.

Well, Chase seems to be doing a similar promotion.

The company currently has an offer for certain lucky customers (some with Amazon branded credit cards) that comes with two special balance transfer options:

– 0% APR for 12 months with a 1% balance transfer fee
– 0% APR for 18 months with a 2% balance transfer fee

While these aren’t no fee balance transfer offers, they are reduced from the standard 3% balance transfer fee Chase typically charges.

Let’s take a look at the potential savings, assuming you’ve got a credit card balance of $5,000 @20.99% APR.

With the standard 3% balance transfer fee, you’d pay $150 for the privilege of transferring your balance.

With the 2% balance transfer fee, you’d pay just $100, and you’d get an additional six months to pay down your balance to zero before incurring any finance charges.

Finally, if you took the 1% balance transfer fee offer, you’d pay just $50, thereby saving $100 over the standard rate.

So you can save some decent money if you happen to receive one of these offers in your physical mailbox (not your e-mail inbox).

You can also log in to your existing Chase credit card account online and click on the balance transfer tab to see if the offer is there.

[What credit score is needed for a balance transfer?]

If not, there’s still a way to get a Chase no fee balance transfer, thanks to a cash back offer that will offset the standard 3% fee.

Chase will give you $100 cash back for transferring at least $500, so a $3,000 balance transfer would actually net you $10.

And smaller transfers would make you even more money.

For example, if you transferred the $500 minimum, you’d pay a $15 balance transfer fee but get $100 cash back, or $85 net profit.

Not a bad deal if you aren’t one of the select few picked by Chase to receive these new special offers.

Update: The Chase Slate No Fee Balance Transfer is now available, so forget about the 1% balance transfer fee and get it for free!

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