# Amazon.com Rewards Visa Card from Chase - What's the catch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 3, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-rewards-visa-card-from-chase-whats-the-catch/665278 "2013-08-03T21:52:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 27
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-rewards-visa-card-from-chase-whats-the-catch/665278/27 "2013-08-05T18:56:14Z")
> [@howye](#): > > My view of consumer economics is that I can take advantage of a deal that is at no cost to me, but returns a small but not completely negligible value. Your main problem seems to be that people who do not pay their balance in full each month are going to get screwed with higher interest rates than they could get from other credit cards. I am not sure how this equate to a screw them attitude on my part? You are participating in a program that \*depends \*on screwing a large number of the participants to provide benefits that may as well be outright lies for some portion of them. If you think being among the rats fast enough to grab the cheese without getting your neck broken is adequate ethically, _bon appetit_. But otherwise, it’s on the same ethical slope as, and not too far removed from, getting $1,000 for pushing a button that kills 1,000 random people. You just choose not to think of it that way, cuz you’re smart and fast and got yours. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-rewards-visa-card-from-chase-whats-the-catch/665278)._