Chase has tweaked its offer for new cardholders on the popular Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card. Overall, the new offer provides more value to cardholders than the previous version, but the annual fee is no longer waived in the first year. Learn More As of March 19, 2018: The sign-up bonus is as follows: Earn 60,000 bonus points after... Gregory Karp is a writer at NerdWallet.