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I May Finally Get a Delta American Express Card…

April 19, 2013

As I reflected in a post the other day, although I have shifted more and more of my travel and elite status strategy to other airlines, I still can’t give up Delta entirely, as much as I think I might want to at time. I have maintained Diamond or Platinum Medallion status for years at [...]

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Amazing Deal Alert: Limited Time Amex Business Gold Rewards 50,000 Points Bonus Offer

April 16, 2013

The current public offer for the Business Gold Rewards card from American Express carries no bonus or spending requirements, but for a limited time, American Express is offering new cardholders 50,000 Membership Rewards points when you spend $5,000 in 3 months and the $175 annual fee is waived for the first year. Every so often, [...]

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A History of Amex Transfer Bonuses From 2010-Present

April 11, 2013

One of the biggest benefits of having American Express Membership Rewards points is taking advantage of transfer bonuses to the program’s airline and hotel partners. Unfortunately, these bonuses used to be offered much more frequently. While we are going through a drought, I figured I’d put together a list of past bonuses so you can [...]

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Travel Tuesday Top 10: Reasons To Get A Travel Credit Card Without An Annual Fee

April 9, 2013

When it comes to travel credit cards, the ones that often get the most attention are the premium ones many issuers offer that allow you to bank points and miles to airline programs or, my favorite, to accrue into a central pool that can be transferred to numerous programs. The thing is, though these sought-after [...]

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Maximize Monday: Fixed-Value Travel Points

April 8, 2013

The recent launch of Barclaycard’s two new Arrival card (one with no annual fee and one with an $89 annual fee that’s waived the first year) has shifted my thinking about the sphere of fixed-value travel points and the credit cards that earned them, so for today’s Maximize Monday post, I wanted to cover the [...]

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SRQ: Getting the Most Value from American Express Membership Rewards Points

April 7, 2013

TPG reader Gabby writes: “My husband and I have been banking our Amex Premier Reward Gold Card points and have about 215,000. We want to put these towards flights toItaly next fall (I know, far in advance but wanting to use points!). Payingwith points is the lowest return, and doesn’t give much chance for being [...]

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SRQ: Which American Express Cards Give Starwood Gold Status

April 7, 2013

TPG follower Andy tweeted a question about Starwood Gold status: “‪@thepointsguy which Amex plat gives SPG gold status? Biz, Personal or Benz?” Although it isn’t marketed well, all three American Express Platinum Cards: Personal, Mercedes-Benz Personal and Business give instant Gold status with Starwood Hotels (as well as the invite-only Centurion card). Simply call the number [...]

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My 50K Membership Rewards Bonus Posted For My New Mercedes-Benz Platinum Card

April 4, 2013

I was recently approved for the Mercedez-Benz Platinum Card from American Express and earned 50,000 Membership Rewards points after $1,000 in spend within the first 3 months. I had an existing Platinum card when I applied and was approved, so this just goes to show that you can get the Mercedes-Benz 50,000 point sign-up bonus, [...]

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Travel Tuesday Top 10: Lesser Known Amex Membership Rewards Airline Transfer Partners

March 26, 2013

As we all sit around and wait for another lucrative transfer bonus from American Express such as recent 50% bonuses to British Airways and the historic (but seemingly long-gone) up-to-67% bonuses to Delta, there are still plenty of standard transfer options from which you can pull tremendous value from American Express’s points program, which is [...]

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Credit Card Application Reconsideration Line Phone Numbers & Application Status Links

March 22, 2013

This is the fourth post in a series on my most recent round of credit card applications and will focus on how to conduct a personal credit card inventory and decide which cards to keep and those to cancel. The first post covered the basics of credit and how to perform a personal check to [...]

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Amex Membership Rewards Points Advance Ending June 30 – Confirmed

March 21, 2013

Last week I got several emails from readers who had read about a change in the terms of American Express Membership Rewards’ points advance option that said this feature would be ending on June 30, 2013. I wrote to my contacts at Amex immediately asking whether this was true and I just got confirmation that [...]

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Five New Cards and 315,000 Miles/Points Later: The Results of My Latest Round of Credit Card Applications

March 21, 2013

This is the third post in a series on my most recent round of credit card applications and will focus on how to conduct a personal credit card inventory and decide which cards to keep and those to cancel. The first post covered the basics of credit and how to perform a personal check to [...]

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Amex/ US Travel Daily Getaways Deals Returning; Better Late Than Never!

March 19, 2013

For the past couple years the U.S. Travel Association (a non-profit trade association with the sole mission to increase travel to and within the US) and American Express have teamed up with travel providers and loyalty programs to offer some unbeatable deals on travel packages and miles/points. It usually runs in May, but I just [...]

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Inside the New American Express Centurion Lounge at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport

March 19, 2013

Domestic airport club lounges rarely get me excited, however I was interested to learn that American Express had opened a lounge at Las Vegas’s McCarran International Airport on February 26,w hich is free for Amex Centurion (Black Card) cardholders and $50 for anyone with a valid American Express Credit or Charge card. Is it worth [...]

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Update: 50,000 Point American Express Premier Rewards Gold Offer No Longer Available

March 19, 2013

I just got confirmation that the amazing 50,000 point offer on the Amex Premier Rewards Gold card has been pulled from the CreditCards.com Card Match Tool. Hopefully it will return (along with the 100,000 point Platinum offer we saw in January!), but this just goes to show that all great deals come to an end. [...]

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Travel Tuesday Top 10: Most Valuable Credit Card Sign-up Bonuses for Travelers

March 19, 2013

2013 has started off as a pretty solid year for credit card sign-up bonuses. This year has brought some amazing deals via sites like CreditCard.com’s Card Match Tool, which has recently offered now expired 100,000-point Amex Platinum and 50,000-point Amex Premier Reward Rewards Gold deals. Word on the street is that more lucrative bonuses are [...]

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Amex and Hilton Confirm AXON Awards To Stay After March 28

March 18, 2013

With the announcement a few weeks ago that Hilton would be devaluing its HHonors loyalty program with changes like adding new top-tier categories, implementing seasonal (more expensive) award redemptions and discontinuing the elite GLON special awards, came speculation that reduced-level AXON awards that cardholders of Hilton American Express credit cards including the Hilton Amex and [...]

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Virgin Atlantic Amex 65,000 Bonus Miles Offer Back

March 14, 2013

Virgin Atlantic has relaunched a bonus offer on the Bank of America American Express card with the potential to earn new cardholders up to 65,000 bonus Flying Club miles when they meet certain spend requirements. We haven’t seen a bonus this high on the card since last spring, and this beats the usual 50,000-mile bonus [...]

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How To Renew Your Platinum Amex SPG Gold Status

March 13, 2013

One of the value-added benefits of the Platinum card from American Express is the fact that just having the card gets you automatic Starwood Preferred Guest Gold status. You can read about the benefit here. To activate your status, you can call the Platinum Concierge number on the back of your Platinum card 1-800-345-AMEX (2639) [...]

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Understanding the 3x Airfare Category Bonus on the Amex Premier Rewards Gold

March 12, 2013

Update: The 50,000 point sign up offer for the American Express Premier Rewards Gold card is no longer available through the Card Match Tool. There are many cards and ways of maximizing your airfare purchases, but I choose to put all of mine on my American Express Premier Rewards Gold card because it gives 3 points [...]

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SRQ: Will I Get Starwood Points For Paying For Travel For Others?

March 10, 2013

TPG reader Jaroslav is a travel agent who has a question about whether he can earn Starwood points on his Starwood Amex or not: “I am travel agent and issuing many air tickets on my Starwood American Express card for clients when they pay me in cash. Could Amex decide to not give me Starwood [...]

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Reminder: Amex Business Gold Rewards 75,000 Sign Up Bonus Ends Tomorrow

March 7, 2013

Update: As of March 8th, at 2pm EST this offer is no longer available through my affiliate links. Earlier this week, I announced a limited-time sign-up bonus offer for the American Express Business Gold Rewards Card of 75,000 points when you spend $10,000 in four months and the $175 annual fee is waived the first [...]

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Amazing Deal Alert: Limited Time 75,000 Points For Amex Business Gold Rewards Card

March 5, 2013

Update: The 50,000 point sign up offer for the American Express Premier Rewards Gold card is no longer available through the Card Match Tool. Update: As of March 8th, at 2pm EST this offer is no longer available through my affiliate links. Amex periodically runs 75,000-point limited time offers for the Business Gold Rewards Card from [...]

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Travel Tuesday Top 10: Reasons Why I Like Amex Membership Rewards Cards

March 5, 2013

Update: The 50,000 point sign up offer for the American Express Premier Rewards Gold card is no longer available through the Card Match Tool. The biggest piece of advice that I give to people who are putting together their miles and points strategy is to accrue flexible, transferable points. Planning a long-term, sustainable points strategy that [...]

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