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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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How To Check Your Credit for Free: Step One in My Credit Card Application Preparation

March 19, 2013

This is post one of four on my most recent round of credit card applications and will focus on the basics of credit and how to perform a personal check to make sure everything healthy before a round of applications. Post 2 will be how to conduct a personal card inventory and decide which cards [...]

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Maximizing Ultimate Rewards Points With Chase Ink Category Spending Bonuses

March 14, 2013

TPG contributor Jason Steele is back with another in-depth look at the Chase Ink family of credit cards and how you can maximize their category spending bonuses and gift cards. In part one of this series, I looked at ways that cardholders could utilize the complete line of Ink cards in order to earn the [...]

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Maximizing Ultimate Rewards With The Chase Ink Credit Cards

March 13, 2013

Today, TPG contributor Jason Steele takes a close look at the Chase Ink family of cards and how you can maximize their huge earning potential by educating yourself about their category spending bonuses and annual limits. As readers know, the Chase Ink family of cards – including the Ink Bold, Ink Plus and Ink Cash [...]

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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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Maximize Monday: Choosing the Best Credit Card for Car Rental Insurance

March 11, 2013

TPG Contributor Jason Steele takes us through the basics of insurance that credit cards provide for car rentals and how you can make a decision about which card to use for the best coverage for your particular needs. When we think of credit card rewards, we usually think of points and miles. But one of [...]

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Changes to the Chase Freedom 10% Bonus And What It Means For Your Points Strategy

March 7, 2013

As you should know by now, using a combination of Chase credit cards including the Sapphire Preferred along with the Ink Bold and Ink Plus cards – all of which earn Ultimate Rewards that you can transfer to the programs nine travel program partners – in conjunction with the Chase Freedom card that is tied [...]

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Chase Southwest Visa 50,000 Point Offers = Companion Pass Quicker Than You Think

February 28, 2013

Chase and Southwest frequently change the sign-up bonuses on the Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Credit Cards between 25,000 and 50,000 points, but they recently bumped both the personal and business cards Premier offers back up to 50,000 points (marketed as 2 Roundtrip Flights after the required spend) after you spend $2,000 in the first 3 months [...]

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My Chase Sapphire Preferred 7% Annual Dividend Posted

February 28, 2013

If you already have the Sapphire Preferred or know about its benefits, you can skip this post. However, if you’re looking to get in on one of the best all-around travel rewards credit cards then feel free to read on. If you’ve read this blog for any period of time, you know that the Chase [...]

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Open Your Mail: Targeted Citi AA 60,000 Mile Sign Up Bonus

February 27, 2013

Although we live in the age of email, social media and, yes, points and miles blogs that keep up-to-the-minute tabs on the current credit card offers out there, sometimes the best offers come to you by good, old-fashioned mail, and that’s why I always tell people to look at what the credit card companies send [...]

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My Ranking of the Top Five Limited Time Travel Rewards Card Offers

February 27, 2013

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. 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. They say timing is everything, and that certainly holds true [...]

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SRQ: How To Maximize Travel Credit Cards In Retirement?

February 24, 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. TPG reader Ron has recently retired, but wants to keep racking up points and miles with credit cards. Here’s his question: “Do you know of a strategy for retired persons to use [...]

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Reminder: British Airways Visa One of Best Current Credit Card Offers

February 21, 2013

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. In the past couple of days, I’ve been talking about some great credit card bonuses including 50,000 Membership Rewards points for the American Express Premier Rewards Gold and 25,000 points for the Business Platinum Card from [...]

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US Airways Chairman Preferred Credit Card Deal Expired?

February 14, 2013

Update: The public offer for the Chairman’s Preferred US Airways Dividend Miles Premier World Mastercard has expired, but you still might be able to apply for it – check out this post for more information on it as well as a version of the card that comes with 35,000 bonus miles and the first year’s [...]

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Travel Tuesday Top 10: Ways to Maximize Points for Valentine’s Day

February 5, 2013

At The Points Guy, we’re all for grand romantic gestures, especially on Valentine’s Day, but that doesn’t mean you should miss out on these top 10 opportunities to maximize the miles and points you earn as you romance your sweetheart. After all, what’s sexier than being smart about your points? 1. Put a Ring on [...]

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Visa and MasterCard Users: Beware of New 4 Percent Surcharge

February 5, 2013

As a result of the largest antitrust settlement in United States history, merchants in 40 states are now able to tack on a fee of up to 4% per credit card transaction – spelling potential disaster for those of us looking to rack up miles and points by using credit cards. The dispute dates to [...]

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Sunday Reader Question: Advantage to Additional Cardholders Vs. Two Accounts

February 3, 2013

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. TPG reader Sue asks: “We saw you at the New York Times Travel Show and have been following your blog. My question: Is there an advantage to opening a credit card account with a subcard vs. [...]

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Sunday Reader Question: What to Do When Amex Does Not Honor Sign-up Bonus

February 3, 2013

TPG reader Yuki asks: “I applied for the AMEX Platinum Card in October 2012, got approved and received the card in less than 24 hours.  I spent the required $2,000 in three months but have not received the 25K bonus points.  I contacted them a couple of times on the phone and received this elusive ‘you are [...]

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Travel Tuesday Top 10: Reasons to Get a Business Credit Card

January 29, 2013

Last week’s limited-time 75,000-point sign-up bonus offer for the Amex Business Gold Rewards card was a good reminder that many of the credit cards currently on the market that are geared towards business carry rewards and benefits that are just as great – and sometimes better – than the personal credit cards that are out [...]

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Last Day To Apply for the Amex Business Gold Rewards 75,000 Point Offer

January 28, 2013

Update: There is no current sign up bonus for the American Express Business Gold Rewards Card. Last week I wrote about a great limited time offer from American Express on the Business Gold Rewads card- 75,000 points after $10,000 spent within the first four months. Per the T&C of the bonus offer, so if you were [...]

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New York Times Travel Show Resource: Maximizing Credit Cards For Free Travel

January 20, 2013

Thanks to everyone who came out to the New York Times Travel Show yesterday for my first presentation: Beating the System: Travel Pointers for a First Class Lifestyle on a Budget. I hope to see many of you out there for my second talk today on Maximizing Credit Cards for Free Travel. I’m going to [...]

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Amex Platinum Cardholders Update Your $200 Airline Credit Choice By January 31

January 14, 2013

The Mercedes-Benz Platinum, American Express Platinum Card, and Business Platinum all have many valuable benefits, which I’ve outlined before, including the $200 annual airline fee credit, that all help make that $450 annual fee worth it in my opinion. Hopefully a lot of you got in on the recent one-day 100,000-point sign-up bonus offer (when you spend $3,000 in 3 [...]

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Maximize Monday: The Best Ways to Earn Points on Dining

January 14, 2013

It’s a well known fact that you don’t need to step onto a plane to earn miles and points. The credit cards you carry and what you use them to buy are just as important, if not more so, than how and where you travel. Making the most out of your everyday expenses is one [...]

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Video Sunday Reader Question: How Do I Get United Club Access With A Credit Card?

January 13, 2013

TPG reader Gabi was hoping an Amex Platinum card would come with access to United Clubs, but that’s not the case. Here’s the question, and you can find my answer in the video as well as in detail below: “I am wondering  about the Amex Platinum card and access to airline clubs. We tried to [...]

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