AmEx Marriott Bonvoy Bevy Credit Card Review 2025.5 Update: The higher offer is expired. Currently there’s only 135k offer. 2025.3 Update: The 155k offer comes back. 2024.8 Update: The 155k offer comes back. Application Link AmEx Marriott Bonvoy Bevy Benefits 135k offer: Earn 85,000 Marriott points after spending $5,000 in the first 6 months, and earn an extra 50,000 Marriott…
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The Hilton Honors American Express Surpass Card Review 2025.5 Update: The welcome offer is changed back to 130k. 2025.2 Update: The new offer is 130k+1FN. Offer ends on 2025/04/29. 2024.9 Update: The new offer is 165k. Offer ends on 2025/01/08. Application Link Amex Hilton Surpass Benefits 130k+1FN offer: earn 130,000 Honors Points and 1 free night (no cap) after spending…
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American Express Business Gold Card Review 2024.9 Update: The 200k offer stable links are expired. Currently there’s a 175k offer. The links in our forum that we allow to post (see application link below) show 175k offer stably, and potentially show 200k offer if you are using incognito mode. 2024.7 Update: The new offer is 200k now, and this is the best…
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American Express Green Card Review 2024.10 Update: The $100 LoungeBuddy Credit benefit is removed for new applicants, and for existing cardholders have until January 13, 2025 to use the credit. This is not surprising, because LoungBuddy itself is going to be closed very soon. This move makes it harder to justify AmEx Green’s annual fee. 2023.8 Update: The 60k+$200 offer is ending…
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The AmEx EveryDay Credit Card (ED) Review 2024.9 Update: It seems the previous application links for this card are all showing loading error now. Is it discontinued? Or is it being refreshed? 2021.1 Update: It seems the 25k offer is no longer available. The current offer is 10k. Application Link AmEx EveryDay (ED) Benefits 10k offer: earn 10,000 Membership Rewards…
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Marriott Bonvoy Business American Express Card (Formerly Starwood Preferred Guest Business Credit Card from American Express) Review 2024.10 Update: The 5FN offer is expired. Currently there’s only 3FN offer. 2024.9 Update: The 5FN offer comes back. 2024.5 Update: The 5FN offer comes back. Application Link AmEx Marriott Bonvoy Business Benefits 3FN offer: earn 3 Free Night (FN) Awards (with a redemption level…
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American Express Gold Card (Formerly Premier Rewards Gold) Review 2025.6 Update: It seems all the links are showing a “AS HIGH AS” 100k welcome offer, and there’s no link with a fixed 100k welcome offer any more. 2024.11 Update: The 100k+$100 offer is expired. Currently there’s a 100k offer if you try hard in incognito mode. 2024.7 Update: New benefits…
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The Platinum Card from American Express Review 2025.6 Update: It seems all the links are showing a “AS HIGH AS” 175k welcome offer, and there’s no link with a fixed 175k welcome offer any more. 2024.6 Update: The 175k offer has come back! Thanks to USCardForum user ezhang6767 for providing the link. [2024.8 Update] The stable link is expired. The 175k…
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[2024.2 Update] AmEx Green card joined. Having held Gold or Platinum will affect the eligibility of Green card. [2023.12 Update] Marriott Co-branded cards joined. Having held Marriott Brilliant will affect the eligibility of Marriott Bevy card. [2023.10 Update] We initially thought that this family language limitation would first be implemented on co-branded cards, especially since it started with the Delta…
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[2023.2 Major Update] USCardForum user juanxincai noticed that major new restrictions are now applied to some of the Marriott co-branded cards. On AmEx Marriott Brilliant, the new terms read: Basically it says if you have or have had any of the Chase Marriott co-branded cards in the past 30 days, you are not eligible for the welcome offer for this AmEx…
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Blue Cash Everyday Card from American Express (BCE) Review 2025.3 Update: There’s only a $200 offer now. 2023.1 Update: The $150+$100 offer is expired. The current welcome offer is $200 offer or $200+$150 offer via Resy. 2022.10 Update: The new offer is $150 PayPal + $100: Earn 20% back as a statement credit on purchases via PayPal in the first…
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Blue Business Cash™ Card from American Express Review 2023.10 Update: The offer is now $250 ($3,000 spending in 3 months). 2023.6 Update: The $250 offer (with $3k spending requirement) is expired. The current offer is $500 (with $15k spending requirement). 2022.9 Update: There is a new $500 offer, but it requires $15k spending in total. The $250 offer (with $3k…
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Blue Cash Preferred Card from American Express (BCP) Review 2024.9 Update: The higher offer is expired. The current offer is only $250. 2024.6 Update: The new offer is $300, you may need to see it in incognito mode. 2023.3 Update: The new offer is $400. Application Link AmEx Blue Cash Preferred (BCP) Benefits $250 offer: earn $250 cash back after spending…
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These days some people (like in USCardForum and MyFICO) are starting to notice a new AmEx feature: “Apply With Confidence”. This feature means, if you can see the “Apply With Confidence” box in the application page, then AmEx will do a soft pull based on your info, give you a decision whether they will approve your application, and then let…
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[2021.08 – We have updated the text and table after finding an errant calculation in our source spreadsheet. Thanks to our readers for bringing this to our attention. However, now the “inflation” is worse than we originally posted!] Introduction The economic concept of inflation is defined as the decline of purchasing power of a given currency over time. This effectively…
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