American Express Platinum Card for Schwab Review 2023.8 Update: The 100k welcome offer is expired. The current offer is 80k. 2022.3 Update: The +10x on restaurant and shop small part of welcome offer is expired. The current offer is 100k. 2021.9 Update: The cash out rate is changed from 1.25 cpp to 1.1 cpp. [/su_spoiler] Application Link AmEx Platinum Card…
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Schwab Investor Card from American Express Review [2021.6 Update] The $200 signup bonus after $2k spend has returned. [2020.11 Update] The $200 signup bonus is expired. The current offer is just $100. Let’s wait for higher offer to appear again. [2020.9 Update] The $200 signup bonus after $2k spend has returned and is valid until November 4, 2020. Application Link AmEx Schwab Investor. You…
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American Express is giving a lot these days. We’re seeing highest ever offer on Platinum card now, as well as extra benefits on many cards they announced at the beginning of 2021. Now they’re offering better signup bonus offers on many cards via referral links! As shown above, you can earn an extra $200 credits on eligible purchases at select…
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Amazon Business Prime American Express Card Review 2020.10 Update: Reminder: the cap of 5% cashback is now effective. Also, based on recent data points, AmEx now only allow you to hold one of this card at a time, therefore you can’t increase the cap by holding multiple of this card. 2020.6 Update: The offer is now $125. Effective Oct.1, you…
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AmEx Cash Magnet Credit Card 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? 2020.12 Update: It seems there’s only $100 or $200 offer now. Application Link AmEx Cash Magnet Benefits $200 offer: earn $200 after spending $1,000 in the first 3 months….
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AmEx and their Rewards Abuse Team (RAT) is trying their best these days to punish any abusive behavior. Today, a new development happened: some people got their airline fee credit clawed back! The airline fee credit is a benefit for several premium credit cards, for example: AmEx Hilton Aspire ($250), AmEx Platinum ($200), AmEx Gold ($100). It used to be…
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Delta SkyMiles® Blue Card from American Express Review 2020.4 Update: The new offer is 10k. 2020.1 Update: The welcome offer is 15k now. This card is also revamped, the changes are: Earn 2x on restaurants now (previously 1x); No foreign transaction fee now. Application Link AmEx Blue Delta SkyMiles Benefits 10k offer: earn 10,000 Miles after spending $500 in first…
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AmEx Business Green Rewards from American Express Review [2019.11 Update2] – We just realized that there’s a 25k better offer for this card in incognito mode. [2019.11 Update] – A 15k MR offer is now available after spending $3k in 90 days. This represents the all-time best signup bonus on this card. This bonus is still not very attractive unless you…
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[2019/03/13 Update] – I just received another mailer for a Business Gold card with a new link to try if you have been unsuccessful enrolling thus far. AmEx is sending out physical mailers for a promotional offer where charge card holders can earn 10,000 MR points per account by enrolling in the “Pay Over Time” feature. There are no additional…
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Marriott Bonvoy American Express Card (Formerly The Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express) Review 2019.8 Update: This card is still available via product change. 2019.2 Update: AmEx SPG is rebranded as AmEx Marriott Bonvoy for current card holders (it does not accept new applications). Application Link This card is no longer available to apply, but you can get it by…
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Platinum Card from American Express for Ameriprise Financial Review 2019.10 Update: It seems this card is discontinued. The previous application link shows this offer is no longer available; and the Ameriprise website now only shows two Visa cards. R.I.P. 2019.2 Update: The card does not offer first year AF waiver anymore. Instead, it now comes with the standard sign-up bonus: 60k MR…
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Yesterday we noticed that American Express has just added Avianca LifeMiles as one of the Membership Rewards transfer partners. The transfer rate is currently 1:1. The partnership between Amex and LifeMiles undoubtedly boosted the value of Membership Rewards points, especially in terms of redeeming Star Alliance flights. Now Amex has four SA partners: Avianca LifeMiles, ANA Mileage Club, Air Canada…
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It’s been a while that you can use your AmEx cobranded card to refer other related cards in the same series. For example, if you have the Delta Gold card, then you can refer Delta Gold, Delta Platinum & Delta Reserve, and their business version. This is true for Hilton series and Marriott series as well. Now AmEx further improved…
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2019.2 Update: See this post for a new update about the increased bonuses from referral link. You should already know that, when you apply for some AmEx credit cards, you may see some higher signup bonuses if you use incognito mode, or with a VPN to increase your chance. See this post for details. For example, AmEx Everyday usually has…
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Starting from Aug 26, 2018, AmEx and Chase work together to limit the bonuses on their Marriott & SPG co-branded credit cards. Now AmEx SPG cards can affect the eligibility of Chase Marriott credit cards, and vice versa. Here’s a summary of the limits. Chase Co-branded Credit Cards Chase cards have their own limits: Chase 5/24 rule: Chase Marriott Premier…
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