Rewards
| Amex Membership Rewards points can be incredibly valuable if you know how to use them. In general, if you use Membership Rewards points to pay for merchandise or travel, you won't get good value from your points. One exception is with the Business Platinum card where you'll get a 35% point rebate when using points to book certain flights. This gives you approximately 1.5 cents per point value, which is pretty good. Another exception is with the Business Gold Card where you'll get a 25% point rebate when using points to book certain flights. This gives you approximately 1.33 cents per point value. If you don't have either card, then your best bet is to transfer points to airline miles in order to book high value awards. More details can be found here: Amex Membership Rewards Complete Guide. |
Application Tips
Amex Application Tips
- Safe to Apply: Amex is the safest bank for trying your luck at earning a new welcome bonus offer. They don’t usually issue a hard pull when denying your application, and if you already have an Amex card, they won't usually issue a hard pull when approved for another one. Plus, they’ll now warn you during the application process if you’re not eligible for the bonus.
- Lifetime Rule: If you've ever had the same card before, you are most likely prohibited from earning a welcome bonus offer for the card if you apply now. Fortunately you'll be warned during the application process if this is the case. Amex is known to "forget" that you've had a card after about 7 years.
- 90 Day Rule: You can get at most two credit cards within 90 days. This rule does not apply to Pay Over Time (charge) cards.
- 5 credit card max: Amex usually won't approve applications for new credit cards if you already have 5 or more Amex credit cards or 10 or more charge cards.
- Better Offers: You may be able to get a better offer than the best available public offer. Details here.
- Hard inquiries combine into 1 when approved same day
Check application status here.
If denied, call reconsideration: 877-399-3083 (new accountholders); 866-314-0237 (current accountholders)
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American Express® Business Gold Card Alternate offer: Some are targeted for an offer of 130K points after $10K in purchases in the first 3 months. You can see this post for more details Targeted Business Gold offer for 130K (Highly YMMV) Recent better offer: 70K points + up to $300 in statement credits: 70K points after $10K spend in 3 months + up to $150 in statement credits for US shipping purchases and up to $150 in statement credits US advertising purchases. [Expired 4/7/21] |
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Just got an email from AMEX – You are pre-approved to apply for the Blue Business Plus card, get 75,000 points after $15K spend in 12 months. Not a bad deal, but it also says “Approval is not guaranteed and is subject to checks”
Well, I would have thought anyone would be approved to apply, but still it looks promising and seems to be a good deal. Was about to apply for a 3rd Business Platinum for 150K after $15K spend in 3 months. Wonder if I could do both …
Just signed up – wife got a popup 75k after 15k spend in 12 months. 2x points on first 50k spend per year. No annual fee.
Regarding cards that earn 1.5x, Amex Delta Business Platinum/Reserve should be added ($5k+ transactions only though, the same as Amex Platinum).
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Is the 2x up to $50,000 per year per business account or per card? For example, if there are 3 employee cards, do each card get 2x up to $50,000 per year for a total of $150,000 spending at 2x MR or is it $50,000 cumulative spending for all cards?
$50K cumulative per account — employee cards don’t get separate caps.
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What happened to the 20k sign up bonus? Did I ‘blow the bunny’ somehow? (not as naught as it sounds – it’s a phrase my dad used when I would miss a layup in basketball)
Yes, unfortunately I think that all 20K links are now dead. My bet is that targeted 20K offers will be coming soon, but it’s just a guess.
Just applied thru your referred link. Hope it’s helpful to your blog.
Thanks, yes it is
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The deal-breaker for me with this card would be the 2.7% foreign exchange fee.
With the $50K cap, that makes the 0% first year APR pretty useful for MS, since you can stop spending at $50K and use whatever your credit limit is as float for the rest of the year, just pay minimum payment each month. It’s a business line so shouldn’t hurt your credit.
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$50k limit is a huge bummer. Was getting excited until I saw that massive letdown.
Isn’t it a bit bizarre that this no-fee card earns more reward points than their premium cards? How is THAT a sustainable business model?
Yep it’s weird.
Perhaps the fact it is limited to $50K@2 pts makes it more sustainable than, say the business plat which gives a .5 point bonus for purchases over $5k. Max bonus 1M points. Total exposure much less
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