[EXPIRED] Increased Amex SPG sign-up bonuses: 35K on both business and personal!
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American Express has increased the signup bonuses on both the SPG personal and SPG business cards to 35k bonus points for completing the total required spend. We have only seen a...
Should you be inspired to earn 25,000 bonus miles with the Cathay Pacific Visa?
Cathay Pacific has unveiled a credit card for US residents. The card is issued by Synchrony Bank and it offers 25K miles after $2,500 spend. It gives first year cardholders free green tier membership...
The best rewards for $50K spend
The current signup offer for the Amex Blue for Business Card has been extended to February 22, 2017 . The offer is different from most signup offers because rather than giving you a set...
The Amex Business Platinum awesome 1 time exception
Update: This post references an American Express Business Platinum benefit that has changed. As of June 1, 2017, the pay-with-points rebate has changed to 35% for your chosen airline or any airline in business...
Should you call when your application goes pending?
When applying for credit cards, it is common to not get an instant decision. At that point, you have a decision to make: Do you call the bank's reconsideration line to force a quick...
From Sapphire Preferred to Freedom Unlimited, No Waiting
On Saturday morning I published "Freedom Unlimited plan thwarted." Since I now have the top-end Sapphire Reserve card, I wanted to downgrade my Sapphire Preferred to Freedom Unlimited. This way, I could continue to...
Freedom Unlimited plan thwarted
Ever since signing up for the Chase Sapphire Reserve card, I've planned to downgrade my Sapphire Preferred to a Freedom Unlimited card. The former gives 3X for dining and travel, whereas the FU (Freedom...
Hawaii round trip from NYC as low as $362 per person for Alaska Airlines...
As per this Secret Flying post, Alaska Airlines is currently offering round trip airfares from New York (Newark) to Maui, Hawaii as low as $557 round trip. Alaska Airlines Visa Signature and Visa Business...
IHG Cardmembers: 15% Discount on IHG Points + Cash
A new cardmember offer gives IHG credit card holders a 15% discount on the cash portion of a points + cash booking for reservations made by February 12th, 2017 and stays through March 31, 2017. This promotion...
Better than Best Offers available for some cards
The Deal:
There is currently a way to find signup bonuses that eclipse those found in our best offers. While the best publicly-available sign up bonus offers for these cards range from 10k-40k points, following...
Necker Island award same price, but harder to get
Update: A few years after this post was written, the award price for a week on Necker Island increased to 1.5 million points.
After my trip to Necker Island, I learned that Virgin Atlantic was...
Credit cards with better than 2% rewards for non-bonus spend
Which credit card should you use to maximize rewards? In general, if you've signed up for a credit card recently and need to meet minimum spend requirements in order to get a big signup...
Complete guide to paying taxes via credit card, 2017 edition
Preparing taxes is no fun. No fun at all. But paying taxes doesn't have to be painful. In fact, paying federal taxes can be quite rewarding. The key is to earn credit card rewards...
Ritz offer dropping from 3 to 2 free nights.
Yesterday I told you about the soon to be gone Fairmont 2 free night offer. At the moment there are still a couple of live links to that offer, but they won't last long.
Now...
