Another Perk Bites The Dust: Rakuten Cash Back Visa Removing Price Protection
In not-too-surprising-but-disappointing-nonetheless news, Synchrony has sent emails to cardholders of the Rakuten Cash Back Visa card informing them that the price protection benefit on the card is being removed from July 16, 2021.
The email...
Up to $400 in statement credits with targeted Blue Cash Preferred offer
Some people are finding that they are targeted fir an offer of up to $400 back on the Amex Blue Cash Preferred Card split up as a $200 statement credit after $3K in purchases...
(Update: 70k + $200 Still Available) Get 70k Amex Delta Gold Offer With $200...
Update 5/8/21: The best offer for the Amex Delta Gold that it's possible to provide a direct link to dropped this past week to 40,000 miles plus a $50 statement credit for restaurant purchases....
Capital One dropping benefits 9/1/21 [Visa Signature products not affected]
Update 5/17/21: After reaching out to Capital One, we were told the following:
Select network benefits on Capital One Visa Platinum products will no longer be available to customers beginning September 1st. Capital One Visa...
Easy 20K points turning Amex Pay Over Time off / on again [Targeted]
Stephen previously reported how to unenroll from Amex Pay Over Time off and why you might want to. Despite the fact that I heard about people being targeted with 20K offers last month, I...
Amex Platinum Complete Guide
Update 5/3/21: Access to select Lufthansa lounges in Munich and Frankfurt when flying Lufthansa, SWISS or Austrian Airlines is now a permanent Amex Platinum Card perk. We've added this to the Perks table below.
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[Update: New Categories] Chase “Pay Yourself Back” now extended thru September 2021
Update 5/2/21: Chase has updated some of the eligible Pay Yourself Back categories, including home improvement stores on Ink Plus and Ink Preferred cards (home improvement was already an eligible category for Sapphire Reserve...
Points Power-Ups – Credit cards that make your points more valuable
Credit cards offer many kinds of miscellaneous perks. Some offer travel benefits like travel protections, free hotel nights, free checked bags, elite status, upgrade priority, companion tickets, etc. Some offer rebates on certain types...
The “Good Enough” Capital One Ultra-Premium Card
Capital One has been rumored to be working to release an ultra-premium travel rewards card to compete with the Chase Sapphire Reserve and Amex Platinum cards. In the post "Venture Ultimate: Here’s how Capital...
What’s the best card combination a Benjamin can buy?
The past week has led to a lot of discussion about a one-credit-card strategy with the the huge improvements from Capital One rewards and Greg's post yesterday imagining an ultra-premium Capital One single card...
Which Amex Cards are Credit Cards? How many can you get?
Amex credit cards vs Pay Over Time cards
Amex offers both credit cards and "Pay Over Time" cards (the latter are charge cards under the hood but also, optionally, have credit-card-like "pay over time" capability). ...
Venture Ultimate: Here’s how Capital One can capture my wallet
If Capital One plans to release an ultra-premium travel rewards card, this is what it should look like...
In 2019, rumors surfaced of a new ultra-premium travel rewards card from Capital One. The new card...
American Express Increasing Limit To Five Credit Cards
Last year, American Express reduced the number of credit cards you could hold from five to four. That limit seemed to be temporarily lifted back up to five, but then dropped back down to...
Huge: Convert Capital One cash back to miles by moving rewards
In response to my post this morning about the ascending value of Capital One's rewards program, a reader commented to note a couple of fascinating data points indicating that cash back rewards earned on the...
