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With hundreds of posts about American Express Credit Cards, it can be hard to know where to begin! This Complete Guide offers a good summary of information about American Express Membership Rewards, and our Best Credit Card Offers page has an American Express section to feature their best credit card offers.

Here’s what you’ll find in the Complete Guide:

In my opinion, transferable points programs, are the most valuable points to accumulate.  These points can often be used at better than 1 cent per point value to book travel.  Even better, points can be strategically transferred to airline and hotel programs when valuable awards are available.  If you’re at all interested in free travel or luxury travel with points & miles, then you need to understand the basics of each of these programs, including Amex Membership Rewards.

If you’d like to dive deeper, the posts below investigate the nuances of earning, managing, and transferring these Membership Rewards points more deeply.

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Is it time to get an Amex Hilton Card?

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Amex recently announced a slew of new (but temporary) perks for many of their cards.  I covered the details here.  The most impressive perks...
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Check Amex for upgrade offers (25K ED to EDP)

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Update 5/8/20: DoC reports a new round of people targeted and shared a link to check for this upgrade offer that came from reddit...
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Amex “appreciation” credits on many cards

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Over the past 24 hours, Amex has been sending out emails notifying cardholders of "appreciation credits" on many credit cards with renewal. I'd recommend...
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Business or consumer – does Dell sell stuff you might want?

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In this week's Frequent Miler on the Air, Greg and I agreed that the Platinum cards have suddenly become compelling thanks to the recent...
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$200 credit for renewing Business Platinum for some [Targeted]

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This morning, Amex began sending out emails to alert cardholders to the changes announced last week adding additional value to a number of cards....
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Amex adds great stay-at-home perks to ultra-premium travel cards (this year only)

American Express today announced major new (but temporary) perks for many of their cards.  The most exciting news involves statement credits for several of...
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Downgrade your credit card to go annual fee-free

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With the current situation putting travel on hold for at least the rest of 2020, many readers are thinking of ways to trim their...
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Saving $2,897 in annual fees: a Card Talk intervention

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Kenny Rogers once said that you've gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to close 'em. Hmm...maybe that wasn't exactly right. It was...
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Amex extending time to meet welcome bonuses (applies retroactively also)

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The Points Pundit over at Travel Update made a nice find: if you have been or are approved between 12/1/19 and 5/31/20 for a...
Amex Airline Incidentals Credit Clawback

Uh-oh. Amex is clawing back some airline incidental credits

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2020 is the year of the rat, but sadly American Express is trying to also make it the year of the RAT. Amex's Rewards Abuse...
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My $100 exclusive gift from Amex

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The above flyer arrived in the mail today.  Amex had sent an "exclusive gift" in appreciation of my Card Membership.  This was probably thanks...
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Get 20K points per referral on Gold card (YMMV)

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In late 2018, Greg wrote about Maximizing value from Amex multi-referrals. That year, American Express debuted the ability to generate a referral link that...
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(EXPIRED) Targeted 20% transfer bonus to Qantas from Membership Rewards

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American Express Membership Rewards is offering a targeted 20% transfer bonus to Qantas Frequent Flyer. As is often the case with Amex's targeted transfer bonuses,...
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What’s in Stephen’s wallet?

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Greg and Nick have both recently shared what's in their wallets, so I figured I'd get in on the act. I've a feeling my...

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