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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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How much do you pay for your miles and points?

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Note: We have made updates to this older post to reflect 2020 numbers. The key point -- that points cost us something in the...
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(EXPIRED) Targeted Amex Spending Offers

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Some American Express cardholders are seeing targeted spending offers on various Amex-branded (Membership Rewards-earning) cards. The offers vary and not everyone is targeted, but...
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How I’ve been spending my COVID Amex Platinum credits

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Don't forget to spend your monthly Amex Platinum credits before the end of this month!  Monthly credits include: $20/month cell services (consumer and business...
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Amex Going Clawback-Happy For Grocery Store Spend

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When it rains, it pours. After recent hits to manufactured spending due to both GiftCardMall and GiftCards.com reducing the amount of cashback that can be...
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My ever changing pandemic wallet

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Early this year I opened the kimono to show off the cards I keep in my wallet.  I was proud that I had a...
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Manufacturing free nights (Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott)

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Many of us aren't currently doing much traveling, but we are still earning points through credit card spend. This brings up the question of...
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[Expired] Amazon: Spend $50, get $20 off future purchase w/ Amex

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Amazon is offering a new promotion for American Express consumer cardholders: Spend $50 on items shipped & sold by Amazon and get $20 off a future "Amazon...
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12x Hilton vs 6x Marriott

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A question that we have seen repeated in our Frequent Miler Insiders Facebook group, on our Frequent Miler Ask Us Anything live Youtube broadcast,...
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Hilton’s funny math: save points by extending a stay

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I'm about the closest thing you'll find to a Hilton fanboy in the blogosphere, but Hilton's award pricing vexes and perplexes me at times....
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[Update: Now back to 5 credit cards] New Amex speed limit: 4 credit cards,...

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UPDATE: It appears that this was a temporary change. Amex is back to having a 5 credit card limit. It has historically been possible to...
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(EXPIRED) Calm app now available for all Amex holders

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At the beginning of the month, Amex announced many new benefits for cardholders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. One of those benefits was...
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Which services trigger Amex credits, generating huge spend as a remote grocer, when to...

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This week you can bookmark a resource for knowing which services trigger Amex's short-term statement credits, a remote grocer generating big spend at Costco,...
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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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