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Tag: American Express

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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Amex retention offers via online chat

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Yesterday, Doctor of Credit reported success getting an Amex retention offer via online chat.  Chuck's Green card annual fee was due and he was...
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When Will Centurion Lounges Reopen? We Now Have An Answer (For Some Airports)

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One of the questions asked during yesterday's Ask Us Anything was when the American Express Centurion Lounges would reopen. We now have a partial answer....
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How to get targeted for the best Amex welcome bonuses.

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An easy way to find the best Amex welcome bonuses is to visit Frequent Miler’s Best Offers page.  But, that page focuses on the best publicly available offers.  This post details a number of ways to get targeted offers that may be even better.  American Express usually doesn’t offer welcome bonuses to those who have had the same card before, so it is especially important with Amex to sign up only for the very best offers.
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Hilton Credit Card Comparison. Which is best?

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Hilton's credit card lineup is not nearly as complicated as Marriott's (see: Which Marriott Bonvoy card is best?).  However, American Express does issue four...
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(EXPIRED) Bonvoy Brilliant: Spend $1,000 Get $100 (stacks with 10X offers!)

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I found a new Amex Offer on my wife's Bonvoy Brilliant card today: Spend $1,000 or more, get $100 back. At first I assumed that...
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(EXPIRED) Amazon: Spend $100 (or $50), Get $10 Back, 2 Times (Targeted Amex Offer)

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A new Amex Offer has appeared today for Amazon.com.  After spending $100 at Amazon.com, you'll get $10 back.  You can do this two times. ...
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Awesome new targeted Amex credit card offers

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While updating links on our Best Credit Card Offers page today, I stumbled on a number of awesome targeted offers. They didn't show up...
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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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