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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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Amex Business gift cards 2.25% cash back via BeFrugal today only

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The BeFrugal shopping portal is offering 2.25% cashback on the purchase of Business Amex gift cards. They don't specifically mention an expiration date for...
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Improved Amex gift card deal predictions

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A number of online portals offer cash back or miles when purchasing American Express gift cards. This presents a great opportunity to run up...
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How to increase credit card spend from your couch, (almost) fee-free

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UPDATE 8/21/2015: Amex has changed their terms for portal cash back. They now only allow cash back for gift card denominations of $200 and...
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Amex serves up new version of Serve [developing story…]

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Note: On January 8, 2016 American Express sent out a notice to a large number of Bluebird & Serve cardholders informing them that loading...
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How to sign up for the Amex gift card Premium Shipping 3-Month Free Trial

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Important Update 5/18/2016: Amex no longer pays out for purchases made through portals unless the Amex gift card denominations are $200 or less.  As...

TopCashBack limits Amex gift card cash back to $200 denomination cards [Developing…]

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Earlier this morning I published a Quick Deal stating that TopCashBack was offering 2.25% cash back for Amex Business Gift Cards.  Then, I received...
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Amex gift cards: Is the deal done?

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Last Thursday I made a big mistake.  I published a Quick Deal before drinking coffee.  From past mistakes that were caused by my caffeine...
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$15 off $50 on Amazon Using Amex & Shop with Points

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Amazon is offering $15 off $50 when you use an eligible American Express Membership Rewards card and Shop with Points.

[EXPIRED] 80,000 Bonus on Hilton card

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Details of an increased bonus offer on the American Express Hilton HHonors Surpass credit card.
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Amex kills Bluebird and Serve for many

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Amex seems to have swept through all Serve and Bluebird accounts to identify any that were being used to manufacture spend.  Identified account holders...
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Bluebird Serve Birdpocalypse: How to liquidate remaining gift cards

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This morning Amex delivered bad news to huge numbers of Bluebird and Serve account holders.  They shut down accounts due to “unusual usage patterns...
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The Rube Goldberg approach to buying miles and delivering flowers [Update: ShopRunner not stacking...

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UPDATE 1:20 PM ET, 1/28/16: It turns out that ShopRunner free deliver does not stack with mile-earning promo codes.  I'm sorry for this mix...
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8 ways to get the best targeted Amex signup bonus offers

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An easy way to find the best Amex signup bonus offers is to visit Frequent Miler’s Best Offers page.  But, that page focuses on...
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Amex lowers the boom on Bluebird and Serve again

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Exactly 9 weeks ago, Amex lowered the boom on many Bluebird and Serve cardholders. While they didn’t outright shut down accounts, they did bar...

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