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Vincent
Vincent (@guest_552750)
January 20, 2018 20:25

Hi, can I apply the second Blue Cash Perferred while I am having one? Thank s.

Sami
Sami (@guest_453684)
August 5, 2017 14:48

Hey DoC. We applied for this card back in May and have been using it for the signup bonus including the awesome 10% cash back at restaurants until the fall. Now, my wife and I have a trip planned to Austria and Hungary in August (using Delta, UR, United, and SPG/Marriott points) and I’m wondering if the European restaurants would code as restaurants because even with the 2.7% foreign transaction fee I believe we’d still be getting 7.3% cash back (10%-2.7%). Do you think this strategy would work / make sense? Thanks as always for your help.

William Charles
Admin
August 7, 2017 20:33

Usually with American Express it’s U.S merchants/restaurants only. Not sure if that is the case with this offer sorry.

Sami
Sami (@guest_457297)
August 11, 2017 20:19

thanks so much. that’s really good to know. appreciate it.

Vince
Vince (@guest_359136)
February 23, 2017 18:02

DP: Incognito didn’t work for Amex BCP on CHROME but worked just fine on Internet Explorer’s InPrivate mode

Kid
Kid (@guest_359127)
February 23, 2017 17:50

Do military commissaries count as a supermarket for the 6%? Thanks.

William Charles
Admin
February 23, 2017 19:00

No idea, any military members know? If so, add it to the payments workshop please: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/payments-workshop/

M
M (@guest_359118)
February 23, 2017 17:28

I can get the Blue Cash Preferred at $250 cash + $200 restaurants, but can only get $150 cash + $200 restaurants on the Blue Cash Everyday. I can get these by simply deleting absolutely all history, cache, stored passwords, etc in IE and opening an inPrivate/incognito window.

Nick
Nick (@guest_359122)
February 23, 2017 17:42
  M

I used a private browser and saw only $150 plus the $200 max for restaurants. Still would like clarification that those of us with the no-fee version would be eligible for this card and bonus. Also aware from other blogs that AMEX has in certain situations tightened or clawed back on MS, a reason not to jump too quickly for the 6% back on groceries reward.

P.S. I don’t feel misled, have gotten so much benefit from DoC many many times. Those who are so nitpicky are free at any time to instead use their energies productively by doing all of the work and starting their own blog.

William Charles
Admin
February 23, 2017 19:00

Yes, cards are considered separate so you can get both.

Frito Pendejo
Frito Pendejo (@guest_359117)
February 23, 2017 17:27

I was able to get the $250 offer first try when I got home from work and tried my own wifi. When I was trying from work and via mobile internet earlier it was only showing $150 offwr

sam
sam (@guest_359108)
February 23, 2017 17:12

Try in mozilla, it works. applied green as well, approved. this is like 4th amex card within 3 months. Love Amex!!

gman
gman (@guest_359092)
February 23, 2017 16:42

Best way i find for doing the ‘Incongnito’ method is on a web browser while not on wifi.
The ip address on a mobile phone is dynamic, which means amex doesn’t have and prior info on it and therefor it is not black listed.
When i go on wifi i never get the offers which leads me to think amex keeps a log of all ip’s that are finishing for offers and doesn’t display it to anyone who searched for offers prior on the specific ip address.

anthonyjh21
anthonyjh21 (@guest_359085)
February 23, 2017 16:35

Going to just be honest here and say it. Calling this a $450 offer is completely misleading.

With this logic we should see the Discover IT card with a $700 sign up bonus offer. $100 bonus, $600 in rotating categories.

I love you and DoC and everything you do but these kinds of posts and titles are a major pet peeve of mine.

Jimbo
Jimbo (@guest_359096)
February 23, 2017 16:57

I agree with you. I love this site because they avoid the click-bait headlines others post, but this one is straddling the line.

Mser
Mser (@guest_359099)
February 23, 2017 16:59

+1

Brady
Brady (@guest_359103)
February 23, 2017 17:08

Yup. Considering the first year’s annual fee is NOT waived, this is basically a $150 cash offer and a few bucks more if you happen to do a LOT of your eating in restaurants.
Nothing to get excited about here.

DSP
DSP (@guest_359106)
February 23, 2017 17:10

Its just any easy way to see the total value of the offer. There are many versions of BCE/BCP offers, 450 is the best and there’s no reason to entertain the other offers so this prevents any confusion that might occur when comparing 250 vs 250+200.

anthonyjh21
anthonyjh21 (@guest_359112)
February 23, 2017 17:25

I mean I understand they only have so many characters when creating the title to get their message across but all you have to do is look at a few posts down and see how the other one was written:

“Public Signup Offer on Amex Blue Cash Cards: 10% Back on Restaurants (up to $200) + $150/100”

When I saw $450 pop up on my tweetcast I handed my 3 month old to my wife and moved swiftly to my computer to apply just in case this was a leaked link and may die a quick death. Note: I didn’t think for one minute this was intentional and an attempt to gain clicks.

DoC is by far the best resource for deals (other than maybe DansDeals). I always recommend it to anyone I know who doesn’t know anything but is curious about what I do. Definitely not trying to bash them.

As far as other offers, I’m personally going to hold out until later in the year when I’d imagine a better offer pops up, probably Amazon again. I know this is very YMMV but in my case we rarely eat out at restaurants but spend way too much at Amazon (2 young kids). Add in the increased $95 AF (which isn’t waived in the first year) and the lifetime bonus limitation and you have reason to believe offers will only get better.

William Charles
Admin
February 23, 2017 17:58

I’ll fix the title, thanks for the feedback. Like you said it’s definitely not intentional, we just assume that most people know what these offers are (e.g $250 + 10% back somewhere) but your right it should be clearer where the 10% back is.

Lrdx
Lrdx (@guest_359278)
February 23, 2017 20:31

If one has CSR and values UR points at 1.5, s/he would get 4.5% back at restaurants already, so the 10% is really worth “just” 5.5% back = $110. Still a great offer though.

By the way, is the 10% in addition to the 1% cashback you’d normally get at restaurants with this card?

Tory
Tory (@guest_359081)
February 23, 2017 16:29

Just to be clear, it’s $x + 10% on restaurants, with that 10% capped at $y.

William Charles
Admin
February 23, 2017 18:59

Updated post to make it clearer