With the publicity surrounding the 100,000 Membership Rewards signup offer on the American Express Business Platinum Card, there’s been a lot of buzz about the 50% Airline Bonus this card offers. The gist is that if you use Pay... Read More →
Category - Credit Cards
When Exactly Does the Chase INK Year Reset for it’s 50k Limit?
The Chase INK cards earn 5x rewards on select categories up to a maximum of $50,000 each year. When exactly does the new year start? Cardmember anniversary date? New calendar year? Statement close? It resets with the statement close... Read More →
U.S. Bank Changing 5% Categories – Dropping Charity & Adding Ground Transportation
U.S. Bank offers the Cash+ card, this lets you choose two categories every quarter to earn 5% cash back in (limited to $2,000 in spend per quarter). Reader Jay found the following announcement in their latest statement: Effective... Read More →
Citi Sears Card Review – Up To 5% Back In Points
As mentioned previously the Citi Sears card now offers bonus categories that earn up to 5% back in Shop Your Way Rewards Points. The Citi Sears card is one of our top store credit cards, but that’s because of the targeted spending... Read More →
Is The Chase Amazon Card Set To Earn 5% Back At Amazon?
Amazon has two co-branded cards currently available: Store card issued by Synchrony Bank Visa card issuer by Chase Normally a true credit card (like the one issued by Chase) will have a better rewards program than the store card. That... Read More →
Can you get a Signup Bonus if you Previously had the Card without a Bonus?
A question comes up periodically with someone who had a credit card but didn’t get the signup bonus. Can they now sign up again and get the bonus? Or will they need to wait the standard reset time before being able to get the... Read More →
Citi ThankYou Points 25% Transfer Bonus To Virgin Atlantic (1:1.25)
The Offer Direct link to offer Citi are offering a 25% transfer bonus when you transfer your Citi ThankYou points to Virgin Atlantic. Normally when you transfer the minimum of 1,000 points you’d receive 1,000 Virgin Atlantic miles. If... Read More →
Share Your American Express Hilton Referral Links (75k No Annual Fee & 100k Surpass)
It’s currently possible to get increased sign up bonuses on the American Express Hilton cards, currently these offers are only available via referral links. People should have received an e-mail about this if they are eligible (if... Read More →
Targeted Spend Offers on Banana Republic Card
There are two targeted offers we’ve seen going around, one mentioned by PFDigest and another by Milestomemories. Offer #1 From January 1 – March 31, each 5x points on gas, grocery, dining, and Costco purchases with your... Read More →
What You Need To Know About The Chase Sapphire Reserve Bonus Reduction
As we announced the other day the Chase Sapphire Reserve will have it’s bonus reduced from 100,000 points after $4,000 within the first three months in spend to 50,000 points after $4,000 in spend within the first three months... Read More →
Barclaycard Sending Out Targeted 50,000 Point Bonuses On Gold Card
The Offer Direct link to offer (requires last name and invite code) Earn 50,000 bonus points after $3,000 in spend within the first 90 days of account opening on the Barclaycard Gold Card. Card Details Annual fee of $995 and $295 for... Read More →
Use Your Travel Credits For 2017 Sooner Rather Than Later
At the end of last year, I noticed a lot of readers in a mad rush to use up their travel credits on different premium cards at the absolute last minute. As we also saw last year, loopholes do get closed (e.g MPX no longer works for the... Read More →
Why Do Banks Offer Better Bonuses In Branch?
Chase just announced that the sign up bonus on the Chase Sapphire Reserve would be decreasing on January 12th for online applications, but the bonus will be staying at 100,000 points if you apply in branch. Citi also does and so do a... Read More →
BBVA Compass No Longer Accepting Applications For NBA 5% Card
BBVA Compass offers an NBA credit card that earns 5% cash back on all purchases during the all star weekend and two weeks NBA Finals. When they added a $5,000 spending cap per event in April of last year they removed online applications... Read More →
Chase Sapphire Reserve will Drop Signup Bonus to 50,000 on January 12th [In-Branch on March 12th]
Chase will lower the signup bonus on their Sapphire Reserve card from 100,000 points to 50,000 points on January 12. Via TPG, the public 100k signup bonus will be lowered to 50,000 points with the same $4,000 spend requirement on... Read More →
