Category - Sunday Roundup

It was a bit of a slow week due to Memorial Day (speaking of which, if you’re active duty there a bunch of benefits you get from different card issuers like no annual fee on any American Express credit card). The two biggest deals... Read More →

First lets have a look at the limited credit card news this week. Capital One added a $500/50,000 mile bonus on their Spark Business cards and I made a case for that offer despite the fact that Capital One pulls all three credit bureaus... Read More →

The big news this week was that it was briefly possible to get 150,000 points on the American Express business platinum card, although it required a total of $20,000 in spend within three months. This deal had been floating around for... Read More →

The biggest news of the week was undoubtedly the fact that Target’s Redbird will no longer accept credit card loads. We had a look at what options you had left now that this is no longer possible. If you’re not already part... Read More →

Chase was the major credit card player this week. They increased the sign up bonus on the Chase united card to 55,000 points and a $50 statement credit (although some other bloggers missed the memo on the $50 statement credit). They... Read More →

The good news keeps on coming from Citibank, this week they announced a new called card AT&T Access More. It comes with a sign up bonus of up to $650 for a new phone and can earn 3x ThankYou points on all online purchases and travel... Read More →

Citi was on an absolute rampage last week. First they increased the sign up bonus on the Citi Prestige card to 50,000 points after $3,000 in spend. There is still the in branch offer of 60,000 points and a lower AF of $350, but the... Read More →

The biggest news this week was the fact that Citi has increased the sign up bonus on their Citi Prestige card to 50,000 ThankYou points. If you recently applied for this card, it’s possible to ask to be matched to this higher... Read More →

The biggest news of the week was that U.S Bank have decided to cripple the Club Carlson credit card by removing the last night free benefit. Originally they tried to sneak this update in, but as soon as the community found out about it... Read More →

Late in the week Chase sent out a number of offers on their Southwest credit cards. It’s now possible to get 60,000 points on the business premier version, simply by calling. There is a targeted offer on the personal premier for... Read More →

One of the interesting find I’ve made is the BBVA Compass Build Your Own Rewards program, where you get to choose at least one category to earn 3x points in, one of the cards also comes with a sign up bonus of $200 which should be... Read More →

Last week I found a credit card that earns 5x points everywhere. Now before you get too excited, this card doesn’t always earn 5x everywhere. It only happens twice a year (all star weekend and NBA finals weeks), this could still... Read More →

Yes yes, I know I usually post the round up on a Sunday but I was feeling lazy (and maybe had a few too many drinks on the weekend) so didn’t get around to it until now. Let’s get stuck into what was interesting last week... Read More →

American Express announced that they would be making a number of changes to the Premier Rewards Gold card, the only negative was an increased annual fee of $20 (bringing it to $195) but they also added more U.S restaurants as a 2x... Read More →

This was a bad week for American Express, we found an ad from Barclaycard showing that they are hiring for a marketing manager of the JetBlue card. Confirming that American Express has lost that partnership and Barclaycard will replace... Read More →