It’s becoming increasingly common for third party sites to offer additional bonuses for using their affiliate links. We thought we’d cover four newish options:
- Credit Karma Best Offer Guarantee. Credit Karma offers a best offer guarantee on some cards. You need to be a Credit Karma member and the offer needs to show the best offer guarantee badge. If you find a higher welcome bonus within 30 days of being approved you’ll receive an Amazon eGiftcard for the dollar value difference. If it’s a miles/points offer then the points/miles are valued at 1¢ each.
- Affinityy portal. Affinityy offers a bonus of up to $50 when you sign up for a credit card through their portal. The downside is you don’t know what additional bonus you’ll get before applying and they don’t have all cards/offers.
- Use a referral links. We often have posts where other readers can share their referral links. This way you can reward readers that make comments you find helpful. In addition if you have a significant other or friend you could use their link (and maybe they will share some of the reward with you). American Express also recently moved to a universal referral system, this might mean you can effectively refer yourself. Some readers have said that it’s been possible to refer yourself in this way in Canada for some time, not sure if it will be the same here or not.
- Slickdeals rebate. Slickdeals have started to offer an additional bonus when you sign up for some American Express cards. So far we’ve only seen the following two offers:
If you like a blog then it can make sense to use their affiliate links to say thankyou, we don’t use credit card or bank account affiliate links to remain unbiased but we do use other affiliate links (e.g eBay/Amazon) and appreciate readers who help us out by using those links. You should be aware of the other alternatives available to you though. As always make sure you’re getting the best offer before signing up for any card and do your research.
