The Offer
Targeted offer sent via snail mail
- American Express is offering a bonus of up to 80,000 Membership Rewards points on the Business Gold Rewards card. Bonus is broken down as follows:
- 50,000 points after $5,000 in spend within the first three months
- 15,000 points after an additional $2,500 in spend within the first three month. Can be done up to twice
Card Details
- Annual fee is waived the first year; second year and on there is an annual fee of $175.
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 3X points on one category of your choice from the list below:
- Airfare purchased directly from airlines
- U.S. purchases for advertising in select media
- U.S. purchases at gas stations
- U.S. purchases for shipping
- U.S. computer hardware, software, and cloud computing purchases made directly from select providers
- 2X points on the 4 remaining categories
- 1X points on other purchases
- 3X points on one category of your choice from the list below:
- I believe the once per lifetime rule applies to this card, would be surprised if it didn’t.
Our Verdict
You can get a 75,000 bonus after $10,000 in spend by calling in and there is another targeted bonus for 75,000 points after $5,000 in spend. This bonus is marginally better than the first and then probably worse than the second (5,000 points for an extra $5,000 in spend). Bonus break down is somewhat interesting, but bonus itself isn’t that ground breaking.
Hat tip to olympia_t
