[YMMV] SPG Personal Cardholders: Spend $5,000 Get 5,000 Points

Contents

1 The Offer
2 The Fine Print
3 Our Verdict

The Offer

American Express are offering 5,000 SPG points for American Express personal SPG cardholders if they use their enrolled card to spend $5,000 before December 31st, 2016.

The Fine Print

Enrollment must be completed by October 31st, 2016.
Spend must be completed by December 31st, 2016
Purchases may fall outside of the Purchase Period (and therefore not qualify for the extra points) in some cases, such as a delay in merchants submitting transactions to us or if the purchase date differs from the date you made the transaction. (For example, if you buy goods online, the purchase date may be the date the goods are shipped.)
Qualifying purchases do NOT include fees or interest charges, balance transfers, cash advances, purchases of traveler’s checks, purchases or reloading of prepaid cards, or purchases of any cash equivalents.

Our Verdict

There is a similar offer on the business version of this card (although you can earn a total of 10,000 points). Usually American Express sends these offers out to people who will have their annual fee due during the offer period. This basically gives you 2x SPG points per $1 spent if you can meet the $5,000 spend requirement. Keep in mind you can also transfer SPG points to Marriott at a rate of 1:3 now as well. Here are some ideas on what do you with your SPG and Marriott points.

Hat tip to reader Jeff M & DDG & /r/churning

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Ken (@guest_304439)

October 7, 2016 10:41

#304439

I received this offer, and my annual fee posted a few days ago as well. I’ll probably pay the fee to keep an SPG card. I’ve had the Biz card in the past and I can’t earn the bonus again so there’s no point getting that card again.

will s (@guest_304401)

October 7, 2016 08:34

#304401

Interesting promotion….. is this open to any SPG cc holder? Or targeted only? Could a new account holder qualify (and thus potentially stack this promo with required spend for new card?)

Also, noticed the fine print reference to “cash equivalents.” Does this mean this card too is vulnerable to the dreaded Amex clawbacks? (if say debit and gc’s are in the spending mix? )

Mike (@guest_304333)

October 7, 2016 01:26

#304333

For the business Amex SPG, is this the same promotion as the one they ran in June/July where you get the same bonus 5k/10k with corresponding same spend with an expiration date of October 15, 2016? If you met the first bonus, can you qualify again for the December 15, 2016 expiration bonus as well?