Danny the Deal Guru: "Chase has unveiled a new bonus offer, allowing eligible cardmembers to earn up to 10,000 bonus points on qualifying Chase Travel purchases. The offer is structured to reward cardmembers for their travel bookings, emphasizing hotel stays alongside flights, cruises, or car rentals. This is a targeted offer, but you can try registering to see if you are eligible. Check out the details below and register now."
Bonus Structure
Some Important Terms & Conditions
With this targeted Amex Offer, you can earn 30,000 Membership Rewards points if you spend $2,000+ with ITA Airways through September 16, 2024.
I don't have this offer on any of my Amex cards, but if the terms are the same as the last time Amex ran a similar offer, they'll look something like this:
Points Wire Note:
If you have the option, add this offer to the Amex Platinum so you can earn 5x points on the purchase and get trip delay coverage for your trip.
The Washington Post: "The U.S. government on Tuesday announced it would sharply limit the fees that credit card companies can charge customers who fall behind on their bills, aiming to cap the penalties at $8 in a move that is expected to draw fierce resistance from financial giants."
"In issuing the restrictions, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said the government intends to close a legal loophole that had allowed some financial giants to charge an average of $32 per month for a missed or late payment. The amount has proved onerous for some cash-starved cardholders, while enriching the credit card industry, which reaped more than $14 billion in revenue from late fees in 2022, according to the CFPB."
UPDATE: These welcome bonus offers are expected to end on May 1, 2024.
Amex has rolled out two all-time high welcome bonus offers for Marriott cards.
Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant Card
Benefits Of Note
Marriott Bonvoy Bevy Card
Benefits Of Note
Eligibility Restrictions
Please keep in mind that there are a ton of eligibility restrictions that are based on if/when you've previously had a co-branded Marriott card from both Amex and Chase.
Points Wire Note:
Marriott credit cards aren't generally top priority cards, but this is a good time to get the Brilliant or Bevy since the welcome bonuses have been increased to all-time highs.
Doctor Of Credit reports that Chase is making some changes to the no-annual-fee Marriott Bonvoy Bold Card. Unsurprisingly, these aren't positive changes.
Going forward, cardholders will receive 5 free elite night credits per calendar year instead of 15. The card will come with complimentary Marriott Silver status which requires 15 elite nights.
Considering the fact that the Marriott Bonvoy Boundless comes with 15 elite night credits each year and has a $95 annual fee, I can't say this changes surprises me.
The Bonvoy Bold card's 2x on travel bonus category will change to 2x on grocery store, rideshare, and internet/cable/phone service purchases.
The changes will take effect on July 10, 2024. More changes are expected to be announced.
You may be able to get the Amex Blue Business Plus with a welcome offer of 50,000 Membership Rewards points after you spend $8,000 in 3 months.
Considering the fact that the Blue Business Plus often doesn't come with a welcome bonus, this is an amazing offer. Typically, we only see the welcome bonus increased to 15,000 or maybe 25,000 points.
If you're targeted, this is a solid welcome bonus for this no-annual-fee business card that earns 2x on all spend up to $50,000 per year.
A similar offer seems to be available via select cardholder referrals. The only difference being the minimum spend is bumped up to $10,000.
Avianca LifeMiles is offering a 15% bonus if you transfer Amex Membership Rewards points by March 15, 2024. Please note that you won't see this offer on your Amex account has this is a transfer promo on the LifeMiles side. The 15% bonus miles can take up to 24 hours to post.
LifeMiles is already one of the best ways to book flights Star Alliance carriers so this bonus is just icing on the cake. For example, most routes between the US and Europe require 63,000 miles for a one-way business class award ticket. With this promo, you'd only need to transfer 55,000 Amex points to get the 63,000 LifeMiles.
The Amex Gold Card has been revamped as of July 25, 2024.
Welcome Bonus
You may need to use an incognito browser to see the 100,000-point offer. Some people are seeing 90,000 points. The public offer is only 60,000 points.
Some referral links seem to generate the 100,000-point offer if you open via incognito mode.
Use a reader referral
Direct link to offer
Bonus Categories
Benefits
Annual Fee
In general, Amex welcome bonuses offered to new cardholders are often better than via affiliate or direct links. However, this time, we're talking about the referral bonus you'll receive if someone uses your referral link.
You'll still earn a set number of points, but Amex has added an extra part of the bonus to incentivize additional spend:
"Earn +10 Membership Rewards points per dollar spent on purchases at restaurants worldwide for 3 months, on up to $25,000. This is on top of what you already earn on your Card. This offer can only be redeemed once. Offer ends 05/22/2024. Terms apply."
If you refer someone from your Amex Gold or Business Gold, that would mean you could earn 14x Membership Rewards points at restaurants! You could potentially earn 250,000 points from this offer!
Want to earn some referral points? STTP Premium members can submit there referrals to several Amex cards. Please only submit if you have a link to the best offer. The point is to get applicants the best offer. You can log into your STTP account to submit your referral links.
Bloomberg: "Capital One Financial Corp. is exploring a potential acquisition of credit-card lender Discover Financial Services that would rank as one of the largest deals globally so far this year, people with knowledge of the matter said."
"McLean, Virginia-based Capital One is working with advisers and has been holding talks with Discover about a deal, the people said. Shares of Discover have fallen about 2% this year, valuing the Riverwoods, Illinois-based company at $27.6 billion, while Capital One has a market capitalization of about $52.2 billion."
Points Wire Note:
This would also give Capital One access to Discover's processing network which is a smaller competitor to Visa and Mastercard. If this acquisition is approved by regulators, Capital One would have its own in-house processing network just like American Express.
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