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AMEX Green | LoungeBuddy purchases made online from a non-US IP may not trigger the credit
One of the less useful benefits of the AMEX Green is the up to $100 annual LoungeBuddy airport lounge reimbursement per calendar year. I applied for the Green card while the all-ti...
Capital One Spark Miles Business Credit Card — “50,000 Bonus, First-Year Annual Fee Waived!”
This offer ends on the 27th, so act fast if you need it. A huge 200,000-point welcome bonus is here: earn 50,000 points after spending $5,000 in the first three months, and another...
Friendly Reminder | Don’t Forget to Cash Out Your Uber Visa Card Rewards
Barclays’ Uber card will effectively become a true “Uber co-branded card” in 2020, and all cashback rewards will automatically be converted to Uber Cash. If you don’t use Uber, we...
How to Find the Best AMEX Credit Card Offer Available [2020 Comprehensive Update]
We’ve updated the methods for finding the highest AMEX rewards offers through various channels. Feel free to add anything we may have missed!...
AMEX Platinum Sends Authorized User Offer: 5,000 per Card, 20,000 Total
I had previously already added two authorized user cards (GOLD, no annual fee) and received the 10,000-point authorized user bonus. This round, I was targeted again with another Of...
AMEX Platinum | 75,000 Offer Has Been Easy to Pull Up Recently (And 100,000 with Biz Gold)
Ever since the AMEX Green incognito-mode welcome offer changed to 45,000 (an all-time high for MR, but without the Away credit)【quick application link】, the AMEX Platinum 75,000 of...
Ouch! Visa Infinite $100 Airfare Benefit Has Been Canceled (Affects Chase Ritz Carlton, CNB Crystal)
Effective 12/31/2019, your Visa card no longer offers the Visa Discount Air Benefit. Air itineraries booked via the Visa Discount Air Benefit prior to 12/31/2019 will still be hono...
AMEX Membership Rewards (MR) Card Lineup Guide
AMEX’s Membership Rewards (MR) card lineup is quite different. Each card can stand on its own, and the cards in each category also come in different tiers, mainly with different MR...
AMEX | Another Everyday Bug: App Shows No AMEX Offers
[Update] The app bug has been temporarily fixed. AMEX has always liked improving its systems, but with those changes, all kinds of little bugs keep popping up. We’ve already covere...
Google Fi | Freedom payments count for 5X this quarter
According to a tip from a reader, Google Fi can trigger this quarter’s Freedom 5X category. I checked Reddit today and it looks like this has been reliably coding under Freedom’s c...
WeChat Pay | The Walmart Mini Program Can Also Use a U.S. Credit Card for Offline WeChat Payments
【Updated 2020.1】Walmart mini-program checkout now supports payments with a U.S. credit card, though it is unclear whether there are regional restrictions. Walmart’s mini-program is...