Category: credit cards

75,000 Point Sign-up Bonus for Mercedes Benz Amex Platinum

April 28, 2016 / / 0 Comments

This is the highest bonus we’ve ever seen on the card! It comes with all the normal benefits of the Amex Platinum, plus a few Mercedes-specific ones. Most importantly, however, it counts as a separate product under Amex’s once-per-lifetime rule.

The offer is a pretty standard $3,000 of spending within the first three months of opening the card. If you’ve been thinking of getting a Platinum card, I would jump on this, as the Business Platinum card bonuses typically have very high spending requirements, and good bonuses on the personal (non co-branded) card tend to be targeted and far between. Continue reading →

About that 250,000 point sign-up bonus…

April 27, 2016 / / 0 Comments

For those of you that have been following the blogosphere lately, you may have seen headlines like “Highest Offer I’ve Ever Seen” or “Best Amex Platinum Offer Ever.” When you click through, you are presented with the following (highly highly highly highly) targeted offer, first reported on r/churning on Reddit:

250,000 Points!!! That’s a lot of Points!!

Yes, it is. But how does it actually work? There are two parts: Continue reading →

Trick to recover accidentally lost Amex offers

April 19, 2016 / / 0 Comments

There’s a new trick to recover lost Amex offers if you forgot to do the multi-tab / multi-browser method. I was adding the Staples $25 of $100 Amex Offer to one of my American Express cards, when I realized I forgot to open up new tabs for the rest of my cards.  I went to check the other cards, and indeed, the offer wasn’t there.

I was going to resign myself to missing out on the offer on my other cards, but then I noticed a comment from reader wwllmm on Doctor of Credit’s post, saying that you could get back offers you had lost with these steps: Continue reading →

New community tool for stats on credit card applications and retention offers

April 18, 2016 / / 0 Comments

I recently learned of a new tool by reddit user vcjohnson to view statistics on credit card application approvals, denials, and reconsideration attempts. Reddit has been keeping a spreadsheet of these statistics for a while, but this tool takes that spreadsheet and presents it in an easy to use, visually appealing way.

You select a specific bank and/or card, and you can view statistics for that specific bank or that specific card. Continue reading →

Citi improves travel and protection benefits in a big way

April 17, 2016 / / 1 Comment

H/T to our friend Tonei, but Citi has majorly improved its travel and protection benefits on pretty much all of its cards.

Beginning on Friday, I started getting emails from Citi titled Important information about your card’s protection benefits on pretty much all of my Citi cards, stating increased and more flexible coverage, starting May 15, 2016.

You can find a more extensive summary on Tonei’s blog, as I don’t want to steal his fire, but basically the changes are: Continue reading →

New highest ever increased offers for the Amex Hilton Cards!

March 31, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Via reddit / various blogs, there are new increased signup bonus offers for both Hilton cards from American Express.

For the no fee card, the new offer is 75,000 points after $1000 in spending, compared to the normal 40,000 points after $750 in spending. The card offers 7x points on Hilton purchases, 5x at restaurants, supermarkets, and gas stations, and 3x everywhere else. It also offers Silver status in Hilton HHonors and Gold status if you spend more than $20,000 in a calendar year. I wouldn’t actually do this, or use the card for restaurants, supermarkets, or gas stations, by the way. Continue reading →

Virgin Atlantic Awards for Fun and Profit

March 24, 2016 / / 15 Comments

In the spirit of Travel is Free and my earlier compilation of an award chart for Virgin America, I decided it would be fun to document my findings for Virgin Atlantic (VS) to see if there was any good value to be had.

(For whatever reason, I spend a lot of time combining the Virgin award charts. I think I might be the equivalent of a travel-hacking hipster, playing with programs and credit cards because they’re explicitly not in vogue). Continue reading →

Check Your Chase Application Status Online!!!

March 22, 2016 / / 4 Comments

It looks like Chase wasn’t too happy with its phone bill this past month, because they’ve added a way to check your application status online! Just go to the Customer Center and scroll down to the bottom right.

Clicking the link will bring you to a page that looks like this:

It seems like they only give you information on personal applications, although that may be different if you’ve linked your business account to your personal account. If so, let us know in the comments! Continue reading →

Introducing….

March 11, 2016 / / 10 Comments

The DEM Flyers “Swimsuit” Calendar!

…not that kind of swimsuit calendar. Get your head out of the gutter!

Warning: This post is explicit. The photos are not. Enjoy!

It’s no secret that credit cards play a large part in the travel hacking game, and part of every handshake upon meeting a fellow travel hacker involves the obligatory dick credit card comparisons. These involve questions of the form: Continue reading →

CitiBusiness AA Platinum Select 50k Offer Still Available!

March 4, 2016 / / 1 Comment

Hey folks!

I was doing my own app-o-rama today, and I had intended to apply for the 50,000 point offer on the CitiBusiness AA Platinum Select card. Unfortunately, I found that most existing links are dead (as mentioned by most of the blogosphere a few weeks ago).

After some searching, however, I found a working link to the offer, which should be valid through April 30, 2016. Enjoy!

CitiBusiness AA Platinum 50,000 point offer Continue reading →

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