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Mesa Card Earns Points For Mortgages, Rarely Offers A Bonus—50K Points Available Until Sept 30
The no annual fee Mesa card is great. You earn points for your mortgage and don’t even have to pay the mortgage with the card. You just tell them how much your mortgage is, and they award you the points as long as you spend $1,000 on the...
Monkey Miles
Back again – American Express Business Platinum 250k to 300k
Another targeted round of crazy high Amex Biz Plat offers are circulating. The offer populating for a lot of people is 250k to 300k membership rewards after $20k spend in 3 months. You can check this link here to see If you are targeted – make sure your cookies are...
TravelUpdate
Is the ‘new’ Amex Platinum Card worth the $895 Annual Fee?
With much fanfare, we saw the relaunch of the Amex Platinum Card. Overall, it seems like Amex has done a decent job at offering a little bit of everything for everyone. So, with the new fee of almost $900, is it worth it? Let’s have a look. Also Read: Does the...
TravelUpdate
Huge 250,000 points offer on the Business Platinum Card!
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest coverage about the Business Platinum Card and the Amex Platinum Card Refresh ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yesterday, American Express revealed two new card refreshes – one on the Amex Platinum Card (Consumer) and the Business Platinum Card as well. While there was no new welcome bonus on...
Plane ‘n Simple
Amex Goes Nuclear: Both Platinum Cards Now $895 with Wildly Different Approaches
Well, the wait is over. Amex just dropped their biggest Platinum refresh in years, and both the personal and business versions are now hitting us with an $895 annual fee. But here’s where it gets interesting, they took completely different approaches to justifying that price tag. One feels focused, the...
Eye of the Flyer
How Refreshing? My Thoughts on the Platinum Card News
Not sure if you heard, but there was big travel rewards cards news yesterday. Earth has a new winner of the World’s Shiniest Coupon Book. The Platinum Card® from American Express (©Chris Carley for Eye of the Flyer) Following months of speculation, rumors, and purported leaks (most of which were true!),...
Monkey Miles
Monster new 120k Southwest credit card offer
The Chase Southwest credit card offers Here’s a look at the all current offers from Chase and Southwest. These offers vary throughout the year and can be combined and used to strategically to earn a Southwest Companion Pass = you can nominate an companion who will fly with you for just...
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Airline Miles on Debit Cards? Southwest Just Found a Way To Bring Them Back
It looks like rewards-earning debit cards are back! Southwest Airlines is about to introduce one. These used to be huge, but they were largely killed off by the Durbin Amendment to Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation passed in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Senator Dick Durbin got language added that...
Monkey Miles
The Platinum Card® from American Express is better value at $895 than it was at $695.
The Platinum Card® from American Express The Platinum Card® from American Express is one of the most talked about cards in the marketplace, and the rumor mill has been abuzz since we learned Amex would be revamping the card this year.  Well, a new mirrored version, chock full of hefty new...
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Eight Reasons Why Citi Strata Elite’s First-Year Value Feels Like A Mistake
Citi Strata EliteSM Card (See rates and fees.) The Citi Strata Elite Card is Citi’s brand new entry into the premium rewards credit card space. It’s already a crowded field, so they had to make a splash. This is a $595 annual fee card – priced below Sapphire...
Frequent Miler
Sapphire Reserve® Exclusive Tables
The newly refreshed and couponized Sapphire Reserve® card includes twice annual $150 credits for spend at restaurants that are part of Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables. These are a curated selection of high-end restaurants available through a special version of OpenTable. With the new Sapphire Reserve card, you do NOT need to...
TravelUpdate
$3,500 in value? Amex Platinum Card refresh: 10 things you need to know
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest coverage about the Amex Platinum Card Refresh ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ After weeks of speculation, rumors and leaks, the new Amex Platinum Card is finally here. The card has a brand new mirror finish design and a welcome bonus offer of up to 175,000 bonus points. American...
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Amex Platinum Mirror Card Just Dropped—How To Get Yours Before Everyone Else Does
American Express refreshed their Platinum card benefits. I don’t love the idea of all the credits in exchange for a higher fee, but I gotta be honest it’s a lot of value relative to the cost. I’m actually more confident in keeping the card going forward than I...
Live from a Lounge
Rent Payments on Credit Cards shut by major fintechs due to new RBI Rules
Rent payment using credit cards on apps such as PhonePe, Paytm, and CRED has been disabled following new RBI guidelines for Payment Aggregators. The change impacts those who relied on this feature to earn reward points or manage cash flow through cards. Rent Payments on Credit Cards: What changed? On September 15,...
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Your Amex Platinum Fee Jumps To $895 Next Year—But The New Benefits Start Today
American Express has revamped its Platinum cards, raising the annual fee of both consumer and business Platinum by $200 to $895. (Business Platinum also raises the fee on additional cards from $350 to $400.) Platinum now sits atop the offerings of Chase, Citi, and Capital One gfor most...