It is monetarily a good idea to always downgrade American Express cards even when you intend to cancel the downgraded card. Well, here is yet another reason to downgrade American Express charge cards – to get signup bonus of American Express Green.
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I rarely write credit card reviews. I rarely rave about credit cards in my post. I think there are enough blogs doing just that. The last time I wrote an article on a single credit card was on Altitude Reserve (Nov 2017) and Connect Rewards (Jul 2017) and that had mostly do with…
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Churners, or “gamers” as American Express calls them, are known to frequently cancel cards they see no merit of paying annual fee for. American express issues a lot of cards with annual fee and is it is expected that not all of them appeal to all churners. A Word of…
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My last round of applications was a rather tough one to swallow so I ended up going back to basics and working with banks that I know would approve me. In no particular order here are the cards I went with: Amex Everyday Preferred (30k) Easy Amex approval as usual. I…
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Points are nice but paying off a portion of a loan is better. My long term goal with Membership Rewards (MR) has always been to cash out using Schwab Platinum at 1.25 cpp. In last few months of holding Schwab Platinum I seem to have cashed out over $8k worth of…
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Couple of days ago I was given some info on Hilton Ascend and I’ve been pondering on how accurate this info really is and if I should post this or not. But after thinking for a while I felt like the given info made enough sense to share. Hilton Ascend…
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This guide was originally published in my old blog in Oct 25, 2016 but has been republished with some revision and update. This article attempts to compile a list of popular cards that yield large sum of miles, points, or cashback on amazon purchases or purchase of amazon gift cards via third…
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By now all credit card fanatics know that personal platinum card from American express gives monthly uber credit of $15 (extra +$20 in December). But not many knew that a platinum card added to uber profile continued to provide credit even after the card was no longer valid. In other…
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Recently a chunk of people who applied for American Express card never got their signup bonus. If you don’t know much about this then you can read a piece on this matter by Travelcodex. A decent number of these folks eventually got their bonus but for most of them it…
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Now Confirmed! In above picture you can clearly see that Amex Platinum is in fact generating 5x on a MileagePlus X (MPX) purchase. It can take quite some while before you get your 5x and that might be one reason why this deal isn’t being noticed. On 7th of July…
