There’s a great sign-up bonus for $1,000 statement credit after $5,000 in spend on one of the lamer named credit cards on the market, the AmaZing Business Credit Card. It’s available for residents of Arizona, California, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, or Texas.
The card is a no-annual fee business Visa that earns 3x at office supplies, telecom, and networking, 2x in categories better served by other cards, and 1x everywhere else. The application process for the card looks streamlined but is actually archaic; that can be a good thing though, amirite?
– $75 back on $250+ at Curio, Canopy, Tapestry, Motto, Tempo, and Graduate Hilton properties in North America through May 15 – $70 back on $350+ at Hertz within the US through April 30 – $50 back on $200+ at Lowes online or in-store through March 31 – $50 back on $250+ at Dell through August 15
– ANA First to and from Japan – Lufthansa First to and from Europe – Mixed cabin shenanigans – Taking advantage of loose definitions of regions – Travel between Asia and Oceana
There’s decent economy short-haul value too, I guess. But that’s definitely not funsies.
Do this now: Register for your 5x bonus on rotating category cards:
– Chase Freedom and Freedom Flex: Amazon (and “select streaming services” I guess) – Discover IT: Grocery stores and wholesale clubs, but Walmart and Target don’t count – Citi Dividend: Who knows, because it’s giving an error right now #citigonnaciti – US Bank Cash+: I choose utilities and electronics, cause #meabgonnameab
Given Pepper’s explosion all over the gift card market, you should be getting a much bigger discount than 5x on Amazon purchases, either by using Pepper if you dare, or by buying Amazon gift cards from Pepper users at 12%+ off. I guess if you’re masochist there’s Raise/GCX at 7.60% off too.
– 325,000 Shop Your Way Rewards after $1,000+ online spend – 250,000 Shop Your Way Rewards after $750+ in online spend – $100 statement credit after $1,000+ in online spend – $75 statement credit after $750+ in online spend
(Thanks to uppereastsider, irieriley, Matt, and David 99)
This is the kind of low profile deal that can be so valuable that it’s worth it to travel from out of state if you don’t live by a Meijer, provided you have a good liquidation channel for Visas.
The American Express Marriott Bonvoy personal cards have increased sign-up bonuses through May 14, available head-on, or via referral (and if you know anyone with a referral, please use theirs instead of applying head-on):
– Brilliant: 185,000 Bonvoy points after $6,000 spend in six months, $650 annual fee – Bevy: 155,000 Bonvoy points after $5,000 spend in six months, $250 annual fee
A couple of notes: (1) I prefer points offers like these to certificate offers, and (2) if you’re going to get a personal Bonvoy card, the Chase one at least has an upgrade path to the Ritz card.
In other words, Rapid Rewards which already had dynamic pricing based on ticket value, will now have a dynamic redemption value per point too. To quote the quiet grandmaster churner RabbMD, “double secret dynamic” pricing.
– 1% or 1x at Giant – 1% or 1x at Giant Food (different than the above, duh) – 1% or 1x at Martins – 1% or 1x at Food Lion
These are valid for 75 days after clipping the coupon. But after first use, the coupon is only valid for another hour, at which point you can reclip it as long as the promotion is still going. Why so complex? Well, remember that Rakuten is the company that bought Buy.com for $250 Million and decided that Buy.com was too hard for Americans to pronounce and remember, so just migrated it to Rakuten.com.
Some discount airlines, sorted in order of recent annoyingness, are running promotions:
– Breeze 50% off: Book by today, fly between March 18 and June 18 with promo GROW – Frontier award sale: Book by Monday, fly through August 18 – Alaska international sale*: Book by April 11, fly through July 31 – [this space left intentionally blank] – [this space left intentionally blank] – Southwest sale: Book by today, fly between April 1 and June 11
*The Alaska sale includes Premium Economy, which is weird because Alaska doesn’t really support partner Premium Economy bookings for the partners you need to get to these destinations. #AlaskaGonnaAlaska
On fares most cheap, a fee doth now descend, for Wanna Get Away, a basic name doth lend. Flight credits, once free, now swiftly fade, yet open boarding’s chaos still we’ve made.
Elites and cardholders find some gentle aid, yet still, no first class seats or distant shores are displayed.
Midway’s woes persist, a traveler’s plight, even Spirit offers more comfort in its Big Front Seat’s light.
Rapid Rewards points now face variable fate, their value shifting with each flight’s demand and date.
Make sure you set a reminder to turn off Pay Over Time in 121 days, and if you get the bonus offer on multiple charge cards, consider activating them in separate tabs as close together as possible. All of this is obviously because reasons.
– $50 back on $250+ at Grand Hyatt through April 15 – $300 back on $2,000+ at Qatar through April 30 – $150 back on $1,000+ at Emirates through April 30 – $100 back on $500+ at Mandarin Oriental through May 6 – $100 back on $400+ at SLS hotels through May 14 – $200 back on $900+ at Four Seasons in the Americans and Europe through May 21 – $40 back on $200+ at Ceasars though June 30
In normal times there are plenty of brands that are well suited to this promotion, but in the current Pepper-pocolptic market, the workable brands are basically Apple and Lululemon.
The next installment of American Express versus the Floosies dropped. In the new chapter, Chapter IV: That Time Maurice Posed in Duck Face, American Express blocked most floosie merchants, preventing charges from going through. This was made especially easy because the floosie merchants all shared some common traits.
My opinion: The floosies are lucky that it shook out this way and that it wasn’t worse. I bet they’ll strike back though.
My takeaway is that giftcards.com orders through an airline portal should only happen when the bonus is 2x+, or when there’s a cumulative spend shopping bonus.
Recurring American Express statement credits for airline incidentals, $200 Dell credits, $10 telecommunications, $10 GrubHub, $50 Saks, and $20 flexible business credits stopped posting for charges after February 17. Resy 10x and 15x bonus points stopped around the same time too. Don’t stress, it’s not you, it’s them. They’ll get it fixed eventually, this happens roughly every year.
Dunkin, Hilton, Clear, Walmart+, and Resy restaurant credits remain unaffected.
