{"id":11452,"date":"2025-03-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11452"},"modified":"2025-03-14T09:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:17:34","slug":"weekend-triple-new-american-express-bonvoyed-cards-the-kroger-promotion-gets-bigger-and-vanishing-smartly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/weekend-triple-new-american-express-bonvoyed-cards-the-kroger-promotion-gets-bigger-and-vanishing-smartly\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Quad: New American Express Bonvoy(ed) Cards, The Kroger Promotion Gets Bigger, and Vanishing Smartly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>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):<br><br>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/us\/credit-cards\/card\/marriott-bonvoy-brilliant\/?\">Brilliant<\/a>: 185,000 Bonvoy points after $6,000 spend in six months, $650 annual fee<br>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/us\/credit-cards\/card\/marriott-bonvoy-bevy\/?\">Bevy<\/a>: 155,000 Bonvoy points after $5,000 spend in six months, $250 annual fee<br><br>A couple of notes: (1) I prefer points offers like these to certificate offers, and (2) if you&#8217;re going to get a personal Bonvoy card, the <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/tuesday-amex-games-a-meijer-bonus-and-a-new-bonvoy-card-bonus\/\">Chase one<\/a> at least has an upgrade path to the Ritz card.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kroger.com\/savings\/c\/800000760631\">All Kroger brands now have a digital coupon for no purchase fees on $150+ in Visa or Mastercard<\/a> variable load cards just like Harris Teeter through Tuesday, limit one per account.<br><br>If only it were possible to have multiple Kroger accounts, but alas, science hasn&#8217;t figured that one out yet.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usbank.com\/credit-cards\/bank-smartly-visa-signature-credit-card.html\">US Bank Smartly card<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreditCards\/comments\/1j9iqxl\/us_bank_rep_told_me_smartly_card_is_no_longer\/\">reportedly no longer available for new applications in branch<\/a>, and rumored to unavailable for applications online in the next month.<br><br>Assuming that&#8217;s true, now&#8217;s the time for this card if you want it.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kroger.com\/savings\/c\/800000737432\">Kroger stores have a 4x fuel points sale today only on all third party gift cards<\/a> that don&#8217;t start with an &#8216;A&#8217; and end with &#8216;mazon&#8217;. Pepper continues to murder the gift card resale market for all of the major brands it sells, so that means this promotion is basically useful for Apple and Lululemon only.<\/s> (update: dead)<br><br>Don&#8217;t worry, one day the gift card resale market will stabilize.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"896\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/clock.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11455\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/clock.png 960w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/clock-300x280.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/clock-768x717.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">The multiple Kroger account science room clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The multiple Kroger account science room clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11452"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11464,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452\/revisions\/11464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}