{"id":1884,"date":"2021-06-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:28:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:28:45","slug":"american-express-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/29\/american-express-bonuses\/","title":{"rendered":"American Express Bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new set of bonus offers for American Express Personal and Business Platinum cards <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/16\/american-express-wednesday\/\">started floating around<\/a> on June 16, via email and regular mail. The best versions of these offers are for 20,000 Membership Rewards points for adding an authorized user or employee card and spending $2,000 with the authorized user\u2019s card. For both the personal and business platinum, there are no-fee versions of the extra cards, so don\u2019t think you need to pay $175 to get an employee Platinum card or something. This weekend, there were some new developments that are worth mentioning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/bonus-membership-rewards-authorized-user\/\">A link surfaced<\/a> for the Personal Platinum card\u2019s version of this bonus with 20,000 points for each added Authorized User (log in to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/americanexpress.com\/\">americanexpress.com<\/a> first, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/us\/credit-cards\/card-application\/apply\/supplementary\/platinum-charge-card\/17400-10-0\">then click this link to see if you\u2019re eligible<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s been <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/o6x2q4\/data_points_weekly_week_of_june_24_2021\/h2xqi8r\/?context=1\">reported on Reddit<\/a> and confirmed by several people (including me) that you can call in and probably get the Business Platinum version of the offer even if you didn\u2019t get email or snail mail about it. If you call, just be nice and say something like: \u201cI\u2019m wondering if there are any bonus offers for adding employee cards to my business charge cards.\u201d Remember, employee cards at American Express are special \u2014 you can activate them without a social security number and they\u2019ll stay open for 60 days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you go for either of these deals (I would and did). Perhaps ask yourself \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/milesperday.com\/2021\/04\/cant-have-more-than-99-amex-aus-even-after-cancelling\/\">How can I scale this?<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A picture of a woman laying on a curb using a slice of pizza as a pillow.\" class=\"wp-image-1885\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/amex-drunk.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/amex-drunk.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/amex-drunk-300x200.jpeg 300w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Go home AmEx, you\u2019re drunk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new set of bonus offers for American Express Personal and Business Platinum cards started floating around on June 16, via email and regular mail.<\/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":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,6,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-quick-hits","category-shenanigans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","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=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7261,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/7261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}