{"id":3291,"date":"2021-12-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:04:45","slug":"wacky-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/14\/wacky-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Wacky Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.<\/strong> American Express was clearly up too late Sunday night and was loopy from drinking a bottle of Tabasco and eating a jar of pickles on an empty stomach: As <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/slickdeals.net\/f\/15498760-american-express-amex-offer-spend-1-000-get-1-000-back-up-to-3-times-ymmv-1000\">first reported by Slickdeals<\/a> AmEx cards have some amazing and suspicious spending offers on the Membership Rewards family of cards. Reportedly offers have been seen for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$1,000 back after spending $1,000 up to 3 times<\/li>\n<li>$3,500 back after spending $2,000 up to 3 times<\/li>\n<li>$4,500 back after spending $2,500 up to 3 times<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Almost certainly this was meant to be a Membership Rewards points offer and not a cash-back offer, but well into Monday night the offer was still showing as cash-back. <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/global.americanexpress.com\/offers\/eligible\">Check your cards here<\/a>, and if you\u2019ve got the offer I do suggest spending on the card on the off-chance that it works, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if you end up with just Membership Rewards points as your bonus in the end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> A strange SimplyMiles deal has been percolating since Friday night, and honestly I didn\u2019t believe that it was correct and didn\u2019t want to waste your time while you tried to chase a lame unicorn, but I was wrong. What\u2019s the deal? <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.simplymiles.com\">SimplyMiles is giving 6x on all of their outstanding offers<\/a> for the first three redemptions on your account now through December 27, 2021. (In case you\u2019re not aware, SimplyMiles is a card linked program for Mastercard issued cards that earns AA miles.)<\/p>\n<p>The kicker is that <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/viewfromthewing.com\/its-real-americans-deal-of-the-year-buying-miles-at-less-than-half-a-cent-will-be-honored\/\">Gary confirmed<\/a> that that 6x doesn\u2019t mean +6x, it means *6x, so a 40 miles per dollar deal actually means 6*40 miles, or 240 miles per dollar. The best offers on my account:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>40 miles per dollar for donating to Conservation International, apparently an unlimited cap\n<ul>\n<li>6*40 = 240 miles per dollar with the offer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>1,500 miles for a purchase of $45 or more at CVS\n<ul>\n<li>6*1,500 = 9,000 miles with the offer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>1,500 miles for a purchase of $200 or more at BestBuy\n<ul>\n<li>6*1,500 = 9,000 miles with the offer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are pretty amazing offers and I did each one the moment the deal was confirmed to be real. Who doesn\u2019t want an AA Web Special economy flight for buying a $50 gift card at CVS anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Good luck out there, and may your day be even wackier than these two deals!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3292\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pickles.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pickles.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pickles-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pickles-150x150.jpeg 150w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Eat approximately two pounds of these to propel yourself to American Express levels of whackiness.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. 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