{"id":3807,"date":"2022-02-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:55:25","slug":"bank-of-america-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/14\/bank-of-america-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Credit Card Bonanza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How about that sportsball team in the big match yesterday? Time to move on yet? Ok, let\u2019s go:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> There\u2019s an increased bonus on the Bank of America AirFrance \/ KLM FlyingBlue Mastercard: 55,000 points and a $100 statement credit after spending $2,000 within 90 days. The annual fee is $89 and is not waived for the first year.<\/p>\n<p>To see the offer, make a dummy award booking with KLM and when you make it to the payment page you\u2019ll see a banner with the increased bonus. (The public offer lacks the $100 statement credit). If you\u2019re going to go for this, go for more than one and <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/05\/bank-of-america-on-our-minds\/\">see this post,<\/a> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/09\/bank-of-america-followup\/\">and this post<\/a> for tips on how to get approved for multiple cards with a single credit pull.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> J.T. sent me a copy of his US Bank Altitude Reserve statement and there\u2019s some bad news: Starting on May 1, there will be a 3% foreign transaction fee on foreign purchases made either in US Dollars or in another currency. <\/p>\n<p>I guess they had to make up for some of their expenses in the all-you-can-eat <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/25\/tuesday-special-4000-olympics-edition\/\">$4,000 US Bank Olympics special<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Watch your postal mail for a targeted offer Bank of America Business Cash Rewards for double cash back for up to $150 in rewards, registration required. I think I got this earlier in the week, thought it was spam, and tossed it. Reportedly I\u2019m not the only one and the envelope looks like the worst kind of spam. Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>(I first heard about this deal from <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milenomics.com\/category\/podcasts\/\">Robert Dwyer on the excellent Milenomics podcast<\/a>, but the first public article I\u2019ve seen was at <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.doctorofcredit.com\/targeted-bank-of-america-double-cash-back-for-some-cardholders-150-maximum-2\/\">DoC<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3809\" height=\"291\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/postal-chicken.top_-1.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/postal-chicken.top_-1.jpg 471w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/postal-chicken.top_-1-300x185.jpg 300w\" width=\"471\"\/><figcaption>Pictured: US Bank retooling their money making strategies with foreign transaction fees on their most \u201cpremium\u201d card.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about that sportsball team in the big match yesterday? Time to move on yet? Ok, let\u2019s go: 1. There\u2019s an increased bonus on the<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807","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=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7098,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions\/7098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}