{"id":4729,"date":"2022-06-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=4729"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:37:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:37:02","slug":"accelerating-membership-rewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/accelerating-membership-rewards\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerating Membership Rewards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Express typically holds newly earned Membership Rewards points in pending status until a few days after a statement closes and payment posts. While those points are pending you can\u2019t actually spend or redeem them, so effectively they\u2019re futures. If you want to see the balance of those futures, you can <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/global.americanexpress.com\/rewards\/summary\">navigate to your rewards dashboard<\/a> and it\u2019s shown right side. You can get even more granular by clicking \u2018Pending Points Details\u2019 if that\u2019s your bag.<\/p>\n<p>What happens if you\u2019re being a good churner though and always cashing out or burning, but then you need a new bucket full of Membership Rewards quickly? Sure, you can go manufacture 100,000 Membership Rewards with gift cards, but they won\u2019t post until after your statement, payment, and a few days. Then what?<\/p>\n<p>Like so much in this hobby, the solution is just to ask. You can either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Call the <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/global.americanexpress.com\/contact-us\">Membership Rewards team<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chat with a customer service representative from <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/global.americanexpress.com\/rewards\/summary\">the rewards dashboard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you\u2019re talking to a person, something as simple as: \u201cCan you please accelerate the posting of my Membership Rewards for time-sensitive redemption?\u201d is all it takes. Remember, \u201cnever call the bank\u201d is good advice when shenanigans ensue, but don\u2019t let that advice trickle out everywhere.<\/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-4730\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bike.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bike.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bike-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bike-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bike-800x600.jpeg 800w\" width=\"420\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Biker Roy takes a break to demonstrate the \u201cMembership Rewards pending to available\u201d maneuver from a perch, because reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Express typically holds newly earned Membership Rewards points in pending status until a few days after a statement closes and payment posts. While those<\/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":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729","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=4729"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7007,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions\/7007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}