{"id":4898,"date":"2022-07-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:32:42","slug":"capital-one-goes-amex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/20\/capital-one-goes-amex\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital One Goes AmEx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We haven\u2019t seen publicly available 250,000 transferrable miles credit card bonuses since, well, pretty much ever (<a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"#asterisk\">*<\/a>), but Capital One seems to be jealous of its cousin, Big Bonus AmEx, and introduced Business Spark Travel Elite card (there\u2019s currently no public link) to one up them. A few vitals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s a Mastercard<\/li>\n<li>50,000 mile bonus after $10,000 spend in three months<\/li>\n<li>200,000 mile bonus after $50,000 spend in six months<\/li>\n<li>It earns <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalone.com\/learn-grow\/money-management\/venture-miles-transfer-partnerships\/\">transferrable miles<\/a><\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s a $300 annual travel credit through the travel portal<\/li>\n<li>You get access to Capital One lounges (and yet another Priority Pass membership)<\/li>\n<li>Capital One business cards are very friendly to cycling, they\u2019re down to clown<\/li>\n<li>2x earning on general spend, more on some travel booked through the travel portal<\/li>\n<li>10,000 additional miles every anniversary<\/li>\n<li>$395 annual fee (Thanks to Jim for noting that the fee was missing)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You have to apply for this card through a Capital One business relationship manager and that\u2019s a good thing because applications through a business relationship manager have different, looser approval requirements. If you don\u2019t have a contact, call your closest Capital One branch and ask to speak to one. You do have an e-commerce business, right? You know, selling stuff on ebay once a year? Great, I knew you did!<\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, I was approved for this one at well above 5\/24, but my recent hard-pull count was low which probably helped.<\/p>\n<p id=\"asterisk\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>* There\u2019s an AmEx Business Platinum 250,000 Membership Rewards Platinum card link that\u2019s been floating around for a few weeks. I haven\u2019t written about it because it\u2019s a \u201cpost-targeted\u201d link, meaning this is a link you get after you\u2019ve been directly targeted for the offer, not a link to see if you\u2019re targeted. American Express hasn\u2019t been kind to applicants in the past when post-targeted links make their way out. (If you still want it and haven\u2019t seen it anywhere, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/us\/credit-cards\/card-application\/apply\/business-platinum-charge-card\/61303-9-0\/#\/\">here it is<\/a>, you\u2019re all adults, right?)<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4900\" sizes=\"(max-width: 892px) 100vw, 892px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5387-1-892x1024.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5387-1-892x1024.jpg 892w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5387-1-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5387-1-768x882.jpg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5387-1.jpg 1170w\" width=\"420\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">SoCal residents: If the Capital One bonus isn\u2019t enough for you, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sdccu.com\/promotions\/taco\/\">SDCCU has your back<\/a>. Expires July 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We haven\u2019t seen publicly available 250,000 transferrable miles credit card bonuses since, well, pretty much ever (*), but Capital One seems to be jealous of<\/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-4898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898","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=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6986,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions\/6986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}