{"id":8625,"date":"2023-11-23T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=8625"},"modified":"2023-11-22T23:03:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T06:03:11","slug":"american-expresss-thanksgiving-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/american-expresss-thanksgiving-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"American Express’s Thanksgiving Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a short three weeks since I decided we wouldn’t see another Q4 American Express referral bonus this year<\/a>, and I was wrong. Reader Tom let me know that two of his players are seeing +3x referral bonuses, and I’ve confirmed the same thing on P2’s account. The referral bonus text<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can earn: 15,000<\/s> 30,000 Membership Rewards\u00ae points for each eligible referral – up to 100,000 Membership Rewards\u00ae points per calendar year. Plus earn +3 more Membership Rewards points dollar spent per on eligible purchases for three months, on up to $25,000. Terms Apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s an eligible purchase? Anything that would normally earn Membership Rewards qualifies. Note that so far we’ve only seen the +3x bonus on roughly 20% of accounts, and only on personal Gold cards, though it’s probably sporadically available on other personal cards too. If you have $25,000 in restaurant or grocery spend, err “restaurant” and “grocery” spend, then you’ll net 7x with the referral bonus on the Gold with this promotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because this is only available on some cards for some account holders, I’m going to riff off the Milenomics naming of “3 for all” in 2020<\/a> and “4 for us” in 2021<\/a> and call this one “3 for thee (but none for me)”. Hopefully you’re one of the chosen some, and happy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n\n\n

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American Express has a targeted Thanksgiving surprise for another 10% of accounts too: Remotely detonated yams. Check in later to see if you’ve been targeted for that promotion instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a short three weeks since I decided we wouldn’t see another Q4 American Express referral bonus this year, and I was wrong. Reader<\/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":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625","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=8625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8631,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions\/8631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}