{"id":9534,"date":"2024-04-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=9534"},"modified":"2024-04-16T23:16:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T05:16:54","slug":"stupid-american-express-coupon-book-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/17\/stupid-american-express-coupon-book-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid American Express Coupon Book Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In January&#8217;s earnings call, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/earnings\/call-transcripts\/2024\/01\/26\/american-express-axp-q4-2023-earnings-call-transcr\/#:~:text=In%202024%2C%20we%20expect%20to,40%20products%20globally%20next%20year.\">American Express said they&#8217;d be refreshing 40 products<\/a> in the coming year, and we&#8217;ve already seen some of that with the Delta and Hilton co-brand cards, each of which has new, coupon-book like credits. With new credits come new games:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Monthly Resy Credits<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Delta&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/global.americanexpress.com\/card-benefits\/detail\/resy-statement-credit\/platinum-delta-skymiles\" class=\"ek-link\">Platinum<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/global.americanexpress.com\/card-benefits\/detail\/resy-statement-credit\/delta-reserve-business\" class=\"ek-link\">Reserve<\/a> co-branded cards now have a have monthly Resy dining credit. In case you don&#8217;t want to actually eat at one of those restaurants this month just to save $10-$20, there are options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Buying anything at a <a href=\"https:\/\/resy.com\/list-venues\" class=\"ek-link\">Resy restaurant<\/a> will trigger the credit, whether it&#8217;s a gift card, tee-shirt, or stuffed animal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Many <a href=\"https:\/\/resy.com\/list-venues\" class=\"ek-link\">Resy restaurants<\/a> are also on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toasttab.com\/local\" class=\"ek-link\">Toast<\/a>, and Toast sells reloadable gift cards online which usually trigger the credit (Anecdotally there&#8217;s roughly a 3\/4 success rate for whether this works for any random restaurant, but once you find that restaurant, it works consistently)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>SideShowBob233 subliminally let me know that there&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/love-isnt-dead-white-castle-174804912.html\" class=\"ek-link\">burger themed bath robe sold at some restaurants<\/a>, so I guess you could look for that too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quarterly Hilton Credits<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/global.americanexpress.com\/card-benefits\/detail\/hilton-resort-credit\/hilton-aspire\" class=\"ek-link\">Hilton Aspire Resort credit<\/a> has always been slightly gameable, but only slightly. The Hilton Surpass and Hilton Business cards&#8217; new quarterly credits are more gameable though: All the Aspire methods continue to work, but so does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyhiltongiftcards.com\" class=\"ek-link\">buying physical Hilton gift cards online<\/a>. Note though that Hilton will silent cancel your orders if you do a bunch back-to-back, so treat it like a marathon, not a sprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Wednesday!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-15-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9536\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-15-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-15-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-15-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-15.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">SideShowBob233 also subliminally let me know about this bath robe, so I guess you&#8217;ve got options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fitm%2F284735577580&amp;psig=AOvVaw0ZGXXCsCM6Mz-48lnU1rJh&amp;ust=1713397068719000&amp;source=images&amp;cd=vfe&amp;opi=89978449&amp;ved=0CBIQjRxqFwoTCKi7iNHzx4UDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fukonic.com%2Fproducts%2Fstar-wars-chewbacca-bathrobe&amp;psig=AOvVaw0ZGXXCsCM6Mz-48lnU1rJh&amp;ust=1713397068719000&amp;source=images&amp;cd=vfe&amp;opi=89978449&amp;ved=0CBIQjRxqFwoTCKi7iNHzx4UDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January&#8217;s earnings call, American Express said they&#8217;d be refreshing 40 products in the coming year, and we&#8217;ve already seen some of that with 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":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-shenanigans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534","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=9534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9538,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions\/9538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}