{"id":967,"date":"2021-02-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:43:54","slug":"amex-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/18\/amex-double\/","title":{"rendered":"AmEx Double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. <\/strong>Remember how we discussed that you should <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/25\/strange-amex-holiday-gift\/\">turn off American Express\u2019s Pay-Over-Time feature<\/a>, because reportedly having it on can use up one of your five total credit card slots with AmEx, and you won\u2019t get bonuses for enabling it if it\u2019s already on? There\u2019s a new rub:<\/p>\n<p>The American Express Green card seems to be counted as a charge card according to multiple threads in private forums and <a aria-label=\"this thread at Reddit (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/lgqizv\/daily_discussion_thread_february_10_2021\/gmv2yd3\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this thread at Reddit<\/a>. So, if you want five AmEx credit cards, either ditch that Green or upgrade it to a Gold which isn\u2019t counted as a credit card, but rather a charge card. I personally wouldn\u2019t mind having another 3-4 Gold cards, they\u2019re no-brainer value cards for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> It\u2019s time to liquidate your AmEx Business Platinum Dell credits, just make sure you\u2019ve enrolled for the benefit at the <a aria-label=\"American Express website's &quot;Benefits&quot; tab (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/global.americanexpress.com\/card-benefits\/view-all?inav=MYCA_Benefits\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Express website\u2019s \u201cBenefits\u201d tab<\/a> before you buy. The vitals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a aria-label=\"Dell Home is 10x at Rakuten (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rakuten.com\/dellconsumer.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dell Home is 10x at Rakuten<\/a> as of this writing, though <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/15\/presidential-embiggening\/\">Rakuten punked me twice on Monday<\/a>, so who knows how long it\u2019ll stick around<\/li>\n<li>You can use the code <em>GAME10<\/em> for 10% off of Xbox gift cards (the smaller the denomination, the faster it sells if you\u2019re selling yourself, or liquidate with trusted gift card outlet immediately for 80-82%)<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019ll earn 3% in Dell rewards on this purchase to use in the second half of the year for liquidating more AmEx credits<\/li>\n<li>American Express is really good at quick statement credits from Dell, and Business Platinum cards earn $100 Jan-Jun, and another $100 Jul-Dec each year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>From my internal monologue:<\/em> How did this week turn into an American Express \/ Rakuten week?<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt='A picture of a comic brain with a thought bubble that contains \"...\" on a pink background.' class=\"wp-image-968\" height=\"499\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/brain-thinking.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/brain-thinking.png 549w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/brain-thinking-248x300.png 248w\" width=\"412\"\/><figcaption>Internal monologue loading.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Remember how we discussed that you should turn off American Express\u2019s Pay-Over-Time feature, because reportedly having it on can use up one of your<\/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":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7353,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/7353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}