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American Express Relaunches Blue Cash Preferred Credit Card with New Bonus Categories

Blue Cash Preferred Adds Streaming and Land Travel to Bonus Categories American Express today relaunched the Blue Cash Preferred credit card (a cash back earning card with points redeemed as statement credits), adding two new bonus categories...

Introducing: YourBestCreditCards.com – A Personalized and Data Driven Tool to Find Your Best Credit...

I'm pretty excited to write this post because it's something I've been working intensively (and secretly!) on for the last 6 months. I'm talking nights and weekends and hours I didn't even know existed. Background Over...

Another Transfer Bonus: 25% from Amex — Air France Flying Blue

Another Transfer Bonus I just posted about the 100% transfer bonus from Capital One to Emirates. Already, there's another transfer bonus afoot, spotted by Spencer Howard.  Flying Blue from American Express Membership Rewards You'll get a 25% bonus...

Amex –> Avianca 15% Transfer Bonus

It pretty much never fails. If I transfer to a program speculatively, such as when Citi ran a 25% transfer bonus to Avianca just a few months ago, I don't use the miles. And I...

1099s for Referral Bonuses: Chase and Discover Join In

American Express 1099s About a week ago I posted about some craziness with regards to people getting stacks of 1099 forms from American Express - one per card - for referral bonuses. It didn't all make...

WHOA: Amex sending 1099’s for Referral Bonuses

MilesTalk group moderator Giancarlo alerted me to a thread that is fresh on Reddit today. Apparently Amex is sending 1099s for the value of your referral bonuses. For example, if you received 10,000 Membership Rewards...

New Centurion Lounge Rules / No Avianca LifeMiles Redemptions Feb 1-5

Two incredibly short "Need to Know" items here, so I'll roll into one post. First, if you have an American Express Centurion or Platinum card, you probably know you have access to the suite of...
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Amex Adds Avianca as Transfer Partner

American Express is really making moves lately. Just last month they released the newly and seriously enhanced Gold Card, offering 4x points on dining and supermarkets. Today, we learned that they are also retooling the The...

Amex Referrals Appear to Earn at Rate of Card Referring (Cross-Product Referrals)

Last week, just in time for the launch of the Amex Gold card, American Express launched a new feature whereby you can refer friends (and, it appears, even yourself for the time being) for...

How the Amex Gold changes the CSR/CSP/Prestige Math

Warning: This article may make your head spin. There are a ton of variables that will affect your decision tree, and I attempt to cover them all here.  With the introduction of the revamped American...