I love credit cards so much!

[Angrose]

I'm jealous of everyone's Lowes offers on their Amex. I just got Staples and I think the closest one is almost an hour away, I have never been to one before. I have not had any good Amex offers since I got my card.

I only got Staples too. But guess what...they sell gift cards online! Target, Disney, Petco, even Safeway (our local grocery store)! Guess I’ll be saving 10% on groceries the next few months!

 

[calypso726]

Update: was talking to a friend who told me he wanted to transfer UR to Delta... needed a visual. Old visual is outdated so i updated it to the best that i can. its not perfect but its updated none the less... please let me know if im missing/mistaken anything.

This was on my to do list. Thank you for saving me the time!

anyone have a single card with that high of a credit?

My highest is close. Cap One Venture gave me a 50K CL I remember thinking, what are they smoking?

I only got Staples too. But guess what...they sell gift cards online! Target, Disney, Petco, even Safeway (our local grocery store)! Guess I’ll be saving 10% on groceries the next few months!

No Lowes this round but did get Staples. I also had a $20 statement credit for a $100 Hilton GC on all cards except the SPG Biz and so did DH. I'm thinking this may play well into some future stays when combined with the Aspire hotel credits. I guess I have some mathing to do.

 

[DisneyMandC]

I know you already decided and got other feedback but wanted to share. I just flew through Denver on a Sunday morning (9ish). The regular security line snaked around for what looked forever. We were going through the pre check line and that was under 5 minutes. We went through Denver last year early in the morning and the lines were very long as well. Good choice with the smaller airport, I think the lines are always shorter.


I did the"fake" booking to get my offer and made sure I clicked on the business tab. The default seemed to be for the personal card. Just got my card today and it is the business card.

It appears that the issues started sometime last week. A lot of the people who applied for the business card have screenshots of them applying in the business page and then receiving personal. I applied on 5/24 and there were a couple other people who said they applied that same week and has no issues.

 

[kmc8826]

Did you guys see this?

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/amer...g-sign-up-bonuses-looks-at-closed-open-cards/

After my experience getting the bonus to post for DH on his Delta Amex I have been a little bitter and hesitant with Amex. Of course that hasn’t stopped me from getting two more cards with them. But still...

 

[1st*toright]

Has anyone done the TD bank bonus? Trying to decide if I can do the initial funding with a CSR - seems like there are data points out there that it initially codes as cash advance, but then reverts to a purchase. Risk is $50 in fees (on $300 bonus), and I could use the spend on that card, so it wouldn't be awful if it winds up as a cash advance. Anyone here have first hand experience?

 

[WVMomof3]

Did you try this link?
https://global.americanexpress.com/login/en-US?DestPage=/offers/eligible

Www.americanexpress.com/domorebusiness

Exact same offers at these logins. The only 2 offers I have loaded I still have not used, the Olive Garden and Ebags. They will expire soon, guess I need to decide if I want to spend money I wasn't planning on to "save" money. lol

 

[tink89]

Does CIP offer a bonus for adding an authorized user?

I thought I read that somewhere but I can't find that anywhere anymore. it could have been for another card.

 

[Lain]

Does CIP offer a bonus for adding an authorized user?

I thought I read that somewhere but I can't find that anywhere anymore. it could have been for another card.

No. Offhand, the CSP and MPE offer bonuses for adding AUs. Don't add your spouse if he's player 2 or you'd like to get him into the game.

 

[hsmamato2]

I'm jealous of everyone's Lowes offers on their Amex. I just got Staples and I think the closest one is almost an hour away, I have never been to one before. I have not had any good Amex offers since I got my card.

me too.... all I got was the staples offer and I'm not supposed to use it for gc b/c I'm still in MSR stage I want to hit staples and hit MSR all at once!!!!!!!

 

[miztressuz]

Did you guys see this?

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/amer...g-sign-up-bonuses-looks-at-closed-open-cards/

After my experience getting the bonus to post for DH on his Delta Amex I have been a little bitter and hesitant with Amex. Of course that hasn’t stopped me from getting two more cards with them. But still...

Yeah I was just stopping by to post if it hadn't been already. I've got no words for that except maybe typical AmEx... and this is why no one likes you... (except to take advantage of you, of course)

What were they thinking? At least Chase decided to make a rule to just not give you the card, I can respect that. Here it's just arbitrary and seems like they can let you open the card and make them money in fees and then not hold up their end of the bargain. I think I know where Mr. Burns went, he's working for AmEx now.

 

[hsmamato2]

I’m not an expert on the United card but I am pretty sure the offer is usually higher than 40k miles. But I did laugh at the “I’m not driving 25 miles” part. My closest airport is 90 miles!! And we have driven 200 miles to BWI before to save some money. I would love to just drive 25 miles.

I thought the same...25 miles is nothing compared to the greatness of SWA cc, companion pass,and their awesome deals. IMHO of course.my local airport is a solid 45 minute drive anyway...... but I've driven 2+ hours when I got a great airfare deal....

 

[hsmamato2]

Did you guys see this?

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/amer...g-sign-up-bonuses-looks-at-closed-open-cards/

After my experience getting the bonus to post for DH on his Delta Amex I have been a little bitter and hesitant with Amex. Of course that hasn’t stopped me from getting two more cards with them. But still...

so this basically could mean I hit MSR and get no bonus randomly,and with no way to know until I get there?

 

[liloca]

Did you guys see this?

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/amer...g-sign-up-bonuses-looks-at-closed-open-cards/

After my experience getting the bonus to post for DH on his Delta Amex I have been a little bitter and hesitant with Amex. Of course that hasn’t stopped me from getting two more cards with them. But still...

Jeez Amex....that would be so bad to have made the spend and be denied the bonus!

 

[DisneyMandC]

Refresh my memory... if I book a room at a Marriott for one night with URs, I can provide my Marriott number at the hotel and receive Marriott points for the stay since it's a "cash" booking, right?

 

[elgerber]

so this basically could mean I hit MSR and get no bonus randomly,and with no way to know until I get there?

This makes me nervous. I am more than 2/3 through my current MSR and was thinking of getting DH one last AMEX biz for the summer, then chill till the end of the year to double dip the SW. I won't be very happy if I don't get my bonus.

 

[mefordis]

Just did the math and we are getting a total of $12,350 in free hotels and flights for our summer/fall travel! We are staying at nicer hotels and able to get 2 rooms for most of our stays. Also, we have gotten business class tickets for some of the flights and most of the flights were free (points).

Now to accumulate more Starpoints so I can shave off even more $$ from our trips!

Thanks to everyone for your help!

 

[Alexle2007]

Refresh my memory... if I book a room at a Marriott for one night with URs, I can provide my Marriott number at the hotel and receive Marriott points for the stay since it's a "cash" booking, right?

I think you can add your Marriott rewards number when you are booking via UR so it would already be there.

 

[WVMomof3]

Refresh my memory... if I book a room at a Marriott for one night with URs, I can provide my Marriott number at the hotel and receive Marriott points for the stay since it's a "cash" booking, right?

I believe it works for airlines but not hotels. I have never gotten hotel points from my UR bookings.

 

[DisneyMandC]

I think you can add your Marriott rewards number when you are booking via UR so it would already be there.

I believe it works for airlines but not hotels. I have never gotten hotel points from my UR bookings.

Thanks! I've never done it before since I've only booked one off brand hotel through UR before. I'll have to check around and make sure, otherwise I'll just pay the Marriott cash rate.

Also, just sent my first student loan payment for my Dept of Ed loan using my CIP. Everything has worked fine with my other student loan provider, so hoping this one works well too! They provided expedited shipping on this payment for free since the Dept of Ed is a preferred payment user or something like that. Says my payment should arrive on the 12th and it's not due until the 26th so hopefully everything goes through no problem. I haven't removed my direct debit yet for this month but I can just suspend the payment at a later date.

 

[speedyfishy]

Thank you to whoever used my CIP link! I have 20,000 URs pending.