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Here’s a look at 5 offers I’ve been targeted for

I like to send out reminders about Amex offers because people often forget about them. I was just at dinner this week with some friends and Amex came up pertaining to annual fees. The conversation bounced around, but the consensus was that they didn’t know about Amex offers, and how they can easily offset any annual that you’re currently paying. In fact, one person was headed to Vegas for March madness, and I let him know about my targeted offer for MGM resorts: spend $300 and get 6000 bonus points. I’d say that’s like getting $120 back on your charges. I also recommended that he charge any, and everything to the room, regardless of which MGM property he was staying at; a perk that isn’t well known, and one that can earn you extra Hyatt points ( an MGM partner), as well as max at the value of this particular targeted Amex offer.

Here are a few of enticing offers:

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What have you gotten that’s piqued your interest?

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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card


4.8
4.8/5
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is a great starter card that earns Premium Ultimate Rewards that can be transferred into over a dozen partners many of which are US based including Hyatt, Southwest, United, IHG, and Marriott.

Welcome Offer

60k Points after $4k spend in 3 months

Annual Fee

$95

Points Earned

Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards

  • 3x on dining
    •  including eligible delivery services for takeout
  • 3x on select streaming services
  • 3x on online grocery purchases
    • (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
  • 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel Portal
  • 2x on all other travel
  • $50 Annual Credit on hotel stays purchased via Chase Travel
    • The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
  • 10% Anniversary Bonus
    • Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
  • Chase Sapphire Preferred® continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel Portal and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including primary rental car insurance, purchase protections, etc.
  • Points are transferrable to 13 Ultimate Rewards partners
  • Redeem in the Chase Travel center for 1.25 cents per point
  • No foreign transaction fees
  • Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
    • Primary rental car coverage is my favorite

We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.

Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.

Main Cast: 

Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.

Supporting Cast:

Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on. 

The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.

If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex℠and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners

Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.

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2 Comments

  • DT January 27, 2018

    MGM offer is really great if combined with MLife /MGM/ Royal Caribbean offer which gives up to $200 per stay credit (2 nights minimum). If staying 4 nights (in the same or different MGM property) one can get 2x$200 credit.

  • wm d meyers January 27, 2018

    my wife and I are going to London from 10/11-10/23/18 for the seahawks/raiders game and to cross the uk off our bucket list. my wife has approx. 300,000 aa miles and I have approx. 75000 aa miles and 275000 united miles and about the same in chase ult rewards miles. would you be interested in assisting w/ this? I am not married to using miles and will spend whatever gets us the most bang for our bucks. ideally we would get a 4 or 5 star hotel (Rosewood London) or some equally nice digs close to tottenham stadium. I await your response. thank you,…………wm dennis meyers

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