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Amex Offers: Sixt, Budget, Avis, Hertz, and Europcar
If you’re renting a card in the near future, you can get a little bit back via Sixt. It’s likely that Avis and Hertz will offer something soon as well. Historically, the rental car companies participate in these Amex offers along the same timeframe. Don’t forget that you can add Primary Car Rental Insurance to an Amex card via this link starting at $19.95 per rental period otherwise you’re looking at secondary
Sixt: Spend $500 get $100 back.
- Spend $500 on 1 or more transactions
- Gt $100 back as statement credit
- Ends 12/11/25
- Offer valid on SIXT car rental purchases made online only at US website sixt.com.
- Eligible rentals must be paid for by 12/11/2025 in order to qualify. Rental eligibility requirements may apply, see merchant website.
- Offer valid only on purchases made in US dollars.
- Offer only valid on purchases made directly with the merchant.
- Offer not valid on purchases made using third parties, such as resellers, delivery services, or other intermediaries.
Expired Offers
Budget: Spend $250 get $50 back
- Spend $250 on 1 or more transactions
- Ends 07/26/25
- Get $50 statement credits
Europcar: Spend $250 get $50 back
- Spend $250 get $50 back
- Expires 6/30/25
- US and Global
Details: Avis Spend $350 get $75
- Spend $350 get $75
- Must return by 9/9/24
- Offer valid only for rentals made through US website avis.com, US mobile app, by calling US phone reservations, or at Avis locations in the US and US territories.
- Must pick up at and return rental to an Avis location in the US or US territories.
- Not valid for bookings made through travel agents, third parties, or affiliate booking sites.
- Excludes Budget & Payless brands, Chauffeur Drive, Car Sales, Scooter rentals, e-Toll and purchases with travel partners for lodging, airfare, ground transportation, or parking. Standard rental qualifications apply
Details: Hertz Spend $150 get $40
- Spend $150 on 1 or more transactions
- Ends 07/31/24
- Get $40 statement credits
Offer History
Hertz:
- Feb 2024 – Spend $350 get $90 back
- July 2023 – Spend $250 get $50 back
Overall
Great deal. I have Hertz President’s circle via the Capital One Venture X and Amex Platinum so I’d prioritize renting from Hertz, but this is a solid deal that could earn a nice amount of money back!
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 75,000 bonus points after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Points Boost
- each account anniversary you’ll earn bonus points equal to 10% of your total purchases made the previous year
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Complimentary DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees & lower service fees for a min. of one year when you activate by 12/31/27. Plus, a $10 promo each month on non-restaurant orders
- $95 Annual Fee
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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