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For a little while now Point.me has been embedded in the Bilt Rewards app ( which is free to anyone, no credit card required ) facilitating free search for Bilt Transfer partners, and that just got a bit better. Effectively immediately, Point.me is now free for US Amex Cardholders. I believe this is only for those with transferrable Amex points ( Membership Rewards ). Pointme is one of several search functions: Roame, PointsYeah, AwardTool are some of the other very good option. The biggest downside of Point.me is it is painfully slow, like a search may take several minutes. The upside is the award space is live and they search the most airlines of any other engine. I’ve found myself using it less and less though because of speed.
Let’s take a look at how the new Amex partnership works:
Go to www.point.me/amex
You’ll be prompted to login to provide your credentials. After hitting Log in, you’ll see your Point.me account change.
Once your credentials are verified, the account will change
You’ll see this in the upper left hand corner.
You will have a limited search function:
You will only be allowed to search the Amex partners that Point.me has access to…these are them. But, you can also go to the Bilt App and pick up American, United, and Turkish.
I did a mock Atlanta to London search…it wasn’t quite right
All of the options were what I’ve found when searching manually; however, the fees weren’t right on the BA example.
Point.me said I should only pay $350 in fees vs $1000 that BA says on their site. Always double check before transferring points.
Overall
I ended up canceling my premium subscription to Point.me because of this… I can now search here via Amex and see most of the options free of charge, and for the options not listed, I can pop over to Bilt and search the rest. Savings of $129 a year. Maybe I will add it back in, but honestly I’ve found PointsYeah and AwardTool to be faster versions albeit they will use some cached award space, but it matches up consistently enough that I end up saving time…I always verify award space anyways.
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
60k Points after $4k spend in 3 months
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 60k points after $4k spend in 3 months
- Worth $750 in Chase Travel℠ and way more if you maximize transfer partners
- 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 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℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2024
- $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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