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Targeted: Amex Delta Gold 60k offer

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Targeted: Amex Delta Gold 60k offer

It wasn’t too long ago that American Express had a publicly available 50k Gold offer and 60k Platinum offer for their personal and business cards. Well, a reader of Miles’ has sent us an email with the details to an even more lucrative offer circulating. It’s an Amex Delta Gold 60k offer, and it’s pretty appealing.

The Deets:

  •  60k Delta SkyMiles after $1000 spend in 3 months
  • $50 statement credit
  • $95 annual fee waived the first year.

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Assessment:

I’ve seen Delta Gold 60k offers before, but this one is even sweeter with the $50 statement credit. After min spend you’d have 61,000 Delta SkyMiles – almost enough for a one way business class ticket to Europe. I think that SkyMiles are great for partner business class, like Virgin Atlantic Upper Class. I had the opportunity to fly the Big Bird 747 from SFO to LHR last year and loved it.

YMMV, but some people have had success calling and asking to be matched to targeted offers. I’ve never really had success with this strategy of matching, and have only been matched when better offers are extended publicly within 90 days of my application, but hey…never hurts to ask.

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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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4 Comments

  • MelissaK August 14, 2016

    My delta amex gold card is about to expire and I haven’t used the points yet. Is there a way to save my points or roll them to delta where they wont expire after I cancel the amex delta card? I’m new to all this, so thanks for any help.

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