DEAL ALERT: Amex Business Gold, 75,000 points, annual fee waived first year
Thanks to Mommy Points for bringing this one to our attention: Amex is currently offering 75,000 points when you sign up for its Gold Business card. The annual fee of $175 is waived the first year, and the minimum spend requirement is $10,000. Here is the application link. Note that you can still get the Amex Gold consumer card with a 50,000 point bonus and a minimum spend of only $1,000.
BankAmericard Better Balance Rewards: A great card for the sock drawer!
Bank of America’s credit division has unveiled a new product: the BankAmericard Better Balance Rewards card. Despite the fact that you get no rewards whatsoever for spending, this may be a card worth keeping around for some people. In fact, this card could earn you $120 per year for doing nothing. Intrigued? Read on.
Here’s the marketing pitch from the website:
Earn $25 in cash rewards each calendar quarter when you pay more than the monthly minimum and pay each bill on time – up to $100 in cash rewards each year
Get an extra $5 bonus per quarter if you have at least one other qualifying account with us for an additional $20 in cash rewards per year – that’s up to $120 in total cash rewards per year
So in a nutshell, if you make 12 on-time payments for more than the minimum and you have another Bank of America account, you get $120.
Now,this card is directed at people who carry a balance. But you need to read the fine print to see an important clarification:
Qualifying Payment — A monthly payment received on or before the Due Date, which is more than the Minimum Payment due;
a payment in full received on or before the Due Date is a Qualifying Payment
Any full payment qualifies. And if your credit card payment happens to only be only one dollar and you pay it in full, then you’ve qualified.
So to maximize this deal, all you need to do is get the card and set up an autopay with a utility for $1 per month, and for your efforts you’ll be awarded $30 per quarter in perpetuity (or until they change the T&Cs on this card, whichever comes first).
$120 is low enough that it probably won’t attract an excessive number of people who are into the card just for the money, as there are plenty of sign-up bonuses out there paying several hundred dollars a pop. Hopefully that means this card will be around for a while with this bonus structure for years to come!
Lufthansa Miles & More 50,000 application still open?
We stumbled upon what appears to be an active link for a 50,000-mile BarclayCard credit card bonus in Lufthansa’s “Miles & More” program. If you click on the T&C on the app, you’ll see they promise 20,000 miles upon first use and 30,000 after $2,500 spend (assuming you are approved for the Premier version of the card). The annual fee is $79 and is not waived.
The last commentary we could find on this deal comes from mid-2011. Here’s View From The Wing (we’re actually using the application link from his post) a couple of years ago, here’s the relevant flyertalk thread, and here’s the M&M redemption chart.
We have no experience with this program, but from what we’ve read, it seems the best redemptions would be for flights on partner airlines, as is the case with Avios. It looks like domestic roundtrips would be 25,000 miles each. And if you read the footnotes at the bottom of the redemption chart, you can do U.S. to Europe for 50,000 miles, though watch out for the taxes and fees.
We have no idea if the link will work, or if Barclays will honor the deal if it does, so please print a screenshot if you’re going to apply. If anybody tries this, please comment below and let us know what happened.
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