Helping you and your family save money on your vacations to Disney and beyond
AMEX often runs temporary sign up bonuses on their cards. Currently, they are offering 50,000 Membership Rewards points if you sing up for the AMEX Business Rewards Gold card using this link. It’s a pretty good deal, but the high minimum spending requirement ($5000 in 3 months) keeps it from being a great one. A sign up bonus like this probably prompts two questions:
Burn Notice: Delta Skymiles Part 1
Burn Notice: Delta Skymiles Part 2
Burn Notice: American AAdvantage
I’ve decided to put a burn notice on some of my miles. Between my wife and I, we’ve accumulated over one million miles, mostly within the last year and a half or so. Well, as Hilton (most recently) and countless other award programs have taught us time and time again, miles and points are a volatile currency whose value only goes one way: down. So I’ve decided it’s time for us to book a couple of trips. There is no point on sitting on a stockpile of points – so let’s do this. Throughout this series, I will be talking about how I burned these points to give you examples of how you can burn yours!
I generally don’t like talking to human beings (preferring to do everything online), but if you’re applying for a lot of credit cards, eventually you are going to need to speak to a representative. This isn’t a necessarily a bad thing, as I’ll outline in the post below. Calling credit card reconsideration lines puts you in touch with people who can extend you credit (and thus approve you for new cards) when the computer algorithm dictates otherwise.