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Premium Credit Card Authorized User Benefits

October 11, 2017 By Trevor 6 Comments





It is coming to that time of the year that I start to get rather concerned about reducing expenses. With the holidays coming, my reselling business will become a prime focus, however I never try to lose sight what we’re paying for the credit card benefits we are getting.

So with that, in a post similar to Joe’s “Annual Fee reduction” post, I’ll cover the cards that both my wife and I are carrying and what we plan to do about them.

Disclaimer: Primary cardholder benefits may not be exhaustive lists, as these benefits are well covered elsewhere.

Chase Sapphire Reserve

Chase Sapphire Reserve, Credit Card Applications

My wife and I were both happy to get this back when it was first released, despite being far beyond 5/24. That said, you get the following benefits:

  • Priority Pass Select
  • Ability to transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards to airline partners
  • 50% more value when redeeming Ultimate Rewards Points for travel (e.g. 1.5 cents per point).
  • $300 Annual Travel Credit – Automatic vice AMEX.
  • Luxury Hotel & Resort Collection
  • No Foreign Transaction Fee
  • Primary Car Rental Insurance
  • Annual Fee: $450

As an authorized user, you get the following benefits:

  • Priority Pass Select
  • Ability to transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards to airline partners (though this confuses me, as the points should be under the ownership of the primary cardholder, yes?)
  • Primary Car Rental Insurance
  • Annual Fee: $75

Verdict:  Likely not a keeper, assuming another card provides Primary Car Rental Insurance, like the Chase Ink Plus. 

American Express Business Platinum

The benefits of this card are rather well known for the primary cardholder, you get:

  • Global Lounge Collection, including Centurion Lounges, Delta Sky Club Lounges and Priority Pass Select
  • $200 Airline Fee Credit
  • 35% points reimbursement when paying with points for premium tickets (or any class on your selected airline) – note, I’m grandfathered in on the 50% points reimbursement that ended a few months back.
  • No foreign transaction fees
  • 10 free GoGo internet passes, and unlimited Wi-Fi at Boingo Hotspots
  • American Express Platinum Concierge Services (a benefit I definitely am not maximizing!)
  • American Express Fine Hotels and Resorts
  • A bunch of status – National, SPG (which translates to Marriott), Hilton.
  • Annual Fee: $450

As an authorized user, you get the following benefits:

  • 10 Gogo in flight passes
  • Most everything above, except the $200 credit)
  • Cost: $300 Annual Fee.

Verdict:  Not worth it, unless I’m missing something.

Citi Prestige

The Citi Prestige has actually become a much more important card in my wallet of late. The travel benefits seem to be some of the best. Here’s what you get:

  • A $250 Air Travel Credit – Automatic vice AMEX.
  • Complimentary 4th night free on hotel stays of 4 nights or longer.
  • No Foreign Transaction Fee
  • Priority Pass Select
  • Ability to transfer points to Citi Thank You partners

Authorized users get:

  • Priority Pass Select
  • Annual Fee: $50

Verdict: Possibly worthwhile if the authorized user gets the travel protection; also cheapest Priority Pass Select.

Wrapping Up

I realize this isn’t an exhaustive list. There are other great premium cards out there, like Chase’s Ritz Carlton card, Bank of America’s new one, and the Citi AAdvantage Executive–which I already am an authorized user on–and a few others from American Express. Rather, I wanted to look at the big three, and I have to be honest. I’m having a hard time seeing the value of an authorized user on any of the cards. Its a shame, because I’ve been really enjoying my Chase Sapphire Reserve. 

Filed Under: Credit Card Match-ups Tagged With: Annual Fee, Credit Cards, Premium Credit Cards

Hurricane Irma, Star Wars Themed kids lounge, Gap Year

September 15, 2017 By Trevor 1 Comment

Welcome to the weekly roundup – a collection of interesting posts over the last few days (or weeks in this case)

Travel

Warning – this is a German blog, but google translate works decently. It looks like there’s a new Star Wars themed ANA Kids lounge. Great addition to the ANA Star Wars Liveries!

Credit Cards

Joe shares his experience redeeming the Citi AT&T Access More Phone Credit. I still need to use mine, but I’m waiting for the new iPhone, assuming I can do it. 

Hurricane Irma

Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island Home has been reportedly destroyed by Irma. Thankfully, there was no loss of human life, at least on the island.
 
Delta made a well choreographed flight to get a last few people out – impressively so.
 
Let us not forget the islands that were hit horribly by Hurricane Irma as well.

Life

Noah and Becky are preparing to take a gap year. There is a lot of planning that goes into it. It is certainly not for the faint of heart. This one will be interesting to follow.

Filed Under: Weekly News Roundup Tagged With: Credit Cards, Gap Year, Hurricane Irma

New Marriott Rewards Credit Card Apple Pay Promotion

June 1, 2017 By Trevor 1 Comment

I don’t usually get excited about small credit card offers like this, but, its not very often we see something for the Marriott Credit Card. This isn’t nearly as good as the Discover Apple Pay promotion a few years back–which I bought an iPhone for by the way!

Marriott Rewards Credit Card, Apple Pay Promotion

Marriott Rewards Credit Card Apple Pay promotion

The promotion is pretty simple – use Apple Pay to make 5 purchases with your Marriott Rewards Credit Card between 15 May and 15 June and you’ll get a $15 statement credit. 

The terms are fairly straight forward, see pasted below:

Offer: This offer is valid from 05/15/2017 through 06/15/2017. To qualify for this offer, you must make 5 transactions using your consumer Marriott Rewards® credit card with your Apple Pay® account during checkout. Purchases are when you, or an authorized user, use a card to make purchases of products and services, minus returns or refunds. Please allow up to 8 weeks after the qualifying purchase(s) post(s) to your account for the statement credit to post to your Marriott Rewards® credit account. To receive the statement credit, your account must be open and not in default at the time of fulfillment. If you change your credit card product during the promotional period you will forfeit this offer. This offer is non-transferable. Limit one statement credit per customer or card account. Chase may terminate this offer at any time without notice.

It seems like a pretty easy promotion to do in order to get yourself a $15 statement credit. One caveat – its not clear to me that it is specifically targeted.

Will you be taking advantage of the Marriott Rewards Credit Card Apple Pay promotion?

H/T Slickdeals

Filed Under: Hotels Tagged With: Apple Pay, Credit Cards, Marriott Rewards, Promotions

Credit Card Primary Car Insurance Is not Equal

May 25, 2017 By Trevor 18 Comments

Recently I did a one way car rental from Orlando, FL to Maryland. You see, in the April to May time frame, one way car rentals are super cheap if you’re going north. So, what else was I to do? I booked myself a Full size SUV, with the plan to pick up some things from my parents house, and do some sourcing along the way to fill the rest of the way. Of course, it was on the drive from my parent’s house to my favorite Florida restaurant, Highjackers–aptly named since it is on the grounds of the Palm Coast Airport–that my father asked which card I had paid for the rental with. Since we planned this as a business trip for our Reselling Business, logically I had put it on my Chase Ink Plus. That’s where the conversation changed.

You see, my father was reading the fine print of miles and points before I could read, well, at least close to it. His initial position was that I should’ve paid with my Chase Sapphire Reserve–a card I had recommended to him last year after getting it myself in the pre-launch release. Well, after reading Dia’s post on the Chase Sapphire Reserve’s Travel Insurance being insufficient, I had to dig into this Primary Car Insurance question!

It is important to note that all of the credit cards and coverage in this post are specifically Primary Car Insurance, meaning, this insurance is what you would refer to before you would contact your normal car insurance provider. This is meaningful because it could save having impact on your car insurance premiums.

Chase Sapphire Reserve Primary Car Insurance Coverage

The Chase Sapphire Reserve benefits are fairly exhaustive, but to summarize the important pieces, coverage is up to $75,000 for rentals not to exceed 31 consecutive days. Chase does specifically identify what is not covered, but also caveats that it is not an exhaustive list, here are their examples:

  • Antique automobiles; vans designed to carry more than 8 people; vehicles that have an open cargo bed; trucks; motorcycles, mopeds, and motorbikes; limousines; and recreational vehicles
  • Expenses reimbursed under your personal auto insurance policy, your employer or your employer’s insurance
  • Any obligation you assume under any other agreement
  • Injury of anyone or anything inside or outside of the vehicle
  • Leases and mini leases
  • Any violation of the auto rental agreement
  • Loss or theft of personal belongings

Unfortunately, the above descriptions make it hard to determine if you’d be covered for some rentals with your Chase Sapphire Reserve. The Chase Sapphire Preferred is very similar in coverage.

Chase Ink Plus Primary Rental Car Insurance Coverage

I typically rent cars for business purposes. The nature of my business–Reselling–means that I often need a car with greater capacity than those that I own. Of course, when I rent for business purposes, I want to use a business card, and because the Chase Ink Plus offers primary car insurance coverage, it is my first choice as a card to use. I cannot highlight enough: to be covered, you must be driving for business purposes. 

There’s not really a conclusive list or guidance that I could find, however I did call the Ink Plus folks and they gave me a rough idea of the guidelines, which I will summarize below:

  • There is not necessarily a dollar value limitation
  • You are covered for Economy through Luxury Vehicles
    • When asked for specifics, I was told that the Cadillac Escalade and Lincoln Navigator are both covered. 
  • Trucks or anything with an open cargo bed is excluded (like the Sapphire Reserve)
  • Expensive vehicles are excluded
    • When asked for specifics, I used the BMW X5 – which is in fact excluded.
Primary Rental Car Insurance

This is not the car for you, if you want to be covered!

I was particularly disappointed with the responses here for a few reasons. Particularly because, if I have a business, I might need a vehicle with an open cargo bed. Second, as a business owner, I’d like to know what vehicles are or are not covered, so I can make sure my employees stay within the necessary bounds.

It is important to know also that the Ink Preferred and Ink Cash also offer primary insurance coverage. 

Diner’s Club Primary Rental Car Insurance

I realize that not many folks use Diner’s Club these days, however they do provide primary car insurance. They provide two levels. One for regular card holders, and a higher level for those Carte Blanche card members. Here are the details:

  • Receive primary coverage, anywhere in the world (except where prohibited by law), when the entire cost of a car rental is charged to a Diners Club Card.
  • For most card members there’s usually no need to file a claim with your own insurance company, so your personal insurance premium won’t be affected.
  • The insurance covers physical damage and theft of the vehicle, reasonable loss of use charges, reasonable towing charges, and includes Secondary Personal Effects insurance.
  • Protection applies to rental cars with Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price up to $75,000 for covered damages. For Carte Blanche card members, up to $100,000 for covered damages.
  • To qualify, you must decline the rental agency’s collision damage waiver (CDW), saving up to $16 per rental day.

Citi Prestige and Premier Primary Rental Car Insurance – Only outside of the US!

This is where I think the Citi Thank You Card portfolio of credit cards fails. Citi Prestige provides primary car rental insurance only outside of the US. While this can be positive, I personally think Citi is missing the boat here in that for a premium credit card, primary rental insurance in the US should be standard.

American Express’ Primary Rental Car Insurance is an extra cost

So, you have your American Express Platinum card (personal $550, business $450), and you want to rent a car. Well, Be careful! Because American Express wants you to enroll in another program in order to be covered. In other words, so far as I can tell, you don’t get any coverage for the base annual fee. 

Wrapping Up

Overall, I was very surprised with what is, and is not covered by credit cards that offer primary rental car insurance. In truth, I expected coverage to be much better, given how much credit card companies promote this as a benefit. I was particularly surprised that business cards specifically do not cover pick-ups. I mean, how many businesses could see value in renting a pick-up truck over another vehicle? Similarly, “expensive cars” which is a vague term to begin with, are excluded from Chase credit cards coverage. So if you get an upgrade, you may be at more risk than if you had a standard car. Ironically though, a Cadillac Escalade is covered, but a BMW X5 is not. This is unfortunately both very confusing and frustrating.

Have you looked into what your credit card truly offers for primary rental car insurance?

Filed Under: Credit Cards Tagged With: Credit Cards, primary rental car insurance

747 Refresh, Premium Travel Card Madness, Milwaukee

May 5, 2017 By Trevor Leave a Comment

The Weekly Travel News Roundup is a collection of headlines from around the internet that caught the attention of the Tagging Miles team. Content on these blogs do not necessarily reflect the positions of Tagging Miles, and should not be considered endorsements. Have a great story we should read? Contact us now and let us know.

Travel:

  • The Queen of the Sky is still getting the occasional cabin refresh – in this case, one of Qantas’ 2 remaining 747’s got a sporty new look!
  • There’s a new credit card out (maybe you’ve heard about it ), and Joe has an alternative view on Premium Travel Cards.
  • Always garden your reservation, to avoid nasty surprises like P.F. Digest found.
  • Travel to Milwaukee – the hidden city of cool things to see and do. So many of them sound like great ideas, like kayaking to a brewery and hammerschlagen!
  • If you were crediting your American Airlines flights to Cathay Pacific, it’s just not as rewarding as it used to be. But View from the Wing has some other options for you.
  • Airlines are announcing in droves tighter pitches in Economy. American first, United is considering the same on their 737MAX. More important than the pitch though are the questions that Seth raises with respect to the impact on loyalty. Of course the Basic Economy fares don’t help that discussion either.

Tagging Miles:

  • Celebrating Star Wars Day AvGeek Style
  • Amazon Seller Support Associate Shares Insight
  • My Worst Reselling Mistake
  • AMEX Business Platinum is killing 50% rebate – Get some extra points!

Filed Under: Weekly News Roundup Tagged With: Credit Cards, Qantas, Weekly Travel News Roundup

Did you maximize your Q1 5x for Chase Freedom, Discover, Citi Preferred?

March 14, 2017 By Trevor 4 Comments

We’re just about halfway through March, which means that time is dwindling down to maximize your Q1 5x points for the various quarterly 5x cards from Chase, Discover and Citi.  So consider this a reminder to get out there and maximize your points and cashback.

Maximize your Q1 5x – Chase Freedom

Chase Freedom’s First Quarter 5x is for Gas Stations and Local Commuter Transportation, but note that this does not include parking, tolls, or Amtrak purchases. What does that mean? Find a gas station that has some Visa Gift Cards, or other gift cards that you think you can use in the near term. 

maximize Q1 5x

Maximize your Q1 5x – Discover

Wholesale Clubs, Gas Stations and Ground Transportation. This isn’t nearly as valuable, because Costco doesn’t accept Discover card, but I think BJ’s and Sams Club do. For resellers; remember that Sams Club and BJ’s both sell a variety of gift cards, so if you can’t find products for resale, you could at least maximize your 5x by getting gift cards for stores that you can find products for resale. 

maximize your q1 5x

Maximize your Q1 5x – Citi Dividend

Citi Dividend mixes things up, in that they are giving 5x on Home Depot and home furnishing stores. There are a variety of good things you can get at Home Depot, like batteries, as we recently changed our clocks for daylight savings time–and would be good to check those smoke detectors!–as well as lightbulbs, and other things for those “honey do” projects as we get into the spring. 

maximize your q1 5x

Conclusion

As we near the end of March, its a great time to make sure that you are maximizing your rotating category bonus rewards. Historically, I’ve found the first quarter to be the hardest to maximize, as I don’t do a lot with gas stations–and in fact, I utilize Costco gas for most of my refueling needs). That said, it is a good time to look back and see whether there are ways to maximize your bonuses in the final ~2 weeks of the quarter. 

Have you already maximized all of your 5x? If so, how did you do it, manufactured spending? Reselling? Organic Spend?

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Category Bonuses, Chase Freedom 5x, Credit Cards, Manufactured Spending, Reselling

My Go to Credit Cards for Sourcing to Resell

March 8, 2017 By Trevor 12 Comments

Reselling is cool, but reselling when you’re double and triple dipping is even more cool. Given my mile and point background, I rely heavily on mile and point earning credit cards for sourcing. I used to spread my purchases across a bunch of cards, but recently I’ve started to narrow in on three key credit cards, augmented by others when credit lines become constrained.

Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) Business AMEX – The first of my credit cards for sourcing

credit cards for sourcing

My number one card for sourcing is, ironically a 1x card, the SPG Business AMEX. Why? Because SPG points are so transferable and that flexibility is valuable for me. I know what you’re thinking: a 1x card kind’ve sucks in general. Normally, you’d be right, but, given the Marriott merger, you have a ton of options with SPG points, even more than you had before, which was a ton. Until the end of the month, you could even transfer points to Marriott to get the Southwest Companion Pass. 

Of course, the benefit of Sheraton Club Lounge can be valuable too! We used that–even though we had to fight for it–at the Sheraton Milan-Malpensa Airport hotel.

Where I use it: Walmart, Target

Of note: Right now the SPG Business AMEX (and its personal version) have a sign-on bonus of 35,000 SPG points, which is the highest I’ve seen it. I have a referral (for the business only); if you’d like to support the blog in this manner, please leave a comment and I’ll e-mail you the code. Thank you for your consideration!

Citi AT&T Access 

So, the card I have gets me 3x Thank You Points for online spend; I actually got the card for that. At the time, it had a $600 toward a free phone after $3,000 or so spend, but despite moving to AT&T, I didn’t actually use that (if you need an AT&T phone, drop me a note, we can totally work something out!) I’ve only put on average $4,000 spend per month, except for Q4, but, still, the Thank You Points just keep growing. Of course this reminds me, I really need to re-engage on Online Arbitrage (OA).

Where I use it: Nearly every online store I shop at

Chase Ink Plus

I realize all the hype now a days is about the Chase Ink Preferred. I’m old school, I’ve got an Ink Bold and two Ink Plus credit cards. I love my Ink Plus card. It gets me 5x on Office Supply stores, also for internet / cell phone, and believe it or not, every so often, those stores have things to source! In general though, I’ve found the card to be pretty valuable for my sourcing.

Where I use it: Staples, Verizon, occasionally others

Of note: Occasionally, there is a Chase Ink Refer a Friend link available. If you are looking for the card, please consider reaching out to me if you’d like to support the blog in this manner, and I’ll e-mail you the code. Thank you for your consideration!

Other cards I use

Also in the mix, is the American Express Business Platinum, good for the other benefits (Gogo, Centurion Lounge, American Express Fine Hotels & Resorts, etc), Alaska Business–merely because I have my business checking account at Bank of America, and the Marriott Business–I got this for the points, but its a back-up for Q4.

What credit cards do you use for sourcing?

 

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Credit Cards, Reselling

Is it time to get more strategic about credit card applications? 

October 20, 2016 By Trevor 7 Comments

In the past few months, we have seen a bunch of developments. We’ve seen greater restrictions, great new sign on bonuses, but, yet still, a new churnable credit cards. Is it time for a different strategy for credit card applications?

Greater Restrictions

Three of the big credit card issuers have made rather meaningful changes to how one receives bonuses, or whether one is approved at all.

  • February, 2016: American Express adds once-per-lifetime to Personal and Business cards
  • August, 2016: Citi limits you applicants to one bonus per 24 months per brand
  • September, 2016: Chase briefly puts in writing, the 5/24 rule; despite considerable additional discussion.

The fact is, it is getting harder to churn sign-on bonuses.

Great New Cards and Sign On Bonuses

There have been some nice bonuses of late, although more importantly, is the growing competition in the premium card arena. Of note:

  • Chase Sapphire Reserve, an amazing card (though maybe not a daily use card for resellers–But I cover all the key benefits of the card, so check out the link!), with a 100k Ultimate Rewards point sign-on bonus.
  • In response, American Express Platinum added 5 points per dollar on airfare. Note, this personal.
  • AMEX didn’t stop there, the American Express Platinum two new benefits (1.5 points per dollar on purchases $5k or more, and 50% back on “pay with points” airfare), and a 100k Membership Rewards sign-on bonus. Sound similar to the Chase Sapphire Reserve?
  • American Express, this time with its Delta offerings increased sign-ups for the Platinum Sky Miles Card to 70k, and the Gold Skymiles Card to 50k.
  • Chase recently confirmed a new business offering, the Chase Ink Preferred (sound familiar?), with an 80k Ultimate Rewards point sign-on bonus. Based on what is currently available, my read, is that it is an inferior card, with 3x on up to $150k spend in categories which I see no feasible way to spend $150k in.

All indications point me toward the thought that this is not the end. We are still waiting to see what Citi will do with their devalued Prestige offering. I think we might also see a new Chase Business Card, as Doctor of Credit implies when he reports on the Chase Ink Preferred (link above). We might also see a new offering from American Express, although I anticipate it would be difficult to create a new offering without devaluing the Platinum cards.

New Churnable Credit Cards

Okie, we’re pretty weak here, I’ll admit, but there are a few churnable credit cards that may make sense.

  • Bank of America’s Asiana Visa – 30k bonus after $3,000 spend. Have another each month (or so I’m told).
  • Bank of America’s Virgin Atlantic card, get 90k after a year and a bunch of spend. Believe me, this is one I’m considering, given Greg the Frequent Miler’s enjoying his Necker Island Challenge, and by the way, his comment of not expecting Richard Branson being there — he was welcomed to the island by Richard. I have to wonder if Greg brought up that complaint letter.

So, yeah, the pickings may be slim here, but, for some, that may never have had a Delta AMEX (me!!!), there are other cards that are quite tempting.

Wrapping Up

My point in this post was my attempt at working out my own credit card strategy over the next 18 months. Normally, I work in 18 month timeframes, it seems like a reasonable balance between one and two years. Of course, 18 months used to be the magic number with Chase and Citi, that is changing to 24. So what is my conclusion? Given that my wife and I play the two player game, I might apply for cards, and let my wife sit on the sidelines–or vice versa, depending on her preference. The challenge here though, is the fact that there are some cards that just make too much sense to pass up, like the Chase Sapphire Reserve, when it was briefly leaked, which both my wife and I were successful with. So, yeah, I’m not sure what I’ll do if another Chase Sapphire Reserve-like offer comes about, but, barring that, I’m thinking its going to be the two-player game.

What will you do? 

 

Filed Under: Credit Card Match-ups, Credit Cards, Miles and Points Tagged With: Chase Sapphire Reserve, Churning, Credit Card Bonuses, Credit Cards

Maximize your Chase Freedom 5x at Costco

June 13, 2016 By Trevor 9 Comments

Update: Chase has extended Freedom 5x through the end of the year, so now instead of 6,000 points, you have the potential for 18,000 points per Freedom, just from shopping at Costco, BJ’s Wholesale, and others!

Its mid-June, and if you are like me, your Chase Freedoms have gathered dust. I didn’t bother to do much with them this month, what with the other options available like Grocery Stores. In case you aren’t familiar with the Chase Freedom 5x, this is what I refer to the quarterly bonus. You earn 5x Ultimate Rewards points, per dollar spent, up to $1500 spend, per card, in the quarter. See below for the line-up:

Chase Freedom 5x Calendar 2016

Chase Freedom 5x Calendar 2016

I mean, you totally could have used your Freedom at a grocery store, to buy, you know, groceries, or, other less edible–cough; plastic–things that you can buy at a grocery store. Or, you could be the ultimate procrastinator and have gotten to mid-June and realized that you have let your Freedom(s) sit in your credit card drawer–since lets be honest; there are more credit cards than socks in there now–and now you’ve got to find a way to maximize, and quick!

The answer: Costco!

What to Buy?

First and foremost – if you normally go to Costco and fill up your Mini Cooper (like me), then that’s a great start. Of course, if you are spending $1500 at Costco just to feed a family, you either have these guys for a family:

New Zealand's All Blacks Rugby Team, they clearly need a lot of protein, easy to maximize Freedom 5x with these guys!

New Zealand’s All Blacks Rugby Team, they clearly need a lot of protein, easy to maximize Freedom 5x with these guys!

Or maybe you are getting fully stocked up for the impending Hurricane Season.

But, I don’t have a Rugby Team to feed, what should I buy?

Ok, so you don’t want to fill your basement with water and toilet paper, or throw a barbecue for the whole town. So what else can you buy?

Gift Cards! Costco generally is very good at selling Gift Cards. They might not have the widest variety of gift cards, but they do have a bunch, here is a brief list:

  • iTunes (not pictured, but trust me, they’re there)
  • Ruth Chris
  • McCormick and Schmick’s (note, this is DC regional – you’ll see different ones)
  • Regal Cinema
  • Other Movie Theaters
  • United States Postal Service (USPS) Stamps
  • Spafinder
  • Costco Gift Cards
Costco Gift Cards

Costco Gift Cards

Chase Freedom 5x – Wrapping Up

I think there’s plenty of opportunity to spend $1500 at Costco in the final days of June. You’ve got plenty of options when it comes to great products, stocking up, or grabbing gift cards. I personally will be doing something slightly different, in line with my reselling business. What will I be buying? Well, I’ll know it when I see it. But you can be certain that I’ll be walking through Costco with my FBA Seller App (and Part 2) open. Either way. If you haven’t maximized your Chase Freedom 5x for 2nd quarter, Costco has you covered, assuming your a member. And if you’re not, and you have a wife, family, or rugby team, I think you’ll find great values there, so its worth checking it out.

Filed Under: Credit Cards, Reselling Tagged With: Chase Freedom 5x, Credit Cards, Manufactured Spending, Reselling, Ultimate Rewards Points

What are the best credit cards for reselling?

February 25, 2016 By Trevor 11 Comments

Last week, my buddy Oren shared his go to cards for reselling.

To recap, his cards were:

  • Bank of America Travel Rewards
  • Chase Ink
  • Discover
  • Honorable mention: Citi AT&T

My Picks

First off, I will admit, I don’t have a Citi AT&T card, which offers 3x points for online spend. This is a no brainer for folks doing Online Arbitrage, and I plan to get it soon.

  • Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) Business: at 1x per dollar spent, this isn’t terribly exciting, but you can get even more value when you transfer to partners like Alaska Air (and I do like my Emirates awards, which are only 100k Alaska Air miles)!
  • Chase Ink Plus: this is a no brainer for office supply stores, with its 5x Ultimate Rewards earning.
  • Alaska Air Business: More Alaska miles? Sure!
  • Discover: only when I use the Discover Deals portal, or when there are great promote like that Apple Pay deal.

For the most part, you’ll notice that I am trying to use Business cards for my reselling business. That’s by design, but not a hard and fast rule. As I continue to grow the business, I’m finding that accounting takes up more of my time, and I’m willing to carve off particular cards for business spend, just to keep things more simple and be able to focus on the more enjoyable aspects of reselling.

What are your go to cards for reselling?

Filed Under: Reselling Tagged With: Credit Cards, Reselling

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