By now, you’ve probably seen a dozen or so Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) AMEX 30k Sign-up Bonus posts. In fact, from a casual google image search–well take a look for yourself, I see a gaggle of the normal affiliate bloggers with posts — as one would expect, because it is a good offer. But in addition to that, I see a lot of other folks posting about it. Miles to Memories (note: apparently he also has affiliates, I never noticed before!) posted that it’d increase today (posted yesterday).
Doctor of Credit always has the jump on these things, so not much of a surprise, although the comments are certainly worth reading. More importantly, the Doctor, also highlights the valuable points, such as that this is only 5k more points than usual, you can only get the personal card once in a lifetime, you can only get the business card if you haven’t held it in the last year, etc. Seriously, if you’re going to get the card, take the 5 minutes to read his post, first.
But the thing that jumps out at me more is the fact that this is a rare opportunity that non-affiliate bloggers can highlight the card, and maybe pick up a few extra points.
@tmount @turnbullben @FreequentFlyr Don’t forget you can support others who don’t have affiliate links by letting them refer you for 5k
— Ralph Liberatoscioli (@PointsCentric) August 11, 2015
Pointscentric, for example (quoted in the tweet above) has an excellent point. For those folks that have the card already, and really it’s not just bloggers, it’s anyone with the card, can go here, and put in your account information to see whether it will work. Or if you prefer, you can go login to your American Express account and go to “Rewards” and under there, is “Refer a Friend.”
SPG Refer a Friend
If you’re curious what cards are eligible, well, here they are:
- Platinum Card® from American Express
- Premier Rewards Gold Card from American Express
- Blue Cash Preferred ® from American Express
- Blue Cash Everyday ® from American Express
- Starwood Preferred Guest ® Credit Card from American Express
- Gold Delta SkyMiles ® Credit Card
- Platinum Delta SkyMiles ® Credit Card
You’ll note that only the Starwood Preferred Guest personal credit card is eligible. Now, full disclosure, I only have the SPG Business card (having cancelled the SPG Personal a month or two ago), however, I’d encourage folks to leave a comment if they are looking for someone who does have one, or would like to refer folks. I make no guarantees, but, happy to facilitate.
So, what will you do? Will you apply for the SPG AMEX with the 5k more rewards? Who through?
I have referrals for both the products SPG Business and Personal, if you interested in using my referral email me at: gbs10@live.com Put SPG Referral in Subject line
I can assist you with an award booking or general travel related questions, if your willing to help me out with a referral.
@Steven – for my own curiosity, do you just go to the same link I identified, to verify that you can do a business referral?
@Trevor Yes there is a separate link that you need to go to for each. If you want the direct link I can email them just shoot me over an email: gbs10@live.com
For the record I don’t have direct affiliate links. I have the same indirect creditcards.com links that pretty much every smaller blogger has including TBB. The reason you probably didn’t notice is that I don’t advertise them. I post the truth about what I believe and what I think and then let the rest sort itself out.
I meant no offense on the affiliate links. Was just surprised you had them because, just as you say: you don’t push them. I don’t really discriminate between direct and non-direct though. and yes, TBB pushes them much more than you (considering this is the first I’ve ever seen you mention).
Comments like that just amuse me!
Great post!
I was surprised you did not link to a REAL cc affiliate pushing blogger this time. Progress!
Now back to LSD. I mean, TBB. Sometimes I can’t tell the difference lol.
Always a pleasure to see a comment from you George. I thought about linking to you, but you were seemed like you were getting traction from pushing your link via twitter, so I went with the better alternatives.
Please feel free to use my link for the personal card. Thanks! https://www.americanexpress.com/us/credit-cards/personal-card-application/starwood-preferred-credit-card/49002-750-0-9FDBCE60219066613C0390D2A4A9FCA5F630B68437904BAA-200002-3TprrcJ+TOaMQt6qLYXd6oemoco=?csi=starwood-preferred-credit-card/49002-750-0-9FDBCE60219066613C0390D2A4A9FCA5F630B68437904BAA-200002-3TprrcJ+TOaMQt6qLYXd6oemoco=&om_rid=Nuz63A&om_mid=_BVye2vB859vgN5&om_lid=axp5