When I posted about the AMEX Hilton Surpass deal a few weeks ago, a reader pointed out that maybe only the “bonus” points go towards the lifetime base points since most of the promo material does say “bonus” points. This means that instead of having all 12X grocery points count towards lifetime, maybe only 9X […]
Chalk this one up to another stupid IT design by CNB. See, before they nerfed the airline credits, it made sense to have multiple primary CNB cards (maybe 2 was the max?) since you were making money off each primary card. That’s why I had 2 primaries in my name. Well after the new website […]
Disclaimer – I highly recommend you DON’T DO THIS since it seems AMEX has been pretty shutdown happy of late. If you do go for it, proceed with caution. Due to COVID, AMEX is doing this promo where from May 1 to July 31, 2020, your Hilton Aspire card now gets 12X at grocery stores. […]
A long time MS’er told me he got shut down COMPLETELY by AMEX the other day. I asked him some questions and he let me write about it so we can all learn. He said he talked to a supervisor and she thinks his recently closed Schwab got eyes on his account, who then saw […]
Chase had shut me down in early 2016 and a few months later, got my wife as well (most likely due to my shenanigans.) Eventually she opened up a Starbucks card in summer 2019, which was eventually shut down as well. Then in mid November, at 0/24, she opened up the Chase Ink Preferred (the […]