I have updated the ‘Credit Cards Update‘ page at the top of the blog for May. We have had a couple of great months in terms of new offers being launched. In March, we got the new promotion on the Lloyds TSB Duo Avios cards [...]
Why don’t I write more about credit card ‘churning’?
April 29, 2013 by Raffles
I had an email from a reader recently who asked me about how easy it was to ‘churn’ various credit cards, ie cancel them and then reapply, picking up another sign-up bonus. He suggested that I write a specific post about it. I said that [...]
“What is the best credit card for someone who is new to all this and has no particular loyalties?”
April 6, 2013 by Raffles
Over Easter, I will be answering a number of the reader questions that were submitted via this article. If you didn’t take part this time, don’t worry as I will be re-running this feature in the Summer. Feel free to expand on or critique my [...]
“Is Amex Membership Rewards ‘pay with points’ option a bad deal?”
March 26, 2013 by Raffles
Over Easter, I will be answering a number of the reader questions that were submitted via this article. If you didn’t take part this time, don’t worry as I will be re-running this feature in the Summer. Feel free to expand on or critique my [...]
Credit Card Reviews 2013 (2): American Express Preferred Rewards Gold charge card
March 25, 2013 by Raffles
This is the 2nd of my series of posts looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether of not they are worth applying for. These posts will be linked to the relevant sections of the ‘Credit Cards Update‘ page. My other UK [...]
60,000 Membership Rewards points (60,000 Avios!!) with the Amex Platinum Small Business Card
March 21, 2013 by Raffles
I don’t write much about small business credit cards on Head for Points, because they tend to offer poor value. There are, for example, two British Airways American Express Corporate Cards, which I discuss in this post on the On Business loyalty scheme. They are [...]
The top UK loyalty credit card sign-up deals by £ value, updated
March 18, 2013 by Raffles
I first wrote on this topic back in November. However, with major changes (of the bad sort) to the American Express Platinum and British Airways American Express sign-up bonuses this month, and the Starwood and Miles & More cards also having a lower bonus now [...]
Amex Platinum sign-up bonus massacred! (and details of other sign-up bonus changes)
March 5, 2013 by Raffles
A massacre! Is there any other way to describe what has happened to the sign-up bonus on the American Express Platinum card, which has plunged overnight from 52,000 Membership Rewards points (=52,000 Avios) to NOTHING! When I ran my post last week suggesting that you [...]
New Amex / Foursquare deals launched!
March 2, 2013 by Raffles
(EDIT: There is a later, follow-up article to this post on the Debenhams deals, which can be found by clicking here.) March is here, and with it are two great new Foursquare deals. As was hinted at last month, two new deals have been launched [...]
New ‘secret’ Amex card launched!
February 11, 2013 by Raffles
Reader John emailed Amex last week to cancel his Platinum charge card. When they responded, Amex tried to persuade him not to cancel but to downgrade to a new ‘secret’ card – Gold Rewards Plus. This appears to be a hybrid of the Platinum and [...]
Meet your Amex sign-up bonus spend with a home delivery of £ travellers cheques!
February 4, 2013 by Raffles
Last year I ran a number of posts about American Express Currency Exchange, the new bureau de change partner of British Airways Executive Club. See here, here and here. What we discovered was that Amex Currency Exchange treats pre-ordered foreign currency purchases on an Amex [...]
‘Credit Cards Update’ updated for February
February 2, 2013 by Raffles
I have updated the ‘Credit Cards Update’ page for February. As with January, it was one of the quicker jobs I’ve done on this page because there have been no major changes since the January list came out! The only major amendment was removing the [...]
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