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If you have an American Express Platinum charge card, you may be interested to know that the latest batch of ‘exclusive member events’ have been loaded onto the website (log-in required). You will no doubt receive an email about them in the next day or so, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Back in August, I wrote this post about the three different types of credit cards you can hold, based on a structure originally discussed by Gary Leff at View from the Wing. To summarise, these are: Cards you get just for the sign-up bonus, and [...]
I knew it couldn’t last! (Although it’s annoying it happened on the day that I reviewed the card and gave it a slating for not having a bonus ….) After just three weeks of offering a sign-up bonus of precisely nothing, Amex has brought back [...]
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 [...]
This is the 3rd 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 airline [...]
American Express has launched a bonus promotion worth 1,000 Membership Rewards points (= 1,000 Avios, amongst other things) for each new supplementary cardholder you add to your Platinum charge card account. Full details and the application link can be found here. Each Platinum cardholder can [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I receive a continual stream of emails about the Cathay Pacific Marco Polo Gold card that comes with the American Express Platinum charge card. The first question is, not unreasonably: If you get this amazing Gold card from Amex Platinum – which gives you all [...]
Yesterday, a few people found a leaflet on their doormat from American Express entitled “Introducing The Perfect Companion To Your Platinum Card“. Basically – and for reasons which are not fully clear to me – Amex would like Platinum charge card holders to apply for the [...]
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