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New AMEX Offers: Sports Authority, Food52, Saks Fifth Avenue, Omaha Steaks, and Best Bully Sticks

Good morning everyone.  American Express has released a few new AMEX Offers over the last few days and they include: Sports Authority, Food52, Saks Fifth Avenue, Omaha Steaks, and Best Bully Sticks.  The most interesting one to me is Sports Authority: spend $50 and get a $10 statement credit.

Sports Authority AMEX Offer

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An American Express Credit Card can Make/Save Over $300 from AMEX Offers in One Year

(Hat Tip to Noah @ Money Metagame for the idea)

Good morning from beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona.  I am staying at the $80/night Hyatt Place in Scottsdale after an exciting day at the Phoenician Hotel and Resort for the First2Board PHX Sessions.  This morning, I was reading Money Metagame’s article and it got me thinking… how much money have I made/saved using AMEX Offers on 1 AMEX card over the last 12 months?  If you log into your American Express account, click AMEX Offers For You, and click My Savings, you will see all the enrolled offers that you participated in.  I think this list may exclude AMEX Sync Offers, so take that into consideration if you don’t see all your offers.  Here is what I bought and the profit ($/%) per AMEX Offer:

  • Office Depot: $50 Amazon Gift Card = $10 savings (20% free)
  • Whole Foods: $75 loaded to my Clipper Card = $10 savings (13.3% free)
  • Home Depot: $75 Panera Bread Gift Card = $15 savings (20% free)
  • SamsClub.com: $20 Sams Club Gift Card = $20 savings (100% free)
  • Smart & Final: 3 x $50 Southwest Airlines Gift Card = $75 savings (50% free)

Savings from AMEX Offers 1

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3 New AMEX Offers: Office Depot / OfficeMax $10 Off $50, Jacks Surfboards, and Simon Pearce

Good morning everyone, it looks like AMEX forgot a few AMEX Offers yesterday (17 New AMEX Offers: Best Buy, HP, J.Crew, Petco, Chili’s, Souplantation, Zappos, Ebags, and Others) but here are the 3 newest offers to show up in my account: Office Depot / OfficeMax, Jacks Surfboards, and Simon Pearce.  Obviously, the best deal is $10 off $50 at OD/OM.  Doctor of Credit recommends trying to do a 4 way split payment on a $200 Visa Gift Card (your cashier / mileage may vary).

Office Depot OfficeMax AMEX Offer

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17 New AMEX Offers: Best Buy, HP, J.Crew, Petco, Chili’s, Souplantation, Zappos, Ebags, and Others

Good morning everyone, while we were sleeping, AMEX was busy launching several new AMEX Offers.  The offers include: Best Buy, HP, J.Crew, Petco, Chili’s, Souplantation, Zappos, Ebags, High Sierra, Jonathan Adler, Carters & Oshkosh, Wine Country Gift Baskets, Lumosity, Allen Edmonds, Boxed.com, Shoes for Crew, and Wine.com.  None of the AMEX Offers are amazing, but if you need to purchase something from some of these restaurants/merchants, you will save a few dollars.

Best Buy AMEX Offer

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Transfer Times to Singapore Airlines from Chase Ultimate Rewards, AMEX Membership Rewards, Citi Thank You Points, and SPG Starpoints

Good morning everyone, I hope your weekend is going well.  A few weeks ago, I learned about all the cool things you can do with Singapore Airlines miles (@ the SF Travel Hackers Meetup) and I am tempted to book my first award flight using Singapore Airlines miles.  I also heard that point transfers to Singapore Airlines were not instant, so I decided to run a few tests to see how long each transferable points program took to post to Singapore Airlines.

If you were to look at the below screenshot from my Singapore Airlines account, it would look like all the transfers took the same amount of time.  Not true.  The dates listed below are the dates that I initiated the transfer, not the actual dates when the miles posted.  I will go into more detail in the post, but here is the summary of transfer times:

  • Chase Ultimate Rewards Points: within 12 hours
  • AMEX Membership Rewards Points: within 24 hours
  • Citi Thank You Points: within 24 hours
  • SPG Starpoints: 6 days

Singapore Miles from Transferable Points Programs

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