Good morning from beautiful Carmel, CA. I hope your pre-Thanksgiving weekend is going well, wherever you may be. Very slow day in terms of deals (all the good deals will be coming out for Black Friday and Cyber Monday). I checked my Chime Card and here are the current offers that show up on my account. The best 2 deals are for Panera Bread ($2 off $10) and Walmart ($3 off $25).
Good afternoon everyone. If you can read and understand the title, you are an experienced travel hacker / MSer. My friend Mike sent me a picture of a current promotion running at his local Von’s (Safeway) grocery store. Purchase $150 or more in Visa or American Express Gift Cards and you will revive a coupon for $15 off your next $25 grocery purchase. The promo is running from November 4 to 17 and the coupon must be redeemed within 7 days of your gift card purchase. Assuming you buy gift cards on the last day of the promo (November 17), you have until November 24 (2 days before Thanksgiving) to redeem the coupon. This coupon could be great if you have lots of Thanksgiving grocery store purchases to make. I don’t know if you can redeem more than 1 coupon per transaction, but get creative.
Here are the full terms of the promo:
Updated 11/1/2015 at 11am PT: added a screenshot of the Shop Small AMEX Offer for AMEX Business cards ($20 off $100).
Good morning everyone, I hope you all had a safe and happy Halloween. There is a new batch of AMEX Offers to share today. Instead of Small Business Saturday (which would have been November 28 this year), American Express replaced that promotion with Shop Small in November. If you use your enrolled AMEX card at any “qualifying small business” in November, you will get a $10 statement credit after making a $10 purchase. The offer appeared on my Platinum, Blue Cash Everyday, and Old Blue Cash (no love for my AMEX Everyday cards).
There is also an offer for AMEX Business Cards: you will get a $20 statement credit after making a $100 purchase (thanks for the screenshot, Alex)
Good afternoon from Boise, Idaho. I’ve had a great weekend stay in Boise and had a great time at the Boise State football game last night (mini trip report coming later this week). As I wait for my flight back home, I wanted to ask my readers a question: what type of blog posts do you enjoy reading? Do you like reading about credit card rewards, retention offers, targeted offers, award searching and booking? Alternatively, I’ve heard from quite a few readers that the AMEX Offers / BankAmeriDeals / Chime Card updates are not very popular. Should I stop writing about those deals and focus on other topics instead?
Please make your suggestion as specific as possible. Please no suggestions like, “what is the best credit card for travel?” or “how do I redeem miles for a free flight?” I will do my best to take your recommendations to heart, but my blogging time and expertise are limited. Continue reading
