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Are you Missing American Express AMEX Offers? Try this Trick

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Good morning everyone, happy Saturday.  In today’s post, I will show you what to do when AMEX Offers are hiding/missing from your online account.  I’m not sure if this in intentional or accidental, or if American Express is beta testing something, but when I logged into my American Express online account Friday morning, the AMEX Offers section was totally missing.  This only happened when I logged into my business American Express online account.  However, when I logged into my personal American Express online account (shown in the second picture), the AMEX Offers section showed up in the correct spot.  Luckily, there is a very simple solution to see your AMEX Offers.

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Will you Go for the Southwest Airlines A-List Status Match?

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Anytime a status match is offered, like the one Southwest is offering right now, if it works for you, it’s a sweet deal.  For a 90-day promotional period, Southwest is offering a status match to their A-List status. Then fly three roundtrip (or 6 one-way) flights within those 90 days and you’ll receive A-List status for a year.  If you have elite status on any other US-based airline, you’ll qualify for this match. A-List status perks include priority check-in, security and boarding, free same-day changes, and a 25% earning bonus for SWA Rapid Rewards points.

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A-List Benefits – Photo: Southwest Airline

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Redemption Options & Process for American Express Old Blue Cash

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Good morning everyone, I hope you had a great weekend.  A few days ago, I wrote about a recent change to redeeming cash back on American Express credit cards.  With the recent change, you can now redeem cash back for any amount of $25.00 or more on the American Express Old Blue Cash, American Express Blue Cash Everyday and American Express Blue Cash Preferred.  Before this change, you had to redeem cash back in $25 increments.  In this post, I will show you how to redeem cash back and show you what other redemptions are available.  I redeemed cash back for my American Express Old Blue Cash, but the cash back redemption process should be the same for the American Express Blue Cash Everyday and American Express Blue Cash Preferred.

After my recent credit card statement closed, I had $45.10 in cash back on my American Express Old Blue Cash.  To redeem cash back, click the green Use Rewards Dollars button.

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What’s Your Funniest Travel Story? Here’s Mine!

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Happy Saturday, everyone! It’s the weekend, so let’s relax and have some laughs. I was thinking about how there are certain experiences we’ve all had that no matter how many times we conjure them up in our memories, they ALWAYS make us laugh. And since we all travel a lot, I wondered if any of your “always make me laugh out loud” experiences are travel-related. I have one that’s travel-related to share with you!

A few years ago, I was staying in an Embassy Suites. I was working while I stayed there, so I preferred to have housekeeping as little as possible. After a few days, it seemed to me that my room needed to be vacuumed. I looked in the hall and didn’t see a housekeeper. I did see a vacuum, though. I thought, why bother the housekeeper when it would only take me a few minutes to vacuum. Turns out the vacuum was broken and barely worked.

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This is not the vacuum I found and this is not the hotel I stayed at. Image source: https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g255069-d257801-i231589895-Pullman_Cairns_International-Cairns_Cairns_Region_Queensland.html

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Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden, Yard House & More): $20 Bonus with $100 GC / eGC Purchase

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(Hat tip to Kal for the email)

Good afternoon everyone.  I have a good gift card deal for you from Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, Yard House, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Bahama Breeze, Eddie V’s and Wildfish Seafood Grille in the U.S.).  During their Father’s Day Bonus Offer, you will receive a $20 bonus gift card with every $100 Darden gift card you purchase.  This offer works the same if you buy egift cards (eGCs) or physical gift cards (GCs).  I’m not sure if there is a limit on the number of gift cards you can purchase during this promo.

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