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SPG Lifetime Gold, Still Worth Chasing Lifetime Platinum?

SPG Gold For Life

Chasing SPG Lifetime Platinum I love Starwood hotels and after 8 years of Platinum, I finally hit Gold for life this year. While that’s nice, what I’m really looking to get is Platinum for life which still requires another 211 nights and 2 years of Platinum status. The 211 more nights is still a few years…

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Amex Airline Fee Credit Tips & Tricks ($200 American Express Platinum & $100 Premier Rewards Gold Charge Cards)

American Express Amex $200 Airline Fee Credit

Updated on April 6, 2017 Amex $200 / $100 Airline Fee Credit Tips & Tricks – Overview Friends and readers have asked about what they should do with their Amex $200 / $100 Airline Fee Credit benefit. I find it quite tough to spend $200 annually on airline incidental fees such as checked bags and…

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Amex Platinum $200 Gift Card Reimbursement STILL Alive (Even For Prior Purchases)

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Updated on December 14, 2023 $200 Gift Card Reimbursement STILL Alive 1/28/17 Update: AA gift cards reimbursement still working ($100 x 2). More details on how to use your $200 Amex airline credit on various gift cards. Doctor of Credit first reported that gift card purchases made after (or even slightly before) August 20th were not being reimbursed…

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Scoring 200,000 American Express MR Points – Amex Business Platinum and Premier Rewards Gold Offers

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Updated on December 14, 2023 In this post, I will share how I scored 200,000 American Express Membership Reward points (200k Amex) from 2 credit card signups – the Amex Business Platinum charge card for 150,000 points + the Premier Rewards Gold credit card for 50,000 points. Fair warning before you read on: the Premier Rewards…

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Citi Premier 50K Bonus – Tip to Score $848 AA / US Air Credits (instead of $662)

Citi Premier 50k

Updated on February 19, 2016  Overview Citi has gotten aggressive with pushing its credit cards.  First it was Citi Prestige $1,350 Deal and now they have upped the sign-up bonus to 50K for the Citi Premier after spending $3,000 in 3 months.  Citi cites that you can get 1.25c per Thank You (TY) point, which…

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Weekend Update – $1000 Lyft Bonus, SPG News, Barclays US Air 50% Bonus, Marriott Changes

Don’t have time to sift through BoardingArea and Flyertalk?  It’s been a BUSY week while I was featured on BoardingArea this week! Here are the Rewarding Highlights from the past week: $1,000 Lyft Driver Sign-Up Bonus: What a crazy promo! The short version: if you sign up to be a Lyft driver in one of the cities…

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Updates: SPG Platinum Suite-Blocking, SPG Amex Credit Stack, Mistake Airfares & More

Updates: SPG Platinum Suite-Blocking, SPG Amex Credit Stack, Mistake Airfares   The Reward Boss is featured this week on Boarding Area.  The last time I was featured was the week of August 4th, 2014.  Here are some updates since my last feature week:   SPG Platinum Suite Blocking – still works (according to my sources), despite…

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Weekend Update with TheRewardBoss – July 12, 2014 (Death of Avianca GUM award, United Platinum Trial $100, Uber 20% Off, Citi AA 100K)

Updated on February 19, 2016 Don’t have time to sift through BoardingArea and Flyertalk?  Here are the Rewarding Highlights from the past week: USA-Tokyo (aka Guam) now costs 250% more using Avianca LifeMiles – one way coach went up from 12.5k to 32.5k and one way business went up from 25k to 65k. It was good while…

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