The popular 50,000 point promotion for the Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Premier card is here once again. When you spend at least $2,000 within the first 3 months of opening your account, you’ll earn 50,000 bonus points. 50,000 points doesn’t go quite as far as it used to, given the recent Southwest point devaluation, but it still can be worth over $700 towards Wanna Get Away fares.
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Today, Citi rolled out a number of changes to the Citi ThankYou Premier Card, including an improved signup bonus, lower annual fee and changes to its rewards categories. On the whole, the changes represent a significant upgrade from the previous offer.
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Today, Discover announced that it was introducing a new safety feature they call Freeze It. The new, free feature acts like an on/off switch to block new transactions, so users can deactivate their cards if they have temporarily misplaced their card.
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After a period of time when the pickings were slim and uninspiring, the past few days have seen a few excellent Amex Offers released. The latest one is from the West coast-based warehouse-style food and supply store, Smart & Final. American Express cardmembers can get $25 off their purchase of $50 or more in-store when it is made by June 30, 2015. And even better, this promo can be redeemed up to 3 times per eligible card.
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In what is sure to be a popular offer among those who are fortunate enough to be targeted for it, American Express is offering a fantastic deal for shopping at Amazon
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The latest publicly available Amex Offers come from Diesel, Personal Creations and Pharmaca. In addition, there are targeted offers available from JCrew, Chewy.com, Enterprise Rent-a-Car and JellyBelly.com, among others. Read about these deals and more in the latest Amex Offers roundup.
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According to research done by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, there are now about 40 million US Amazon Prime members in the U.S., who each spend about $1,500 a year on average. Amazon.com Visa cardholders, who represent about 15% of US customers, spend even more than Prime members, possibly encouraged by the 3% rebate they earn on Amazon.com purchases.
The question is–with all the money they spend, can Amazon.com Rewards Visa Card members do even better than 3%? In this post, we explore many alternatives that offer more cash back, including one that Amazon introduced just in the past week.
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Citizens Bank just announced a new cash back credit card that promises to earn up to 1.8% cash back on all purchases with no annual fee and no foreign transaction fees.
The Citizens Bank Cash Back Plus™ World MasterCard® earns an unlimited 1.5% cash back rewards on all purchases. You’ll also earn a 10% Purchase Bonus on your cash back rewards when you make at least one purchase every month for six consecutive months or more, and another 10% Relationship Bonus when you directly deposit your rewards into a Citizens Bank personal checking, savings or money market account. When you take advantage of both the Purchase Bonus and the Relationship Bonus, your rebate effectively becomes boosted to about 1.8%.
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After a few weeks without much in the way of new Amex Offers, several new ones just popped up, a few of which should be quite popular. New Amex Offers include discounts from Lowe’s, Chevron, Boston Market and Best Western. Read on to get the details. » Read more
Over the past couple of years, Discover has simplified its product line, discontinuing several cards and rather single-mindedly promoting its general purpose Discover it cash rebate card. Now, it appears that Discover has decided that it is the right time to introduce a new card to the competitive travel market. The new Discover it Miles card earns an unlimited 1.5 miles on all purchases, which in itself is nothing special. What makes the card potentially attractive is that for the first year, all of your earned miles will be doubled, meaning that you’ll earn 3 miles per dollar on all your purchases.
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