Two years ago, American Express and social networking site Foursquare began a partnership that let Amex cardholders check in and receive instant discounts at select merchants. Today, Foursquare has announced that it is expanding this program to Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards.
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Under this offer, when you apply for an American Express® Premier Rewards Gold Card, you’ll receive 50,000 Membership Rewards points after spending a minimum of $1,000 in your first 3 months. In addition, the annual fee of $175 is waived for the first year. That’s a much sweeter deal than the public offer for this card which requires $2,000 of spending for only 25,000 Membership Rewards points.
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American Express and Twitter have a new ecommerce experiment in the works. We saw the first example of it at work in Monday’s $25 Amex gift card deal. Their ultimate goal seems to be to turn Twitter into another platform for ecommerce, powered by Amex’s proprietary Card Sync technology.
Their next step in enticing consumers to buy in? Beginning today at noon EST, they will be offering special deals on products from Amazon, Sony, Urban Zen and Xbox.
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While supplies last, American Express cardmembers can purchase a $25 American Express gift card for $15. You will, however, need a Twitter account (which you can create for free, if necessary). To take advantage of this deal, follow these steps:
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As of Sunday, merchants are now allowed to charge up to an extra 4% when you use a Visa or MasterCard credit card to pay for your purchase. This change comes as part of a settlement reached last year between merchants and Visa and MasterCard over the fixing of credit card and debit card fees. The fee is supposed to represent the extra cost incurred by the merchant for processing the credit card transaction, which is typically between 1.5 and 3.5%. Under the settlement agreement, this “checkout fee” is capped at 4%.
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Best Buy currently has a coupon that you can use in-store to get $50 off a purchase of $100 or more when you use your Mastercard between January 21 and January 27, 2013. There are, however, a ton of exclusions:
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For a while now, there have been rumors swirling about that US Bank would be tweaking the benefits for its excellent Cash+ Visa Signature card. And honestly, given how lucrative the program currently is, it would be surprising if US Bank let it continue on in its current form forever. Particularly with all of the prepaid card churners that the Cash+ card has attracted, the program can’t be sustainable as it is.
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While similar deals have been around for a while, this United MileagePlus Explorer offer is still attractive if you’re willing to jump through a few hoops. Under this offer, you’ll earn 50,000 miles after spending $1,000 within your first 3 months of cardmembership, a $50 statement credit after your first purchase and an additional 5,000 bonus miles after you add an authorized user to the account who makes a purchase within the first 3 months. In addition, you will earn another 10,000 bonus miles in every calendar year in which you spend at least $25,000.
The annual fee of $95 is waived for the first year.
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After a brief hiatus, the 50,000 point bonus signup offer for the Southwest Airlines Premier Credit Card is back again. Even better, the minimum spending requirement has dropped back down to the customary $1,000 within three months, rather than the $2,000 the last time this deal was offered a few months ago. 50,000 points can be redeemed for about $833 in Wanna Get Away fares, which should be enough for at least 2 round-trip flights.
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Navy Federal Credit Union is ringing in the new year with an excellent balance transfer offer–through February 28, 2013, when you open a new Navy Federal credit card, you’ll get a 0% fixed APR on balance transfers for 12 months with no balance transfer fees. Even better yet, this offer is also available to Navy Federal Credit Union members who transfer balances to an existing Navy Federal credit card.
To see if you are eligible for Navy Federal membership, see this link.
For more information on this balance transfer offer, see this page.