Amex has a new signup bonus available for its Gold Business Card. You can earn 25,000 Membership Rewards points–enough for a free domestic round trip ticket–by applying now and spending at least $1,000 by October 31, 2008. As part of this offer, the annual fee of $125 will be waived for the first year.
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Make 3 purchases with your Chase Freedom Visa card using Blink by June 6, 2008 and you’ll receive either a $10 statement credit or 1000 points.
The terms of the offer additionally state:
Only transactions made with the Visa payWave feature during the promotional time frame are eligible for this offer. Visa payWave transactions occur when the card is waved in front of the secure reader at checkout. The reader will indicate that the Visa payWave transaction has been processed. Transactions not eligible for the offer include swiped transactions, online transactions, PIN, ATM and other transactions not processed over the Visa network.
“Blink” is Chase’s contactless technology, allowing cardmembers to hold their card near a point-of-sale reader at checkout instead of swiping their card. For a list of merchants that accept Blink, visit chaseblink.com. (Via SD)
When you purchase two American Express gift cards of at least $25 each between May 1 and June 30, 2008, you’re eligible to receive a $25 Spring Fling gift card valid at Best Buy, Borders, Fandango and SpaFinder.
To complete this offer, you’ll need a rebate form which you can pick up at the stores selling the gift cards. Two offers can be completed per household, and all submissions, consisting of the rebate form and the original receipt, must be made by July 22, 2008. Spring Fling cards expire 90 days from their issue date. (Via SD)
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State Farm’s Good Neighbor credit card offers a 0% introductory APR on balance transfers for 9 months, with no balance transfer fees in the first 90 days. After 90 days, balance transfers carry a 3% fee with a $5 min and $75 max. Unfortunately, there are a couple of important caveats: according to FW, 1) you’re unlikely to be approved for the card unless you have a preexisting relationship with State Farm, and 2) State Farm is known to pull from all three credit bureaus.
The Citi CashReturns card offers 5% cash back on all purchases for the first three months that you hold the card, with NO limit to the cash you can earn. It’s a truly incredible deal, especially if you can get a large credit limit. 5% is enough so that it even becomes profitable to pay your taxes with your credit card.
However, all good things must come to an end and the offer must have become too expensive for Citi to continue as the 5% offer was pulled from their site today. Instead, the card will only earn a flat 1% cash back, with an “additional 20% bonus” for your first year. Reading the fine print, what it really means is that you’ll earn a 1.2% rebate for the first year.
The 5% offer is still available for a limited time here, though it will probably be gone by Wednesday.
Edit 4/15: The 5% offer is likely to disappear at any time now…
Edit 6/1: The 5% offer is no longer available.
Sign up for a Discover More card by July 7, 2008 and receive a $100 cash back bonus after making $500 in purchases in the first three months. The deal also offers a 3.9% APR on balance transfers until January 2012, but carries a 3% balance transfer fee with no cap.
To apply for this offer, visit apply.discovercard.com and use promotion code: DANX. (Via FW).
On Monday, Discover announced that it had reached a deal with Citigroup to purchase Diners Club International for $165 million. This acquisition should eventually result in increased global acceptance of Discover, enabling Discover cardholders to use their cards at international merchants that accept Diners Club. In turn, international Diners Club cardholders would be able to use their Diners Club card at merchants who accept Discover in North America. Discover expects that integration of the networks would take two to three years.
Currently Discover is only accepted in North and Central America, the Carribbean and China, so adding the Diners Club network will significantly expand its global reach and make it a bigger player among upscale consumers and business travelers.
Chevron and Texaco released a redesign of their personal credit cards yesterday, along with several benefits for new cardholders:
The free road service offer is valid on new accounts until the end of the year, while the gift card offer is valid on new accounts opened between April 1 and May 31, 2008. More details can be found at http://www.chevrontexacocards.com.
It should be noted, however, that you’ll still be better off in the long term instead using one of the many gas cards rebating at least 5%, since the Chevron/Texaco cards do not offer rebates past the initial 90 days.
Amex is now running a promotion where you can get 4 free movie or museum tickets by meeting specific purchase requirements at select merchants, which in most cases means making 2 or 3 separate purchases. Once you have completed the purchase requirements, you’ll need to send in the receipts along with the appropriate redemption form to receive your tickets. If no participating theater or museum is nearby, you’ll receive a $40 Amex gift certificate instead. For the full list of participating merchants, museums and theaters, see the promotion website.
For those that live near a Del Taco restaurant, eating there seems to be the easiest way to fulfill the terms of the promo, particularly since there is no minimum purchase requirement. While you have until May 31, 2008 to complete all of your purchases for the other merchants, Del Taco purchases must be made by May 20, 2008. (Via SD).
The Advanta Life-of-Balance Platinum Card now offers balance transfers at 2.99% for the life of the balance with no balance transfer fees.
With a fixed rate at 2.99% and interest rates being where they are, it doesn’t make sense to park this money in a savings account, but this card could be a good option for transferring higher rate balances.
Update 9/9/08: Advanta no longer offers the 2.99% for life card. Advanta has replaced the 2.99% for life card with the no interest for 90 days credit card.