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Slickdeals reports that 2 popular cash back cards (especially for supermarket spending!) are offering additional statement credits.
You can now get a $25 statement credit as an additional sign-up bonus on the American Express Blue Cash Everyday card when you make a purchase within the 1st 3 months of opening your account.
This is on top of the usual $100 statement credit you get after spending $1,000 on purchases in the 1st 3 months of opening your account.
And with the American Express Blue Cash Preferred you’ll get a $50 statement credit when you make a purchase within the 1st 3 months, on top of the $150 you get back after spending $1,000 in purchases with the 1st 3 months.
I don’t know how long these offers will last.
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Blue Cash Everyday® Card from American Express
Link: Blue Cash Everyday® Card from American Express
Besides the 2 statement credits of $100 and $25 you get:
- 3% cash back at US supermarkets (up to $6,000 per year, then 1%)
- 2% cash back at US gas stations and select US department stores
- 1% cash back on everything else
- NO annual fee
- Terms and limitations apply
The landing page says, “Two ways to make your next visit to Universal Studios Theme Parks even more thrilling,” but you do NOT have to visit Universal Studios Theme Parks or make a Universal purchase.
Any purchase will work!
Blue Cash Preferred® Card from American Express
Link: Blue Cash Preferred® Card from American Express
With this offer, you get the normal $150 back after you spend $1,000 in the 1st 3 months of account opening. But now you can get another $50 back when you make any purchase with the 1st 3 months.
This card gets you:
- 6% cash back at US supermarkets (up to $6,000 per year, then 1%)
- 3% cash back at US gas stations and select US department stores
- 1% cash back on everything else
- Terms and limitations apply
This card has a $75 annual fee.
Because both are personal cards, you can NOT get the sign-up bonus again if you’ve had them in the past.
Bottom Line
You can get a total of a $125 in statement credits as the sign-up bonus for the American Express Blue Cash Everyday card.
And a total of $200 back as your sign-up bonus for the American Express Blue Cash Preferred card, also when you spend $1,000 on purchases in the 1st 3 months of opening your account.
The normal sign-up bonuses on these cards are $100 and $150.
These offers might not last long!
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Cash back is received in the form of Reward Dollars that can be redeemed as a statement credit for which they charge a fee
So what is Target classified as?
What if we just do a lot of ms at Target? How much could we make then?
Or if we just go to Kroger and get a bunch of the Visa gift cards at the 6% rate then cancel the card after one year to avoid the annual fee? We can then use the cashback to pay for award fees and taxes.
I have severely reduced my AMEX spending with their “one bonus in a lifetime” rule. It’s true that some cardholders would meet the minimum spend and then not use the card. That’s clearly not profitable for the bank. But others may have used the card during that one year substantially. And AMEX loses their % of any of those juicy merchant fees as well finance charges in some cases. I predict an eventual change in policy closer to the 24 month rule CITI and CHASE now have in place.
Can I get this bonus if I had the old blue cash card before they split into blue cash and blue cash preferred?