The Offer
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There’s a new signup bonus offer for the American Express Business Platinum card:
- Get 120,000 points after $15,000 in spend within the first three months of card membership.
- Plus, earn 10X Membership Rewards points during your first 3 months of Card Membership on your first $7,500 combined in the following U.S. purchases:
- for advertising in select media
- at office supply stores
- for shipping services
- with wireless telephone service providers
- with materials and hardware suppliers
Note: we don’t know the source of this offer and whether it’s meant for everyone. Use at your own risk.
Card Details
- Annual fee of $695 is not waived the first year
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 5x points per $1 spent on purchases made with airlines or hotels booked directly from AmericanExpress Travel website
- 1.5x points on qualifying purchases of $5,000 or more
- 1x points on all other purchases
- $200 airline incidental credit per calendar year
- Lounge access:
- Centurion lounge access
- International American Express lounge access
- Delta SkyClub lounge access
- Priority pass select membership
- Airspace lounge access
- Marriott gold status
- Hilton gold status
- Fee Credit for Global Entry or TSA Pre✓
- No foreign transaction fees
- View these other hidden benefits
- SoulCycle benefits
Our Verdict
We’ve seen massive targeted offers of 260,000 or 230,000, but for the regular folk 150,000 or 160,000 or 170,000 have been the best offers available.
With this new offer, you can spend $7,500 in the bonus category (office supply, etc) and another $7,500 anywhere, and you’ll end up with 187,5000 bonus points. (It’s a total of 202,500 points: 120,000 bonus + 75,000 office supply + 7,500 regular spend points.)
For someone who has an easy time maxing out the category bonus, this offer might be superior to the 150k-170k offers. Also note, if you friend/spouse has a high Amex referral bonus, you might prefer signing up there if you can get 150k bonus + 25k referral bonus (just note the tax implications on the referral bonus side).
Personally I’d go for a simpler 150k-170k offer. You can read about my own recent Amex Business Platinum card signup bonus here.
Hat tip to Y50-70
Source: doctorofcredit.com