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Point Me To First Class

10. Sign-up Bonus Snafus and How to Avoid Them

Point Me To First Class

Devon Gimbel MD

Finances, Education, How To, Travel, Credit, Expenses, Card, Cards, Society & Culture, Professionals, Tips, Personal, Places & Travel, Business, Points, Rewards

51K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

There are some amazing sign-up bonus offer on the market right now. Even if you utilize several different methods of earning points for your expenses, new card sign-up bonuses are still the easiest way to earn lots of points quickly. However, you want to be absolutely sure that when you get approved for a new rewards credit card, you don’t make a mistake that’s going to cost you your sign-up bonus. This week, learn how to avoid common sign-up bonus snafus.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Point Me to First Class, the only show for employed professionals, entrepreneurs,

0:06.2

and business owners who are looking to optimize their higher than average expenses to travel the world.

0:10.8

I'm your host, Stephen Gimbleimble and I believe that your expenses are your

0:13.9

greatest untapped asset if you know how to leverage them. Ready to dive into the world

0:18.8

of credit card points and miles so you can travel more, travel better, and travel often.

0:23.0

Let's get started.

0:24.0

Hello everybody.

0:30.0

Today's episode is an important topic because we are going to be talking about sign-up bonus snafoos,

0:37.3

namely the various ways in which you can accidentally not earn a sign-up bonus when you get approved for a new rewards credit card.

0:45.1

And knowing how to avoid missing out on earning a sign-up bonus is so important because even

0:50.6

if you utilize several different methods of earning points for your expenses,

0:55.0

new card sign-up bonuses are still the easiest way to earn lots of points quickly.

1:00.0

So you want to be absolutely sure that when you get approved for a new rewards

1:04.4

credit card you don't make a mistake that's going to cost you earning the sign up

1:08.2

bonus. In this episode we are going to look at what can go wrong that will

1:12.2

prevent you from earning a sign-up bonus on a new

1:14.4

rewards credit card, and more importantly, how you can be sure to not fall into one of these traps

1:20.3

so that you never miss out on earning those glorious sign-up bonus points.

1:25.0

Sign-Up bonus snafu, number one, isn't actually about missing out on earning a sign-up

1:29.6

bonus entirely, but it is about missing out on the highest sign-up bonus offer available for a given

1:35.4

credit card. And you might think that for any specific credit card there would just

1:40.8

be one sign-up offer and anyone getting approved for that

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