Amex doubles down in the ultra premium card race | Ep106 | 7-10-21
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
00:21 Giant Mailbag: Is the AT&T Access More card worth keeping?
6:11 What crazy thing....did Amex do this week?
9:52 Mattress running the numbers: Marriott stay once or twice, get one or two free nights. Deal or no deal?
https://frequentmiler.com/targeted-marriott-stay-once-get-free-night-award-stay-twice-get-2-free-night-awards/
14:24 Main Event: Chase and Citi concede the ultra-premium card race while Amex doubles down
https://frequentmiler.com/citi-dumps-the-prestige-card-no-longer-accepting-applications/
https://frequentmiler.com/new-platinum-live-disappointing-restrictions-monster-offer-for-some/
https://frequentmiler.com/the-amex-platinum-coupon-book-review-on-my-mind/
https://frequentmiler.com/documents-reveal-changes-coming-to-your-favorite-rewards-cards/
1:03:47 Post Roast
https://frequentmiler.com/citi-premier-complete-guide/
1:06:52 Question of the Week: Can I spend toward an Amex welcome bonus via gift cards from GiftCards.com and will Amex charge a cash advance fee?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:12.0 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:19.7 | Jason City can see the ultra-premium card race while Amex doubles down. |
| 0:27.2 | We'll get into that today, Nick. |
| 0:29.9 | First, of course, we have a giant mail bag, and today I'm here with giant mail. |
| 0:35.0 | Oh, you actually have the giant mail. |
| 0:37.2 | I do. I have the giant mail. That, you actually have the giant mail. I do. |
| 0:37.7 | I have the giant mail. |
| 0:39.2 | That's exciting. |
| 0:40.5 | And because it's so giant, I'm only going to read part of the email that came to us. |
| 0:45.9 | I see. |
| 0:46.2 | This is, yeah, this is from Lauren. |
| 0:49.0 | She says, oh, I need to give some background first. |
| 0:52.5 | So this is about the city access more AT&T card that is no longer available to new applicants. |
| 1:02.0 | You can't get it if you want it. |
| 1:03.4 | You can't product change to it. |
| 1:06.0 | It used to be a favorite of ours because one of its features is it gets three X points for |
| 1:12.3 | online purchases and you used to be able to do things like I gift cards online and get three X, |
| 1:17.6 | but then that kind of went away and so on. Anyway, so that's that's some background. Lauren says, |
| 1:23.6 | I've been contemplating canceling my city access more card before the annual fee is due, |
| 1:28.2 | because the card is becoming less and less useful when more often than not, online shopping purchases |
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