Amex end game: What to do once you've signed up for all the cards? | Ep154 | 6-11-22
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 11 June 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Yes, you can continue to march on the Amex point parade even after you've signed up for all the cards.
00:53 Giant Mailbag: What's the best loyalty program outside of the United States?
4:18 Mattress running the numbers: Magazines.com stacking deals
9:08 What crazy thing did....Curve do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/is-the-curve-card-ready-for-prime-time-hint-not-yet/
14:25 Main Event: Amex end game
15:52 No Lifetime Language offers (NLL)
19:26 A "lifetime" may be shorter than you think
https://frequentmiler.com/bending-amexs-lifetime-rule/
22:50 Downgrade / Upgrade path
26:11 Ways to earn more points with your existing cards (first up: referrals)
31:11 Authorized user / Additional cardholder bonuses
34:07 Pay Over Time bonuses https://frequentmiler.com/amex-20000-mr-for-enrolling-in-pay-over-time-check-link-to-see-if-youre-targeted/
41:04 Retention Offers https://frequentmiler.com/a-well-timed-retention-offer-yields-18-75x-without-a-new-account/
44:45 Post roast Nick Roasts Marriott
https://frequentmiler.com/marriott-award-booking-adventure/
48:21 Greg Roasts Nick https://frequentmiler.com/the-hidden-cost-of-point-transfers-should-you-take-advantage-of-that-transfer-bonus/
53:09 Question of the Week: I got an Amex authorized user bonus. How long do I need to keep the AU accounts open?
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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. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's main event, the Amex Endgame. |
| 0:28.6 | What to do once you've already signed up for all the cards? |
| 0:33.6 | All the cards? |
| 0:35.6 | As you know, Amex is constantly coming out with amazing sign-up bonuses. And so a lot of us have been serially signing up for one after the other. But what do you do once you're through them all? We've got some great tips. And we will. It's not over. It's not over. Not over until it's over. No. The end game does not mean you're done. |
| 0:55.2 | Nope. Right. |
| 0:57.6 | Spoiler alert. All right. Time to dig into the giant mail bag. Today's giant mail comes from, |
| 1:08.2 | I don't know, an unnamed source, unsigned. |
| 1:14.6 | We've had a lot of... |
| 1:15.6 | Okay, no return address. |
| 1:16.6 | We've had a lot of discussion about what the best loyalty program is in the U.S. |
| 1:21.6 | I'd be curious as to your thoughts about which is the best outside the U.S. |
| 1:26.6 | I've noticed that overseas loyalty |
| 1:28.6 | program recognition can be incredible. And yeah, so what, you know, what this person is talking |
| 1:35.1 | about, we've heard many times and some of us may have experienced that you might go to a, |
| 1:42.0 | even like a holiday inn or something like that in Asia and get incredible |
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