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Welcome to Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points.

And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less for your money back.

On today's coffee break, how to apply for the strata elite 100,000 point offer.

City is out with their brand new Strata Elite card.

That's their new $595 card, which may or may not be right for you, but a 100,000 point offer probably is right

for you if you can qualify. The trick is that there is both an 80,000 point offer out there and

a 100,000 point offer. And so we're going to talk about how to go for the 100,000 point offer.

Yeah. And I think it's, you know, it's important to note that this is an expensive card with a

$595 annual fee. And so like Greg said, it may not be a keeper card for you, but the 100,000 points

are worth significantly more than $595, so it could very well be worth

the investment to put the money in for that first year at least. And then, of course, after a year,

you know, we've talked before about all the various ways to kind of preserve your points by

downgrading a card or potentially by moving your points,

although with City, that's a little bit more complicated, I guess. But you've got options after the

first year is the moral of the story. So it doesn't lock in forever, which might make it worth it

for a year. But let's talk a little bit more about, A, how do you qualify for this

new offer? Who qualifies? If I have a strata premiere, can I still get this card? Yeah, that's the

nice thing, is that the only rules against signing up and getting the welcome bonus are if you've

received a welcome bonus for the same card in recent days, which,

of course, no one has that's listening to this soon after we record it. Or if you've received

a welcome offer in the past, in the recent past and converted a card to the strata elite,

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