Navigating Amex’s Welcome Bonus Family Rules | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep261 | 6-28-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Amex has long had rules against getting a new welcome bonus for a card you’ve had before. Now, they’ve expanded those rules to include "families" of cards. In this episode we'll help you navigate this confusing and tedious concept.
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Main Event: Navigating Amex’s Welcome Bonus Family Rules(1:03:24) - About Amex's "Pop-Up Prison"
(1:06:58) - Family types
(1:09:08) - How to find the rules. Look for "Offer Terms"
(1:12:16) - Skirting the pop-up prison
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | 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. |
| 0:13.6 | What crazy thing did? |
| 0:15.9 | City this week. |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.9 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.1 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Liler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.8 | Today's main event, navigating Amex's welcome bonus family rules. |
| 0:32.4 | Amex has long had rules against getting a new welcome bonus for a credit card that you've had before. |
| 0:38.5 | But now they've expanded those rules to include families of cards. |
| 0:43.6 | So if you're trying to get a card that's similar to one that you've had before, |
| 0:47.3 | you might be out of luck. |
| 0:48.7 | We'll talk all about how to navigate through those rules around them and get yourself |
| 0:53.6 | a whole bunch of welcome bonuses |
| 0:55.2 | anyway. We should really call this the dysfunctional family rules because you know, you're |
| 0:59.4 | family and you think, you know, love and togetherness and then there's there's not enough love |
| 1:05.0 | with the MX family roles. But like you said, but it probably depends on the family whether you think it |
| 1:12.1 | think of it that way so let's hope we'll get into that a little bit later but don't forget |
| 1:16.8 | you can always find the timestamps in the show notes so if you want to jump ahead to something |
| 1:20.2 | or you want to come back and revisit a segment later on you just have to expand the description |
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