topic Re: Amex is very fast with bonuses in Credit Cards

Amex is very fast with bonuses

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 16:39:48 GMT

Just this morning I noticed that Amex had posted the $250 BCP bonus to my online account. This occurred within 24 hours of spend being met. Thanks, Amex!

Re: Amex is very fast with bonuses

-Cal- — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 16:43:44 GMT

That is very YMMV

Usually if you're already an Amex customer then spending bonus posts fast. If its your first card sometimes it can take a while for it to post.

Re: Amex is very fast with bonuses

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 16:44:38 GMT

It is my first Amex card! I guess I am very fortunate that it happened quickly! I was really surprised to see it.

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chbartel — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:12:39 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
It is my first Amex card! I guess I am very fortunate that it happened quickly! I was really surprised to see it.

mine posted quick too and it's my first card. Logged in today and also saw my $250 posted, and I just hit spend requirement this weekend...

Re: Amex is very fast with bonuses

Runitup — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:40:10 GMT

They also post the annual fee quickly, lol. Seriously though, it's one of my go to cards. Enjoy!

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elim — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:43:25 GMT

Free money.... yum

congrats, they aren't as fast at MR's IMO

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Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 18:42:57 GMT

I posted about this just this morning! Ha! My BCP bonus was applied almost immediately after meeting the spend. I also mentioned that my travel credit for 2015 posted within 7 days and my 2016 credit posted in 2 days! AMEX is on top of it!

Re: Amex is very fast with bonuses

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 22:36:42 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I posted about this just this morning! Ha! My BCP bonus was applied almost immediately after meeting the spend. I also mentioned that my travel credit for 2015 posted within 7 days and my 2016 credit posted in 2 days! AMEX is on top of it!

RIght, for bonuses. As referenced above though, very very slow at posting spend rewards (at least for MR and cashback)

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Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 22:47:35 GMT

they were pretty fast with posting my delta miles.

not sure if i want to get the other gold card w/them but i have an offer for 50k burning in my pocket.

i opened a citi premier though instead of having my mom do it and so i don't know if i want another set of inquiries + additional credit open. maybe towards the end of this year when I shut down the premier...

what i love is they gave me the CLI i requested w/o hard pull and it wasn't 3x, the SL was pretty high in of itself.

they also post credit to my account asap, even when it hasn't left my other bank yet...

they also will tell me if I make multiple payments (and actually allow me to) how much is left of the statement balance i should pay so if i don't want to overpay and do the entire current balance (no problem) i can avoid the APR by paying statement in full...

no other lender does this (Chase, discover or citi).

Re: Amex is very fast with bonuses

joeaseer — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:11:50 GMT

Congrats on getting your bonus quickly and your new card. I got the special $250 bonus within 3 days of having the BCE card. I decided to get the BCE with the special $250 bonus to off set the cost of new tires. I met the spend on the first day and then magically the credit appeared a couple days later. And the BCE is also my first Amex card. I think they are doing these kind of things to be more customer friendly. Then we end up promoting how cool Amex is

Re: Amex is very fast with bonuses

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:35:09 GMT

That's awesome, congrats! I should meet the spend for my BCE bonus shortly, hopeefully I'm as lucky as you were and it posts quickly.

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Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:50:21 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
That's awesome, congrats! I should meet the spend for my BCE bonus shortly, hopeefully I'm as lucky as you were and it posts quickly.

I hope so, too, locative! It was great seeing that $250 credit in there this morning and knowing it can be put to good use on some nice post-holiday groceries! Free groceries are fun.

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Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:51:16 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I posted about this just this morning! Ha! My BCP bonus was applied almost immediately after meeting the spend. I also mentioned that my travel credit for 2015 posted within 7 days and my 2016 credit posted in 2 days! AMEX is on top of it!

Yay, Georgia! I'm glad it worked out well for you also. It's so nice to see that Amex is giving these out quickly to others as well.

Re: Amex is very fast with bonuses

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:52:18 GMT

@joeaseer wrote:
Congrats on getting your bonus quickly and your new card. I got the special $250 bonus within 3 days of having the BCE card. I decided to get the BCE with the special $250 bonus to off set the cost of new tires. I met the spend on the first day and then magically the credit appeared a couple days later. And the BCE is also my first Amex card. I think they are doing these kind of things to be more customer friendly. Then we end up promoting how cool Amex is

Agree 100% joe, and thank you!

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lg8302ch — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:56:53 GMT

Very nice ...looking forward to my SPG points..lol

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joeaseer — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:57:48 GMT

I forgot to mention a data point, I did something else that might have triggered the bonus to appear. I made a 250 dollar payment that same day that it appeared. Maybe the combination of spending over $1,000 the first day. And then paying $250 the third day made it happen so fast.