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AMEX Marriott cards add 10x earning

NRB525 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 04:49:35 GMT

TPG notes AMEX Marriott cards now have offers for 10x points on gas, dining, and Marriott stays, through Oct 31.

You activate three Offers to the card, to boost earning in each category. Limit is 7,500 spend across all three categories but it's a pretty good offer.

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coldfusion — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:46:09 GMT

I see the offers on my Brilliant - 4 bonus pts/$ for hotels, 8 bonus pts/$ for gas, 7 bonus pts/$ for restaurants

The phrasing isn't $7500 across all 3 offers, it's $7500 for each offer.

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coldfusion — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:48:39 GMT

As a side note, I miss my SPG card.

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Physh1 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 16:15:11 GMT

I got them...verbage indicated $7500 per category...

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cashorcharge — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:36:58 GMT

I miss SPG too @coldfusion

Thanks for sharing OP

I glanced over that same email offer. Thanks for the details

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K-in-Boston — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:38:59 GMT

@coldfusion wrote:
As a side note, I miss my SPG card.

I miss earning SPG and spending Marriott. 7.5 to 8% back on the upper end of 5 digits of spending added up.

I got all 3 offers on my Brilliant card as well. Guess I'll be moving restaurant spend away from Gold and gas spend (all $30-60 a month of it) away from CSR for the next 12 weeks. Really wish the offers were good through the end of the year rather than Halloween, though. My hotel spend isn't likely to be much.

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cashorcharge — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:44:12 GMT

Not sure if you were a part of it before @K-in-Boston but....I too got that email about the new Marriott/Restaurant/Credit Card register program where you get points for using any credit card, anywhere as long as you register it and it's at their partner restaurants. I thought okay, I'll use this...and registered all the cards I use for dining out in my rotation right now...incidentally....those cards were ALSO registered in a similar programming with American Airlines...their "Advantage Dining" program and as the Marriott program registered....I got "sorry you removed your card from "Advantage Dining" emails immediately after. Apparently...and perhaps I didn't read the fine print...but I am guessing the program is managed by the same 3rd party provider and you can't have a card registered in both programs...I had no idea.

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K-in-Boston — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:08:34 GMT

@cashorcharge wrote:
Not sure if you were a part of it before @K-in-Boston but....I too got that email about the new Marriott/Restaurant/Credit Card register program where you get points for using any credit card, anywhere as long as you register it and it's at their partner restaurants. I thought okay, I'll use this...and registered all the cards I use for dining out in my rotation right now...incidentally....those cards were ALSO registered in a similar programming with American Airlines...their "Advantage Dining" program and as the Marriott program registered....I got "sorry you removed your card from "Advantage Dining" emails immediately after. Apparently...and perhaps I didn't read the fine print...but I am guessing the program is managed by the same 3rd party provider and you can't have a card registered in both programs...I had no idea.

Yes, almost every major dining rewards program is done by Rewards Network and each card can only be used in one program at any given time. The Marriott program isn't really that new (I want to say it was introduced back before the SPG merger was final), but they've been advertising it a lot more lately. I started using Rewards Network with Southwest then changed it to Delta a few years back, and with VIP status I was earning 5 SkyMiles per dollar. When Rakuten launched theirs, I switched it over because 5 MRs are more flexible than 5 SkyMiles (and I can always transfer MRs to SkyMiles 1:1).

Amex, Chase, BOA, etc. offers with the same restaurants of course stack, and sometimes there are other things that will stack as well like Groupon+.

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cashorcharge — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:09:32 GMT

Thanks! I hadn't heard about the Marriott program until this week. I don't recall if I ever got the notification from SPG years ago.

Thanks for sharing!!!

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K-in-Boston — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:16:47 GMT

@cashorcharge wrote:
Thanks! I hadn't heard about the Marriott program until this week. I don't recall if I ever got the notification from SPG years ago.
Thanks for sharing!!!

I had to go back and look. My first email about Eat Around Town was from last October, but I know Marriott had a dining program earlier (maybe it was short-lived and didn't pan out, like their shopping portal). I don't recall Starwood actually having a dining rewards program.

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RootDet — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 04:40:09 GMT

@K-in-Boston I am quite confident they did not have a dining program as well.

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Aim_High — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:02:43 GMT

Thanks @NRB525

I posted previously about a very similar offer on

Chase Marriott Boundless Visa in 07/16/2020 thread ...

... and been taking advantage of it since then!

https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Credit-Cards/8-Back-on-Chase-Marriott-Bonvoy-Boundless-NEW/td-p/6083523

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Loquat — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 03:18:36 GMT

I never got the targeted offer on my Ritz card so this is nice that Amex has it. I will be moving all of my dining spend to my Bonvoy Business card and once I hit the cap on my CSR for gas stations then I'm going to move my gas spending to the Bonvoy card as well.

Pair this offer with the few stays I have coming up at Marriott properties and couple it with Titanium status means a nice 27.5 bonvoy points per $ which is sweet.

However because I use my Bonvoy card at Marriott I must first burn the spend $50 off $200 offer at Marriott that my wife and myself have on our BBP card.

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RickNATL — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 04:25:26 GMT

Guess it's time to my Bonvoy to work...just not at a hotel...still not ready for that.