The Points Mom

Why I Got The Starwood Preferred Guest Luxury Card Yesterday With The Hefty $450 Fee And Does It Make Sense For You?

    I only had a 3 day window to get this Starwood Preferred Guest Luxury Card with the 100,000 Marriott/SPG Point sign-up bonus offer. I applied and got approved for it yesterday. The reason I needed to act so quickly is because I would have been limited by the following restrictive language from Amex […]

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How The American Express SPG Business Card Is Changing In August

We recently learned that SPG, Marriott and Ritz are becoming one unified loyalty program.   With this development comes changes to some of the cards that currently exist.  Let’s take a look what changes are in store for the American Express Starwood Preferred Guest Business Card. Card Rewards-Instead of Starpoints, you will earn “points” with the card […]

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How The American Express SPG Card Is Changing In August

We recently learned that SPG, Marriott and Ritz are becoming one unified loyalty program.   With this development comes changes to some of the cards that currently exist.  Let’s take a look what changes are in store for the American Express Starwood Preferred Guest Card. Card Rewards-Instead of Starpoints, you will earn “points” with the card as […]

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The Fate Of Your American Express Starwood Cards

For all of you out there (Including myself) who, due to the merger, were concerned as to the fate of your American Express Starwood Preferred Guest cards, fear no more! Yesterday, Marriott announced that Chase AND American Express will remain credit-card issuers for the new ultimate combined loyalty program.  Marriott signed co-brand credit card agreements […]

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Amex Did Not Give Rob The Same Retention Offer As They Gave Me To Keep The Amex SPG Card

The $95 annual fee became due on Rob’s personal American Express Starwood Preferred Guest card.  He never uses this card because we use my Amex SPG Business card or my Amex SPG personal card when we choose to use a Starwood card. Recall back in March, my $95 annual fee on my own personal card became due and […]

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I Am Going To Be Using My American Express SPG Business Card A Lot For Awhile

    I recently took advantage of an offer that I received through my American Express Starwood Preferred Guest Business card.  With the offer I can earn 10,000 bonus Starpoints, if I spend $10,000 on the card by June 30, 2017.  So essentially, I will be earning double SPG points on my purchases, up to […]

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