CardOffers offers $40 bonus for being approved for Open Road credit card (as of 1/10/10). You will need to become a CardOffers member and apply via its website in order to get the bonus.

If you do not want to pay an annual fee, check Discover Miles card with a similar offer. You will not get double miles though.


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You get 25,000 miles if you make one purchase every month during the first 25 months. There are few possible scenarios how to maximize profit from this card while paying as fewer fees as possible.

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Below are terms and a bonus link (red font) for a $100 Rewards Plus Gold Card promo.

IBD note: Rewards Plus Gold Card is a different product than this $150 gift card (<=15,000 points) AmEx Premier Rewards Gold Card bonus, for which you can get a $150 gift card (15,000 points). The first annual fee is waived for both cards. The first annual fee is waived for both cards.

You can exchange 10000 points for a $100 gift card. See examples of gift cards from Dell, Home Depot, GAP, etc here (You may have to use Firefox or Netscape, not Internet Explorer to see AmEx Rewards website!!!).

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-> see the same deal for Starwood business credit card

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Note: You can exchange 10,000 sign-up Starpoints for:

• $100 Amazon.com gift certificate or
• 5 free weekend nights (2000 points per night) in Starwood category 1 hotels or
• 3 weekday nights (3000 points per night) in Starwood category 1 hotels.

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IBD note: You can exchange 20K TY points for $200 in gift cards (see here)
You net bonus after subtracting $75 annual fee will be $125. It was reported elsewhere on the Internet that one may avoid the annual fee by switching to a regular non-Elite PremierPass credit card within 45 days. I do not know how valid such reports are.



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Note: You can exchange 5000 points for a $50 gift card (see more details here).


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You get 12,000 miles if you make one purchase every month during the first year. You can exchange 10,000 miles for $100 travel credit or $50 statement credit (see here). Terms of a similar business credit card show that you can also exchange 12,000 miles for a $100 gift card ( see here). I assume this is applicable for this personal credit card too.

You can also see some info about tavel reward redemption here.

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