I checked. My offer is still good but not that good. Lower spend and only 4000 points.
Chase Ink Preferred is at 90k points after 8k spend for $95 a month. Is this an increase? I can’t recall…
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Frequent Miler has info re: offers:
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I feel like mine was 100 or 120k?
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I started looking into it and 90k for 8k spending isn’t the best. I’ll just hang tight for a month or see. Maybe a better offer coming.
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Reminder for Amex Plat or any other cardholders with an airline fee credit: use them before you forget!
I have used my annual $200 credit at Southwest the past few years, but since I still have most of those credits in account AND and am pretty flush with SW points, I’ve decided to diversify my credit portfolio and move to United for awhile.
So, last weekend I logged into my Amex portal and switched my chosen airline from SW to United. I waited a few days for the electronic bologna to stick to the wall, then did a little research on the Flyertalk forum United/Amex credit thread to make sure I knew what worked.
Even though this annual $200 Amex Plat credit is technically for fees, upgrades, in-flight purchases, etc - the unpublished trick for SW is to purchase flights that are less than $108, wait for the Amex statement credit to hit, then cancel the flight (if you weren’t going to use it) for a flight credit.
For United, all you need to do is login to your United account and purchase Travelbank credits - there is no $200 option, so you have to do it in $100 amounts. Took 4 days for my statement credits to kick in, easy peasy. (Plus, you’ll note below: you get 5x Amex MR on the purchase, so an added 1K MR.)
Again - these tactics are unpublished glitches, so if you are unlucky and the credits don’t post, don’t try calling Amex and asking for help - you’ll just be waking up the beast. Enough beast wakeups and Amex could close the loophole.
But, in my experience, if you check those Flyertalk forum threads I linked above for recent data points and to make sure nothing unusual is happening when you plan to purchase, all should be good.
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Frequent Miler reports targeted spending offers for certain Chase cards, including Disney cards:
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Thanks for the heads up!
Sadly, I got a rock.
The only offers I seem to get from Chase for the last few years are discounts on HBO Max. 
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Rocks for me too.
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Same here! Oh well.
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Coming back to say - if you don’t get a good Amex Offer, wait awhile and check again and they’ll give you the exact same bad offer in a different form! 
Think I’m in my own personal Amex A/B Test.
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On a similar bad-deal topic:
Welcome to another episode of Always Do The Math (ADTM):
There was a GrubHub offer on my Amex Plat for Spend $20 get $5 back, up to 3 times - which seems pretty good at face value, I should use that, right? 25% back!
Now, I haven’t used GH in years, only had an account I created several years ago because a local pizza place only took online orders that way - then they went out of business and I had no other reason to use the service.
So, I logged in, and just like when I use Uber Eats I immediately fired up my ADTM machine:
On GrubHub I chose Pickup, selected the local Chipotle, and configured me up a tasty chicken burrito.
Final outcome: Chipotle Direct Order on left and GrubHub Order on right.
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Really, a THIRTY ONE PERCENT difference in price - even for pickup? That’s insane.
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I own QSR’s. The delivery platforms charge fees anywhere from 20 to 40%, depending on the advertising and what not that you are doing. For my stores, I raise my prices by an average of 19% on the delivery platforms. if someone chooses Pickup through the delivery platform, they will still get those “inflated“ prices. The only thing being avoided are the delivery charges. It’s a tough balance, I don’t like to have to raise my prices like that, but my margins would be completely eaten up by the delivery platform fees if I didn’t. All that being said, 31% is really high!
ETA - I don’t have an option to not charge those inflated prices for pick ups through the delivery platform.
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ETA - I don’t have an option to not charge those inflated prices for pick ups through the delivery platform.
That is a crazy system right there.
Yet, I am sure a large majority of buyers just don’t pay attention and take the hit.
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The only way around it that has been offered to me is to run our app through that particular delivery platform. Which means we could fix it for one deliverer, but not any of the others. Agreed, it’s a messed up system. For pick up orders it is almost always best to go directly to the restaurant website or app.
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The platforms do bring new customers or customers that weren’t sure what they wanted. But if I’m picking up I’ll always check for a direct order way. DH has even called orders in.
Oh, I’m all direct order too all things being equal - its just that playing the game I have monthly Uber Eats credits and random other ones that I end up having to use.
Most cases I only use the Uber Eats credits at places that don’t charge a higher price…
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I haven’t found one in my area. Not for pick up. I pay a premium for delivery. If a platform would charge a 0.99 fee for pick up orders- just to facilitate, no issues all day long.
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Speaking of Uber Eats: Pretty nice deal at Costco until 2/23:
Buy two $50 Uber gift cards for $74.99. (extra $5 off the usual discount.)
Frequent Miler blog has a good analysis on how one might use this deal multiple times if one wanted.
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