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Old Aug 11, 2012, 2:08 pm
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mnscout
 
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Originally Posted by Splittin' Aces
So to put this another way, you get 25K miles on sign up, and then 2 miles per $ spent if you spend $7,500 within six months. Not terrible, but there can be higher earn rates than 2mi/$ for that $7,500 on some other products.
True, but you will keep getting miles on your regular spend, as well. Worst case of 1:1 scenario you will get another 7,500 miles which makes it 3 miles per $ or 47,500 miles total. That's quite decent.
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