Originally Posted by
msc75
Few options, none of them very practical:
2. If you get a new credit card, you will still have to wait for the card to arrive, hit minimum spend if there is one, and then wait for statement to close
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Not True. Amex points post immediately after the bonus spend is met. You could apply tonight for the cards, they fedex the cards so you'll have them within a week if you get autoapproved, and you could have the points post the next day, if you put the minimum spend on each immediately. I
recently got both Hilton Amex cards in an app-o-rama, and got 110k points, and neither has posted a statement yet.