Originally Posted by
pokee
Yeah, I did this with the BA Visa to get the 50k and it was really, really challenging to get $5k in 3 months even with Xmas coming.
I am currently getting ready to spend $3k in 3 months with my new Biz Amex and that will prove to be challenging enough - esp. since my Amex cannot be used everywhere I spend.
It is tough to spend 9K in 3 month as have to fulfill 3k for AMEX gold biz, even more difficult as I plan to apply extra RBC BA CC for my wife.
At the end of the day, fact in $165 fee 3% paypal cost to manufacture these 54k (45k+9k) avios points, return is not great: (165+270)/54k=0.8 cpm, cheaper then buy avios, but worse then AMEX plat.