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Dec 21, 2013 | 10:55 am

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Join Date: Jan 2009

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Bowgie

There is only one good reason to hold either of these cards: the $25,000 annual cc spend waiver in lieu of spending $12,500 MQD's.
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I use my Capital One Venture card for all my expenses (and I will exceed 25k per year on that for sure). That will give me 2% cash-back (when I redeem against all my travel related expenses, which I have plenty of), so that's a minimum of $500 cash back in lieu of hitting the MQD requirement (minus the $59 annual fee). And the AmEx card has 2.7% foreign transaction fees, the CapOne does not have any.

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