Originally Posted by Doctor of Credit

The ROI on bank bonuses is much higher than that of Amex gift cards, just not as scale-able. If you're happy with amex GCs, great. A lot of people are looking for other methods that don't require multiple steps to unload and can be done from home/internationally which isn't possible (or at least easy/profitable) to do so with AGCs.

It's always nice to have back up methods for when AGCs/other tactics dry up and you should always have exit plans.