Just want to let a few people know how I got 2 of the 75k memberships.
Basically on the first application I called AE directly and the agent was so nice he spent 10 minutes deep searching the offer for me, got the 75k pts and he found a better one, 5k spend. When I got the card w/ AMEX to activate the rewards and the card, I checked to make sure it was 75k , agent said yes so I'm sure it was right.
Tried to apply my spouse which failed 4 times after HUACA'ing non-stop.
Agents either said, need RSVP code, must have some code, cannot search awards, and cannot use forum links. Luckily she got a 75k bonus offer in the mail.
So 5 calls, 1 was successful, maybe you could hope?