Originally Posted by
Adelphos
It seems like you are interested in cashback more than anything else - if so, Chase's travel portal is a good deal.
Not really - I've been using my CSR for a couple years and have always transferred points if there was an award travel deal available or used the travel portal. The flexibility of having the travel portal as the fallback (with a solid 1.5 cents per point value) is a big plus.
That's really my point, Amex has loads of things that I really like, the benefits as a whole, the idea of travel credits and uber credits, however they're all so restricted in the ways you can use them. If they came out tomorrow and said the MR points can now be used in their portal for 1.5 cpp, cashback at 1 cpp, and all the credits they offer like Uber and travel lost all the silly restrictions, I'd be all about it.