Originally Posted by emuyshondt
What do you mean with non-Amex overflow? Is that for places that don't take Amex? In that case I am much like you.
I pretty much charge everything to my Amex SPG Platinum card and there is no limit to the number of points I can get. There are not enough other charges to justify a fee based VISA/MC. I have a free one from MBNA with 0% balance trasnfer interest rate and offers MBNA's own Worldpoints. I haven't looked into how good those points are but they are building slowly since I don't use that card much.
Exactly...I find Amex accepted in enough places that I only need to run maybe $200-300/month (outside of Marriott stays) on a Visa. So even though getting 1 Marriott point per dollar is pretty lame, I don't sweat it on that small of an amount. It's just not worth carrying around a separate piece of plastic.