Old Jan 13, 2017, 8:04 am
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Discussion from 2013 - 2016 is HERE.
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Also check Delta.com: Sometimes better offers might be available there.

The Amex referral page has a 60K offer for the Delta Personal card.

The following offers for up to 70K on personal and business:

https://www.delta.com/content/www/en....html#Platinum

https://www.americanexpress.com/us/c...83-GAG4:0001#/


valid through 04/11/2018

There are several 60, 000 miles offers for the personal card with the first year annual fee waived the first year, valid through May 1, 2019. They are listed in this referral thread. These are way better than the current standard public offer of 30,000 miles shown on Delta's website

Delta Amex Gold personal card: 50k+10k miles + $50 statement credit, $2,000 spend, $95 annual fee waived the first year
https://www.americanexpress.com/us/credit-cards/personal-card-application/delta-gold-credit-card/


Delta Amex Gold Business card: 50k+10k miles + $50 statement credit, $2,000 spend, $95 annual fee waived the first year
https://www262.americanexpress.com/business-card-application/flexapp/gold-delta-skymiles-business-credit-card/

personal card: 70k miles, $3,000 spend, 10k MQM, $100 statement credit, $195 annual fee not waived the first year
https://www.americanexpress.com/us/credit-cards/personal-card-application/platinum-delta-skymiles-credit-card

Delta Amex Platinum business card: 70k miles, $3,000 spend, $100 statement credit, $195 annual fee not waived the first year
https://www262.americanexpress.com/business-card-application/flexapp/platinum-delta-skymiles-business-credit-card

If you are current Delta Platinum AMEX cardholder, you might be eligible for 10K referral offer. New cardmember bonus is 70K.
https://www262.americanexpress.com/b...af/201193-CCSG




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From 2013-2016 thread:
Delta Amex Gold personal card: 60k miles + $50 statement credit, $3,000 spend, $95 annual fee waived the first year
https://www262.americanexpress.com/d...803/learn-more

Delta Amex Gold Business card: 60k miles + $50 statement credit, $4,000 spend, $95 annual fee waived the first year
https://www262.americanexpress.com/d...card-learnmore

Delta Amex Platinum personal card: 50k miles, $1,000 spend, $100 statement credit, $195 annual fee not waived the first year
https://www.americanexpress.com/us/c...dTGh6YYi20bhY=

Delta Amex Platinum business card: 50k miles, $1,000 spend, $100 statement credit, $195 annual fee not waived the first year
https://www262.americanexpress.com/b...H*eEoCo4ueJ0=?

Delta Amex Gold personal card: 40k miles + $50 statement credit, $1,000 spend, $95 annual fee waived the first year
https://www.americanexpress.com/us/c...C30TFwBwHd9o=?

Delta Amex Gold Business card: 50k miles + $50 statement credit, $2,000 spend, $95 annual fee waived the first year
https://www.americanexpress.com/us/c...13-GAFH:0001#/




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Gold Personal:
"Earn 60,000 bonus miles after you make $2,000 in purchases on your new Card within your first 3 months and $1000 more w/in 6 months and a $50 statement credit after you make a Delta purchase with your new Card within your first 3 months."
https://www.americanexpress.com/us/c...elta-skymiles/

A post on Reddit suggests that you can find a 50K offer, but with a $100 credit, by doing a dummy booking on Delta.com.
The offer should appear before you have to pay for the flight. [Did [b]not work when I booked a flt today, 3/15/17.]

Gold Business:
https://www.americanexpress.com/us/c...13-GAFH:0001#/
"Earn up 30,000 bonus miles after you make $1,000 in purchases on your new Card within your first 3 months and a $50 statement credit after you make a Delta purchase with your new Card within your first 3 months."

Platinum Personal:
https://www304.americanexpress.com/c...skymiles/25330
"Earn 70,000 bonus miles and 10,000 Medallion Qualification Miles (MQMs) after you spend $3,000 in purchases on your new Card in your first 3 months."

Platinum Business:
https://www.americanexpress.com/us/c...83-GAG4:0001#/
"Earn 70,000 bonus miles and 10,000 Medallion Qualification Miles (MQMs) after you spend $3,000 in purchases on your new Card in your first 3 months and a $100 stmt. credit."
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Note: Review the recent discussion in the thread about various other ways to try to locate offers as high as 50k+$50 credit.

Getting the statement credit:
MrMoonlight successfully purchased a Delta ecert (essentially a gift card) and received the statement credit. See this post..
Jacobsta811 also received $50 credit for $50 e-cert on both gold business and gold personal cards.
muji received $100 credit for $50 eCert on Delta Platinum card
sdsearch received $100 credit for $50 eCert on business Platinum card (see this post).
vah4883 received $100 credit for $5.6 tax on Platinum card
philemer received $100 credit for buying a box lunch on board
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Old Apr 5, 2017, 8:51 pm
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Originally Posted by sdsearch
To where? Indonesia???

Within the USA, Amex often (but not always) sends cards second-day UPS, but it may not get sent until a day or so after approval (ie, allow time for them to create the card).

But I don't know if anyone knows in what cases they do or don't send 2nd day UPS. (It might depend on whether the card has an annual fee, I'm not sure.)
Ah, I should have clarified -- to California. According to the rep, it will be/was sent via USPS.
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Old Apr 5, 2017, 9:24 pm
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Originally Posted by hightide
I know it states card takes 7-10 business days to arrive, but I'm wondering does it usually take this long? How long did your card take to reach you?
What's the rush? Are you leaving the country soon? USPS could take 3-7 days.
Some cards come fast via UPS and some slower by USPS. Just have to wait.
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Old Apr 5, 2017, 9:39 pm
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Originally Posted by Superorb
Wife received the 60k+$50 and I got the 50k+$50 offers in the mail today. Both expire April 18th.
Can you share the website link to apply for the 60k 1k offer? I need to get the Business Gold Delta one lol, but never got a mail offer.
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Old Apr 5, 2017, 9:40 pm
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Originally Posted by philemer
What's the rush? Are you leaving the country soon? USPS could take 3-7 days.
Some cards come fast via UPS and some slower by USPS. Just have to wait.
Thanks for the info, so most likely it will arrive in time.
I'm hoping it will arrive in time for a $1k charge due on Apr 15th.
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Old Apr 6, 2017, 12:23 pm
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Originally Posted by cce5858
Can you share the website link to apply for the 60k 1k offer? I need to get the Business Gold Delta one lol, but never got a mail offer.
I received a targeted email offer for the 60k, $50 statement, $1k spend. The link asked for personal information to confirm identity before moving on to the app. I don't think there's a website floating around out there for a non-targeted similar offer.

I first got a 50k, $50 statement, $1k offer after my first Delta flight in loooong time, back in February. I passed. Took a second Delta flight in March, and then got the 60k offer emailed right after completing the flight. I bit on that one!

So if you have any upcoming Delta flights, you might get a mailer/email afterwards.
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Old Apr 6, 2017, 12:49 pm
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Originally Posted by cce5858
Can you share the website link to apply for the 60k 1k offer? I need to get the Business Gold Delta one lol, but never got a mail offer.
They require you to enter your DL FF account number, but it's www.delta.com/getaway60k. Worth a shot I suppose. Mine for 50k was the same link but 50k at the end.
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Old Apr 7, 2017, 1:15 pm
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Why people still have this POS card in their wallet is beyond insanity. Delta MASSIVELY devalued their awards AGAIN today!

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.c...increase-2017/
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Old Apr 7, 2017, 4:30 pm
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Originally Posted by Dieuwer
Why people still have this POS card in their wallet is beyond insanity. Delta MASSIVELY devalued their awards AGAIN today!

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.c...increase-2017/
I wonder if AMEX will use all these devaluations as leverage when they need to renegotiate with DL.
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Old Apr 8, 2017, 4:51 am
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Originally Posted by Dieuwer
Why people still have this POS card in their wallet is beyond insanity. Delta MASSIVELY devalued their awards AGAIN today!

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.c...increase-2017/
If one is using the Delta Amex cards to earn Delta miles, especially for domestic coach travel, I agree one can do bettter. But if one is using them for the MQM bonus and/or MQD waiver, it gets more complicated. Personally I never make any decisions about how to use my Delta Amex that imply any value greater than 1 cent per point to a SkyMile, and I still do think it worthwhile to spend $25k/year (and to divert spend to other cards immediately upon hitting that threshhold).

I'm sure there are a lot of Delta Amex cardholders who are using it for the "wrong" reason, but presumably many on FT are savvier.
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Old Apr 8, 2017, 8:14 am
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I have had the Delta Gold card for 5 months. I signed up for it when I was targeted with 50k signup. It was perfect because I was flying Delta in January and could use the miles. I also used it to get discount entry into SkyClubs so I thought it had decent value to me at the time. I only used it 3 times total and didn't plan on using it much since I have a PRG, Hilton, and new Platinum card. Yesterday I got an email offer for 0% APR for the next 6 months. So now the card has a little more value to me in case I need to make a big purchase. I'll probably cancel the card before the AF is due at the end of the year anyways.

One question I do have though...I have a few flights planned on AA,UA & WN. Might be able to make one of those flights a DL flight. Would I still get a free checked bag if I pay with my Platinum, but present the DL Gold card at check in?
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Old Apr 8, 2017, 8:24 am
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Originally Posted by Dieuwer
Why people still have this POS card in their wallet is beyond insanity. Delta MASSIVELY devalued their awards AGAIN today!

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.c...increase-2017/
And the alternative is?

All the airlines devalue at one point or another. I see this kind of post about every airline card there is (at one time or another)!

The grass is not greener over the hill for very long. As the blog you linked pointed out, what Delta just did was to essentially copy what United did a couple years ago (make awards exclusively on partner flights more expensive than awards that include its own metal).

One way to look at it is that if the miles needed for awards increase, you need even more miles, so you need the card even more.
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Old Apr 8, 2017, 9:45 am
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Originally Posted by Dieuwer
Why people still have this POS card in their wallet is beyond insanity. Delta MASSIVELY devalued their awards AGAIN today!
As a new hub captive, I recently applied for the 60k/$50 offer. I see it like this:
I expect to make at least two personally-paid round-trips per year with a checked bag. As a non-elite, that pays for the fee for the Gold card, and priority boarding is very handy. Everything else is gravy (even if it's crappy gravy).

After making minimums, I only expect to spend on the card for deals and special offers. All my travel charges go onto my Sapphire Reserve.
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Old Apr 8, 2017, 9:48 am
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Originally Posted by TJMAC
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One question I do have though...I have a few flights planned on AA,UA & WN. Might be able to make one of those flights a DL flight. Would I still get a free checked bag if I pay with my Platinum, but present the DL Gold card at check in?
Good question but I'd suggest you ask it on the delta forum. Anyone on this thread know the answer?
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Old Apr 8, 2017, 11:33 am
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Anyone else thinking of cancelling the Delta Amex card in protest over the changes?

I took both Gold and Biz Platinum out for the bonuses, and normally don't try and get any of the fee back on cards I take out, but this seems like a different case.

I will definitely cancel one. of the two in protest and let them know. Probably both as I can get some fee back from the Biz Plat, and the Gold doesn't have many benefits for low spenders.
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Old Apr 8, 2017, 1:35 pm
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One question I do have though...I have a few flights planned on AA,UA & WN. Might be able to make one of those flights a DL flight. Would I still get a free checked bag if I pay with my Platinum, but present the DL Gold card at check in?
I think as long as you still have the card, you should get free checked bags.
No where in the term that says you have to buy the tickets with the card.
http://www.delta.com/content/www/en_...-bag-free.html
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