CO President Plus World Mastercard Offer -- good deal?
 

I got an "invitation" from Continental to get their Presidential Plus World Mastercard. Features are:
* President Club membership giving free access to lounges
* EliteAccess priority (whatever that is)
* Non-expiring Flex Elite miles
* Hyatt Gold Platinum membership
* Avis President club (two car class upgrade)
* Double onepass miles on hotels, rentals and CO airlines tix

Annual fee is $ 375, but credited $200 for signing up soon.
20,000 bonus points after spending $10,000

Any thoughts on this "deal"? Is it a good deal compared to other current and past CO CC offers?

Search is your friend ;)

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ht=world+chase

This one has been discussed to the death :)

They must be having a tough time getting people to sign up. I got a similar offer in December, but with a $100 credit for joining before the end of the year... Seems they're running things Detroit auto-style -- rebates!!

CLG

I would suggest this thread:

http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=629169

There are a lot of people who like the card and a lot of people who do not.

It's getting much closer to being attractive for me with the $200 discount. I'll have a tough decision to make if I am targeted.

Anyone have the link for the $200 offer?

Think of it as getting a PC membership for $175 for a year. That may be a dangerous proposition though as you're apt to like the PC and end up renewing the card or getting a recurring membership..

That's getting to be a better deal.

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I am going to hold off on this card until they give a better offer. $200 is nice, but a friend of mine got it fee free for the first year.

I got one today in the mail for 20,000 miles after the first purchase and an additional 20,000 miles after $5,000 in purchases.

I'm actually kind of pissed because I already got the card a couple of months ago and got $75 off the $300 (plus 7,500 miles as part of the mileathon promotion). :mad::mad:
I definitely would have preferred paying the $375 and getting the 40,000 miles! :mad:

Sounds like the card may have not gotten the initial reception that the card company wanted so they are sweetening the offer...

I prefer the travel bank card, but I am already platinum and have a pc membership. With travel bank I get cash into the travel bank "account" and have already made nearly $220 in less than two months. Plus unlike miles I can by any ticket I want, anywhere any time.

Though I must admit fee free the first year would be awesome on this Pres club card.

Ciao,
FH

I took the new card offer after 14 years with a regular Chase/CO card. The combination of PC membership (I got a refund on a 3-year membership), double travel miles and Flex EQM seemed worthwhile. In fact, I needed 71 of the Flex EQM miles to make Plat at the end of the year. That feature alone paid for the card in my case.

The travel bank card has got to be one of the crappiest credit cards ever.

Why would you want a card that gives you just a 1% rebate that must be used for travel on Continental???

Plus they even charge an annual fee for it!

There are so many better credit card options than that...

Is there a link for any of the decent offers on the app? Or is it another target offer?