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pkerr Jun 20, 2012 10:40 am

How to spend $10,000
 
I've got to spend $10,000 (for work) and I'm wondering how to get the most bang for my points buck.

I've already got:
Citi Mastercard and Amex
Chase Sapphire and Ink Bold
SPG Amex and Business

I've had:
BA Visa
Venture One
Marriott

aureo11 Jun 20, 2012 10:45 am

https://www262.americanexpress.com/b...ly/44060-286-0

Seems like a pretty simple way to do it.

fandu Jun 20, 2012 11:29 am

How to spend $10,000
 
Where do u have to spend? If we know that, we could recommend one of the cards u have. Also is it one charge of 10k? Does all your CC have 10k limit?

saacman5033 Jun 20, 2012 11:35 am

I've gone ahead and moved this to the Credit Card Programs forum

inY Jun 20, 2012 11:39 am

Is your spend domestic or foreign?

pkerr Jun 20, 2012 12:55 pm

Domestic
It's for software license.
I've got plenty of room on my C.C. for the spend but it could be split between 2 or 3 if necessary.

fandu Jun 20, 2012 1:24 pm

As previous poster entioned, if you have the time, you can apply for the Amex business gold.
If not, I would get 2 Amex prepaid and load them with $2500 using Ink Bold in office depot buying Vanilla card. The remaining 5k would go into SPG. 3 cards used in total. If you can use more, I would do 3 Amex prepaid and 1 SPG.

mia Jun 20, 2012 1:27 pm

If you apply for the card linked in post #2 a $10,000 purchase would generate 85,000 Membership Rewards. If you are not interested in that solution we could compare other alternatives, but nothing else will come close to generating the same amount of value.

pkerr Jun 20, 2012 1:28 pm


Originally Posted by fandu (Post 18790626)
As previous poster entioned, if you have the time, you can apply for the Amex business gold.
If not, I would get 2 Amex prepaid and load them with $2500 using Ink Bold in office depot buying Vanilla card. The remaining 5k would go into SPG. 3 cards used in total. If you can use more, I would do 3 Amex prepaid and 1 SPG.

I've thought about the AMEX prepaid (which I have) but the possible problem with that is that it would require the purchase of 10 - $500 cards to load up the 2 AMEX cards. That might raise a red flag at Chase and cause some problems.

pkerr Jun 20, 2012 1:29 pm


Originally Posted by mia (Post 18790648)
If you apply for the card linked in post #2 a $10,000 purchase would generate 85,000 Membership Rewards. If you are not interested in that solution we could compare other alternatives, but nothing else will come close to generating the same amount of value.

That's right. 75,000 plus the 10,000 in spend. Thanks

aviator8 Jun 20, 2012 1:30 pm


Originally Posted by aureo11 (Post 18789595)
https://www262.americanexpress.com/b...ly/44060-286-0

Seems like a pretty simple way to do it.

dito

Dr_wanderlust Jun 20, 2012 2:08 pm

http://personal.fidelity.com/product...ent_card.shtml

bitachu Jun 20, 2012 7:07 pm

what about the ink bold? doesn't it have a 10k min spending to reach the additional 25k bonus

pkerr Jun 20, 2012 7:51 pm


Originally Posted by bitachu (Post 18792354)
what about the ink bold? doesn't it have a 10k min spending to reach the additional 25k bonus

The new one does. The one I have didn't.

pkerr Jun 20, 2012 8:05 pm

Done - AMEX Business Gold

Thanks for all the advice


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