italdesign

Is this card as hard to get as the Club "4 HPs in 6mo is too many" Carlson?

DAS02135

Do you get hotel points, if you book a hotel using Flexperks?

I know you get airline miles on flights booked with Flexperks...

Ayase

No you dont get hotel points.
You only get those if booking directly with the hotel brand.

sdsearch

What you "know" is wrong. There may be specific hotel brands or specific hotels at which you may be able get miles with a Flexperks booking, and/or that may not issue them by policy but sometimes may make a mistake, but it's certainly not universal.

If you want your claim to be believed, please provide detailed specifics.

(The hotel sees it as an Obritz prepaid booking, or whatever third-party site, and most hotel programs rule out earning both miles and points on stays booked with third-party sites.

AsiaTraveler

In context, I took the OP's statement about airline miles to mean that you generally earn airline miles when booking an air ticket with Flexperks.

DAS02135

There is a new promo where you get 500 points for signing up for FlexPerk real-time rewards. Here's what the email says:


Instantly redeem FlexPoints for almost any purchase!1

Real-Time Rewards lets you use your mobile device to instantly redeem FlexPoints for the Flexperks Visa® Card purchases of your choice—a new swimsuit for your vacation, a new golf club and even the weekly grocery run.1

Activate Real-Time Rewards and earn 500 Bonus FlexPoints!2

Here's how Real-Time Rewards works:

1. Make almost any purchase with your FlexPerks Visa Card

2. Receive a text to redeem FlexPoints for that purchase1

3. Simply reply, "Redeem"

Electroman

That is my experience. Last year I got what would have been about $5,000.00 in airfare via FlexPerks, and I definitely got miles from the airline in question. I've never booked a hotel with these, though.

nfpa70e

May want to read the forum. I think some one had mentioned abut this.

I googled does flexperks use orbitz and there is lots of information. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post other sites. so run the search and you 'll find loads of information.

DAS02135

You can combine FlexPerk accounts from the travel rewards Visa and Amex. You'll need to call customer service. They let me do it yesterday.

Each card keeps a separate 120k limit on standard reward earning (ie 1 point per dollar for first 120k in spending, and then 1 point for every 2 dollars after during your card member year).

ed765

I applied for this card, and was approved with a $1,000 limit (decent FICO scores, no late payments, lots of cards in use, low utilization, and numerous applications, with other cards with limits going up to $100,000 plus) a letter from them tells me they based their decision on a score of 723.

I wanted the card because of their 3 miles per dollar on charitable contributions, of which I plan to make tens of thousands this year.

Of course, this makes the card of limited use, other an doing enough spending to collect the 40,000 bonus points. (probably by a series of $1,000 contributions, followed by repaying the debt just before the closing date).

After calling the I learned they do not transfer limits between cards (another card I have with them has a $20,000 limit).

I was told there was no way to talk directly to a credit analyst, but she would take a request for a higher limit. It turned out she could add notes, so I stated my willingness to document a couple of reasonably large (five million plus) liquid IRA and a similar sized variable annuity. Common sense would suggest knowing I had these could justify taking the risk of lending me large sums, say in the five figures (especially given they had already decided they could risk lending me $20,000).

While this is not the first time I have run across banks spending heavily to get a customer for a fee charging card, and then giving him so low a limit that he is unlikely to remain one (Well Fargo kindly gave me a Propel with a $2500 limit, and was not willing to reconsider.)

While other credit cards can be used for donations, the US Bank one could be useful.

Right afterwards, Capital One approved me for a Venture with a $20,000 limit. Capital one has a site where charitable donations can be made using their cards with out the charity paying any fee (thus you do not need to increase your donation a little for the cost to them of processing a credit card).

I post this partially since it may be useful to others, and partially in the hope someone has a suggestion.

Also, does anyone know how much money they might let you put through this card, before they object, or close the card?

newsmanhoss

I was told by a rep that transferring FlexPerks from a visa to Amex account was not possible. But this was several months ago. Perhaps the policy has changed.

If free transfers are still allowed between members, maybe the points could be routed through a third party and then back into your correct account.

PolarPlunge

Holiday bonus time! My offer was for 2500 bonus points for $4k spend. Not bad. Wondering what others are getting. Please share!

rc408

Mine was 2500 for $850. I finally got a good one.

Phantom707

I'm guessing this is just for the Visa version. I got nothing on my amex.

skibum3d

I have both the Visa and the Amex and haven't seen any offers on either.