If this question was geared towards me, I have the AmEx Gold Business Rewards card--I got it back in like March I think when they were offering 50K pts after a 10,000 spend within 4 mths. I also currently have the AmEx Premier Rewards Gold Card---got it with a 50K sign up bonus after $1000/3. ...also bumped it up to 75K after secure emailing them

Not so sure that is an accurate statement. Seems like AMEX has stopped honoring match/bumps a few weeks ago so it's definitely YMMV if at all viable .

I am still waiting 2 months or more for a match .

Question for the experts out there. I was wondering if I can do a churn now..
Here is my history in this churn game.

was approved in March:
Amex Platinum
Citi AA Amex
CapOneVentureVisa
Chase CO MC
Barclays UsAir MC

mid-May: rejected for Amex Premier Gold and rejected for Citi AA Biz Visa.

So, it has been over six months. I was thinking of doing my second run of applications next week, say five or so. my credit scores are roughly 740 across the board with approx 11 enquiries which includes those above. Anybody have any advice/suggestions?????

Just FWIW - that Chase United Explorer card 60k offer seems to have been at least postponed until November (think the current offer is 40k). Robyn

Is there something key about the Oct 5th date? Is there new offers coming online?

just my personal churn date.....however, I will not apply for the United Explorer card as that 60K offer is not here (yet)....so, I will postpone that card until my next churn date of February '12.

Chase INK Business Card (50K sign up bonus after 5K spend)......pending
AMEX SPG Business Card (25K after 5K spend/6mths)...APPROVED!!
CITI AA VISA........call us, we need more info
CITI AA AMex........Call us, we need more info

Stay tuned

Newbie here - How do you secure email them if a better offer comes along right after you were approved?

The US card from Barclays is actually the BEST deal now. You get 40K miles first use, fee waived, 5K discount on every US award, priority boarding, lounge passes, and best of all Barclays only pulls from TransUnion, giving a break to the Experian pulls most of us have too many of. Even the lower level US card now has the 40K bonus.

Also the US card is very churnable. It's the new Citi AA churn of old.

I also put the CO biz card in my last churn as it's disappearing soon and the Hyatt as it's spend terms are changing (old 1st purchase link still available two weeks ago). I may soon do the AirTran as it's disappearing. I'm waiting on the UA Explorer as it'll be around.

After you've done many non-churnable cards it's important to grab disappearing ones.

Where is the first purchase link for the Hyatt card , versus the spend one ?
The post that had an A Or B choice seems like the A link for no spend brings me to $ 1k spend for second night free.

I applied and was approved in time , but want to apply for my wife and would prefer the no spend if still available.

Can't find it now but I just used it 2 weeks ago. It may well have disappeared in the meantime as all links I could have used go to the new offer or expired. (I took a pdf of the offer I applied under.)

Amex will not match. I got hosed on this offer. They sent me a notice today that after a review of the issue (I had to escalate it to the powers that be), they determined I had not been invited and would not receive the bonus. This was despite receiving a secure email confirmation that I would receive the bonus.

Trey33 - Welcome to FlyerTalk!

After logging in to the credit card company's website, there should be a secure email center where you send and receive messages to the company. Log in and look around for it. It should be easily visible from your account summary page.

Got it, thanks!

Hi, new to churning here but do credit pulls drop every quarter? Is that why it seems the OP is churning in 3 month intervals? I recently got denied for the old 75k citi card for toomany transunion pulls....wondering when those drop off