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Amex CEO: We Used To Make Benefits Hard To Use—Now Reveals Plan For Even Higher Fees

Jul 20 2025

American Express still sees headroom to charge customers more, and make them feel o.k. with it by selling access to their cardmembers to adjacent brands in exchange for coupons and discounts. That strategy will work until they reach some theoretical limit – but they haven’t found it yet. As long as they keep promising you a somewhat better experience in aspirational portions of your life like travel, you will keep paying and keep spending on their cards.

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Finally, A Travel Portal Worth Using: Bilt Rewards Offers Direct Airline & Hotel Booking, Free Virtuoso Luxury Benefits

Jul 17 2025

Bilt Rewards has launched a new travel portal and it promises to fix everything customers hate about travel portals. In fact, it aims to actually make travel better and easier. At a minimum, they’re building along the right lines. And their new ‘Home Away From Home’ brings luxury travel benefits like Amex’s Fine Hotels and Resorts to their members without requiring an expensive credit card.

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Sapphire Reserve New $795 Overhaul: 100K Points & $500 Travel Credit Offer, Up To 8× Earn—The Definitive Verdict On Value

Jul 14 2025

The relaunched Chase Sapphire Reserve is now available. Those applying today get the new card value proposition right away. Here’s what I really think about the new card – as a standalone proposition, and about the changes for current Sapphire cardmembers. Should you get the card? Should you keep it?

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Sapphire Reserve Relaunch FAQ: What Chase Told Me About Deadlines, Bonus Rules, And Locking In The Old Deal

Jun 17 2025

It seemed worth pulling out separately things like ‘what happens to my existing Sapphire Reserve points?’ and ‘when does this change actually go into effect for existing customers?’ And perhaps even more importantly, ‘is there a brief window for me to choose whether I like the old or new product better?’

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