American Express has sent out e-mails to some cardholders offering to upgrade them to higher card (e.g Hilton no annual fee to Ascend). Check your e-mail to see if you’ve received an offer. Offer might also show if you click ‘view all personal credit and charge cards’ on the American Express website.
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No Annual Fee Hilton To Hilton Ascend
- Bonus of 75,000 points after $2,000 in spend within 3 months of upgrade. Annual fee is not waived.
Same offer that was offered in February. Still waiting for upgrade offers of 100,00 points like we saw on the Surpass.
Everything You Need To Know About Upgrade Offers
If you have any questions about these upgrade offers, I’d strongly recommend reading this post.
Our Verdict
Normally you can get the bonus from an upgrade offer, even if you’ve received a sign up bonus on the card your upgrading to before (although if you do upgrade and haven’t had that card before you won’t be able to sign up and get the bonus later). If it doesn’t automatically post then you usually can’t fight it though, but that is somewhat rare. I think these instances are why American Express added the new restrictive fine print but no way to know for sure.
If you’ve had the card you’d be upgrading to before then these upgrade offers are great as usually you wouldn’t be eligible for a second bonus anyway. If you haven’t had that card before I wouldn’t recommend upgrading as usually the stand alone sign up bonuses are higher (e.g Ascend is 100,000 points + free night on anniversary currently). One additional advantage to upgrading is that you keep your account history and a new account isn’t open, that might be useful for those worrying about their 5/24 status. As always if you have nay questions about upgrade offers, read this first. If you have any questions about American Express cards, read this first. Otherwise ask your questions in the comments below and we will be happy to answer.
Hat tip to Undsputed
