Blue Cash Everyday & Blue Cash Preferred: $200 & $250 Sign Up Bonuses

The Offers

  • American Express has increased the sign up bonus on the blue cash everyday to $150 after $1,000 in spend. You can actually get $200 after $1,000 in spend by using the incognito mode techniques.
  • American Express has American Express has increased the sign up bonus on the blue cash preferred to $200 after $1,000 in spend. You can actually get $250 after $1,000 in spend by using the incognito mode techniques.

Card Details

Blue Cash Everyday

Blue Cash Preferred

  • Annual fee of $95
  • Card earns at the following rates:
    • 6% cash back at U.S. supermarkets (up to $6,000 in spend annually, then 1%)
    • 3% cash back at U.S. gas stations and select U.S. department stores
    • 1% back on all other purchases

Our Verdict

Neither offer is worth considering as we have seen better offers on both cards. For example Blue Cash Everyday recently had an offer for up to $300 and also bonuses of up to $450. The $450 offers were $250 base bonus and then 5%/10% on specific categories, for example:

Because American Express is once per lifetime I’d recommend waiting for a better offer. If you have any questions about American Express cards they are most likely answered here.
    William Charles
  • On September 22, 2017, 09:00

View Comments (24)

  • Does anyone know if buying a Visa gift card at Safeway will be counted as supermarket purchase or every day purchase?
    I'd like to try to max out that category this year but there is not much time left and it takes two billing cycles to see how much rewards I earned.
    Thanks.

  • Is it still possible to manufactured spend with Amex cards ? Was approved for BCP but the following T&C makes me wonder about manufactured spending ....

    If American Express determines that you have engaged or intend to engage in abuse, misuse, or gaming in connection with the welcome bonus offer, we reserve the right to withhold, freeze, or revoke statement credit from your account and cancel any accounts you have with us.
    Cash advances, balance transfers, interest charges, fees, purchases of gift cards, person-to-person payments and the purchase or reloading of cash equivalents are not considered purchases for the purpose of the $2000 purchase requirement.

  • The Blue cash Login now shows refer a friend bonus for $75 and they get $200 after $1000 spend.

  • Just a couple days ago I was still seeing BCP @ $200 for $1k spend with first annual fee waived, which is better than $250/$1k with $95 fee.

  • i tried signing up for the bc preferred card in the past (already bce holder) but my application was not processed because i already have a BCE (this was confirmed by two different credit analysts.)

    I've gotten conflicting reports as well from others at american express telling me it should be possible to have both the BCE and BCP simultaneously.

    Could anybody comment on this? Anyone here have both cards at the same time?

    • I had a BCE for a year, was targeted for BCP upgrade.
      applied for BCP (not upgrade), got the bonus, then upgraded my BCE to BCP (right now in process of getting the upgrade bonus)

    • Should be possible since they are all credit, not charge, cards. You are not eligible for a signup bonus when you product change though.

      • There are sometimes upgrade offers. There was one BCE -> BCP offer this summer.

        You should still sign up to the big card first, to get the signup bonus, because of becoming ineligible after upgrade.

    • I am wondering why a chase post in in a amex thread lol. the CIP is a great card but great like all things is in the eye of the beholder. chase and amex both have good points programs, I prefer chase but again everyone has different needs and use

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