The Amex Blue Business Plus card increased from 10,000 points to 15,000 points for the referrer. New member still gets the same 10,000 points. (ht to wiivile on r/churning) The maximum per year is still 55,000 points.
The American Express referral program allows referring from any Amex card to any Amex card. When referring, the key is to refer FROM the card that gives the highest bonus, irrespective of which new card the friend is going to sign up for.
A lot of cards offer the referrer 10,000 points or $100 per referral; some cards offer even less. The Platinum cards offer the referrer 15,000 points per referrer and the Business Gold card offers 20,000 points. (Update: now the business Platinum is showing 20,000 as well.)
A lot of us don’t have those premium cards, and previously the 10,000 level was their best option. If you have the Blue Business Plus card, you can now get 15,000 per referral by using the link generated from that card.
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Saw a FB ad saying the 15k for referrals on BBP is only until 9/25/19. Not sure if it will drop back down to 10k then.
Not appropriate to self-promote here. You’ve done this twice in this thread. Stop.
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For BB+ card if anyone needs it.
The new membership points summary page is very detailed from Amex.. Gives month wise details + pending points
Yeah or all your points clawed back if your friend is yourself
Looks like self referral is dead
I did a test referral from a SC+ account and noticed that when I scroll down, there are other biz cards that the referred can choose from and one is the BBP. Will refer P2 and P3.
If you’re about to self-refer STOP. r/churning is getting multiple reports of MRs for self referrals being clawed back this afternoon going back through 2018 referrals people already paid taxes on. I’m sure DoC will have a write-up when he gets a chance. Let the dust settle if you don’t have a P2 who can refer you (P1-P2 referrals aren’t being clawed back at this time). And check your MR accounts if you self-referred this year or last from a MR to a MR card.
Also according to this comment their MR account has now been locked is under review. Will have to wait to see if others get the same notice. This particular user had over 100k MRs from self-referring clawed back so the large amount could have been the trigger, not just the action of the clawback. https://www.reddit.com/r/churning/comments/cbuf0q/discussion_thread_july_11_2019/etjpnaq/
Is it just self-referral for personal cards or can you SR personal to Biz and v/v? I don’t spend much time on Reddit (time suck phantom for me). I’ve not tried (witnessing the RAT Claws last year) have a SO that is my P#2 so that helps cover that base. Mainly curious, wasn’t sure if you had read any DP
Thanks
Any big players on SR got burned. One or two off seemed to have flown under radar (for now)
Both Biz and Personal were clawed back as you can sr to/from both, don’t think we’ve seen anything under 80k clawed back yet but there’s always the chance Amex is taking this in batches. Thankfully only one DP of someone going into MR Review so far.
Trying to figure out the math and the Time table on how they could SR that many MR pts in the first place and so quickly and get MSR bonus as well as SR bonus, I guess that there are enough charge cards. They had to be new (or been around for more than 7 years) to Amex – who hasn’t picked up bonuses on a few cards if your in this game.
Reddit has some legit crazy people living on the edge of The Game. And this is regarding activities in 2018 + 2019.
Wow. I got roasted pretty hard on reddit about a month ago for suggesting that self-referring was risky.
Link or it didn’t happen
https://www.reddit.com/r/churning/comments/by6w5x/manufactured_spending_weekly_thread_week_of_june/eqfwylu/?context=3
“Who are these dumbfucks? Where are they? You gotta pay taxes on it but that’s it. I have got 150k MR just this year in just self referrals and it’s only June!”
Pretty funny now.
I self referred from personal Platinum card to Blue Cash Preferred and everything looks fine right now.
OK change of plans, I’m going to need one of you to refer me and then go ahead and just slide those points over to me upon completion. a clear win win.
How many of these cards is it possible to get? My bussiness spends like 200k annually
B/C it is a CC and not a charge card I think (or guessing) that the limit will be 4-5 total . But you would only get a single bonus – I’ve noticed that AMEX has been real conservative with 0% APR CL and has not allowed shifting of CL to 0% card but they are quite liberally when no 0% is in play ( i.e. my BBP CL is $4k but my Delta Biz Gold $25k, 15k SPG biz, etc )
FWIW its a great 2X no AF MR card – you might be able to PC other Amex BC to the BBP card to have 4 BBP cards for $200k at 2X