Today, we start with the comparison between the Chase Marriott Rewards Premier Visa and the American Express Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card. Let’s start with the highlights of each respective cards and then breakdown each factor. As promised, I will discuss tangible and intangible factors.
I would like to provide more information the new American Express Fixed Points Travel Program, along with answers to some previously asked questions.
A few changes to the credit card industry, as well as a new addition warrants an update to this list. Below is the explanation of each grouping:
My friend Jeff, from Canadian Kilometers recently wrote a post about the new American Express Fixed Points Travel Rewards. He offered a very comprehensive explanation, so I will supplement what he already mentioned.
I am actually very excited about this new offer. This new move puts them more in line, or maybe even more competitive than the RBC Avion and CIBC Aventura programs.
I have been ranking the overall credit card portfolios of each financial institutions. However, I think it may be worthwhile to rank business credit card portfolios only. As I have been collecting my own batch of business credit cards, this will be helpful for me too.
This is a fairly common question and quite understandable. And you may have noticed that my answer has always been, it depends. It depends on what your spending habits are. Which is why if you ask 10 different people, changes are, you will get 10 different answers. The truth really is that it will vary from person to person, because of 2 main factors:”
A reader asked me last time, what the purpose was of this ranking. Basically, you do what you want with the list, take it for what it is. As a consumer, this list can give you an idea on where to shift your business. For example, if you want to see some of the smaller companies survive and thrive, you will know where to move your business.
There have been a few changes to the American Express Membership Rewards program, since my last post when comparing the Canadian and U.S. versions. So let’s do another rundown.
The list has really trimmed down for this month. I really hope that it picks back up as we lead into the fall, but with record profits, that doesn’t seem likely at the moment.
We’ve updated our “Are you a business owner” page to include the option for business owners to have an American Express account manager for the first 12 months of a business card membership.