Comments on: Delta’s Amazing SkyMiles Card Offer: “Amazing” Is All Relative

By: mitaliano

mitaliano — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:58:43 +0000

My Mother passed away over 10 years ago and still gets credit card offers and other junk mail. However, regarding the skymiles card, I also got the offer for 40,000 miles but the caveat on mine was that if I had ever had a delta skymiles card previously I would only receive the bonus 15000 miles and not the 40000. a year or so ago I did get the card, got the 25000 miles, used it for a free ticket to Salt Lake City and then cancelled the card so I guess they are finally catching on to “Miles Junkies” like me.

By: rick

rick — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:37:14 +0000

Believe that depends on the card you get. Some will charge an annual fee for AMEX and some will not. Sometimes a prefered card comes with extra perks and a fee. Avoid them. Not worth it. Play the game. I currently have a US Bank World Perks card (NWA), a Chase card (Continental) and a AMEX (Delta). All three had offers of 20,000 bonus miles and no fee the first year. I just canceled my Citi Card (AA) since the first year was up and now a fee kicks in. Got my 20,000 bonus miles. Here’s the beauty of most of these offers. After you cancel wait a month and apply for another. You’ll get it and 20,000 bonus miles. With AMEX wait a year since they track this stuff. My wife does the same and we fly cross country twice a yera First Class and we still have a bundle in each airline account sine we charge everything and pay it off pronto.

By: Robert Blechmqn

Robert Blechmqn — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:43:50 +0000

Maybe if credit card companies spent more money cleaning up their mass mailing lists (or better vetting potential customers rather than granting credit to all and every), they wouldn’t have to charge such high rates of interest to make up for credite defaults and to line their own pockets!