My mother recently received an email offer for an American Express SkyMiles credit card with the subject line, “Your Amazing Offer has Arrived.” Here it is:
The quick read indicates you will get “up to 25,000 miles”, which is divided into seemingly two miles deposits: 20,000 up front and 5,000 more if you add more cardmembers.
*Mouse Print: The additional 5,000 miles has an unexpected twist found in footnote #2.
2,500 bonus miles will be awarded to your Delta SkyMiles account for each approved Additional Card submitted with this application, up to a maximum of 5,000 bonus miles.
One might reasonably have assumed that adding a single additional cardmember to your account would have triggered the extra 5,000 miles bonus.
On the same day that my mother received this offer, I also received an email entitled, “Your Amazing Offer has Arrived.” Here is what mine said:
So, I must be twice as amazing as my mother since I was being offered 40,000 miles instead of 20,000 (as she has no one to give another card to).
This is a terrible slight on my mother, who is a saint. In fact, she has been dead for three and half years.
There are some unprecedented bargains being offered in the cruise industry these days.
