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Point Hacks Exclusive - 100,000 Bonus Membership Rewards Points with The American Express Explorer Card ($395 Annual Fee)

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Point Hacks Exclusive - 100,000 Bonus Membership Rewards Points with The American Express Explorer Card ($395 Annual Fee)
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Associatedpohaau on 13/02/2019 - 10:33 pointhacks.com.au (680 clicks)
Last edited 02/07/2020 - 09:25 by 2 other users

AMEX are offering an increased signup bonus of 100,000 Membership Rewards Points. This is an "Exclusive" offer that you can only get through PointHacks.

The 100,000 points offer is now live and ends on 21st March 2019.

Details include:

  • 100,000 bonus Membership Rewards Points when you reach the minimum spend of $1,500 on eligible purchases within the first 3 months of approval.
  • $400 travel credit every year offsetting your annual fee.
  • Up to US$75 credit when you book a two consecutive night's stay with The Hotels Collection.
  • Included Insurances - smartphone screen insurance and various travel insurances (PDS)
  • Free access to the Sydney or Melbourne Airport American Express lounge twice a year.

  • Flexibility to transfer out to 8 airline partner programs

  • Minimum income: $65,000 p.a

  • Annual fee: $395

  • Offer Expires: 21st March 2019

View the full offer details only at PointHacks.

This offer is only available exclusively through Point Hacks and not available through any other channel, including if you go to AMEX directly.

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  • Poolprouk on 13/02/2019 - 10:34
    +1

    Wish they'd do this again for the qantas card……

    • chuckwow on 13/02/2019 - 10:43

      Also hanging for the Qantas American Express Ultimate Card!

    • stirlo on 13/02/2019 - 10:45

      They did it this time last year for qantas… I hope the interchange changes haven't made them stop offering the 100K QFF deal…

  • homersyd on 13/02/2019 - 10:37
    +1

    what can you get for 100k MR points? eg. X QFF points or Y Asiamiles points?

    • John Stone on 13/02/2019 - 10:48

      For this card transfers are 4MR : 3 points to most frequent flyer programs.

      From mid April 2015 it will be 2MR : 1 point though.

      • bghunter on 13/02/2019 - 11:14
        +3

        2015 or 2019?

  • cnut on 13/02/2019 - 10:39

    How does the booking flights work? Got to go trough them? If so, do they price match?

    • John Stone on 13/02/2019 - 10:43

      You can do it all online through American Express Travel.
      Don't think they price match though.

      Also, I believe that most LCC are not part of the American Express Travel search engine, so keep that in mind.

  • John Stone on 13/02/2019 - 10:45
    +13

    Anybody that wants to get this card - I would recommend getting it ASAP or not at all.
    There is an upcoming devaluation in mid April on all redemptions (Gift cards, transfers to loyalty programs etc)

    If you apply now and spend straight away, there is probably a decent chance of you getting the bonus points before the devaluation kicks in. I would then transfer it all out to your desired program straight away.

    • mmd on 13/02/2019 - 13:00

      Any recommendation on where to transfer points to for flights?

      • John Stone on 15/02/2019 - 14:20

        I used to transfer to to SPG (Starwood) before the devaluation.
        Now I don't really have a preferred place.
        Velocity sometimes has 15% bonus points when you transfer which makes it nice.

    • dealt on 13/02/2019 - 16:44

      Would it be valid to transfer it right away to an FF of choice before April, that way getting a better conversion and use the FF points after April?

  • abc on 13/02/2019 - 10:50
    +2

    Card Members who currently hold or who have previously held any Card product issued by American Express Australia Limited in the preceding 18 month period are ineligible for this introductory bonus offer. Previous and existing bank-issued American Express companion cardholders are eligible for this offer

    Thats a shame :(

  • dealt on 13/02/2019 - 10:51
    +1

    Card Members who currently hold or who have previously held any Card product issued by American Express Australia Limited in the preceding 18 month period are ineligible for this introductory bonus offer. Previous and existing bank-issued American Express companion cardholders are eligible for this offer

    I previously had an Amex corporate card which I got at work, does this mean I am ineligible as well?

    • LeftHandSeat on 13/02/2019 - 10:56
      +1

      From experience I've never had an issue with these offers while also concurrently holding a AMEX Corporate Card for 10+ years. So I'm guessing not.

    • igreen on 13/02/2019 - 12:02
      +1

      No, you are eligible. Corporate cards and bank linked Amex card are not included in the waiting period for direct Amex cards. I have a Corporate Amex and always got a bonus. My 18 months waiting ended on Monday. I wish this deal was direct with Amex cause I could get a referral bonus since my Mrs also has this card.

  • justtoreply on 13/02/2019 - 10:56

    What value of gift cards does this translate to? Eg: for woolworths.

    • Numpty21 on 13/02/2019 - 11:01

      about $500 in gift cards

      • justtoreply on 13/02/2019 - 12:42

        Thanks. I'll have to pass on this offer, not attractive to me.

  • Briefcase Mong on 13/02/2019 - 11:03
    +1

    Don't forget devaluation starts in April

    • 11CENTS on 13/02/2019 - 11:15

      What devaluation?

    • igreen on 13/02/2019 - 12:13
      -1

      Do note if you are unsure what to do with the point if you are going to use it to convert to Airlines points, please don't panic as you can convert to SPG/Marriott points which are not changing from 15 April. Then convert to the Airlines of your choice. For 100k Amex Points = 75k Kris/Asia Miles. With SPG/Marriott conversion it is 76.666k Kris/Asia Miles so you get extra 1666 Airline points

      • Smigit on 13/02/2019 - 12:23

        Thats because SPG and Marriott were devalued by over half last year

        https://www.pointhacks.com.au/spg-marriott-ritz-carlton-merg…

        That is a devaluation of more than half for this particular partner. Note that it applies to all variants of Membership Rewards points, including Gateway, Ascent, Ascent Premium and David Jones.

        The devaluation of the American Express Membership Rewards program from mid-April 2019 exacerbates the reduction in value from transferring your American Express points to Marriott Rewards and SPG.

      • Kami1 on 13/02/2019 - 12:55
        +1

        Conversion to SPG is now 3:2 so 100k Amex points only gets you 22k FF points if you transfer this way

  • sauce2k on 13/02/2019 - 11:42

    Can you transfer MR to Qantas ff ? 4:3?

    • igreen on 13/02/2019 - 12:03

      Yes to Qff. I had responded to another post in detail yesterday. Convert to SPG/Marriott and then convert to QFF. A bit better by 1666 points if you convert it to SPG/Mariott points 100k = 76,666 QFF but not straight forward.
      If you are going to use it for flights and dont have alot of QFF points, Convert to Asia miles. The taxes and points required are less.

      E.g. Round the world ticket in Business with Asia miles is 190,000 whereas QFF 280,000.

      • sauce2k on 13/02/2019 - 14:07

        Thank you! I'm currently tossing between this or the Qantas Ultimate card :|

        The ultimate is currently offering 65k bonus thru referral. I travel to Asian countries a lot especially China and airlines like AirChina is an alliance partner of Qantas…

        Dilemmas haha if I apply this one I can't apply Qantas :|

    • jacktator on 13/02/2019 - 16:47

      I could be wrong but, Explorer's MR Gateway cannot be converted to Qantas directly. You can convert via Hilton or Marriott Rewards like the following

      You can check available conversions here.

      1 Gateway Points = 0.2222 Qantas Points. VIA:
      Marriott Rewards 1: 0.6666 (Minimum 600, increment 1), then
      Qantas Points 1: 0.3333 (Minimum 3, increment 1).

  • Homr on 13/02/2019 - 13:33

    My 18 month waiting period hasn't finished yet :(

  • zan5hin on 26/02/2019 - 07:10

    Thanks, I chose this deal over the Qantas one, as I am aiming for Krisflyer… Qantas screws you on taxes with flight redemptions.

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