Credit Card Bonus Offers: $1300 Worth of Deals!
Check it out… $1300 worth of credit cards offers!
It’s been awhile since I’ve put together a list of credit card signup bonuses, so I thought I’d spend a little time compiling the best offers for best rewards credit cards for 2013 out there. While some of these cards have an annual fee, all are free for at least the first year. Note: given changes in offers, the total amount has dropped considerably below $1,300. If you see any new offers appear, please list them in the comments.
Now, without further ado, here are the offers…
Chase Freedom Visa
Signup bonus: $100 through this offer
When: After $500 in purchases w/in first 3 months from account opening
Annual fee: None
Benefits: 5% cash back on up to $1,500 spent in rotating categories like gas stations; select department stores and more.
- Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express
Signup bonus: up to 25,000 Starpoints
Redeem for: Redeem Starpoints at over 1,100 hotels and resorts in nearly 100 countries and for flights on more than 350 airlines with SPG Flights. Points earned on eligible purchases.
When: Earn 10K with your first purchase and another 15K when you spend $5,000 within 6 months of cardmembership. Terms and Restrictions Apply.
Annual fee: $0 introductory annual fee for the first year, then $65
Disclaimer: Discover is a paid advertiser of this site.
Reasonable efforts are made to maintain accurate information. See the Discover online credit card application for full terms and conditions on offers and rewards.
Modified on March 26th, 2013 - 15 Comments
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About the author: Nickel is the founder and editor-in-chief of this site. He's a thirty-something family man who has been writing about personal finance since 2005, and guess what? He's on Twitter!
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Earn 100 Reward Dollars after you make $1,000 in purchases in the first three months of Cardmembership.
Earn 25K Membership Rewards(R) points after you spend $2,000 during your first three months of Card membership.
Consumer friendly credit card with a great low rate of 7.25% and save on interest charges. No balance transfer fees and no annual fee.
The new Discover it card is out to change the way people think about credit cards. No annual fee. No overlimit fee. No foreign transaction fee & no pay-by-phone fee. No late fee on your first late payment. And Discover won't increase your APR for paying late.*
The new Discover it card is out to change the way people think about credit cards. No annual fee. No overlimit fee. No foreign transaction fee & no pay-by-phone fee. No late fee on your first late payment. And Discover won't increase your APR for paying late.*
Consumer friendly credit card with a great low rate of 7.25% and save on interest charges. No balance transfer fees and no annual fee.
Limited Time Offer: Get 25,000 Membership Rewards(R) points after you spend $5,000 in the first three months of Card membership. Enroll and select a qualifying airline to receive up to $200 annually in statement credits for incidental fees, such as checked bags and in-flight refreshments, charged by the airline.
The new Discover it card is out to change the way people think about credit cards. No annual fee. No overlimit fee. No foreign transaction fee & no pay-by-phone fee. No late fee on your first late payment. And Discover won't increase your APR for paying late.*
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April 7th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I love free money. Thanks for sharing this with us
April 7th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I’m on a credit card diet right now so I’ll pass, but dang! That’s a lot of cash!
It must have taken a while to write this post with all those pics! Wow!
April 7th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Wow those are some great deals: I wonder how many/at what point the hurt on your credit score outweighs the monetary benefits…
April 7th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
i already have the starwood prefered business card and got the amazon goft card. am i able to get the regular starwood prefered card too and get another amazon card?
April 7th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Thanks for that list but yikes! I already feel like I have too many credit cards. I’m with Ron @TheWisdomJournal. I’ll pass this time, but will keep it in mind once we get our stupid debt paid off.
Hopefully there’ll be even better deals by then (of course, we may also all be driving flying cars and have robot maids by then
May 20th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Looks like a lot of the major issuers are moving towards higher purchase requirements, where you’ll only receive the bonus after $600 or $1000 in purchases.
It makes it a little more difficult to take advantage of multiple offers, as you really have to plan to spend that amount of money, unless you can spend that much on the cards through bill payments and necessities alone, but that’s still difficult if you’re trying to take advantage of 3 or 4 cash bonus offers at once.
I guess too many people were getting the cards, making a $0.50 purchase to get the bonus, and then never using the cards again, so they hope to get you into a spending pattern.
They’re still great offers though, but it’s probably only reasonable to apply for 1 or 2, unless you just feel like going spend-crazy on your credit cards.
Thanks for the information, Max
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I fear that the Discover Business $100 bonus offer may be no more. I applied and got approved, but the rep didn’t know anything about the bonus. Also, I don’t see it mentioned anywhere on Discover’s site. Just a warning. Let’s hope I’m mistaken, otherwise I’ll have a useless card…
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 am
Can I get 1 $100 gift card form Starwood Business, and a 2nd $100 gift card for the regular Starwood cad?
Also can i get 1 $50 card for Amex Preferred Rewards Green Card and then get a $50 card for the Business Green Rewards Card from American Express.
A rep said no, but has anyone got actual experience?
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:48 am
Joe: I just tried to reply by e-mail, but the message was returned as undeliverable. In short, you should qualify as long as you can get approved for all of the cards. Your best bet is to apply for them all in rapid succession, and to do so online as opposed to talking to a rep.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Nickel, one more quick question, what would be my best bet for a new credit card with no annual fee, (I’ve no credit history as yet), kindly advice. Thanks for your anticipated response.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
A clarification on the Citi Forward card with the 6K + 5K signup bonus: the enrolling link shows that the bonus is after $250 in purchases within the first 3 months, NOT $50 as listed on this site (still love this site though
).
If anyone sees anything different, please post. Thx!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Winwin: thanks for your clarification…the offer has been updated.
Dinesh: it depends on how you plan to use the card. You should try to avoid carrying a balance in which case you could go for a no annual fee rewards card which allows you to earn points or cash back on purchases you’d otherwise make anyway. You can see the list of best credit card offers here.
March 30th, 2011 at 5:55 pm
I’ve been doing this for years.. right now I have about $750.00 worth of dining cards waiting to be used. U gotta love it. Sure it bumps your rating down a bit but it always comes back up in a few months . Several years ago when they were offering the balance transfers at 0 % interest with no fees for 12 to 18 months at a time, I used my wife and my name to get over $100,000 worth of money. I put it in C.D.’s paying 4.25 % and made about $3000.00.. Always making the paymwents on time and watching it very carefully. It’s a hobby of mine.
July 9th, 2011 at 8:09 pm
Joe I’ve been taking advantage of credit card bonuses for a few years also, I avoid the balance transfer offers because of the 3% fee. the days of getting 4% on a C.D. You’re right the credit score only takes a temporary hit.
You mean you got $1000.00 in bonus money
October 7th, 2011 at 11:53 am
NOT BONUS money! I carried over $100,000 of credit card debt for one year while the money was in a C.D. and when the C.D. matured I cashed in for over $4000.00. However because a few of the cards were at a low rate of 1.9% most of them were 0%. I only profitted $3000.00 Those days are over though. The banks got smart and attached a 3% fee to all balance transfers. Now I just go for the bonuses. To date in 2011, I have accumulated about $6000.00 in bonuses using my wife card and mine and also business cards in each of our names. There are some really really good offers out there, especially if you own a business and can use a card to pay for you bills or inventory with. I have so many points built up on the spg card and the marriot card I doubt I’ll use them even by next year. I’ll have to force myself to go on vacation just so I use the points before the annual fee is due. This is a hoot.
good luck, Joe