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AMEX Gold Card: Now Earn As High As 100,000 Welcome Bonus Points
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Welcome bonus:
You can apply and find out your welcome offer and earn as high as 100,000 American Express Membership Rewards welcome bonus points for opening the American Express Gold Card and spending $6,000 in 6 months.
Apply, and if approved you will find out your offer amount. You can then accept the card with your offer, or decline to open the card. After you spending $6,000 in 6 months you will receive the points. Welcome offers vary and you may not be eligible for an offer.
There is no impact on your credit score if you don’t accept the card offer. If you’re approved and accept the card, your credit score may be impacted. In general, AMEX doesn’t do a hard credit pull for anyone who already has an AMEX card.
Annual fee:
$325
For rates and fees of the American Express Gold Card, please visit here.
Welcome bonus terms:
As with all AMEX cards, if you’re an existing AMEX cardholder, there is no hard credit pull for applying for a card.
You officially won’t get the welcome bonus on this card if you have or have had this card, though readers have reported success after several years.
You can tell if you are eligible for an AMEX welcome bonus by simply applying. If you are not eligible for the bonus you will get a popup notification after clicking to apply for the card. At that point you can decide whether to proceed or cancel the application before it is actually processed.
You must keep the card active without closing or downgrading it for at least 12 months.
$100 Annual Resy Restaurant Credit
You can earn up to $50 in annual statement credits every January-June and up to $50 every July-December after using an enrolled American Express Gold Card on eligible U.S. Resy restaurants, Resy.com, and in the mobile Resy app.
There are many kosher restaurants on Resy, and any restaurant that accepts reservations on Resy will qualify for this credit!
$84 Annual Dunkin Credit
You can earn up to $7 in monthly statement credits after using an enrolled American Express Gold Card to pay at more than 9,000 Dunkin’ locations nationwide.
$120 Annual Uber/Uber Eats credit
Add your card in the Uber app and you will get a $10 monthly credit, good for Uber and/or Uber Eats.
You can enroll multiple AMEX Gold or Platinum cards from different users in the same Uber account to combine the credits!
$120 Dining credit
After enrollment here, you can earn up to a $10 monthly statement credit at GrubHub, Seamless, Wine.com, GoldBelly.com, Five Guys, and The Cheesecake Factory.
Kosher options can be found at Grubhub, Wine.com, and GoldBelly.com.
Card earnings:
- 4 points per dollar at restaurants worldwide on up to $50K in purchases per calendar year.
- 4 points per dollar at US supermarkets on up to $25K in purchases per calendar year.
- 3 points per dollar on airfare from airlines or AMEX Travel.
- 2 points per dollar on hotels from AMEX Travel.
- 1 point per dollar everywhere.
- There are no foreign transaction fees.
Airline/Hotel transfers:
Transfer points to airlines and hotels and you can get some incredible values for your miles.
AMEX transfer partners include:
- Air Canada Aeroplan (Star Alliance) 1:1 instant transfer.
- ANA (Star Alliance) 1:1 transfer.
- Avianca Lifemiles (Star Alliance) 1:1 instant transfer.
- Singapore (Star Alliance) 1:1 transfer.
- AeroMexico (Skyteam) 1:1.6 transfer.
- Air France/KLM Flying Blue (Skyteam) 1:1 instant transfer.
- Delta (Skyteam) 1:1 instant transfer.
- Aer Lingus (OneWorld) 1:1 instant transfer.
- British Airways (OneWorld) 1:1 instant transfer
- Cathay Pacific Asia Miles (OneWorld) 1:1 instant transfer.
- Iberia (OneWorld) 1:1 instant transfer
- Qantas (OneWorld) 1:1 instant transfer
- Qatar (OneWorld) 1:1 instant transfer
- Emirates 1:1 instant transfer
- Etihad 1:1 instant transfer
- JetBlue 1:0.8 instant transfer
- Virgin Atlantic 1:1 instant transfer
- Choice Hotels 1:1 instant transfer
- Hilton 1:2 instant transfer
- Marriott 1:1 instant transfer
Mileage transfers can often make sense for one-way, last-minute, or premium class travel. The value with airline miles can be under a cent each if used poorly, but properly used the points can be worth 5 cents, 10 cents, 15 cents, or even more per point, the sky is the limit.
For example I love using 6.5K miles transferred to Avianca or 6K points transferred to Air Canada to book a last minute $459 ticket on United, thanks to their amazing short-haul redemption award charts. You can also do that with Flying Blue or Virgin Atlantic for Delta flights or with Qatar for American flights.
There are also often bonus offers for transfers from AMEX to airlines.
Spend threshold:
You’ll need to spend $6,000 within 6 months.
You can pay your federal taxes for a 1.75% fee. If you overpay your taxes you can request a refund or apply it to your next year’s taxes.
My local natural gas company allows me to prepay up to $1,000 on a credit card for a $1.65 flat fee. That’s a great way to earn miles and help meet a spend threshold. My electricity supplier allows me to pay with a credit card for free as long as I am enrolled in autopay.
Card convertibility:
You can convert this card to the AMEX Green ($150 annual fee) or Platinum card ($695 annual fee).
AMEX Offers:
Earn statement credits at stores that you register for in your AMEX account.
AMEX protections:
- Trip delay insurance
- Baggage Insurance
- Extended warranty coverage
- Purchase protection for stolen or broken items
- If you need to dispute a charge there’s nobody who makes it easier or as pain-free as American Express does. It’s the easiest dispute resolution process in the industry by leaps and bounds and you can do it all online.
- Complimentary Shoprunner 2 day free shipping and return shipping on hundreds of websites.
- Secondary car rental CDW protection worldwide and primary available for $19.95/rental.
- See this post to see just how amazing AMEX benefits can be.
- Eligibility and Benefit level varies by Card. Terms, Conditions and Limitations Apply.
- Please visit americanexpress.com/benefitsguide for more details.
Dan’s Quick Thoughts:
The annual fee for this card has climbed $75 with this refresh, but it’s more than offset by the $100 Resy restaurant credit. The $7 monthly Dunkin credit is just a new freebie on top of that. While I don’t love the direction of increasing annual fees for credits, these changes seem mostly reasonable for anyone dining out at restaurants on Resy at least once every 6 months.
This remains a very strong card for earning points on US groceries and dining worldwide, though the need to stay on top of the available credits may make it too much of a hassle for some.
What do you think of the card’s changes?
Will you apply for this AMEX Gold offer?
For rates and fees of the American Express Gold Card, please visit here.
