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September 10, 2007
New Amtrak Guest Rewards Credit Card Debuts
The new Amtrak Visa is now up and running, offering 8000 bonus points with first purchase and no annual fee. Since it's a Chase card, it may be churnable (Thus far, only the United card seems to disallow signing up over and over to pocket multiple bonuses).Now, I still recommend the Starwood American Express as the best all-purpose credit card. And specific charges warrant some special-case cards.
But as far as truly no annual fee cards go, this one isn't bad... although I don't trust the underlying Amtrak Guest Rewards loyalty program, given its history of making changes without any notice whatsoever -- miles used to be transferrable to outside programs without a cap and United used to be a transfer partner, for instance. Both changes were made without notice. And an increase in Amtrak train travel redemption levels was also dropped out of the sky without warning.
Posted by gleff at September 10, 2007 8:20 AM
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