How can I benefit from Corporate Amex points?

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You spend them on stuff...

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I thought airline miles gave the best value? Good place to start is thepointsguy.com

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Gift cards give best point to dollar ratio.

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Dear God, gift cards are not the best rate

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Figure out what Amex transfer partners can make a trip happen and then transfer them.

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I usually just get gift cards to like the capital grille, some other fancy restaurant to treat the lady

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I found booking flights through amex using points is good too. Save rate as getting gift cards.

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Getting merchandise using points is a rip off!!!!!

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Miles are. But if you need something bad gift cards are a decent play

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@Deloitte 1, yeah, some are not (like hotel and amex cash gift cards). But others like restaurants and retail stores give $0.01 per point in their gift cards ($100 card for 10,000 points).

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yeah. did gift cards and ended up treating myself to some bose qc35s last week

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Mm wait. Maybe not. :(

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@D1, what is then?

GC's are the average play, 1 cpp. It's not the worst. But you can do much better (miles/hotel points)

I didn't see anything better than $0.01 per point. Please correct if wrong.

I personal don't find transferring amex points to airlines or hotel is all that valuable when I already have plenty of those to spend on travel/hotels.

But not in foreign programs. Credit card transfers give you access to a lot of the sweet spots. E.g. Transfer to KrisFlyer to get access to Singapore Suites, transfer to Korean Skypass to get RT to Hawaii for 25k miles, etc.

@Accenture1, same here. Got 5 $50 staples gift cards to help pay for an iPad (staple takes a max of 5gc per transaction and amex only has$25 or $50 gc available)

I agree EY2. Best I've seen is $.01 per point on most big store GCs. Sounds like I need to look into the transferring miles play.

You're doing good with anything valuing a point above $0.012. Gift cards and other cash equivalents are typically a cent or less. Same for airline tix. Best value I've seen is hotel stays (but this is probably going on an inflated Amex site price). Haven't strayed much beyond that.

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