What are the best ways to spend Amex points?

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Gift cards but look at the points:$ ratio. Some are up to 3x better than others and they change fairly often

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Never. Ever. Get gift cards. Bad use of points. Transfer to an airline and get an upgrade. That’s the best use of points

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I used mine towards an expensive designer bag at saks

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Ey1 which gift cards are better than 1:1?

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Gift cards for your colleagues

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@BCG1 - just as an example, I transferred 150k points to British Airways which worked out to be 210k Avila which was enough for two return tickets from Chicago to London in business class. I know it’s only one example but I’ve also had great value transferring to Cathay and redeem for flights within Asia.

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@Pwc1, you left out the Dom. Gotta have 🍾 with the 💃

Did y'all pay the $90 fee? Noob here

I always get gift cards. And yes, need to pay the 90 to get the points

BCG2: The last thing I need or want is more airline miles. I don't know what to do with the millions I already have.

Uber

I don’t think transfer for corporate AMEX is worth it BCG2, but I might be wrong. It’s not like the other cards

@EY3, Banana Republic. But airline points are the best use, can also use for hotels most of the time.

Bcg1/SM1: Corp Amex not great at earn ratios. But once you have the points, best value for money is upgrades. If you have a Ton of points in your account already...spend them before they devalue. Which they will. Airlines keep devaluing their currencies

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