American Express Membership Rewards
Canada's best transferrable points currency
The American Express Gold Rewards Card offers a bonus of up to 30,000 Membership Rewards points after spending at least $1,500 on the card within the first three months, when you apply via a referral link.
By applying through this channel, you’ll earn 25,000 MR points upon spending $1,500 in the first three months, as well as 5,000 MR points upon adding a supplementary card at the time of application.
The annual fee of $150 is not waived.
(If you have membership with CPA Canada, then you can apply via the special CPA offer to enjoy a $150 statement credit upon meeting the minimum spending, which effectively makes the card free for the first year.)
Furthermore, as a cardholder, you’ll earn 5,000 MR points for every referral you make to any card in the Membership Rewards family, up to a maximum of 75,000 MR points per calendar year.
As for supplementary cards, the first supplementary card can be added for free (and you ought to do so at the time of application in order to unlock the extra 5,000 MR points); however, additional supplementary cards will cost you $50 apiece.
Not only does the Gold Rewards Card come with a good signup bonus, it’s a great card to use on a daily basis as well for earning rewards. You’ll earn:
2 MR per dollar spent on travel purchases (flights, hotels, car rentals, vacations, cruises, etc.)
Earn 1 additional MR per dollar spent when booking your hotel or car rental through American Express Travel
1 MR per dollar spent everywhere else
Keep in mind that gas stations, grocery stores, and drug stores often sell gift cards for other stores that normally belong in the “everywhere else” category. You can effectively earn 2 MR per dollar spent on many purchases that normally fall into “everywhere else” by buying these gift cards and using them towards purchases that would normally earn 1 MR per dollar spent. This can be especially lucrative when purchasing big-ticket items, such as appliances, electronics, and furniture!
Charge your travel purchases to your American Express Gold Rewards Card, and you’ll automatically enjoy a wide array of coverage, such as:
Emergency medical insurance, for the first 15 days of each out-of-province trip, up to a maximum of $5,000,000 per insured person under 65
Lost, stolen, or damaged baggage insurance, up to $500 per trip
Travel accident insurance, up to $500,000, for you, your spouse, and any dependent children under 23
Additional coverage includes protection against trip interruption, car rental theft and damage, flight delay, and hotel burglary.
The card also offers the Buyer’s Assurance Protection Plan, which doubles the manufacturer’s warranty on any item charged to the card for up to one additional year, as well as the Purchase Protection Plan, which automatically insures your purchases against accidental theft and damage.
The American Express Gold Rewards Card is a relatively easy card to get approved for. American Express recently abolished their minimum income requirements, meaning that anyone is eligible to apply.
Applying via a referral link gives you the highest signup bonus on the Amex Gold Rewards Card. If you choose to go this route, we’d love it if you applied through Prince of Travel in order to support the website.
FYI. your referral link for this card does not seem to work.
Give it a go now – thanks.
Excellent, thanks.
Does the Amex Gold offer 4x back on spending for business advertising on facebook or Google? The american version does.
How can we get the American version of Amex gold? I’m spending so much USD on amazon advertising and I like to know which credit card works the best with USD expenditure ?
Not in Canada, unfortunately.
Thanks for the reply. If I got the American version, would I get 4x back on canadian Google ads spend?
I asked the same for shipping from China to USA. I think it depends if your ad spend is from google.ca or .com as it has to be a us based business
Do you know if we can use the CPA offer and do a referral at the same time?
Is the CPA offer dead?
The personal still works with the same rsvp. The business rsvp has changed.. any one have any insight?
Where do you see the personal one? I can’t seem to see it on the CPA Perks website!
Hey
I applied for this card and surpassed $1500 but have only received 25,000MRP. I got a supplementary card at the time of signup. I also checked on AMEX website and it doesn’t say anything about 5,000 MRP with a supplementary card. Please let me know if I’m missing something.
The extra 5,000 MR points upon adding a supplementary card is only available if applying via a referral link.
That’s right, applied through Ricky’s referral link, 5000 points for the 2nd card arrived shortly after paying the first monthly fee
For the sake of decency I used the supplementary card once. But I guess if you don’t use it the 5000 bonus would still come