Kinda mis-leading... the banner on the page says "Earn 3X Points" while the fine print does say 3 points per dollar. 3X points (9 for Amtrak travel; 6 for other travel) would really be nice!
It is sort of phrased in an odd way in the fine print as well:
At first I read that as saying that you get 2 bonus points on top of what you'd already get, so I thought it meant 3 points/dollar on non-travel purchases, 4 points/dollar on travel-but-not-Amtrak purchases, and 5 points/dollar for Amtrak purchases. Why doesn't it just say 3 points per dollar, total, for any purchase?
1 base point and 1 or 2 bonus points (for a total of 2 or 3 points) is how it posts now (prior to this promo) on my AGR account web page.
Same here.. I just finished two-week vacation with Amtrak myself.. At least I got Double days.
Wish I knew this before I paid off my cruise
At least the cruise is travel and gets 2pts per$ spent so pretty decent. I went ahead and paid half of my cruise balance today. And while not happy about it I had to replace my tankless water heater today as well so the 3pts some benefit to my expense.
Yes, I saw that but the eStatement is mostly a sum up of your month plus other marketing that is similar month-to-month. I'd have thought they'd send out something that big as its own email, like they do Double Days. For many people, this will be much, much bigger than DD, so I am still surprised.
I usually disregard the whole thing as I've usually made a couple of trips since the end of the month before I get their monthly eStatement. But after seeing PRR 60s' remark about it being on the monthly statement, I went back to the 'trash' folder and there it was, buried in a less than 2x2 box was the 3x points deal. Perhaps someone at AGR is thinking they have to pay by the 'column inch' like newspapers for internet advertising?
