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Recently (December) opened a new ABP, came in the same sort of fancy box, via courier instead of USPS, that APP, Bonvoy Brilliant and Aspire came in. Green, Gold and Surpass were just attached to a normal letter.

Target hit early Dec, 23/12 was my 14 day deadline to select an airline. 25k bonus points appeared in SQ dated 27/1.

Mine appeared dated 27/1, applied in Nov/Dec too, hit the threshold early Dec (my deadline date for selecting an airline was 23/12). Direct to SQ.

I've had pre-approved loan offers for years now, pretty much constantly - wouldn't apply as the interest rates offered are horrible (in my case anyway, around 14%).

The T&Cs changed a couple of years ago, they used to be happy for you to maintain a residential address anywhere, I used to get statements and cards mailed to Australia. While they’d probably still mail a card out if I was “on holiday” I have to maintain a UK addy. No idea what it achieves, as I...

At the moment it would appear so. But, this offer doesn't always appear, isn't always available to everyone and the number can/do/might change. For e.g., when I upgraded using that link it was 100k (but that was about 24 months ago).

Yeah, all 5x GT

I’m surprised they’re asking but it’s better to have it ready. So my Amex US journey commenced in 2022, I think I used an old UK card to global transfer, as it was late 2022 I closed the last of my Amex AU cards. I had to ironically GT back to Amex AU earlier this year, after a year of...

I’ve had all of mine without providing proof of address.

True This is a good point. I don't know how much they do share - I would assume that at least the Star Alliance Rewards portal is run/administered by HSBC or someone related to them, so they'd need that consent to be able to link/transfer points, but the status part I'm not sure. The T&Cs say...

You can still change it up to and for a few days after triggering the offer (in past experience, unless they've changed things now, but it all looks pretty similar).

It does seem a bit ambiguous the more I read the different sets of terms; there's room for interpretation (especially knowing that, whether you have gold or not, you can say you do in order to get the *A points - this isn't cheating your way to a benefit, it's taking one in lieu of the other...

That's not the case in normal circumstances, but I do wonder whether it would affect eligibility for the SUB specifically under this offer (the 25k+20k SQ miles extra). Under normal circumstances you get the option and just need to choose the 40k Star Alliance points.

No probs. I was Star Gold when I first took it, so had no desire to become double Gold (and it's lost if you select SQ when already SQ Gold). There was no specific offer when I signed up, just the "normal" status offer, it was poring through the T&Cs and discovering that points were an option...

This /does/ work, but whether it'll work alongside this offer, I don't know. Last time I held this card, I forwent the Star Gold and took the 40k points (SUB and on spending $60k), which went to 64k AC points (plus those from spending). I would think as long as you set SQ as your airline...

*Memories of Amex AU being 1:1 to SQ and transferring heaps of MR from UK* - every 100k UK MR became ~210k SQ, now the same will be closer to 67k once the deval to 3:1 takes effect :(

Weirdly I can use foreign cards on all Woolies related sites except Everyday Pay - I can't add HSBC Premier credit to that. It goes through the secure thing, sends the verification code to my US number, the test $1 appears with HSBC, but it just doesn't work ultimately. Correct, def the best...

Excellent! To be fair, the CS team (while better than Australia's, historically) are pretty uninformed about GT, they don't know how it works or what's acceptable (mostly). It's just not something they deal with often. A bit like transferring MR points between countries, sometimes you have to...

You might be...waiting to relocate...or still employed by an Aussie employer? I submitted my Aussie payslips. That was for FR as an existing customer though, rather than for a new app.

No worries - the Marriott card rarely had any better SUBs, but the BA does, up to 60k now and then, maybe worth bearing in mind. FR = Financial Review - not sure exactly how these are triggered and it can be inconvenient, because they tend to block all your cards until they make a decision...