1) I was looking at the gold card with the 2 years free.
1) its not for me...someone i told about this came here looking and said it didnt work.
2) Who knows when they may stop honoring that.
That's a lot of first points
-There is a separate thread for the gold card offer.
-Who knows if they will go after the folks who applied through the Columbia link? I think the 5748 match points are safer than those who go through this link. Though probably it won't be an issue unless there are a lot of folks who use the Columbia links and AMEX does an audit.