How To Request American Express Platinum Card® With Mirror Design, And Should You Care?

The only time another human sees my Platinum card is at Centurion lounge check in or for check in at a FHR/ THC that wants a physical card to insert in their reader.

I got my mirror one in the mail a few days ago. Already getting a lot of compliments and looks about it from people at restaurants and whatnot. lol. Gotta look rich. 😀

Using the physical card once a quarter maybe at Resy restaurant or Lululemon store with new benefits?

No thanks. Plastic is lighter in your pocket.

If you have multiple Amex biz plats from the NLL offers, the different designs are also reflected in Apple Pay even if you never carry around the card.

For me at least, this makes it easier to track use of my airline, Dell and and Hilton credits.

By far the dumbest reason I can think of to give a bank $1,095.00 a year (for a couple). If you're that insecure that you need something to make you appear rich and important, get a fake Rolex for fifty bucks and pocket the savings.

The thing people and blogs who love to talk about the "value" of this card need to remember is you start out deep in the hole. So working really hard buying overpriced shite you wouldn't otherwise buy at Lululemon and Saks, or forcing yourself to find a FHR you can use, that is probably much more expensive than the hotel you'd otherwise chose and paying above rack rate so you can be forced to dine in the hotel restaurant eating overpriced generic food so you can get your credits before they expire, and finding ways to game the airline fee credits and hoping and praying that it will work --- is all an exhausting way to try to get back to the zero cost of not having the card in the first place.

Plus all those metal cards make my ass look big when I put them in my wallet.

Mirror design not offered as a replacement for my Schwab Platinum card. No problem; like others, I don't physically carry the card that often.

Does authorized users have access to those other card designs?

If updating to the mirror design, does the prior physical card still work or does it get deactivated?

@Larry

I want to spend the least time possible in airports and get to and from my destination.

An $18 Mediterranean buffet before or after a long trip would beat any lounge food that costs $895 annually. $900 would be too much. Mirror mirror on the wall.

"...the demographic that Amex is going after with the Platinum Card will largely like this..." The demographic that usually has their platinum card on a mirror, so enjoy Amex cutting out the middle step there.

This is a travel card. You are buying an airport lounge membership for a fee of $895 (or $1,090 for a couple - $5 savings off of what you thought!). If you do not value the lounge membership (or the assorted travel insurance benefits) this card is not for you. And there is no reason why Amex should provide you with airport lounges for free.

If you do value the lounge membership - good news! Amex is offering you easy to use credits against the fee. You can get such things like a $200 airline credit (easy to use if you value the lounge membership because you, you know, travel). You can get a $300 digital entertainment credit (YouTube anyone?). You can get a $400 resy credit (10,000+ restaurants that use the Resy platform). That's $900 of easy to use credits that offsets the annual fee.

For many, many people, that's a pretty good deal with those credits alone. Even if you value those credits at $600 instead of $900 (time-value of money, etc.), you're then only paying $295 for a lounge membership. Especially when compared with the Chase credits, which are... hard to use!

But wait, there's more! A $300 LLL credit! Gift cards may technically be excluded, but... people are buying them and getting a credit! So, buy $300 in gift cards, and sell the $300 in gift cards at a discount for $195 or whatever - you've paid for the $195 AU fee!

And that's not counting the $600 FHR fee (could be useful if you, you know, travel! Plenty of international hotels that are with FHR that are ~$300 a night! And you get the FHR benefits which often includes $100 in free food/drinks!). Or the $100 saks credit! Or the national car rental executive status! Or lots of other credits, statuses and things!

Good news as well - you can request a plastic card, as Ben's article notes! So that metal card and your posterior need not meet.

I'm really struggling to see the problem here. If you travel a lot and you use the lounges, this is simply a no-brainer in terms of value. If you want a piece of metal or plastic to show off your "status", I agree that's silly.

Usually the old one will keep working, it's the same as if you claim a card is "damaged" and need a replacement. I've found this trick is helpful with other cards I want to have in multiple places without needing to carry them (like say, gas cards kept in my cars).

The old card works until you confirm the new card. The number is the same, but the CID and expiration date are different.

I have one and it's very pretty. So what's people's problem with this? First of all, if you've been in an airport lounge recently, too many people are in there anyhow, so I view it as a good thing if people give up the card as too expensive. Second of all it's NOT hard to make that money back, and more, using the perks every year, especially with the new upgrades and 400 a year at Resy Restaurants, 300 at Lululemon (yes I can get gifts for people and honestly something free for myself once a quarter), then there's the digital services credit, the free Walmart+ membership (WITH Paramount+ I might add), the phone protection so I don't have to buy any, the 100 Saks credit I use for something, especially fragrances I'd buy anyhow, the 200 airline credit (hint buy a ticket then upgrade it), and the 600 a year hotel credit (going on a cruise? Stay at the Ritz the night before. Spend a weekend with someone for the other credit). How much money did I just mention, AND get airport lounge access.

I have the streamers like design on my current platinum card. To anyone who has recieved the new mirror design, do you think it's nicer than the design I currently have? I may request a new one if people recommend it. Otherwise, I love the different colors I have on my current card.

Got the new design, because why not. I don't often use the physical Amex plat card, but I keep it in my wallet as a backup card in case it's needed (as a backup or something, who knows, maybe my mom took Tylenol...). The main reason I like it is because it's lighter than the standard plat, which is an attractive feature to me.

Why do you need compliments on your credit card?

Does this request cause the card number, expiration, etc to change? If so that would be some extra work for me to update all the places that are set on recurring autopay with current card number (walmart+, uber one, ny times, etc) where forgetting to update somewhere will cause my backup payment option to be invoked losing the month's credit!

Yes.

Why, ego, of course.

Keep your mirrors. I still have, and use my "member since 67" greenie. Live in Europe and have no need for a $900 piece of plastic or mirror. But I do miss Karl Malden.

If you think centurions are crowded now, it’s going to be even worse. Haven’t you heard..new plat gives lulu lemon coupons and THE CARD IS SHINY!!!

In these times it may be better to be less flashy when using the card.
We dropped the Centurion. So thats a no for us.

I prefer the plastic one. It's easier to deal with and dispose of when it expires.