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Hello Lucky,
As a Gold card member, I just received an invite to apply to the Platinum AMEX card. Terms are 50K membership reward points afrer charging $5K to card within 3 months of membership.

Question – is this deal better than the 40K points/$3K spend as currently advertised on AMEX’s website?
Thanks –

[USER=7]@Tiffany[/USER]

Merge/same as?
[URL]http://asklucky.onemileatatime.com/threads/amex-platinum-retention-offer.5253/[/URL]

Hello Lucky,
As as AMEX Gold card member (~17-18 months), I’ve just been offered an email invite to apply for Platinum for 50K MR points for $5K spend within 3 months.

Is this a better deal than the currently company’s advertised 40K for $3K spend on its website? Could this invite be negotiated via phone? How significant are the MR points? I’m a newbie to this…

Thanks.

[USER=1467]@Thom[/USER]

Yes it’s better.

Required that you can meet the 5K spend requirement and pay it down on the first billing cycle, if you have problems to meet 5K in 3 months consider buying gift card for thing/store you will buy/buy in later in the year.

10K point is not enough if you can’t pay down the extra 2K right away

Look at this post by Frequentmiler, it contains a link to an up to date Google spreadsheet where you can find where points can be transferred.
[URL]http://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/2014/06/24/transfer-partner-master-list/[/URL]

As you can see Amex MR points is a good flexible program with many transfer partners.

What do you mean by negotiated? Try to get an even higher bonus than 50K? Or lower spend requirement?

[QUOTE=”No Name, post: 12374, member: 268″][USER=1467]@Thom[/USER]

Yes it’s better.

Required that you can meet the 5K spend requirement and pay it down on the first billing cycle, if you have problems to meet 5K in 3 months consider buying gift card for thing/store you will buy/buy in later in the year.

10K point is not enough if you can’t pay down the extra 2K right away

Look at this post by Frequentmiler, it contains a link to an up to date Google spreadsheet where you can find where points can be transferred.
[URL]http://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/2014/06/24/transfer-partner-master-list/[/URL]

As you can see Amex MR points is a good flexible program with many transfer partners.

What do you mean by negotiated? Try to get an even higher bonus than 50K? Or lower spend requirement?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=”No Name, post: 12374, member: 268″][USER=1467]@Thom[/USER]

Yes it’s better.

Required that you can meet the 5K spend requirement and pay it down on the first billing cycle, if you have problems to meet 5K in 3 months consider buying gift card for thing/store you will buy/buy in later in the year.

10K point is not enough if you can’t pay down the extra 2K right away

Look at this post by Frequentmiler, it contains a link to an up to date Google spreadsheet where you can find where points can be transferred.
[URL]http://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/2014/06/24/transfer-partner-master-list/[/URL]

As you can see Amex MR points is a good flexible program with many transfer partners.

What do you mean by negotiated? Try to get an even higher bonus than 50K? Or lower spend requirement?[/QUOTE]

Lower spend requirement.

[USER=1467]@Thom[/USER] I suppose you can try but I’ve never heard of a company negotiating down. Also, as [USER=522]@PhatMiles[/USER] recommended in another thread, unless you need the card I might hold off for a little while to see if the 100k offer comes around sometime soon (you can only get sign up bonuses once on AmEx personal cards).

Thanks Gaurav.