More on that AMEX Gold to Plat upgrade offer


Back in February, I had downgraded my upgraded PLAT back to GOLD and AMEX clawed back the bonus points but let me keep the spend bonus. Well after keeping the card as GOLD for a month or two, I realized it was a useless card as GOLD and decided to upgrade it back to PLAT. I used this upgrade offer which would give me 25K after $2K spend as well as 5X at groc (up to $15K spend), so about 100K worth of MR if I charged all $15K at groceries.

Well I’m happy to report that I did receive the 25K as well as the 75K bonus on the spend.

There’s 2 more line items of 20K (remember that the original $5K charge is its own line item, so this bonus line item is the 4X “additional.”

So what’s the lesson learned here? Well I guess I could you could pulse the spend bonuses if you keep going up and down. I don’t plan on doing that, but it looks like it’s coded that way. Now I’m not sure if it let me because this ugprade offer was DIFFERENT than the one I did last Fall which gave 10X instead of 5X. Do with this info what you will.

One thought on “More on that AMEX Gold to Plat upgrade offer

  1. did upgrade offer have lifetime language? all the upgrade offers I see on my account have that now

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