Every week, I hear of people accepting retention offers on their AMEX cards, especially on their charge cards, and it’s made me think about my own situation with AMEX and whether I would take a retention offer or not. If you’re a heavy hitter, you should already be maxed out with 10 AMEX charge cards. […]

I had picked up both a business platinum and gold card for my mom about 2.5 months ago. I had done the online AU offers (5K after $2K), which were good. I met the sub on the Gold card and waited for points to post, and then I had her call in yesterday to upgrade […]

Back in early December, I had had 10 charge cards already and had a feeling my Morgan Stanley 125K app wouldn’t get approved. Sure enough, I was denied due to having too many cards. Eventually in late January, I closed some of my GOLD cards and that freed up a slot. I called up reconsideration […]

I don’t know who coined the term “AMEX Gold Army” but it’s fitting. What is it you may ask? Well, if you have a friendly grocery store that lets you MS the $25K per calendar year on your personal Gold AMEX, then you’ll want to scale up and get as many of those cards as […]

My wife was banned from Capital One due to the household axe caused by me. I don’t think I ever even tried to get her another Cap One card since the axe. Then last year, I got back in with the Spark card and eventually got lucky and got a business rep who then hooked […]