I was applying for the AMEX Schwab Platinum card the other day and got a PENDING message. I also got the email to check on my status, but the link said they were updating their systems. I called the next day to check on the status and the overseas rep told me I had hit […]
When I posted about the AMEX Hilton Surpass deal a few weeks ago, a reader pointed out that maybe only the “bonus” points go towards the lifetime base points since most of the promo material does say “bonus” points. This means that instead of having all 12X grocery points count towards lifetime, maybe only 9X […]
Disclaimer – I highly recommend you DON’T DO THIS since it seems AMEX has been pretty shutdown happy of late. If you do go for it, proceed with caution. Due to COVID, AMEX is doing this promo where from May 1 to July 31, 2020, your Hilton Aspire card now gets 12X at grocery stores. […]
A long time MS’er told me he got shut down COMPLETELY by AMEX the other day. I asked him some questions and he let me write about it so we can all learn. He said he talked to a supervisor and she thinks his recently closed Schwab got eyes on his account, who then saw […]
Word is getting around that AMEX RAT is clawing back GC purchases for the $50 Plat credit. The other play that seemed to work back then (meaning earlier this year) was that if you placed an online order for in-store pickup and say you couldn’t make it to the store, then the credit still stuck. […]