I love credit cards so much! v2.0 (see first page for add'l details)

[1st*toright]

I love how responsive SW is to DMs on Twitter! I must have forgotten to change the middle name on my mom’s SW return ticket so her boarding pass had mine, oops! I sent a DM to SW, they asked for a photo of her license, quickly made the change and all is well!

That's great.

I'm trying to get an error corrected - when i booked our award travel trip to Europe via United, the agent messed up the last letter of my kid's middle name. Literally one letter wrong. I called immediately and asked United to fix it, they vaguely said they would email the other carriers. Hasn't been fixed. I emailed the partner airlines, they said United has to fix it. I tried to email United rewards and they said they couldn't help, I would need to call reservations and there was no way to deal with it via email. So dopey, but I really don't want to be traveling overseas with a kid whose ticket doesn't match the passport/global entry info exactly. Fortunately we have ages before this trip happens, but this is a good reminder I need to bug them again...

 

[Lain]

Can’t remember who suggested I email SW about our flight problems getting home. But thank you for suggesting it!! I did so yesterday got a response today that they are sending us 6 $100 LUV vouchers

I suggested complaining about the WiFi being broken and maybe getting something out of it. Do I get credit?

‘Cause I really want to use this gif:

 

[GlamMistress]

Update: the dark chocolate gelato from La Spezia Italy is the best I've ever tasted. Unreal.

 

[wendow]

I suggested complaining about the WiFi being broken and maybe getting something out of it. Do I get credit?

‘Cause I really want to use this gif:

Okay, you get a little bit but I actually didn’t even mention the WiFi in my email. I should have!!

You know that every time you post that gif, I get that song in my head for two weeks

 

[platamama]

I went a little crazy and opened AmEx business Platinum, Gold, and Green, in 8/2018, and now it hurts my head trying to figure out what to do this year now that annual fees are coming due. (I opened the Gold first, then the Green with a nice self-referral bonus, both before I learned I was eligible for the 100K Platinum bonus.) My Gold is the old Business Gold Rewards with the $175 annual fee. I have the 50K/$10K/5mo upgrade offer available on both my Gold and Green Cards.

To keep the RAT happy, I think my best move here is to upgrade the Gold to Platinum and downgrade the Platinum to Green. I could cancel my current Green card now, or I could cancel both Green cards a year from now when their next annual fee hits. Any words of wisdom from you AmEx experts?

So far I've been lucky with regards to the RAT, knock on wood. I don't know if it's because my oldest Amex is 17 years old, or if it's because I've paid AFs over the years on the BCP (now a BCE) and SPG cards, or what. So I'll preface my DPs with acknowledging that P2 & I have a long history with Amex that they can see.

Between P1 & P2 we have ~12 open Amex cards. P2 got Biz Gold (12/17), Biz Plat (3/18) and Biz Green (7/18). Canceled the Biz Gold (1/19) and Biz Plat (3/19) within 30 days of AFs posting. Got a letter last week that Amex closed the Biz Green because I didn't contact them with business information that they wanted. I ignored the requests because I was planning on canceling that card anyway. The strange thing with that Biz Green is that the AF never posted, it still shows up on login as an open card, and I got the 10K Pay over Time popup the week before and enrolled in that so got 10K MRs right before Amex closed (?) it. P2 has gotten two more Amex cards (vanilla Plat 6/19 and Hilton Biz 8/19) since canceling the Biz Gold and Biz Plat, and never has gotten the pop-ups about not getting a SUB. The SUB for the Plat has posted and I'm still working on MSR for Hilton Biz.

For me, I opened Biz Plat (7/18), Biz Green (8/18) and Biz Gold (1/19). Based on what's happened with P2's account, I plan on canceling the Biz Plat, will cancel the Biz Green when the AF posts, and am still considering what to do with the Biz Gold. It has a 20K support link, and I've used it twice this year to cross-refer P2 so that's gotten me 40K MRs alone.

I haven't seen the upgrade offers for me or P2 on the Biz cards. But I wouldn't take them anyway because 50K on $10K of spend is not appealing to me. Do you have a BBP and a P2? I would try to get a BBP thru a Gold support link so that you get the 20K support and a no-fee MR card before doing anything with your Gold. You need to ask yourself if you're going to get $595 worth of value out of a Biz Plat, especially now that the airline credit is harder to get. And also consider if there are other Amex cards you want for the long haul going forward. IMO the BBP is the best MR card out there, a forever card that anyone with MRs should have. You can always put spend on the BBP if the pop-ups are a matter of spending with Amex.

 

[wendow]

Do upgrade offers on the Biz Greens show up in the offers area, or are they found somewhere else?

Dh and I each have biz greens that I either need to close or upgrade but I’ve not seen an upgrade offer for either of us anywhere.

 

[dez1978]

Okay, you get a little bit but I actually didn’t even mention the WiFi in my email. I should have!!

You know that every time you post that gif, I get that song in my head for two weeks

I am also now singing it

 

[platamama]

Update: the dark chocolate gelato from La Spezia Italy is the best I've ever tasted. Unreal.

Yummmm. Are you going into the little towns of Cinque Terre?

 

[dez1978]

Hi all. New here. I'm trying to catch up here, but it's a lot of pages lol. Is there a churning for dummies? lol

 

[Judique]

I suggested complaining about the WiFi being broken and maybe getting something out of it. Do I get credit?

‘Cause I really want to use this gif:

Is that similar to a Heffalump??

 

[speedyfishy]

Sorry if this was mentioned. But I have an Amex offer for Tripfuel Spend $200 or more get $50 back. Up to 3 times. I was looking on their website and they have lots of Disney hotels available and the Swan/Dolphin.

 

[WVMomof3]

Hi all. New here. I'm trying to catch up here, but it's a lot of pages lol. Is there a churning for dummies? lol

Go to first page and answer the questions on the first few posts. Then we can help you once we know more about you.

 

[trenty]

Can’t remember who suggested I email SW about our flight problems getting home. But thank you for suggesting it!! I did so yesterday got a response today that they are sending us 6 $100 LUV vouchers

We had a delay the other day - not quite as bad. My issue with it was we were already on the plane ready to take off when the delay occurred. We got virtually no communication the whole time. It was approx one hour on the plane waiting with no reason or explanation. Thinking I should email too.

 

[Alexle2007]

Boo...vacation is ending today Sad to be leaving the palm trees and FL sunshine. DS has one more day of freedom before orientation starts on Fri at school. I was supposed to work tomorrow but I think vacation needs to be extended an extra day.

 

[KPK02090]

I'm having an issue getting on Reddit at the moment, so hoping someone here can help me.

I'm joining the Serve game. I just bought some Mastercard gift cards at Office Depot. They didn't have any $200 ones left, so I had to buy 3 $100 - which meant paying 2.58 in fees (after the $15 off), but it's going towards an MSR and I'm eager to try this, so I went for it.

I plan to go to a Family Dollar to load the Serve card. So my questions are:
1. On Mastercard is the pin the last 4 of the card or do I have to go online and create a pin?
2. Should I just do it for $100, using one of the mastercard gift cards and do the others on future trips? or can I say I want to load $200 and swipe two separate gift cards? I'm most likely just going to do $100 for my first load, but would like to know this for later?
Thanks!

 

[elgerber]

Dh and I each have biz greens that I either need to close or upgrade but I’ve not seen an upgrade offer for either of us anywhere.

This is us too, both cards. But not sure I want a 10k spend.

 

[Lain]

Got a letter last week that Amex closed the Biz Green because I didn't contact them with business information that they wanted. I ignored the requests because I was planning on canceling that card anyway. The strange thing with that Biz Green is that the AF never posted, it still shows up on login as an open card, and I got the 10K Pay over Time popup the week before and enrolled in that so got 10K MRs right before Amex closed (?) it.

I’ve seen spotty reports of Amex sending out letters asking for business information. Curious if you applied for the Biz Green as a sole proprietor, with a SSN or EIN, or as a partnership, LLC, or some other business form?

 

[speedyfishy]

1. On Mastercard is the pin the last 4 of the card or do I have to go online and create a pin?
2. Should I just do it for $100, using one of the mastercard gift cards and do the others on future trips? or can I say I want to load $200 and swipe two separate gift cards? I'm most likely just going to do $100 for my first load, but would like to know this for later?
Thanks!

Check the packaging. I thought all metas were the last four, but that’s not the case. It should say somewhere in the packaging what the pin is.

You will have to do separate transactions if you want to load $200 with $100 cards. I don’t think the cards autodrain. Imo It’s easier to sign up for two serve cards and ask to load each one for $100.

 

[platamama]

I’ve seen spotty reports of Amex sending out letters asking for business information. Curious if you applied for the Biz Green as a sole proprietor, with a SSN or EIN, or as a partnership, LLC, or some other business form?

It was an LLC with EIN for that particular card. Does that fit the other reports you've seen?

 

[KPK02090]

Check the packaging. I thought all metas were the last four, but that’s not the case. It should say somewhere in the packaging what the pin is.

You will have to do separate transactions if you want to load $200 with $100 cards. I don’t think the cards autodrain. Imo It’s easier to sign up for two serve cards and ask to load each one for $100.

Thanks. The packaging says to go online and create a pin, so I guess I'll just do that. Am I imagining that, creating one online has caused some people issues?