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It is not uncommon for Amex to do 3x right away. Give it a try. Buddy of mine last month started with 7k and he requested. They bumped him to 20k, no questions asked!!
My wife was recently approved for OBC@9k, upon activation we cli'd to 25k.
This was about 3 months ago, go for it.