@bluesnowman wrote:
Atlas- If I may ask you, what do you for a living? Also, from what I hear, invites have not gone out in a pretty long time, but I have met about 2-3 Centurion cardholders at work-all very nice, and all very respectful and great tippers (this is what I have seen at work at least IME when I see someone paying with the centurion card.)
no one except amex can verify whether invites have gone or not gone out for a period of time. personal cards, maybe, but don't forget, we're dealing with a very skewed sample pool here. business centurion however are still recently being issued, or least based on what i'm seeing.
Note though, it's a lot way easier for a business to rack up 250k, or even 500k, worth of spending on a card in a given year.
The personal version of the Centurion card are mostly spilt between successful investment bankers, consultants, lawyers, company executives, doctors, engineers etc etc. Basically people whom are at the upper most echelon of their industries. Needless to say, most of them are multimillionaires at the very least. Of course, if one has a very big trust fund from his parents (think Mitt Romney's kids for example), I can see how Amex is willing to issue that person an invite, but circumstances like this are as rare as the card itself.
Of course, it's always nice to have that card. To many it's a sense of achievement that you've reached the very top. Some may justify the AF as ridiculous, but personally if given the opportunity to get one, I'm sure most people will jump at the opporunity. It's the exclusivity that makes it so desirable. Same logic for Hermes Birkin or Kelly bags. I think they're really ugly compared to Chanel bags for example, but girls go crazy over that bag mostly for the same reason.
That being said, OP........your friend probably trolled you. The chances of him getting that card is almost as slim as him willing the mega millions.
JPMorgan Palladium (100k), AmEx Platinum (NPSL), AmEx SPG (46k), AmEx BCP (42k), Chase Sapphire Preferred (47k), Citi Prestige (31k), Citi Thank You Preferred (27k), Citi Executive AAdvantage (25k), JPMorgan Ritz-Carlton (21k), Merrill+ (15k), US Bank Cash+ (22.5k), Wells Fargo (12k), Bloomingdale’s (12.4k), Chase Freedom (5k), Discover IT (5k).
