Amex PRG Retention Odds

[Anonymous]

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@driftless wrote:

I called about a month before my PRG turned 1 and asked about a retention offer and received a 5K for 1K spend offer.  I wasn't expecting an offer so I took it.  I was also offered a 60K for 5K Platinum upgrade offer which I also took.  

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So you got 65k for 6k spend?  

[driftless]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@driftless wrote:

I called about a month before my PRG turned 1 and asked about a retention offer and received a 5K for 1K spend offer.  I wasn't expecting an offer so I took it.  I was also offered a 60K for 5K Platinum upgrade offer which I also took.  

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So you got 65k for 6k spend?  

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Roughly, yes.  

[Anonymous]

Thanks for all good responses.

I guess I overlooked one main thing.. IF a retention offer is given, what would be considered "good"? 5K MR? 10K MR? 15KMR?

[wasCB14]

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@Anonymous wrote:
Thanks for all good responses.

I guess I overlooked one main thing.. IF a retention offer is given, what would be considered "good"? 5K MR? 10K MR? 15KMR?

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"Daily driver" and "most of your spend" from your OP are meaningless terms out of context. If you don't want to give a dollar estimate for your spend, I suggest you review the data I provided on the previous page of this thread to form your expectations.

Without that info, any answer someone gives you will be subject to "garbage in, garbage out".

[Anonymous]

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@wasCB14 wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:
Thanks for all good responses.

I guess I overlooked one main thing.. IF a retention offer is given, what would be considered "good"? 5K MR? 10K MR? 15KMR?

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"Daily driver" and "most of your spend" from your OP are meaningless terms out of context. If you don't want to give a dollar estimate for your spend, I suggest you review the data I provided on the previous page of this thread to form your expectations.

Without that info, any answer someone gives you will be subject to "garbage in, garbage out".

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Sorry overlooked that.

About $25K.

[wasCB14]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@wasCB14 wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:
Thanks for all good responses.

I guess I overlooked one main thing.. IF a retention offer is given, what would be considered "good"? 5K MR? 10K MR? 15KMR?

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"Daily driver" and "most of your spend" from your OP are meaningless terms out of context. If you don't want to give a dollar estimate for your spend, I suggest you review the data I provided on the previous page of this thread to form your expectations.

Without that info, any answer someone gives you will be subject to "garbage in, garbage out".

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Sorry overlooked that.

About $25K.

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Try to get 5k MRs + 15k MRs for $3k spend.

[longtimelurker]

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@wasCB14 wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:
Thanks for all good responses.

I guess I overlooked one main thing.. IF a retention offer is given, what would be considered "good"? 5K MR? 10K MR? 15KMR?

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"Daily driver" and "most of your spend" from your OP are meaningless terms out of context. If you don't want to give a dollar estimate for your spend, I suggest you review the data I provided on the previous page of this thread to form your expectations.

Without that info, any answer someone gives you will be subject to "garbage in, garbage out".

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Well, I will attempt to give a high quality answer anyway (even with peeking at the $25K below!)    

It depends....    Obviously you don'y feel that the PRG is worth the full AF.  So you have to decide what it might be worth to you.   And, with some measure of what an MR is worth to you, you can evaluate the offer, does the value of the points bring the net fee low enough for you (at least for one year).

To my mind, what other people get shouldn't overly matter.   If most people get offered 10MR, and some luck people get 100MR, even if you got 100 (or 200) you shouldn't accept.   Equally if the lowest was 1000K and some got 200K, even a 100K offer should be acceptable to you.

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:
Thanks for all good responses.

I guess I overlooked one main thing.. IF a retention offer is given, what would be considered "good"? 5K MR? 10K MR? 15KMR?

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I would say 10k would be good.  You get 100 dollar airline gift certificate and I would say 10k Amex points are worth a minimum of 100 dollars.  If you get that it covers your annual fee,  

[bourgogne]

do it after the fee hits.  you need a ed or blue+ as a placeholder, no?  usual is $100.  another idea is to get the BGR 75K/$5K, close the prg and there is your place holder for a year

[Anonymous]

What's BGR?