So I call AMEX to temporarily suspend my account because I can't remember if I left my card in my other coat or if I lost it. CSR says they would have to cancel the card and re-issue a new one. So I decide to chance financial ruin and wait out the 4 hours until I get home to check my coat instead. In the meantime, the CSR was nice enough to pull up my account and alert to a 12 year old open AMEX account that I had when I was still a credit moron. Said I have an open balance of just under $400 that needs to be cleared up.
At first I think, damn this sucks! I don't want to pay such an old debt. I could use that $400 on booze and women. Then a light bulb goes off (in my head, not in my office) and I realize that I could get them to backdate my new account making it a 13 year old account. Hello magic land of big-time AAoA's! The CSR says that once I clear up the account, I can have my current account backdated. Of course, having learned my lessons from the temple of myFico, I never used the word backdating, opting for the more politically and socially correct term of "altering my Member Since Date".
I promptly schedule a payment for the old account, and the CSR rep says that once the payment clears, they will re-issue my current card with the new member since date.
X X OO AMEX XX OO 
WOW!
can they find me an old 400$ bill?
ill gladly pay that to backdate too 2000. (i was 9 LOL)
well lets hope this pans out.
I just got a text from Booze and Women: They ain't happy. 
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@NJTurnpike wrote:So I call AMEX to temporarily suspend my account because I can't remember if I left my card in my other coat or if I lost it. CSR says they would have to cancel the card and re-issue a new one. So I decide to chance financial ruin and wait out the 4 hours until I get home to check my coat instead. In the meantime, the CSR was nice enough to pull up my account and alert to a 12 year old open AMEX account that I had when I was still a credit moron. Said I have an open balance of just under $400 that needs to be cleared up.
At first I think, damn this sucks! I don't want to pay such an old debt. I could use that $400 on booze and women. Then a light bulb goes off (in my head, not in my office) and I realize that I could get them to backdate my new account making it a 13 year old account. Hello magic land of big-time AAoA's! The CSR says that once I clear up the account, I can have my current account backdated. Of course, having learned my lessons from the temple of myFico, I never used the word backdating, opting for the more politically and socially correct term of "altering my Member Since Date".
I promptly schedule a payment for the old account, and the CSR rep says that once the payment clears, they will re-issue my current card with the new member since date.
X X OO AMEX XX OO
You're a great writer - and good luck with the account!
@NJTurnpike wrote:So I call AMEX to temporarily suspend my account because I can't remember if I left my card in my other coat or if I lost it. CSR says they would have to cancel the card and re-issue a new one. So I decide to chance financial ruin and wait out the 4 hours until I get home to check my coat instead. In the meantime, the CSR was nice enough to pull up my account and alert to a 12 year old open AMEX account that I had when I was still a credit moron. Said I have an open balance of just under $400 that needs to be cleared up.
At first I think, damn this sucks! I don't want to pay such an old debt. I could use that $400 on booze and women. Then a light bulb goes off (in my head, not in my office) and I realize that I could get them to backdate my new account making it a 13 year old account. Hello magic land of big-time AAoA's! The CSR says that once I clear up the account, I can have my current account backdated. Of course, having learned my lessons from the temple of myFico, I never used the word backdating, opting for the more politically and socially correct term of "altering my Member Since Date".
I promptly schedule a payment for the old account, and the CSR rep says that once the payment clears, they will re-issue my current card with the new member since date.
X X OO AMEX XX OO
I don't know why but I can clearly visualize the light bulb, booze and women.
