@ArisGreek wrote:So hauling would you suggest not charging everything? I charge EVERYTHING on my AMEX card and pay it once a week, sometimes twice a month. I charge dunkin' donuts coffee, gas, groceries, cafeteria at work, cell, cable, etc..everything. Should I not do it? I've had them for almost 3 years in January.
No, that's not what I was saying. I run everything through plastic, too, varying cards by the differing rewards.
I was talking about the frequently-posted suggestions that the moment you get a new AmEx, especially a charge card with its mystery internal limit, you should run around and charge everything that can't get escape in time, solely in hopes that AmEx will beam upon you and immediately increase your internal limit.
In my experience, they're pretty prompt about increasing your limit just via normal usage. If your normal usage will involve things along the line of gas, grocs, your cell phone bill, and Dunkin' Donuts, that's what you should start out using it for. If your normal monthly usage will involve 4 round-trip business class tickets, 14 nights in hotels, restaurant charges, and dry-cleaning your suits on the road, then start out using it for that.
But I don't get this hurry-up, hurry-up initial charge-o-rama that so many members do in order to sky-rocket your internal limit from the get-go. IMO, it just increases your chances that the giant inquiring eye will swivel your way. Let them go F/R someone else, I say. 
