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My Amex Plat AF is coming up and I'm wondering the success for retention offers?
I will have put between $20k - $25k through the plat.
I have put another $30k - 35K through EDP, will that help? That extra 50% bonus really adds up.
A lot of my business reimbursements went through Amex.
Is asking for 20k - 25k MR be unreasonable? Or could I get more?
Thanks for your thoughts.
While I have no idea what makes up their computer algorithms for bonuses, From my experience, your expenditures on "other" cards either are not a factor, or a very minor one.
I've been offered a bonus of 50MRs for spending $3K, but not every year. It's more like every other year. I have a business parther who actually spend quite a bit more on hers, but was only offered 20K bonus. Not sure if this matter, but while I requested a PC to the Bus Green to trigger the retention offer, my Bus partner threatened to cancel the card.
Good luck!
@Open123 wrote:While I have no idea what makes up their computer algorithms for bonuses, From my experience, your expenditures on "other" cards either are not a factor, or a very minor one.
I've been offered a bonus of 50MRs for spending $3K, but not every year. It's more like every other year. I have a business parther who actually spend quite a bit more on hers, but was only offered 20K bonus. Not sure if this matter, but while I requested a PC to the Bus Green to trigger the retention offer, my Bus partner threatened to cancel the card.
Good luck!
Thanks.
Maybe I'll tell them I was looking at the Prestige and their benefits to push them along, who knows. The problem is that since I have the Ink+now my business expenses are going on that card and my spend on plat will go down one half next year.
Thanks also on EDP spend, I won't mention that on trying to get a retention offer. I'm going to keep the card though, so my bluff of cancelling could be called, lol.
I'll tell you my own experience with retention offers for my personal Platinum
2014 - 50K pts, ran close to 70-80K
2015 - 25K, ran close to 60-70K
2016 ( called them last month ) - 40K, ran over 100K.
PS: You can't really ask for a specific MR amount, it's what the computer spits out.
@ibmrad7 wrote:I'll tell you my own experience with retention offers for my personal Platinum
2014 - 50K pts, ran close to 70-80K
2015 - 25K, ran close to 60-70K
2016 ( called them last month ) - 40K, ran over 100K.
Looks like 50k and above mybe the magic number. I'll try anyway, nothing to lose and see if I can get anything.
@redpat wrote:
@ibmrad7 wrote:I'll tell you my own experience with retention offers for my personal Platinum
2014 - 50K pts, ran close to 70-80K
2015 - 25K, ran close to 60-70K
2016 ( called them last month ) - 40K, ran over 100K.
Looks like 50k and above mybe the magic number. I'll try anyway, nothing to lose and see if I can get anything.
Or, you could try this.
This worked a couple of years ago, but not sure if it still will. During the off year I wasn't offered a bonus, the Analyst hinted that I could PC the card to a Bus Green to receive a 5K bonus, then PC again to the Bus Plat for a 50K bonus. This not only worked, but as an added bonus, I even triggered another 10K MR for the POT feature.
@Open123 wrote:
@redpat wrote:
@ibmrad7 wrote:I'll tell you my own experience with retention offers for my personal Platinum
2014 - 50K pts, ran close to 70-80K
2015 - 25K, ran close to 60-70K
2016 ( called them last month ) - 40K, ran over 100K.
Looks like 50k and above mybe the magic number. I'll try anyway, nothing to lose and see if I can get anything.
Or, you could try this.
This worked a couple of years ago, but not sure if it still will. During the off year I wasn't offered a bonus, the Analyst hinted that I could PC the card to a Bus Green to receive a 5K bonus, then PC again to the Bus Plat for a 50K bonus. This not only worked, but as an added bonus, I even triggered another 10K MR for the POT feature.
They added POT automatically no MR. I didn't remeber to call and cancel and I was too late.
I use the benefits a lot and I read info about retention offers and thought I might get one, I guess I will see soon enough.
Google: "amex retention offers flyertalk".
Tons of recent posts on that link.
@ibmrad7 wrote:Google: "amex retention offers flyertalk".
Tons of recent posts on that link.
Thanks, will do.
@Open123 wrote:
@redpat wrote:
@ibmrad7 wrote:I'll tell you my own experience with retention offers for my personal Platinum
2014 - 50K pts, ran close to 70-80K
2015 - 25K, ran close to 60-70K
2016 ( called them last month ) - 40K, ran over 100K.
Looks like 50k and above mybe the magic number. I'll try anyway, nothing to lose and see if I can get anything.
Or, you could try this.
This worked a couple of years ago, but not sure if it still will. During the off year I wasn't offered a bonus, the Analyst hinted that I could PC the card to a Bus Green to receive a 5K bonus, then PC again to the Bus Plat for a 50K bonus. This not only worked, but as an added bonus, I even triggered another 10K MR for the POT feature.
The card you started this with was it the personal plat? I was going to pick up the amex business plat down the line after getting rid of my personal plat, but I was going to wait for a 75-100k signup offer. Was the 50k offer just for switching or did you have to meet a spend requirement on it? Since I have the prestige card I don't necessarily have a huge use for amex plat and therefore the signup offers are the best part of it