topic Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade in Credit Cards

Drunken Amex Upgrade

Brian_Earl_Spilner — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:00:22 GMT

Just kidding, I'm sober...for now.

As you can see from my signature, I have a Delta Gold. I accidentally came across the Platinum app page and it has "Request Upgrade. My 1 year anniversary isn't until next month. Not sure where I'm planning to take my card out for dinner, or what to buy it, but that's for another thread.

My question is, how likely will it be that there'll be an upgrade sub offer made in the future? I have no need for the Platinum as my wife has a gold as well, just curious. Also curious if it would be a sub big enough to make it worth upgrading for, before downgrading back to gold. Would a referral be worth it?

For the garden peeps, would an upgrade reset my spade? I'm looking forward to my rose rold spade coming up soon. Heard it's made of metal.

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

Brian_Earl_Spilner — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:00:49 GMT

Yo, I can't add Amex Gucci as a tag. Who blocked Gucci? That ain't Gucci.

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:04:40 GMT

Well, with the BLUE lineup they tend to offer upgrade bonuses when it's close to renewal trying to snag that AF. The nice thing about the bonuses on upgrades is you can churn them as much as they're offered w/o being denied for the bonus unlike a new app.

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:05:12 GMT

I wish I had some data for you but I don’t. While I’ve seen others with upgrade offers, I never waited to receive one because I wanted the big sub offerings for each one. So each one of mine were new accounts.

Im greedy when it comes to sky miles/ mqms / etc. 😁

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

staticvoidmain — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:08:29 GMT

@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:
I have no need for the Platinum as my wife has a gold as well, just curious.

It might be a case to case basis. I have had the Platinum but have not received in upgrade bonus offers for the Reserve.

Also, I have both the Bonvoy and Hilton Surpass, both less than a year (the Hilton is less than a month old), and I get "Request for Upgrade" links when I am signed out.

Also also, having two Gold does not make the Platinum useless. The companion certificate alone makes it more than worth its an annual fee.

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

wasCB14 — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:30:12 GMT

@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:
Just kidding, I'm sober...for now.

As you can see from my signature, I have a Delta Gold. I accidentally came across the Platinum app page and it has "Request Upgrade. My 1 year anniversary isn't until next month. Not sure where I'm planning to take my card out for dinner, or what to buy it, but that's for another thread. My question is, how likely will it be that there'll be an upgrade sub offer made in the future? I have no need for the Platinum as my wife has a gold as well, just curious. Also curious if it would be a sub big enough to make it worth upgrading for, before downgrading back to gold. Would a referral be worth it?

For the garden peeps, would an upgrade reset my spade? I'm looking forward to my rose rold spade coming up soon. Heard it's made of metal.

Search the credit card forum for: delta upgrade bonus

...and you'll find many results. 5k miles is on the low end, 25k is on the high end

I went straight for Platinum, so no Gold-to-Platinum experience to share.

Regarding the bolded part...the extra value of Platinum is in the companion certificate, so I don't see how your wife's Delta Gold card would make it superfluous.

I may not be up-to-date on how Amex handles same-household referrals.

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

Brian_Earl_Spilner — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:15:32 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I wish I had some data for you but I don’t. While I’ve seen others with upgrade offers, I never waited to receive one because I wanted the big sub offerings for each one. So each one of mine were new accounts.
Im greedy when it comes to sky miles/ mqms / etc. 😁

I'd like to avoid a new card if possible, but a new card for the sub has crossed my mind.

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

wasCB14 — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:31:30 GMT

Would Amex even approve a $1k CL Delta Gold card for an upgrade to Platinum?

And, if different, what would be the minimum they'd approve for Delta Platinum on an app for a new card?

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

Brian_Earl_Spilner — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:55:12 GMT

@wasCB14 wrote:
Would Amex even approve a $1k CL Delta Gold card for an upgrade to Platinum?

And, if different, what would be the minimum they'd approve for Delta Platinum on an app for a new card?

I think it's possible. If I remember right, the limit has to be at least 3x the AF, which is why you can't move all of the limit when transferring them. TBH, this was just curiosity. I did overlook the companion pass because I was thinking about my wife using her skymiles, but the companion pass still makes it worth it. Personally, I'm more interested in getting the gold because dining is a huge spend for us. I could earn flights much faster with that.

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

simplynoir — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 01:58:38 GMT

Strictly from a SUB perspective nabbing one while they have the 70k+ miles to go along with the statement credit is what to hold out for with the Delta Platinum card. This is, of course, assuming you don't mind the new account ding

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

Brian_Earl_Spilner — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 01:25:50 GMT

@simplynoir wrote:
Stricutly from a SUB perspective nabbing one while they have the 70k+ miles to go along with the statement credit is what to hold out for with the Delta Platinum card. This is, of course, assuming you don't mind the new account ding

I would take a ding for 70k miles. What's the statement credit part?

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

simplynoir — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 02:02:28 GMT

@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:
@simplynoir wrote:
Stricutly from a SUB perspective nabbing one while they have the 70k+ miles to go along with the statement credit is what to hold out for with the Delta Platinum card. This is, of course, assuming you don't mind the new account ding
I would take a ding for 70k miles. What's the statement credit part?

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/ymmv-american-express-delta-offers-up-to-75000-miles-200-statement-credit-no-lifetime-language/

TLDR it varies depending on the offer really on what triggers it and the amount. For the amounts it's all over the place lately but still quite nice IMO. For triggering the credit sometimes it's as easy as a single Delta purchase, other times there's a spending requirement that has be reached before you get it. The link up there can give you more info on the history of it and when the offers get sent out. If they hold true they should have an increased offer during the holiday season

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

K-in-Boston — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 20:27:14 GMT

We did a Gold to Plat upgrade for 15k SkyMiles for $1k in 3 months last year since a new account was not on the table. It popped up in the month leading up to renewal IIRC. The Delta Welcome Offers can often truly be too tempting, though. The 75k and $50 statement credit popped up for me earlier for Platinum (if you can get 2 cents per SkyMile, that's $1550 value for a $195 AF card). If you do not want to open new accounts, certainly consider upgrading both cards to Platinum since those companion certificates would more than pay for the AF.

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

SomewhereIn505 — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 21:54:15 GMT

@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:
Just kidding, I'm sober...for now.

As you can see from my signature, I have a Delta Gold. I accidentally came across the Platinum app page and it has "Request Upgrade. My 1 year anniversary isn't until next month. Not sure where I'm planning to take my card out for dinner, or what to buy it, but that's for another thread.

My question is, how likely will it be that there'll be an upgrade sub offer made in the future? I have no need for the Platinum as my wife has a gold as well, just curious. Also curious if it would be a sub big enough to make it worth upgrading for, before downgrading back to gold. Would a referral be worth it?

For the garden peeps, would an upgrade reset my spade? I'm looking forward to my rose rold spade coming up soon. Heard it's made of metal.

You had me at "Drunken" for your Amex upgrade. Sorry I have no advice. Was looking for a great drunken story.

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

wasCB14 — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 22:28:41 GMT

@SomewhereIn505 wrote:
@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:
Just kidding, I'm sober...for now.

As you can see from my signature, I have a Delta Gold. I accidentally came across the Platinum app page and it has "Request Upgrade. My 1 year anniversary isn't until next month. Not sure where I'm planning to take my card out for dinner, or what to buy it, but that's for another thread.

My question is, how likely will it be that there'll be an upgrade sub offer made in the future? I have no need for the Platinum as my wife has a gold as well, just curious. Also curious if it would be a sub big enough to make it worth upgrading for, before downgrading back to gold. Would a referral be worth it?

For the garden peeps, would an upgrade reset my spade? I'm looking forward to my rose rold spade coming up soon. Heard it's made of metal.
You had me at "Drunken" for your Amex upgrade. Sorry I have no advice. Was looking for a great drunken story.

Yeah...talk about misleading thread titles!

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

K-in-Boston — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 22:49:53 GMT

@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:
I would take a ding for 70k miles. What's the statement credit part?

Every now and again there will be a $50 or $100 statement credit offered by Amex along with SkyMiles for Gold and Platinum SkyMiles cards. Any purchase with Delta during the allowed time will trigger it, so the $10 gin & tonic with the 20% statement credit would also trigger the $50 or $100 credit. Just a little added incentive to get you to give Delta some money early on in your cardmembership.

Keep in mind that when completing the checkout process on Delta's website, much larger statement credits are offered at times (like $300) for applying for the card, but that's often instead of bonus SkyMiles or at least with a very reduced number of SkyMiles.

The 60-80k offers that come up from time to time for Delta cards are really hard to top in terms of sheer potential value of the Welcome Offer.

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

wingennis — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:52:32 GMT

I saw the subject and was going to recruit the garden club to help me stage an intervention!

@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:
Just kidding, I'm sober...for now.

As you can see from my signature, I have a Delta Gold. I accidentally came across the Platinum app page and it has "Request Upgrade. My 1 year anniversary isn't until next month. Not sure where I'm planning to take my card out for dinner, or what to buy it, but that's for another thread.

My question is, how likely will it be that there'll be an upgrade sub offer made in the future? I have no need for the Platinum as my wife has a gold as well, just curious. Also curious if it would be a sub big enough to make it worth upgrading for, before downgrading back to gold. Would a referral be worth it?

For the garden peeps, would an upgrade reset my spade? I'm looking forward to my rose rold spade coming up soon. Heard it's made of metal.

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

Brian_Earl_Spilner — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 01:41:48 GMT

@SomewhereIn505 wrote:
@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:
Just kidding, I'm sober...for now.

As you can see from my signature, I have a Delta Gold. I accidentally came across the Platinum app page and it has "Request Upgrade. My 1 year anniversary isn't until next month. Not sure where I'm planning to take my card out for dinner, or what to buy it, but that's for another thread.

My question is, how likely will it be that there'll be an upgrade sub offer made in the future? I have no need for the Platinum as my wife has a gold as well, just curious. Also curious if it would be a sub big enough to make it worth upgrading for, before downgrading back to gold. Would a referral be worth it?

For the garden peeps, would an upgrade reset my spade? I'm looking forward to my rose rold spade coming up soon. Heard it's made of metal.
You had me at "Drunken" for your Amex upgrade. Sorry I have no advice. Was looking for a great drunken story.

I'm sorry, I won't do it again.

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

Brian_Earl_Spilner — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 01:45:01 GMT

@K-in-Boston wrote:
We did a Gold to Plat upgrade for 15k SkyMiles for $1k in 3 months last year since a new account was not on the table. It popped up in the month leading up to renewal IIRC. The Delta Welcome Offers can often truly be too tempting, though. The 75k and $50 statement credit popped up for me earlier for Platinum (if you can get 2 cents per SkyMile, that's $1550 value for a $195 AF card). If you do not want to open new accounts, certainly consider upgrading both cards to Platinum since those companion certificates would more than pay for the AF.

Yeah, I dismisses the companion certificates because I've been buying reward trips, but now that you guys reminded me, I'll be able to use the skymiles for possible upgrades.

Re: Drunken Amex Upgrade

MrDisco99 — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:50:33 GMT

For most Amex cards, I've seen upgrade bonus offers when the card turns about a year old. They're not very good on the Delta Gold cards, though... usually something like 15K bonus miles, which is chump change compared to the new card bonus.