@sillykitty1 wrote:
@dilettante wrote:
@sillykitty1 wrote:
@CreditCuriousity wrote:
@sillykitty1 wrote:Thanks for the clarification @dilettante & Membersince 2013!
I never stay at RC's so the $100 isn't wothrwhile to me ... so I just need to decide is 140,000 points worth $95 and the HP and hit to my AAOA
Stay at marriot's? You can get more then 2 days transferring them from what I read.. Think they equal like 5 nights if not mistaken..
Oh yeah, definitely stay at Marriots ... 91 nights this year!
140,000 points is definitely valuable ... I usually stay at catagory 6 or 7's for personal stays ... so that's about 4 nights, averaging about $800 total value
You must have Plat status (with 91 nights), then you should have no problems getting enough points for all sorts of vacation packages! The Ritz is a much better card than the Marriott card for those who use this brand of hotels.
Ok ... I talked myself into it ... app'd, went pending, called recon, approved for $5K. I pushed for $10K and was declined for aggressive credit seeking and balances on multiple cards (both true). So now I just need to get the card expedited once they match up my account number w Marriott, so I can get the $300 airline reimbursement in 2014.
Thanks for confirming sillykitty1. I'm thinking I might give it a whirl in the next couple of days and I'm sure I may be asked similar questions regarding the number of new accounts since Sep - I can definitely afford the HPs though. By the way, congratulations on your RC approval, well done 
@csryang wrote:Previously, someone had said that the travel credit will be ok for gift cards. Will that have to be below certain amount like 3 $100 gift cards or can I do a $300 gift card?
Just a side note, does Amex Platinum's $200 travel credit per calendar year also apply when transaction posts or statement cuts?
It's not officially allowed but there are people on FT who have done it. I've never done it with Ritz so can't give personal experience. All I can say is that when you call in to get credit, all that CSR's ask is what date and amount, never what you used the credit for. But they do see what's listed as vendor and if it says Alaska Gift Certificates (which is how Alaska posted on my Amex - but still got credited in a few days ), then that will take some explaining.
@dilettante wrote:
@csryang wrote:Previously, someone had said that the travel credit will be ok for gift cards. Will that have to be below certain amount like 3 $100 gift cards or can I do a $300 gift card?
Just a side note, does Amex Platinum's $200 travel credit per calendar year also apply when transaction posts or statement cuts?
It's not officially allowed but there are people on FT who have done it. I've never done it with Ritz so can't give personal experience. All I can say is that when you call in to get credit, all that CSR's ask is what date and amount, never what you used the credit for. But they do see what's listed as vendor and if it says Alaska Gift Certificates (which is how Alaska posted on my Amex - but still got credited in a few days
So, theoretically, these GC's could indeed be reimbursed (except for maybe UA and I can't recall the other carriers). Do these have to post within the same time period or can they be spread out?
@dilettante wrote:
@csryang wrote:Previously, someone had said that the travel credit will be ok for gift cards. Will that have to be below certain amount like 3 $100 gift cards or can I do a $300 gift card?
Just a side note, does Amex Platinum's $200 travel credit per calendar year also apply when transaction posts or statement cuts?
It's not officially allowed but there are people on FT who have done it. I've never done it with Ritz so can't give personal experience. All I can say is that when you call in to get credit, all that CSR's ask is what date and amount, never what you used the credit for. But they do see what's listed as vendor and if it says Alaska Gift Certificates (which is how Alaska posted on my Amex - but still got credited in a few days
Are you saying that Amex Plat is more lenient to credit gift cards for airline credits or you were just lucky? So for both Amex Plat and Ritz Carlton, you dont have to split gift card amount?
@csryang wrote:
@dilettante wrote:
@csryang wrote:Previously, someone had said that the travel credit will be ok for gift cards. Will that have to be below certain amount like 3 $100 gift cards or can I do a $300 gift card?
Just a side note, does Amex Platinum's $200 travel credit per calendar year also apply when transaction posts or statement cuts?
It's not officially allowed but there are people on FT who have done it. I've never done it with Ritz so can't give personal experience. All I can say is that when you call in to get credit, all that CSR's ask is what date and amount, never what you used the credit for. But they do see what's listed as vendor and if it says Alaska Gift Certificates (which is how Alaska posted on my Amex - but still got credited in a few days
Are you saying that Amex Plat is more lenient to credit gift cards for airline credits or you were just lucky?
I think I got lucky. I had split it up into four transactions because I had read on FT (my go-to source for travel related info) that most had success if split up. This was the first time I ordered GC's as an experiment for myself and thought it wouldn't get reimbursed cause of how it posted but it was credited in a few days.
With Ritz, as long as it looks like it could be an amount for airline charges (baggage, seat upgrade, etc.) i'm sure there would be no problems. I'll have to look on FT for data points on GC purchase reimbursements. However, I never seem to have a problem for using credits with my cards for award ticket booking fees, etc. so I don't need to buy gift cards to use all the credit.