@ridgebackpilot wrote:This morning, I received a spontaneous CLI from AMEX on my Blue Cash Preferred card. Figuring that I must be in favor at AMEX, I went ahead and applied for the Platinum card. Since I travel a lot for work, I'm in a position to make good use of this card's benefits. It will be a nice complement to my Chase Sapphire Reserve card.
When I pulled up the application, it said I was pre-approved. Sure enough, I received an instant approval after verifying my identify online and updating my annual income and assets. For the record, my current scores are TU: 710, EX: 693. Hopefully this approval will be via a Soft Pull, which presumably was what prompted the auto-CLI on my BCP card...
Super Congrats on your Amex CLI and Platinum approvals! 
Amex Platinum is quite the card. And since you were approved with an
EX 693, your example provides hope to the rest of us as well. Congrats
once again, and enjoy your Blue Cash Preferred CLI and Amex Platinum!
@Anonymous wrote:How much of an increase was the auto CLI? Just curious. Oh and congrats on both!
The auto-CLI on my Blue Cash Preferred card was from $6K to $9K.
Now I hear that some people are getting 100K bonus MR points for the Platinum personal card. Should I call and request a bump up from 60K to 100K bonus points? Has anyone done this upon being approved for the AMEX Platinum card?
@ridgebackpilot wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:How much of an increase was the auto CLI? Just curious. Oh and congrats on both!
The auto-CLI on my Blue Cash Preferred card was from $6K to $9K.
Now I hear that some people are getting 100K bonus MR points for the Platinum personal card. Should I call and request a bump up from 60K to 100K bonus points? Has anyone done this upon being approved for the AMEX Platinum card?
I don't know if that's possible since it's hard to see the 100K bonus offer. Worth a shot though. I was lucky to get the 100K offer so I jumped on it quick. Almost settled for the 60 and 75k offers I had seen the days before I applied.
I called AMEX Platinum Customer Care, thanked them for the new card, and asked that they match the 100K MR points bonus offer. My argument was that I simply applied via the AMEX website and never received a customized offer via Email.
At first they said it couldn't be done but then transferred me to a higher level CSR, who said she would put the request in with the Membership Rewards Department. If approved, I should see the new offer on my account within a few weeks.
In any case, the offer requires $5K spend within 92 days of activating the card, so I'd better get on that!