@Fico2Go wrote:
no not lucky. It was a calculated move.
The same happened to me tonight. Was able to request a correction on my msd to 1995. I have three TLs with amex so this should greatly impact my aaoa.
That definitely should! Congrats. In 1995, I was only three. If only I could backdate my cards that far back. My score would skyrocket! 
@heyarrnold wrote:I literally just got off of the live chat with an Amex agent. I told her that I was an authorized user on my aunt's account in 2008, and that I wanted to know if I could have my Amex backdated to that date. She said she would fill in the request, and she then asked me for my address and telephone number. She said it will take some time to process, but that I will be receiving a new card in the mail in 9-12 business days.
From what I had read, authorized users were no longer capable of being backdated. Perhaps my CSR did not know that, or she simply was in a really good mood.
Nonetheless, I thought I would share my success story.
Are you saying that YOUR Amex is now being backdated to the time you were an ACM on your aunt's acct? If so, that is correct- Amex will backdate your CR's on YOUR Amex (ie primary) to the first time you became a member whether by ACM or primary.
If you are saying that Amex will backdate your CRs to 2008 on an acct in which you are an ACM and you are not a primary cardholder - then that is different and reversing their previous policy
@09Lexie wrote:
@heyarrnold wrote:I literally just got off of the live chat with an Amex agent. I told her that I was an authorized user on my aunt's account in 2008, and that I wanted to know if I could have my Amex backdated to that date. She said she would fill in the request, and she then asked me for my address and telephone number. She said it will take some time to process, but that I will be receiving a new card in the mail in 9-12 business days.
From what I had read, authorized users were no longer capable of being backdated. Perhaps my CSR did not know that, or she simply was in a really good mood.
Nonetheless, I thought I would share my success story.
Are you saying that YOUR Amex is now being backdated to the time you were an ACM on your aunt's acct? If so, that is correct- Amex will backdate your CR's on YOUR Amex (ie primary) to the first time you became a member whether by ACM or primary.
If you are saying that Amex will backdate your CRs to 2008 on an acct in which you are an ACM and you are not a primary cardholder - then that is different and reversing their previous policy
My Amex was backdated to the time that I was an ACM on my aunt's account. That's correct. Sorry for the confusion! I had read the opposite somewhere else.
@Juss11 wrote:You can get AU backdated if you get the right person. But it really does not matter b/c they will not report the AU account to the backdated year. My new Delta gold is backdated to 1994 the year I got my first green card. My wife is an AU on my new Amex & she was an AU on my old Amex. So she was also backdate to 1994, but they will still report the AU account as 2014. She did however get aproved for own Delta gold & that card will report 1994, just not AU account. They stoped reporting backdated AU accounts in like 2012. So unless you have your own Amex it wont report as 2008.
Yeah, it is my own Amex thankfully 