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Anonymous
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Amex Green card

Can someone explain the POT feature to me? Is that like a credit limit with a revolver?

Last night when I was poking around on the site it came up with $1000 for my purchase power but tonight it has my POT limit as $11,000 with 22% APR. Was that $1000 just until the card arrives??

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AllZero
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Re: Amex Green card

With Pay Over Time, we offer eligible Charge Card Members the option to pay for certain charges over time. There is no fee to enroll, and you can simply choose each month to pay your balance in full, the minimum amount due, or anything in between. Discover which features may fit your lifestyle: Extended Payment Option - With Extended Payment Option, eligible charges of $100 or more are automatically moved into your Pay Over Time balance. Select & Pay Later - With Select & Pay later, you can manually select which charges of $100 or more you would like to pay over time. * Sign & Travel - With Sign & Travel, eligible travel-related charges such as airline tickets, hotel stays, car rentals, cruises and foreign charges will be automatically moved into your Pay Over Time balance. Learn more about Pay Over Time.

 

https://global.americanexpress.com/faq?question=Can%20I%20revolve%20and%20pay%20charges%20later%20on...?

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Brian_Earl_Spilner
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Re: Amex Green card

There's POT direct and POT select. By default, POT direct is selected. Any charge over $100 goes in that pile, up to your limit of $11k. You can fill up that limit over multiple months. When your bill comes, you can either pay it in full, or pay the balance that isn't POT + the POT monthly charge at 22%. 

 

You can also choose POT select if you want to manually move charges into POT. Either way, you have the grace period to pay it all off if you want. 

    
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Anonymous
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Re: Amex Green card

So hypothetically if I make a $1000 purchase.... I have the option to pay the $1000 off in full or a POT amount with 22% interest?

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Anonymous
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Re: Amex Green card

AMEX is going to the pay over time thing just like a regular credit card.  That's how it will work.   Use to be pay in full at the end of the month but not anymore.   So just look at the Green card like a regular credit card with a monthly min you have to pay and interest kicks in on the unpaid balance.


@Anonymous wrote:

Can someone explain the POT feature to me? Is that like a credit limit with a revolver?

Last night when I was poking around on the site it came up with $1000 for my purchase power but tonight it has my POT limit as $11,000 with 22% APR. Was that $1000 just until the card arrives??


 

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Anonymous
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Re: Amex Green card

Amex Rep told me the charges over $100 was for the Plat card.   The green card it can be a dollar and you can do POT.   That's what I was told


@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:

There's POT direct and POT select. By default, POT direct is selected. Any charge over $100 goes in that pile, up to your limit of $11k. You can fill up that limit over multiple months. When your bill comes, you can either pay it in full, or pay the balance that isn't POT + the POT monthly charge at 22%. 

 

You can also choose POT select if you want to manually move charges into POT. Either way, you have the grace period to pay it all off if you want. 


 

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Anonymous
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Re: Amex Green card

Except it doesn't report balance to credit bureau so it won 't factor in to the aggregate utilization.

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Brian_Earl_Spilner
Credit Mentor

Re: Amex Green card


@Anonymous wrote:

Amex Rep told me the charges over $100 was for the Plat card.   The green card it can be a dollar and you can do POT.   That's what I was told


@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:

There's POT direct and POT select. By default, POT direct is selected. Any charge over $100 goes in that pile, up to your limit of $11k. You can fill up that limit over multiple months. When your bill comes, you can either pay it in full, or pay the balance that isn't POT + the POT monthly charge at 22%. 

 

You can also choose POT select if you want to manually move charges into POT. Either way, you have the grace period to pay it all off if you want. 


 


They were wrong. The only other amounts listed are $200, 500, and 1000 for business card holders.

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Brian_Earl_Spilner
Credit Mentor

Re: Amex Green card


@Anonymous wrote:

Except it doesn't report balance to credit bureau so it won 't factor in to the aggregate utilization.


There's one or two older scoring models where it would report using your highest charged amount as your limit. Don't remember which. They're pretty rarely used anymore.

    
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Anonymous
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Re: Amex Green card

Ok another question.

 

My account says Member since 2000.

 

Which will it be on the credit report. 2020 or 2000? 

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