When I got my most recent Amex CC in the mail (the Blue Cash Everyday card), I was reading the cardmember agreement which stated that the CC should be used for personal expenses only. After I looked through some of Amex's business CCs, it seems that the personal CCs (especially the Blue Cash Everyday) have much better rewards with less or no AFs. My question is, has anyone ever experienced AA from Amex or any other CCC for that matter when you started charging business expenses on a personal CC? Is this a big no-no as far as using a personal CC goes with the CCCs?
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I've always assumed that this was there so that they could object to giving out rewards points if they thought you were abusing the system somehow. For example, if I started charging not only my flights but also everyone else's flights in my office to my personal card. Whether they would actually care or not if I did so, I don't know, but I've just assumed they wanted to leave themselves an option.
@Walt_K wrote:I've always assumed that this was there so that they could object to giving out rewards points if they thought you were abusing the system somehow. For example, if I started charging not only my flights but also everyone else's flights in my office to my personal card. Whether they would actually care or not if I did so, I don't know, but I've just assumed they wanted to leave themselves an option.
You're probably right about that one Walt. The reason I asked the question is I often charge postage and such to my personal CC for some of my employer's expenses (which I get reimbursed for by check), so I guess my real question is will I eventually run into a problem with my rewards points if I start charging more of my employer's expenses such as commercial utility bills and such? Seems to me like a company like Amex might be able to detect this activity pretty quickly and take AA. Any thoughts?
I'm just throwing guesses out there, but I think the behavior would have to be pretty outrageous for them to care. We have a corporate Amex (but I choose not to use it). With the corporate Amex, you can add MR if you are willing to pay the annual fee. If they're willing to let you earn MR points for a corporate account so long as you pay the AF, I don't see why they would care about you putting the expenses on your personal card.
I put all of my business travel on my personal Amex. If they ever raise an issue with it, I guess I'll sign up for the corp. card and add an MR account.