@LS2982 wrote:
@-Cain- wrote:
Lol, love those responses! Thank You fellow myFICOers, I have read plenty about playing with that button. I'm staying away. I've done a $260 and a $1200 purchase on my card that went smooth already. I will try that button only if I need to!When I get my AMEX i'm hitting that button!!! And if they F/R me i'm gonna send them back their shredded card!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Chest pumped out)
I'M SORRY AMEX I WOULD NOT SO SUCH A THING!!!!!
You seriously had me worried for a minute there LS. .. I feared you may have fallen and hit your head over NY's. 
@RyVision wrote:
@LS2982 wrote:
@-Cain- wrote:
Lol, love those responses! Thank You fellow myFICOers, I have read plenty about playing with that button. I'm staying away. I've done a $260 and a $1200 purchase on my card that went smooth already. I will try that button only if I need to!When I get my AMEX i'm hitting that button!!! And if they F/R me i'm gonna send them back their shredded card!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Chest pumped out)
I'M SORRY AMEX I WOULD NOT SO SUCH A THING!!!!!
You seriously had me worried for a minute there LS. .. I feared you may have fallen and hit your head over NY's.
If you DID do such a thing, we'd have to toss you in the dungeon and throw away the key!!! 
@OnTheRebound wrote:When I had our Green Card, I played with that button constantly, because it was there. And I mean sometimes 2-3 times in one day, to the point of abuse, just to see how high it would go.
Not a peep from Amex.
I also used it everywhere (almost) people said not to use it, for fear of a FR. Not a peep.
I'm not encouraging anyone to do this if you are so fearful of a Amex FR. I just don't believe that is what triggers it. I think it is something else, a lot more serious than clicking a button, that causes Amex to flag accounts for a FR. Surely, Amex realizes people will play with that dang button if it's there. But then punish you if you do? I don't think so. That would be like giving my wife a box Sees candy for her birthday and telling her she can't eat it. It's only to look at. She would kill to get to it.
I have since closed the Green Card and have had the BCP for about 7 months and not once have I clicked the "Button", only because I know what the credit limit is.
I believe if we keep our reports clean, not go crazy with applications, pay our bills on time, every time, and not go over our CL, there would be no cause for all this paranoia.
This is just my experience and my opinion. YMMV.
i never got an FR,, they just called me cause i too played with the button on a new zync card,,, if u put out a button,, we will play with it!!
Caveat: The following is my own personal experience with Amex. YMMV and I'm not in any way suggesting you do the same. With that said:
I have to say I often play with this button; sometimes more than once within a 24 hour period. Sometimes 3 times. I'm sure the hair would stand up on the necks of most people here if I disclosed some of the amounts I get approved for! It's definitely not the average approval amount, which leads me to believe my internal limit is very high. I also ran through $200K+ in charges on just my platinum card last year alone; not including my gold business card... I'm hoping to get a Centurion invite soon.
Personally, I have never had an issue, they never contacted me as to why I'm checking my spending ability more often and they never FR'd me. I have no fear about hitting this button everyday and I just about do!
My point being is this; if a CC company offers us a feature we like and find useful - in this case the Amex spending ability button - we should not be afraid to use that feature. If we're afraid, that company probably isn't right for us.
Uncle Money
I tend to do that for my Platinum since I do charge a lot on it every month for work. Max I ever checked was 10K and it was accepted. I was thinking AMEX was going to call me but they never did.
But for my Zync I have used the 'check your spending limit' 3 times only.
PS: Sorry to go off topic on this Discover thread
Considering the info. I doubt UM has checked his spending ability up to his hidden pre auth'd CL, If so, probably not often hitting it. If you check and your amount isn't high enough to go past the internal pre-set, the system doesn't care, I realllllly doubt he's checked a high enough amount to trigger an auto SP. The button, like UM and others have said (and this really proves it) is not the only path or ingredient to an FR. I avoid it as I feel why add points to their internal flagging system, plus, I have no reason to check (I always have a backup in case AMEX fails, which at what I put on it is very unlikely, and frankly, Z doesn't reward much for use lol).
I could be wrong here, but, I also doubt UM is carrying a ZYNC for his own use. He's also been with AMEX a while and with higher than average cash running through the accounts if he's expecting an invite for a Centurion. VERY few people are in with AMEX as it appears UM is. Which is why anyone reading this should take his "Caveat" very seriously. He's sort of saying "DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME" in a very polite way without bragging yet including enough info to explain why he's a bit above being FR'd just for checking with the button.
For myself, I'd be more worried about not running enough through their ZYNC if I didn't know they'd look at my report and see who else I'm using (maybe that'll prompt them to offer me a BCE\P, one can only hope). If they called I'd probably tell them "because I have cards that give 5% back a lot of the time, so I tend to use those". For me AMEX gave me some of my history back more so than any perks they offer with the ZYNC.
Thanks UM for sharring so much btw. Sort of seems like you picked a fitting screen name too