How long to receive Amex Gold?

[Bees18]

Does the gold card give 4x points for delivery services like Uber eats, postmates ect? Or just restaurants?

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:
Just an update, card was shipped out this morning! 5 business days total and 7 including Saturday and Sunday for future reference!

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Hey folks,

So, even though I got the email this morning saying that the card was on its way, the card was actually sent last night and via UPS overnight so I received the email saying that the card was shipped out this morning and received the actual Amex Gold card this afternoon, haha! 

I believe that there is a priority for new cardholders so they are overnighting the cards.

[Anonymous]

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@Bees18 wrote:

Does the gold card give 4x points for delivery services like Uber eats, postmates ect? Or just restaurants?

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That's a very good question, I'm not too sure! Maybe someone can help us here! I do know that there is an Amex offer going on right now where they give you an extra point when ordering through Seemless or Grubhub so that makes me think that its the regular 1x + an extra 1x for the Amex offer. Although, don't forget, you gotta add the offer to your card!

Maybe someone can better answer that question but its definitely a good one!

[Bees18]

Thank you! What is the annual fee?

[Anonymous]

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@Bees18 wrote:

Thank you! What is the annual fee?

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Hey!

The annual fee on that card is $250 not waived for the first year. 

[Anonymous]

@Bees18

It depends on merchant code. So I'd say no cuz Uber eats etc likely shows up as like transportation or something, especially when we consider that the Amex Platinums Uber credit works for Uber eats.

But I'm sure before long it will be very well known if people are getting 4x on their GrubHub and Seamless orders.

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:
@Bees18

It depends on merchant code. So I'd say no cuz Uber eats etc likely shows up as like transportation or something, especially when we consider that the Amex Platinums Uber credit works for Uber eats.

But I'm sure before long it will be very well known if people are getting 4x on their GrubHub and Seamless orders.

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Although, I have to say, it would be awesome if they could include Seamless and GrubHub as part of the 4x category or even 3x /2x haha! Just something! Maybe in the future (imagine here an emoji of hands praying, haha!)

[mongstradamus]

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@Anonymous wrote:
@Bees18

It depends on merchant code. So I'd say no cuz Uber eats etc likely shows up as like transportation or something, especially when we consider that the Amex Platinums Uber credit works for Uber eats.

But I'm sure before long it will be very well known if people are getting 4x on their GrubHub and Seamless orders.

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Thats interesting uber eats counts as transportation, so would CIP/CSR give you 3x with uber eats not 4x but it isn't bad with 3x? I know chase is a lot more leniant with their definition of travel.

[Anonymous]

Off hand I'm not sure if Chase would qualify ubereats for transportation and give you 2 or 3x on your Sapphire card but I wouldn't be surprised in fact I would be more surprised if it did not give you the bonus category for the sapphire.

but as for the 4X getting tripped on the AmEx gold whenever you use GrubHub or seamless I kind of doubt. it would be super cool and yeah hopefully they do something about that but I kind of don't see that happening I think they would have to expand their category of what applies to 4x for that to happen: my understanding is that a merchant will use the same merchant code regardless of whichever issuer you have for your card. so since uber trips The sapphires bonus category and since ubereats trips the AmEx Platinum Uber credit I think it's safe to assume that you won't be seeing 4X on GrubHub for the gold card but you probably will see 3x for ubereats on the sapphire Reserve. I'll put it this way: I would be more surprised if the gold got 4X for GrubHub and seamless then if Uber eats did not give a 3X for the sapphire reserve.

[Anonymous]

you get 4x points on grubhub/seamless. confirmed with rep and there are already confirmed data points on this.