@NoHardLimits wrote:
@unsungivy wrote:
@odd_dog wrote:Now I'm worried about the Preferred being nuked.
Me too! If they turn that into the "foodie card" using the amex template (because notice no extra points for food anymore on Reserve 2.0) it kills that as a travel card.....credits for doordash, dunkin and jack in the box but only $7.99 monthly......ugggghhhhhhhhhh
Oh wow. I totally missed they removed the 3x dining as well, which is on almost all the other non-affiliated personal Chase cards. Wow, just wow. 🤯According to an update on the DofC website, dining will still be 3x. Dining must not have been mentioned in the first post because that was only a list of the upcoming changes.
I guess these issuers know what they're doing, but it still never makes sense to me. When they remove the multipliers I never end up spending on the card aside from the pre-paid coupon categories which doesn't add up to much annually. My Amex Plat hardly gets any additional spend, since the only multipliers are through the travel portal which has too many downsides IMO (as does Chase's). Sometimes I use it when there are good hotel deals on there, but they usually only exist for 5 star hotels which I only stay in sometimes - 2/3rd's of the time I just use a hotel decent enough that a murder in the hallway doesn't happen more than once a year.
These cards end up becoming little more than lounge keycards with required pre-spend on partnerships. It's almost like when you want a table in the club, you have to agree to spend a certain amount on drinks. "You can have access to our lounge, but you must feed yourself DoorDash 24x per year and abandon Uber and Spotify for Lyft and Apple Music." I really only carry the Amex Plat around since I know I'll need it at the airport. It may as well not even be a credit card at all.
I guess that's why Amex pushes its Gold and Blue cards on you with generous bonuses even when you have Plat, since they know that if you don't have them all of the bonus category spend and catch-all will go to Chase or Cap One.
looks at the changes they made to the United Cards, that is all you have to look at to see where its going to go.
@swankytiger wrote:looks at the changes they made to the United Cards, that is all you have to look at to see where its going to go.
Agreed.
