Where not to use an AMEX card?

[Duncanrr]

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@jsucool76 wrote:

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@HenryJumbo wrote:

Maybe they are profiling, not where you shop but WHAT you shop. If you're shopping at Walmart you should be okay, but don't buy Bud, Bud Light or any beer from Anheuser-Busch. Only deadbeats drink Bud. 

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Can't buy PBR either.  

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I'm good there. Only drink Abita Amber!

[OnTheRebound]

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@Duncanrr wrote:

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@jsucool76 wrote:

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@HenryJumbo wrote:

Maybe they are profiling, not where you shop but WHAT you shop. If you're shopping at Walmart you should be okay, but don't buy Bud, Bud Light or any beer from Anheuser-Busch. Only deadbeats drink Bud. 

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Can't buy PBR either.  

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I'm good there. Only drink Abita Amber!

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I quess I'm Mod Cut drink Bud Light and only Bud Light. I like it and it's cheap and almost always on sale. Hey, you can't beat $8.99 / 18 pack.

[jsucool76]

Amex only likes you if you purchase yuengling or blue moon. 

[Duncanrr]

Blue moon is only good out of a keg. Maybe that should be my first use of card. Does Walmart sell kegs?

[pizzadude]

Back on topic......Seriously, IMO AMEX doesn't care where you use their cards.   They actually want you to swipe it everywhere you can, they make money that way....

[Anonymous]

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@pizzadude wrote:

Back on topic......Seriously, IMO AMEX doesn't care where you use their cards.   They actually want you to swipe it everywhere you can, they make money that way....

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Big +1 to this.  I can't believe some people get so paranoid with Amex.

[SwampSystems]

My first two Amex purchases were from McDonald's and Taco Bell. No issues here.

[thrasher865]

AMEX doesn't know what you buy.  They only see a $x.xx purchase from Walmart.

I shop at Walmart, have shopped at Marshall's before, and my mortgage was with Countrywide (I think) before they got bought out by BofA.  Now it's with BofA, obviously.  I didn't even know Countrywide was a subprime lender.  My mortgage was sold to Countrywide, and it's anything but a subprime loan.

[OhioCPA]

My ACM uses his card at Walmart, so far no issues for either one of us.

About the only place I wouldn't use an Amex is a furniture/electronics rental place such as Aaron's. I have heard of at least one FR where Amex quoted the fact that they used their card to rent furniture and that matched a high risk profile.

[webhopper]

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@OhioCPA wrote:

My ACM uses his card at Walmart, so far no issues for either one of us.

About the only place I wouldn't use an Amex is a furniture/electronics rental place such as Aaron's. I have heard of at least one FR where Amex quoted the fact that they used their card to rent furniture and that matched a high risk profile.

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Wow, rental furniture, who would have thought that was considered high risk

Hopefully no one on this board is willing to pay those usurious prices for furniture.