Why is Amex percieved "the best"?

[Open123]

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@nicholasyud wrote:

Anytime ppl said something about their American Express CC, I was like oh they must have  good credit and rich...welll it's just me.......lol

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Have you seen the Amex prepaids lately?  Looks just like the MB card!  LOL

[HiLine]

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@nicholasyud wrote:

Anytime ppl said something about their American Express CC, I was like oh they must have  good credit and rich...welll it's just me.......lol

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or be knowledgeable, which is as respectable as being rich IMO

[jamesdwi]

They were the first company to issue a plastic charge card. Most large companies have AMEX as the supplier for there company credit/charge cards. Among with all the other benefits you mentioned...

[nicholasyud]

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@Open123 wrote:

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@nicholasyud wrote:

Anytime ppl said something about their American Express CC, I was like oh they must have  good credit and rich...welll it's just me.......lol

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Have you seen the Amex prepaids lately?  Looks just like the MB card!  LOL

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we dont talk about that kind of

Amex man

[thom02099]

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@enxinas wrote:

When I first moved here in the US about 6 years ago, I always look into Amex as the "best" card to get even though I don't know anything about CCs. Fast forward into today, I know some of the reasons are the 3x CLI, purchase protection, and extended warranty.  But why do regular (peeps who do not know this forum/or credit in general) people percieved Amex as great?

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Two words:  History.  Tradition.

This is for the VAST majority of folks out there who've never heard of credit card forums/discussion groups/blogs, ad infintum...

AMEX is the best...because people BELIEVE they are the best.  Whether that's backed by facts/reality is irrelevant. 

[HiLine]

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@jamesdwi wrote:

They were the first company to issue a plastic charge card. 

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Wasn't Diners Club the first? 

[cashnocredit]

Branding. Nobody does it better.

Gives them spend centric customers and merchants that like spend centric customers and it just reinfoces the branding.

[NonSufficientFunds]

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@HiLine wrote:

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@jamesdwi wrote:

They were the first company to issue a plastic charge card. 

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Wasn't Diners Club the first? 

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The original Diners Club and AmEx cards were made of cardboard - AmEx introduced the plastic version in 1959.

[HiLine]

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@NonSufficientFunds wrote:

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@HiLine wrote:

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@jamesdwi wrote:

They were the first company to issue a plastic charge card. 

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Wasn't Diners Club the first? 

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The original Diners Club and AmEx cards were made of cardboard - AmEx introduced the plastic version in 1959.

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Ah I see. Imagine instead of calling credit card and charge cards "the plastic", we'd be referring to them as "the cardboard" lol 

[NonSufficientFunds]

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@HiLine wrote:

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@NonSufficientFunds wrote:

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@HiLine wrote:

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@jamesdwi wrote:

They were the first company to issue a plastic charge card. 

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Wasn't Diners Club the first? 

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The original Diners Club and AmEx cards were made of cardboard - AmEx introduced the plastic version in 1959.

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Ah I see. Imagine instead of calling credit card and charge cards "the plastic", we'd be referring to them as "the cardboard" lol 

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And now we are coming full circle: The very first charge plates were made of METAL - wanna guess what's all the rage these days??