Amex Platinum cardholders – are you getting mysterious double and triple points?

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• 21h21j says:

  29 Jul29 July 21:21

  The poor plat earning rate is why I only use the card when I absolutely have to, it makes nor sense that the gold card is a better MR earning card. Even if they increased it to 1.5 MR per £1 I’d switch a large chunk of my spend from the BAPP.

  • Alan says:

    29 Jul29 July 21:56

    Agreed – I still find it bonkers that the earning rate on the cheaper card is higher than on the premium one! They really need to sort this out.

• Mike says:

  29 Jul29 July 21:41

  I also noticed some oddness on my Gold card this month:

  Spend: £1,636
  Base points: 2,759
  Outbound spend bonus: 103
  Travel Bonus: 2,038
  First year welcome bonus: 312
  American Express Travel Bonus: 1,928
  Amex Travel 2500 bonus: 2,500
  Total: 9,640

  Approaching 6 pts per £ spent, pretty damn good (£900 of that was through Amex travel).

• Susan says:

  30 Jul30 July 08:14

  No unexpected bonus points for me but the BMI AMEX is getting most of my spend these days unless I need to use Plat for the insurance.

• CT says:

  30 Jul30 July 10:31

  Prompted by this thread I went and checked and I can see lots of double or triple points especially on fuel . This one stood out at 4x
  Base Bonus Total
  16/07/2013 LIVERMEAD CLIFF HOTEL TORQUAY £112.50 224 224 448

• WB says:

  30 Jul30 July 17:59

  I just checked my statements and I haven’t gotten any bonus points at all !

  I did however email Amex feedback earlier asking why the Gold card gets 2 points per pound whereas the platinum only gets 1.

  The whole idea of the Platinum card is you get all of the benefits of the Green/Gold and more on top!!

• What's the Point says:

  30 Jul30 July 18:55

  Just checked my last hotel stay on my Gold Card (Marriott in UK) which was £136. Total points posted 606. There was a “travel bonus” of 272 and a “Marriott Membership Rewards” bonus of 62; which must be linked to the mailshot I received a few weeks back from AMEX telling me about triple points if I use my Gold Card at any Marriott hotel over the coming months.
  So its a x 4 multplier + the “Marriott bonus” of 62
  Are AMEX missing massive trick here by not telling its card holders what the promotion actual is?

• Luke says:

  30 Jul30 July 19:37

  Been getting triple points on restaurants on Plat.

• Jonny says:

  30 Jul30 July 21:47

  Points for my Gold card are all over the place, ranging from 1x to 4x

  Most amusingly (and annoyingly!) on my Oyster auto top-up, i get triple points when its on the tube but only single pts on a bus…

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