Important dates for your diary – offers about to close which you shouldn’t miss (Jan 2018)

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• Rob says:

  21 Jan21 January 10:48

  Not this week but something seems to be in the air.

• rtid says:

  21 Jan21 January 10:49

  thanks Rob. Would you still stop churning for the moment?

  • Rob says:

    21 Jan21 January 10:53

    I wouldn’t cancel a card you value (and so not have it for 6 months) purely for churn purposes, put it that way. Eg if I was close to hitting £15k on an Anex Gold to get the 10k bonus, I would leave Gold open and get the guaranteed 10k rather than risking a failed churn.

    • rtid says:

      21 Jan21 January 12:09

      interesting! thanks Rob!

• Ed says:

  21 Jan21 January 11:46

  O/T (General) – in recent days there has been plenty of chat that upgrading gold amex to platinum, and then referring from that card for additional 18k bonus is a great way to go. Both me and partner have gold currently, I am basically at 10k bonus on that card, so don’t want to upgrade until anniversary of gold and been credit my bonus, but can do partner now.

  What card can she refer me for from her platinum to get her 18k referral bonus – I have gold, and will upgrade myself to platinum in due course (May). Do all referrals from platinum get the 18k. (I recall reading from the gold card, the referral bonus is dependant on the card the person takes out.

  Thanks

  • mark2 says:

    21 Jan21 January 12:13

    It changed recently so that the referral bonus now depends on where you refer from irrespective of the new card. So Plat 18,000, Gold 9,000, BAPP 9,000, SPG 5,000.

    • Ed says:

      21 Jan21 January 13:20

      Thank you. So any card from the platinum is 18k. My question then is which is possible from a platinum if the person has a gold (and will upgrade themselves in time to the platinum.)
      I read that if you apply for some cards, if that card is an uprated version, their account is automatically changed to that one. The referee (me) already has the gold which is due the anniversary bonus, so don’t want to lose that.

      If rules have changed, can you refer outside the same ‘family;’ now? Or if not, which can be referred from the platinum which would compliment the gold (which is to be upgraded itself to platinum in time.)

      Thanks again

      • Ed says:

        21 Jan21 January 13:23

        Just to be clear, can my partner (the referrer) refer me (the referee) for example, the SPG card to get her 18k. I’m not with the 6 months for the BAPP to get my sign up bonus, so not so keen on that. (but of course both of these outside the same family, if I understand correctly.)

        If answer above is a no, which card (other than plat or gold) if from the same amex family is best for me to get from a referral.

        Many thanks,
        Ed

      • Ed says:

        21 Jan21 January 14:21

        Sorry for continuing my own question – I tested my own gold card referral link, and from it, I can change to any Amex branded card (charge or credit) from any family, and it still shows the info to apply from this button to ensure you and referrer get your bonus – so, is it really the case that any card taken out from Platinum referral will earn the platinum holder 18k?

        thanks,

      • Ed says:

        21 Jan21 January 14:23

        Sorry Genghis, missed your reply, I will take it from that, its a yes to my question – I am about to take out some more Amex cards!!

        thank you for the confirmation.

    • JamesB says:

      21 Jan21 January 14:45

      I’m now thinking that this change might be part of a bigger picture on amex strategy. They introduce this and soon restrict, or worse, churning. Combined, these changes increase loyalty by providing customers with a greater incentive to retain the card and recommend others, driving new business at the same time. Thus, it’s a win win strategy for both amex and the customers provided the latter keep recommending approved cards. Only losers are the diehard churneers who refuse to pay a fee to retain a card, and those who find it difficult to refer cards to others.

      • JamesB says:

        21 Jan21 January 16:28

        @Genghis. Almost in exactly the same boat except I remain to be convinced the £450 platinum fee can be justified for me personally. My longhaul flights are all business and little shorthaul economy so no need for PP, I stay enough nights to get hotel status if desired, there is not much difference on amex offers relative to free or cheaper cards, and we get our travel insurance for £7/month net by keeping £2500 in Nationwide flexplus. Therefore, my decision will come down to whether I think the referrals and base earning rates are worth it. 18k reward for referring a fee-free card like the standard BA is a powerful incentive but I’d like to see them increase the base earnings, for example on travel and supermaket spend like PRG used to be. Better still, I would like to see them be more progressive and ditch the one size fits all approach in favour of a bespoke product whereby we coukd get a basic platinum card with a lower fee and select what benefits we needed at extra cost. I am hopingbI will not need to make a decision though.

      • Cate says:

        21 Jan21 January 16:53

        I’m afraid I won’t be one of those who keeps their card’s open just to recommend people. I’m finding it hard to justify what I’m paying at the moment.

• Caroline says:

  21 Jan21 January 12:21

  Just got a new Amex Gold card after an 8 month break (card came in 3 days from application!). I can’t see the ‘progress bar’ for the signup bonus on my online account like I had last time, but not sure if that’s just the new online account format. Is that normal? Hopefully I am still entitled to the bonus as advertised!

  • Anna says:

    21 Jan21 January 14:04

    The progress bar has been known to disappear from time to time, it seems to be when your account is being updated as far as I can tell. I’d wait a couple of days and see if it appears.

• Michael says:

  21 Jan21 January 17:09

  When sending a referral link from my platinum card, the referred only is able to choose platinum, gold and one other MR points card. Otherwise the referral link does not show.
  Anyone any idea what I am doing wrong?

  • Michael says:

    21 Jan21 January 19:35

    Thanks Genghis. I hope this will work, as the referral links then disappears in the web url.

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