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Amex Platinum is letting you order a metal card immediately – and a quick benefits reminder

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The new American Express Platinum fee and benefits package kicked in yesterday.  You are now looking at a £575 annual fee, with the carrot of a £10 monthly Addison Lee credit and a metal card.

When we originally wrote about the launch of a metal card, I joked that American Express would be facing a large number of claims from existing holders of The Platinum Card who had ‘lost’ or ‘damaged’ their old plastic one.

As it happens, this isn’t necessary 🙂

New American Express Platinum card

If you log in to your American Express account, click on Account Management and then Order A Replacement Card.

Select Replace Metal Card and a new card will be sent out to you ASAP.

Don’t forget to register for onefinestay

There is one other thing to note.

The Addison Lee benefit of £10 credit per month is automatic.  Remember to use code RIDE8 on your first trip, which gives you an £8 saving as long as you spend over £15.

However, the 2nd new offer – $200 cashback on every onefinestay home rental you book – requires registration.

The registration link is on the same page as registration for all of the hotel and car rental status upgrades.  You need to log in and go Benefits & Help (top menu) and then Platinum Benefits.

Scroll down to where it offers onefinestay enrollment.


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Comments (177)

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  • sayling says:

    Previously, when a card reached end of life, the advice has been to cut it in half/ pieces – I guess this will be a bit difficult with metal.

    Mind you, I assume it is also more environmentally friendly than plastic

    • Alex M says:

      I imagine how much more energy it required to mine that metal and produce the card. I am also pretty sure it will not be recycled and will just go to wasteland eventually. I don’t think it is more environmentally friendly.

    • mradey says:

      Centurion cards can be sent back to Amex for recycling – they will send out an envelope with prepaid postage.

      I keep my cards, building a rather nice collection of Titanium.

      mradey

    • PaulC says:

      I’ve always said I don’t know how people manage without a good vice and decent hand tools.
      Household essentials now to include a hacksaw and vice for destroying old Credit Cards. HaHa

      • Pierre says:

        So many uses for a metal card with a little bit of DIY:
        Ice scraper
        Cheese or butter knife
        Cellphone stand (might require more than one metal card though)
        Multitool business card
        make-up mirror

        Any other ideas? 🙂

        • Spurs Debs says:

          Chopping a line of coke … maybe ask Certain MP’s the best way to go about that.

        • xcalx says:

          “So many uses for a metal card with a little bit of DIY:
          Ice scraper”

          Not the greatest idea metal on glass, as I found to my cost when one frosty morning I had the light bulb idea to use a wallpaper scraper on windscreen.

  • Ian says:

    Am I covered?

    Applied to upgrade from Green to platinum last week. Was approved and my green card disappeared from my online account and was replaced by a platinum, even though I still as of this morning have not received my platinum card.

    However, I was still able to use my green card and transactions I made showed up on my platinum card online.

    Yesterday I paid for a holiday to Spain next week on the green and like other transactions it has shown up on the platinum card account online.

    I’m assuming my physical platinum card will arrive before I go.

    So even though I have used the green card the holiday looks like it’s been bought by the platinum card I haven’t received yet.

    As such, an I covered by all the travel insurance benefits of platinum for this trip?

    • Genghis says:

      Yes – you’ve used a “card” which is part of your “account”.

  • Steve says:

    I didn’t see this mentioned in the original article but the Amex Plat Business membership fee is still £450 and the card is still plastic.

    • Rob says:

      It is. Will do a separate piece on this at some point.

    • LUKE says:

      Does anyone know if they plan to change the business card to metal? I see the one fine stay benefit is available to register for and have added this to my account.

      • Rob says:

        It would be weird for a fee difference so big to exist – although Bus Plat benefits are weaker, except for the insurance. No Hilton, Melia, Shangri-La etc.

        • Go says:

          Do the priority pass cards one the business card allow a free guest? They used to but I’m sure I read that this is no longer the case. For me that’s quite a decent benefit

          • LUKE says:

            Yes you get 1 free guest – tested multiple times this year

          • LUKE says:

            I genuinely lost my card last night. Called up to my surprise she said your new business card will be issued in metal. I’ll see Tuesday

  • The Streets says:

    I love how they are still advertising 18,000 points to refer a friend in the Benefits section of the Platinum Card…. if only this was true!

  • BS says:

    anyone got their metal card yet? I’m not sure whether to trust amex’s timeframes.

  • Doug says:

    Enrolment has only one l …

    Ha, all this talk of changed benefits and all I can point out is a spelling slip; I must get a life.

  • JS says:

    Just been playing around with onefinestay:
    Very expensive, min 3 night stay, but prices inflated on the shorter stays so you pay the equivalent of a week’s rent for a 3 night stay. Price per week will still be a min of $300/night and more likely $5-600/night. $200 credit is basically insignificant.

    • Rob says:

      Yes, I realised that when it was first announced which is why I’ve not been overegging it. Even in ‘cheap’ countries they do not have cheap properties.

      • meta says:

        It depends on the time of the year as well. I looked at Thailand towards the end of March and was getting $180-220 per night for 5+ nights, so almost getting 5 for 4 which is not too bad. I also looked at Christmas and it was double that.

  • ashic says:

    Does the £10 of Addison Lee credit work across transactions, or is it for one ride only? e.g. If I take a £16 trip with Ride8, and my bill is £8, do the £2 of remaining credit roll over to the next ride?

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