Reply To: Platinum renewal now?

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lamptonpie wrote:

Rob Burgess wrote:

Have you asked for a 50k retention bonus yet?

Yes – got one mid-year as I was going to cancel but a couple of additional family trips meant the maths worked out from using the lounges.

My wife has just signed up for Platinum too, so thinking I keep this until January and £250 of dining credit and £100 of HN too and then get a pro-rata refund?

Have you already used the £150 UK dining credit for 2024, and H2 2024 £50 HN credits? If so, these won’t reset until 1st Jan (when the dining credits will drop to £100 per half-year). The credits are calendar year, not card anniversary year, otherwise everyone would have been able to get £300 UK credit a year. As I took my card in November 2023, I was able to use the credits in 2023 and 2024 for a single £650 payment, but that’s only the case in the 1st year of membership; when you renew, you have to wait until 1st Jan to use the credits again.

Btw, I got 35k as soon as I hit the initial 75k SUB (about 4 months into membership), and then a further 50k yesterday once the renewal fee posted. I am therefore keeping the card another year at least. I posted about it on the retention offer thread.