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Have you Noticed that all the offers on AMEX, especially the platinum card, are in London or south of England. Living in Scotland I have not been able to take up any of the offers and find the card not worth the fee and so have cancelled I wonder why AMEX don’t realise that some people people live outside the main metropolis. Do you agree?
Just outside Edinburgh for me, but I travel most weeks for work, and I find the platinum card covers the cost of it for me.
£400 a year meal credit
£100 a year Harvey nicks
Lounge access
Travel insurance
Secondary card for OHAre the benefits I use without factoring in the extra Amex offers to card, so for me, just on the listed offers, I’m paying £150 for 2 x lounge access accounts (OH travels too) and travel insurance.
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Wow, never thought Scotland as a whole would be higher than the Midlands.
I guess Edinburgh must be doing some serious carrying.I agree pretty much restaurant wise they are mainly London based for the UK but hotel offers are worldwide usually & shop discounts can often be used online – I use my Harvey Nicks credit online if not in London before it runs out (our kids are currently in the London area so it helps that we do go down a few times a year). We are East Midlands/Humber area and I never have an issue with Humberside airport lounge access 😂 but elsewhere, Stanstead for example, that has been a problem sometimes. Generally long haul we fly Bus. so not an issue then. My overseas dining credit I managed to use last year for the first time (Vienna) & the first half year for this year (Sydney). I have just successfully claimed on the travel insurance and that refund alone virtually covers my annual fee. I suppose you have to weigh up the benefits for you based on how much you travel, where you shop etc but at the moment it works for me. Before renewal I will call them though and if I can get another points bonus of 50K or more that also sweetens the deal.
Same for the north of England, especially as we don’t have a city like Edinburgh to draw in business and tourism!
I mainly use the offers for cash back on hotel stays, then the odd one for extra avios such as Wine Flyer. I was mulling over whether the most recent 3k bonus avios was worth it when they sent me an email for an extra 2k avios which should stack. And I discovered that BA gold gets 15% off on top which has made it a decent deal!
So I definitely get the BAPP card fee back and more, which is my measure of whether it’s worth keeping the card in the long term.
We are in the deepest part of Cornwall.
No restaurants, nothing. And apart from Padstow, that is just how it is.
However we get value from the London-centric-dining because our son lives in Richmond.
Only once used it abroad (in Berlin) and that also gave us more chocolate cookies from the lounge entry than we could ever imagine eating!
Harvey Nics – perfumes, aftershaves and Le Creuset. Spends are easy.
The odd hotel stay.
Do I feel regionalised? Slightly, but I make it work.
If ever you get annoyed by this … just remember the infinitely greater positive in your life of not having to live in London. 😃
If ever you get annoyed by this … just remember the infinitely greater positive in your life of not having to live in London. 😃
I agree with this. I have family and friends in London and every time I visit I wonder why people are willing to pay over the odds to live there. If you have a high paying job based there I guess that’s a reason, but otherwise 🤷🏻♂️
Have you Noticed that all the offers on AMEX, especially the platinum card, are in London or south of England. Living in Scotland I have not been able to take up any of the offers and find the card not worth the fee and so have cancelled I wonder why AMEX don’t realise that some people people live outside the main metropolis. Do you agree?
What are you on about? You can use pretty much all your Amex offers in Scotland, and there’s even a current Amex Experiences offer in Edinburgh.
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Classic blinkered metropolitan thinking.
Our average customer is inside the top decile for household income. Our customers probably have higher average earnings than Amex or Head for Points.
60% of our business by value is outside London and the South East. If we focussed on London, our sales would more than halve.
Unless you need an expensive physical presence, it’s insane to ignore the regions. But we all know that Amex is an exceptionally poorly run organisation in the UK, so that should come as no surprise.
What are you on about? You can use pretty much all your Amex offers in Scotland, and there’s even a current Amex Experiences offer in Edinburgh.[/quote]
Er.. no! There are an awful lot that I can’t use and I Can’t use dining unless I travel over 120 miles.
We are making our annual trip to London this weekend for some culture and a bit of luxury at the ICPL. But £70 for 2 of us to visit Westminster Abbey, indeed that London is an occasional treat and not for everyday dwelling! My friends who moved to London after uni all eventually moved back north due to insane rents and not being able to meet suitable partners!
What are you on about? You can use pretty much all your Amex offers in Scotland, and there’s even a current Amex Experiences offer in Edinburgh.
Er.. no! There are an awful lot that I can’t use and I Can’t use dining unless I travel over 120 miles.[/quote]
Then don’t get the card? Nobody is forcing you to buy something. This argument is so tiring.
My friends who moved to London after uni all eventually moved back north due to insane rents and not being able to meet suitable partners!
The job market is brutally competitive. But for rents, blame the old people sitting in councils blocking all residential development.
Just yesterday councillors at Wandsworth rejected plans for a huge residential redevelopment.We are making our annual trip to London this weekend for some culture and a bit of luxury at the ICPL. But £70 for 2 of us to visit Westminster Abbey
If you’ve got a train ticket:
https://www.daysoutguide.co.uk/westminster-abbeyJust yesterday councillors at Wandsworth rejected plans for a huge residential redevelopment.
To be fair, the older I get the more NIMBY I become. I guess I’m not alone.
We are making our annual trip to London this weekend for some culture and a bit of luxury at the ICPL. But £70 for 2 of us to visit Westminster Abbey, indeed that London is an occasional treat and not for everyday dwelling! My friends who moved to London after uni all eventually moved back north due to insane rents and not being able to meet suitable partners!
The high price to visit churches and monuments isn’t particularly a London thing, more a function of the fact the State provides little or no funding towards the huge cost of upkeep. York Minster
is £26. In France, a secular state, the maintenance and restoration of churches is paid by the state. The new look Notre-Dame is free!Same with UK airports, the passenger pays rather than the taxpayer.
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Wow, never thought Scotland as a whole would be higher than the Midlands.
I guess Edinburgh must be doing some serious carrying.Plenty of wealth in and around Glasgow, G61 postcode is one of the wealthiest in the country and I’m sure the richest street in Scotland is in Glasgow, not Edinburgh.
The high price to visit churches and monuments isn’t particularly a London thing, more a function of the fact the State provides little or no funding towards the huge cost of upkeep. York Minster
is £26. In France, a secular state, the maintenance and restoration of churches is paid by the state. The new look Notre-Dame is free!Although Westminster Abbey is a “Royal Peculiar” in that it’s owned directly by the Monarch/Crown rather than by the CofE.
The Monarch’s other Cathedral is in Dunblane, and there is no entry fee there.
That explains that then! It’s high even by U.K. standards.
I also recall St Peter’s Basilica being free of charge to enter, having had a timely reminder of our 2019 visit when watching the coverage of the Pope’s funeral yesterday.
Obviously one leaves a donation; some establishments even have contactless facilities for these nowadays 😂
Have you Noticed that all the offers on AMEX, especially the platinum card, are in London or south of England. Living in Scotland I have not been able to take up any of the offers and find the card not worth the fee and so have cancelled I wonder why AMEX don’t realise that some people people live outside the main metropolis. Do you agree?
It’s nothing to do with Amex. Perhaps you could lobby your local restaurants to partner with Amex to run some offers?
Many churches and cathedrals are looking at other ways to generate income for their upkeep. We visited Peterborough Cathedral a couple of weeks ago to see “The Longest Yarn” which was free but they requested a donation. The following evening they were hosting a DJ night with Martin Kemp (a throwback to the 80s there)!!
Have you Noticed that all the offers on AMEX, especially the platinum card, are in London or south of England. Living in Scotland I have not been able to take up any of the offers and find the card not worth the fee and so have cancelled I wonder why AMEX don’t realise that some people people live outside the main metropolis. Do you agree?
It’s nothing to do with Amex. Perhaps you could lobby your local restaurants to partner with Amex to run some offers?
That’s not how these things work. Amex will contact restaurants that it thinks appeal to its core demographics and cajole them into joining. The trouble is that the Amex team are so blinkered that theydon’t believe that anything exists outside the M25. As a result, Amex fails to properly reach 60% of the UK’s GDP.
Their loss.
What are you on about? You can use pretty much all your Amex offers in Scotland, and there’s even a current Amex Experiences offer in Edinburgh.
Er.. no! There are an awful lot that I can’t use and I Can’t use dining unless I travel over 120 miles.
Then don’t get the card? Nobody is forcing you to buy something. This argument is so tiring.[/quote]
I never said I got the card for its offers only . I just can’t use some of the offers. There are other benefits .
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