Closed Amex Platinum – how do you destroy your card ?

[Pointsamateur]

Just curious how everyone else destroys their card; our normal scissors probably won’t do the job for cutting it up. Luckily we have some more heavy duty tools, but open to other suggestions.

[VerdantBacon]

https://www.headforpoints.com/forums/topic/disposing-of-metal-platinum/

Contact Amex and they will send you a prepaid envelope for you to send the card to them for destruction and recycling

[jj]

Reuse it. Metal cards make great scrapers for removing paint from glass, for example.

[Andrew J]

Keep it as a souvenir of your time as a Platinum cardmember.

[ChasP]

dig out the chip for a start

[Pointsamateur]

Thanks for the suggestions, and the other link. How do I get the chip out ? Hard bang with a screwdriver or something similar ?

[John]

I still have every financial card I’ve ever had. I presume by about 1 year after closure nobody can really do anything even if they steal it. Of course in some cases the account is still open and/or the number is still the same.

Maybe my great grandchildren will be able to sell them to some crazy collector in the future when people use their 10G CoV-30 vaccine-implanted microchip to pay for everything , at least if humans still exist, or maybe some archaeologist will get excited when they dig up the area around my house

[WJACK]

It must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came…

[ChasP]

Pointsamateur wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions, and the other link. How do I get the chip out ? Hard bang with a screwdriver or something similar ?

smallish screwdriver or a stout knife – never tried it on a metal card but they come out of the plastic ones quite easily