{"id":2589,"date":"2021-09-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:17:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:17:10","slug":"american-express-platinum-upgrade-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/17\/american-express-platinum-upgrade-shenanigans\/","title":{"rendered":"American Express Platinum Upgrade Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Background<\/h4>\n

If you set your way-back machine to March 18<\/a>, you\u2019ll find a post about taking an upgrade offer from an American Express Personal Gold or Green card for 25,000 or 75,000 Membership Rewards after $2,000 in spend and another 10x at gas and grocery stores for up to $15,000 in spend, good for 183 days. I know a few of you took the upgrade offer like me, and I got two notes in April and May to let me know that the points from this deal never posted for you, also like me.<\/p>\n

Now fast forward to September 2 when the first report<\/a> came in that the bonuses and 10x rewards started posting. A few days after that, messages started coming from all over the place confirming both the bonus and 10x. I checked my account and with zero surprise, the points had posted. It took a while, but the offer eventually came in like it was supposed to. If you opened yours after March 18, you may still have a day or two left to squeeze that juice by the way.<\/p>\n

Working It<\/h4>\n

It\u2019s of course great news that bonuses started posting, but there\u2019s more to the story: a couple of weeks ago, upgrade offers for another 25,000 Membership Rewards and another $15,000 on 10x spend started raining from the sky on Personal Green and Gold cards in the offers section of the dashboard.<\/a> As far as I\u2019ve been able to tell, almost all Personal Green and Gold cards have the offer provided the card account has been open for at least 12 months.<\/p>\n

Can you see where I\u2019m going with this? If you have a Platinum card that\u2019s been open for at least 12 months, call American Express and downgrade it to a Gold or a Green card, wait about an hour, then check for an upgrade offer. You\u2019ve got an excellent chance that one will appear and you\u2019ll get another 25,000 Membership Rewards and another $15,000 in 10x capacity. Bananas, right? There\u2019s a similar play on the Business side too. Just don\u2019t do this on a Platinum that had a retention offer in the last 12 months to avoid angering AmEx. Also, it may only work once on the Personal side and once on then Business side per person. <\/p>\n

Oh, the spend bonuses and 10x are posting in a few days on these offers \u2014 you won\u2019t have to wait five and a half months to see them. Save that way-back machine for looking at the old Schwab 1.25 cent cash-out.<\/p>\n

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Background If you set your way-back machine to March 18, you\u2019ll find a post about taking an upgrade offer from an American Express Personal Gold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":2,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-shenanigans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7203,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/7203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}