New and enhanced benefits with $200 more annual fee.
$600 Hotel Credit semi-annually instead of $300
$120 
Uber One Membership Credit (
new)
$400 Resy Credit / $100 each quarter (
new)
$300 Digital Entertainment Credit instead of $240ā
**** Now including 
YouTube TV and YouTube Premium and Paramount+
$300 lululemon Credit / $75 each quarter (
new)
$200 Oura Ring Credit (
new)
https://www.americanexpress.com/u.../platinum/
Nothing comes for free though, these benefits are on top of a $200 annual fee increase ($695 ==> $895) but seems to be well worth it if you make use of all the new benefits.
              
 
                
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Hotel Collection..., but... "The Hotel Collection requires a minimum two-night stay." Methinks that'll also exceed the benefits of the bi-annual $300 credit..
So if you go to Lulu/Resy on 9/30, and it doesn't post (though you'll see "pending" in the Amex app) until 10/1, you're out of luck for the third quarter...you've now used the 4th quarter credit. I'm basing this off my experience with Amex...with Hilton credits in particular.
And, I may be mistaken but don't think I am, the Uber credit has gone from $200/annually ($15 month/$20 December) to $10 monthy that only applies to Uber One and you have to toggle off Uber Cash...which is a no go for those of us buying GCs at Costco...
You are mistaken.
The uber credit hasn't changed at all.
There's a NEW credit, for Uber One subscriptions specifically-- which is not $10/mo, it's $120 per calendar year, but spread out however you want (so you can buy monthly or annual)
You're better off with monthly, so that you could potentially buy annual right before cancelling the card as explained earlier in the thread.
The U1 credit is entirely new and $100-120/yr value if you use U1 anyway.
The digital one is $60 a year higher than it used to be, and covers more services than it used to.
Who needs to buy a new ring every year?
It doesn't work on the subscription which is $70 a year.
Who needs to buy a new ring every year?
It doesn't work on the subscription which is $70 a year.
Buy the $200 version the first year for free, then each year buy another "free' one and resell it on facebook marketplace for half price- which is more than that years subscription costs
That said, I'd expect most Plat. card holders already have some kinda fitness tracker via phone/watch, so I agree it's a pretty trash credit.
The Resy credit is the superstar of this refresh for most folks, though some will get -some- value out of the U1, Lululemon, and increased hotel credits.
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does it still make sense to get the gold card first and then go to the platinum to maximize free points?
if somebody cares enough to do the gold first how long do you have to wait before you can get the platinum?
Has anyone every used Resy and have it benefit you?
I'm in NC and there's dozens of places in a 15-30 minute radius of me- none of which are $200 a plate... (a few are probably $50, most are pretty normal)
THAT said- the website is awful for actually finding them in any sort of broad area.
For example since they seem to force you to search by City, I began with Raleigh NC.
Then I zoomed out to show the whole RTP triangle (which again, all of it is within a 15-30 min drive) and hit search this area--- and it added no additional restaurants to the search.
But if I search for Durham NC (one of the cities shown on the map when I hit search this area) it magically brings up another bunch of restaurants.... then more in Chapel Hill, Cary, etc....
So there are in fact dozens in my area, but you're hard pressed to SEE dozens in any single search. Which is pretty awful UI.
So that might be your situation too (or you might legit live remote enough there's few options, I dunno)
LOL- QUICK EDIT
I decided to try the app instead of the website.... that brought up a TON MORE restaurants, including 5 within 5-10 minutes of my house that didn't show on the desktop website at all- and shows them to me on the whole map not just a single city.
So you might try that-- apparently it's just that their website search is garbage.
The uber credit hasn't changed at all.
There's a NEW credit, for Uber One subscriptions specifically-- which is not $10/mo, it's $120 per calendar year, but spread out however you want (so you can buy monthly or annual)
You're better off with monthly, so that you could potentially buy annual right before cancelling the card as explained earlier in the thread.
No, they are not.
The U1 credit is entirely new and $100-120/yr value if you use U1 anyway.
The digital one is $60 a year higher than it used to be, and covers more services than it used to.
So wouldn't the annual fee make much more sense, as you can then switch it back to ubercash right away? Otherwise, you'll need to remember to toggle on Ubercash everytime...which based on my families experiences in the past, they tend to forget many times.
does it still make sense to get the gold card first and then go to the platinum to maximize free points?
if somebody cares enough to do the gold first how long do you have to wait before you can get the platinum?
So wouldn't the annual fee make much more sense, as you can then switch it back to ubercash right away? Otherwise, you'll need to remember to toggle on Ubercash everytime...which based on my families experiences in the past, they tend to forget many times.
You can select uber cash per-ride/food order- nothing stops you from using it for that stuff... (in fact you HAVE to if you want to use the $15/mo credit this card also comes with for orders/rides)
and $200 Oura Ring Credit (new) are for websites that have no interest. Only reason that I may stay subscribed is the $1000 yearly credit through Schwab, although last year I got a 1099 for the $1000 credit which reduces the actual credit to around $600 vs $900 annual fee.
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After the quarter ends, I'll probably sign up for another 15% off for Lululemon. I use Protonmail's SimpleLogin service to manage all the various email aliases I have setup.