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American Express Platinum Customers New Benefits (and Fee) -- YouTube TV / Premium, Uber One, Lululemon, Oura Ring
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.americanexp
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.
$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.americanexp
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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What state are you in? Resy has like 20,000 restaurants in its system.
As to Lululemon it's not great given their pricing, but assuming you wear clothing at all you ought be able to find at least one overpriced thing per quarter to get essentially for free...
So it kinda works out like Saks, where I get a thing I'd normally have paid like 20ish bucks for for free even though Amex is "paying" them $50 for it.
In short, keep trying
That said, it appears there IS one spot on Resy in AK-- though it's seasonal because it's run by the culinary school at the University-- last year for fall they were open "Fall Semester - October 30th, 2024 - December 6, 2024" so I'd imagine it'd be something similar for this fall semester....won't help you with Q3 but could work to use the credit in Q4... (and possibly Q1 and Q2 depending when their spring semester runs)
https://resy.com/cities/anchorage...21&
. I never used the Saks either for the same reason as the credit gets you a pair of underwear. Both stores offer overpriced things I would never wear.
You never wear underwear? In Alaska?
What state are you in? Resy has like 20,000 restaurants in its system.
As to Lululemon it's not great given their pricing, but assuming you wear clothing at all you ought be able to find at least one overpriced thing per quarter to get essentially for free...
So it kinda works out like Saks, where I get a thing I'd normally have paid like 20ish bucks for for free even though Amex is "paying" them $50 for it.
AFAIK no first party Amex card ever locked you out of a different class of card by virtue of having it first---- SUBs for Amex tend to be one per "lifetime" for each card, unconnected to SUBs for different cards.... (and even that can be gotten around via either NLL offers or simply waiting a number of years as they don't really mean lifetime-- I've had a gold at least twice and multiple platinums for example)
"Similarly, in 2023, American Express introduced a restriction on the American ExpressĀ® Gold Card. If you've had the more expensive Amex Platinum card, you won't be eligible for the welcome offer on the Gold card."
"Similarly, in 2023, American Express introduced a restriction on the American ExpressĀ® Gold Card. If you've had the more expensive Amex Platinum card, you won't be eligible for the welcome offer on the Gold card."
Oh interesting... it looks like they more recently added it to the Green as well (but making both gold and plat the lockouts)
So now you'd have to go Green first, then Gold, then Plat, if you want to do all of them with first-time SUBs.
Weird change. Apart from the plat (my 5th if you count the branded ones you used to be able to get without lockouts) I'd been churning credit, not charge, Amexes in the last couple years so I guess I missed it---(they don't seem to care HOW many Aspires you get for example) thanks for the info.
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So now you'd have to go Green first, then Gold, then Plat, if you want to do all of them with first-time SUBs.
Weird change. Apart from the plat (my 5th if you count the branded ones you used to be able to get without lockouts) I'd been churning credit, not charge, Amexes in the last couple years so I guess I missed it---(they don't seem to care HOW many Aspires you get for example) thanks for the info.
All points from both credit and charge cards go into the same bucket under your name, no need to combine like you do with Chase.
Note- that's all cards that earn MR points that do that--and you have to always keep at least one card open with MR points.-Amex also has various 3rd party cards that earn 3rd party rewards (Hilton points, Marriott points, etc-- those generally go directly to the 3rd party accounts you have linked to them)....and they have various cash-not-point cards too....
The Blue Business Plus is probably the best "free" MR earning card to keep open long term, SUB tends to be poor, but there's no annual fee and it earns 2x MR on everything so it'd be your default "non category" card for Amex points.
As to if it's worth doing the green-- it's 40k MR for $3000 spend in 6 months... annual fee is $150, and there's really no benefits worth discussing beyond the SUB (it does do 3x earn for travel and dining, which is ok but not class leading or anyting)
So the SUB is worthwhile, though HOW worthwhile depends how you value points... if you're treating them as like 1ish cent for low value redemptions then you're looking at a mere $250 or so in profit on the signup... which isn't great for 3k spend.
If you treat them more like valuable for premium flight bookings in the 2-4 cent range, than it's a lot more worthwhile.
But there's no real reason to keep the card on an ongoing basis after the first year.
So if your spend can support it and you value MR highly you'd want to do green, gold, then plat under these rules-- with only the last 2 possibly worth keeping year over year if you can get decent value out of the credits you get for the AF.
All the above said- be sure you're aware of the rules for other card issuers too if you're looking to rack up a ton of SUBs.... typically if you're starting fairly fresh you want to do it in roughly this order:
Chase business cards (as they don't report to your personal credit report as new accounts, and they don't count against you for 5/24)
Up to 5 chase personal cards (as once you've opened 5 personal accounts in 24 months chase will deny any new cards until you drop below 5)
At least 1 Citi card in their ecosystems that have 48 month clocks to get the clocks started
THEN you can worry about Amex, which seems to not much care what else you've opened with anybody else
You can change it a bit for cases of an historically high offer on a given card or something (esp if it's a non-chase biz card since it still won't increase your 5/24 number)... but otherwise doing the above can rack you up like 7 figure point balances with amex and chase (how fast depends how fast you can do the SUB spends and move to the next card)
yeah but for once the coupons greatly outweigh the cost of the AF increase (assuming you've got any of Resys 20,000 restaurants nearby and the food is good anyway)
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Oh other thing I realized--- if you're thinking of NOT renewing- but your AF doesn't post for a few more months at least--- you are better off signing up for monthly UberOne, not annual, right now.
Because that $120 U1 credit is per calendar year.
So sign up for monthly right now, let it credit you back $9.99/mo for the rest of this year.
Then next year you can do monthly for at least 2 months, then convert to an annual plan before Month 3 bills in 2026, and you end up with U1 through ~March 2027 for free.
Versus if you just did annual today and then got rid of the card in a few months, you'd only have through ~Sept 2026.
When you say UA credits are these United Airlines credits? Any chance someone knows how to take full advantage of this $200 by purchasing miles?