Upgrade Your Amex Card and Get 1,35,000 MR Points

[coolguy1]

Amex plans to start 2024 with a grand reward of 1,35,000 MR points when upgrading to a Platinum Charge card.

Users currently holding Amex Platinum Travel, Amex Platinum Reserve and Amex Gold Charge card are getting these offers.
You can see it in the app, refer to the screenshots attached below.

For the heavy spenders, this is a great deal since you get multiple loyal hotel loyal memberships and do anything concierge service.

If you don't spend a lot of money but feel the points can help, you can still upgrade for the points.


If you don't need the points, you can get the Amex Platinum Travel or the Amex MRCC card which remains the best card for monthly spends between 6K-40K.




T&C: https://www.americanexpress.com/con...ts/IA_New_Plat_RCP_Upgrade_Q1_2024_MT_TnC.pdf

 

[amartya]

Hello Everyone. I am a new member to this group. I currently use MRCC card only (almost 1 year) and have received the Platinum charge card offer with 135K amex reward points. I have a trip planned to UK (15 days) and US (6 months) for couple of my immediate family members, which would give me the opportunity to 1. get accelerated points on foreign travel spending and 2. try to get good discounts on flights and hotels. Now, the hotels membership which comes with Plat card are great, but I am not sure whether I would be staying in a Marriott in UK or US (when compared to economical options like YMCA hostel or airbnb). What I am interested to know whether Amex Plat card gives good discount on flights (specially economy class) and hotels booking in general. I heard they have good discount on business class flight tickets (which again honestly is out of my comfort zone)

I already have DCB Black Plastic (LTF) but the challenge is it has cap on number of points earned through smartbuy. so I am thinking, if Amex Platinum Card provides offers on economical flights or normal hotel bookings, then I can think whether spending 70.8K for Amex card would makes sense or not

 

[Dr. Drake]

Which sales person?? The person who called you from Amex or you’ve some sales person offline??

the sales person from email

 

[Dr. Drake]

@Dr. Drake ?? Any idea??

Opted Saturday, got confirmation call on same day (no vkyc for me). Got card approval confirmation this morning on email as well as from sales person. Yet to receive dispatch message

 

[D7162]

Opted Saturday, got confirmation call on same day (no vkyc for me). Got card approval confirmation this morning on email as well as from sales person. Yet to receive dispatch message

I opted on 4th, yet to recieve any call/email

 

[Dr. Drake]

I opted on 4th, yet to recieve any call/email

Sir aapka bada application hga. Amex may have detected gareeb, isliye gareebo ka pehle process kar rahe hge

 

[D7162]

Sir aapka bada ITR bada application hga. Amex may have detected gareeb, isliye gareebo ka pehle process kar rahe hge

Lol.. Cant say anything in this 🤣 🤣 🤣 as i dont want to disclose anything

 

[D7162]

1) upgrade from gold charge to plat charge without kyc

If i get this option, it will be loss of 4000 points as I am still waiting for newly received card, Amex CC says they cant take request until 90 days are completed

 

[captaintorchtm]

my friend applied on Friday night and got a call today. There were 2 options suggested by the person 1) upgrade from gold charge to plat charge without kyc or 2) keep the gold charge and apply fresh with kyc for plat charge and he can keep all 4 (gold + plat charge, mrcc, plat travel)

on the other hand, another friend applied on Friday evening, yet to receive the call.

approved and now gold charge is closed

 

[ashwinsid]

Meanwhile amex customer care says only gold charge card can be upgraded as part of offer and my platinum travel card card or any amex credit card cannot be upgraded.

Kaliyug. People who want to get the metal card and not activate it so they can use it to flaunt etc are getting the upgrade offer. While i am ready to pay the fees every year am told my card kundli is not good.

 

[ALOAK]

Meanwhile amex customer care says only gold charge card can be upgraded as part of offer and my platinum travel card card or any amex credit card cannot be upgraded.

Kaliyug. People who want to get the metal card and not activate it so they can use it to flaunt etc are getting the upgrade offer. While i am ready to pay the fees every year am told my card kundli is not good.

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Same reply to me also even my plat travel is not eligible as per the kundli.lol

 

[Mars_rover]

TF. Ek se Badkar ek insaan hai yaha 😆

Yaar query ka answer bhi dedete😂

 

[bhavik886151]

it a lifestyle metal cc, it 70,800 with GST.. you won't get anything out of it if spend aren't in good range of 15/25 lakhs spend across flight,stay or business spend.

can i add GST number of my proprietorship on these card as read on twitter then i can do my business purchase on these card ??

 

[BVCBVC is verified member.]

Anyone applied on Saturday and received call or mail regarding the upgrade yesterday or today??

 

[Deleted member 9785]

can i add GST number of my proprietorship on these card as read on twitter then i can do my business purchase on these card ??

dont do all this. GST evasion is considered as black money PMLA act under ED. Dont get bad fluenced by influenza

 

[vaibhav111vaibhav111 is verified member.]

can i add GST number of my proprietorship on these card as read on twitter then i can do my business purchase on these card ??

yes even on twitter i saw someone mentioning this.. so just chat with amex and provide them with your GST and actual fees comes to 60,000/-

 

[vaibhav111vaibhav111 is verified member.]

dont do all this. GST evasion is considered as black money PMLA act under ED. Dont get bad fluenced by influenza

he is a proprietor so why can't he not opt out? cause he will using amex platinum charge both for his business and personal.

 

[bhavik886151]

dont do all this. GST evasion is considered as black money PMLA act under ED. Dont get bad fluenced by influenza

i want to use it for GST goods purchase only for my company name which is proprietorship i dont want it for GST evasion or petrol pump or for utility bill payment or anything else i just want to use these credit card for business purchase and pay these cc bill from my company account

 

[BVCBVC is verified member.]

i want to use it for GST goods purchase only for my company name which is proprietorship i dont want it for GST evasion or petrol pump or for utility bill payment or anything else i just want to use these credit card for business purchase and pay these cc bill from my company account

Just have a word with Chartered accountant. And while taking the card anyways you will mention as Self Employed so it should not be a problem from Amex.

 

[D7162]

Seems my upgrade application was lost somewhere.. sirf axis me nhi amex me bhi aisa hota hai
Chat support agent asked to forward email i received as confirmation for upgrade request, now she said they will look into it within 4-5 days

 

[BVCBVC is verified member.]

Seems my upgrade application was lost somewhere.. sirf axis me nhi amex me bhi aisa hota hai
Chat support agent asked to forward email i received as confirmation for upgrade request, now she said they will look into it within 4-5 days

Seriously??

Amex being Axis and HDFC these days. Hope their lunch breaks won't affect us like SBI.