Anyone have an Amex Platinum card?

[flipstah]

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Endorsed by DJ Mustard!

I refuse to support a financial institution that has a condiment as their 'face'

[ExtraSlow]

They aren't a financial institution, they are card cloners.

[Strider]

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If the focus is just getting a cool card, why not do something like this? https://lioncreditcard.com/

What is this? a shitty knockoff of a Magnises card?

[TheGeneral]

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What is this? a shitty knockoff of a Magnises card?

Ha, that was exactly what I was going to post. Beat me to the punch!

[Super_Geo]

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What is this? a shitty knockoff of a Magnises card?

[bjstare]

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What is this? a shitty knockoff of a Magnises card?

perfect

[Neil4Speed]

Just got it, I feel like there should be a "unofficial" training manual to make use of all the perks. I am such a sucker for the metal card.

[Zhariak]

What the heck is a magnesis card? I've never heard of it...

[pheoxs]

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What the heck is a magnesis card? I've never heard of it...

It was basically a fraudulent company that was trying to give incredible (bullshit) perks to card holders so they could act like ultra wealthy wanna-bes

Did you hear about the Fyre festival disaster? Yeah it's the same guy that ran that.

Short story:
They basically made a super fancy black metal card and marketed it as ultra-exclusive (with a 250$ membership fee)
It was marketed as a charge-card like amex but they actually just applied for a regular card at Wells fargo in your name and then routed all your charges onto that.
They marketed ultra exclusive perks that they didn't actually have (i.e. meet and greet with Taylor swift or tickets to the emmys... but they never had either and people would never be able to claim them)

Anyways, long story short, shitty company but somehow they got away with it. Then the founder got arrested for Fraud in relation to Fyre festival.

[jwslam]

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coles notes

Thanks for the summary.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to pheoxs again.

[hurrdurr]

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I have a Cobalt and love it. 5% cashback at restaurants and grocery stores, or 10% towards flights.
Hack: buy pre-paid gift cards at Safeway (prepaid visa, home depot, amazon, etc), pay w/ Cobalt, collect 10% back towards flights
In fact that's mostly how I convert CAD to USD... I buy $500 USD pre-paid Visa debit cards at Safeway here, pay with the Cobalt, pay the 2.5% FX fee and the 1% card fee... still well ahead!
Except when you're at the bar... you don't want to look like a degenerate paying w/ a gift card, so I always bust out the metal card for that

Between the Cobalt, Business Platinum and US business platinum, I've collected just over 1MM Amex points between my wife and I over a year. We travel a lot so the perks are absolutely worth it for us.

I'm not following how you collect 10% back towards flights. I don't see anything in the terms and conditions about this, US only redemption perhaps?

[Zhariak]

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It was basically a fraudulent company that was trying to give incredible (bullshit) perks to card holders so they could act like ultra wealthy wanna-bes

Did you hear about the Fyre festival disaster? Yeah it's the same guy that ran that.

Short story:
They basically made a super fancy black metal card and marketed it as ultra-exclusive (with a 250$ membership fee)
It was marketed as a charge-card like amex but they actually just applied for a regular card at Wells fargo in your name and then routed all your charges onto that.
They marketed ultra exclusive perks that they didn't actually have (i.e. meet and greet with Taylor swift or tickets to the emmys... but they never had either and people would never be able to claim them)

Anyways, long story short, shitty company but somehow they got away with it. Then the founder got arrested for Fraud in relation to Fyre festival.

lollllllll

I heard about that, didn't know that was the card... Thanks for filling me in haha.