Quote:
Originally Posted by sextoyking
It's worth it for the lounges, etc if you travel somewhat alot.
The free ticket isn't always as good as it sounds as you do pay full retail price for your ticket, alot of times you can get '2' tickets from other places for the full retail price you would pay for '1'.
Amex black isn't as good either as it used to be. almost not worth the 2500.00 per yr anymore..
Just a high limit status card, some bennies are still ok..
|
i've wondered the same thing, but figured that the free ticket was exactly what todd said, something that would "force" you to pay full price for a ticket you could get a lot cheaper. and since i don't travel all that much, i really don't need the lounges - i've always figured the gold card was "good enough" for what i need it for.
but what i found interesting was a letter that i got (two of them, actually, within three days) from amex saying that i was such a good customer they wanted to let me carry balances instead of paying off my card in full each month. it sounded good for about 30 seconds (for times i might want to put a chunk of money toward something else any given month)...until i thought about it...and then realized it's just a back-door to let them charge me interest and late fees if my payment doesn't get there on the right day (i usually get my amex bill 9 days before the due date, for some reason).
nice try, amex ;-)
