American Express Platinum Card

Being a avid traveler for work and pleasure the Amex card provides me with ample opportunities to trace more, earn more miles on things I buy every day and also gives me peace of mind against fraud. The fact that I’m able to gain Delta points on buying groceries and through end of July if I shop at local stores they are giving me 4x the points makes the card great but they are also promoting shopping small.

After leaving an abusive marriage, and trying to turn my life around, then Covid hits. Without notice, AmEx took my BUSINESS account and reported it to my PERSONAL account as a collection. The last payment was in May, and they did this in July. We have had an excellent relationship with AmEx and always paid on time. Covid severely affected our business income, losing 75% of our business. My personal credit was great. They now have caused a more than 100 point drop on my report.

I applied for the Hilton hotel credit card with American Express on May 9th, 2021 since the welcome bonus offer looks good to me and I got it approved on the same day. I received my credit card on May 18th, 2021. As per the welcome bonus offer, if I spend $1000 in first 3 months, I will be eligible to receive 80,000 bonus points and if I spend $6000 in 6 months, I will be eligible to receive an additional 50,000 bonus points. Since I was already planning for a family trip, I used this credit card to book my trip and used it for grocery shopping and to purchase other household items as well. By June 18th, 2021, I was able to meet the minimum eligibility to receive a total of 130,000 bonus points and my billing cycle was also reached.

I used to love my Amex platinum for lounge access and various other travel perks. Yesterday - my family's flight was canceled. Amex insisted it had not been cancelled. We went around in circles and got nowhere. At one point I was told I would need to remain on hold for up to an hour. I asked "can you call me back?" Nope. Can't do that. I have to sit on my phone. Overall I was on the phone for 3 hours. Nothing was accomplished. I hung up on them and will cancel my card when the balance is paid off.

Just spoke to Peggy ** from AMEX. She was very rude and did not understand the situation whatsoever. I was told by 5 reps (yes, 5 individual reps) that my account is cleared for a charge I was about to make. The charge was declined although I'd wired money to AMEX specifically for this charge. I called to check why it was declined, they advised me to split the payment into 2. I did that and it was declined again. I called them again and explained that if the charge doesn't go through I will incur fees since it's a long weekend. They said to try it again. Tried, declined. Called again and spoke with Peggy. She gave me some attitude, which I did not deserve, I did not yell, spoke respectfully. I am their client for about 12 years but no more. I am closing all my accounts with AMEX, business(es), and personal, and I advise you to do the same. If they are not there the 1 time in 5 years that I need them then what's the point.

I called to ask a question on a service from Kabbage, one of their mergers. The man (that might be too much of a word) said they are not related to that section and hang up!! So disrespectful!! He didn't even let me finish express the problem I was calling for.

I can survive without this card and can definitely do without the frustration. I received a new card, tried to follow the activation instructions and was still having issues 2 hours later. The website process asks for your card number and security number, then wants you to log in or create an account. My existing account login failed. I know my ID and password are correct but I try to reset the password anyway to just move ahead. The website tells me the system is down and can't reset my password. Which one is it? Bad credentials or a crashed service?

It is not every day that a credit card company tries to dump its customers. But that is exactly what American Express is doing. They have this "Blue Cash Everyday" card that is just your basic credit card with some perks and no annual fee. This was a replacement for the Amex/Costco credit cards. After Costco gave Amex the boot, the Amex credit card became irrelevant. Merchants don't like American Express because they charge higher fees than other credit card companies and, consequently, there are a lot of places that do no take Amex cards. So American Express has decided to eliminate the no fee and card and replace it with one that has a $99 annual charge. Of course, in the long run this does not matter, cause in the not too distant future some conglomerate will swallow Amex. I would suggest AARP buy it since most of A E customers were born during WWII.

Almost zero value on this card since Covid, the platform for accounting, statements and excel is extremely poor, as is the travel section which shows hotels in results that are not available and is always higher priced than other companies. The airport lounges did provide value but they are 99% closed so where is the value? There isn't. I recently updated my bank account from BOA to Chase and Amex cancelled the autopay without notifying me then when I noticed my bill hadn't been paid they tried to say it was my fault. I have 3 years of paying my bill off every month. The benefits are weak, the service is awful, the financial platform is sub-par and their annual fee at 550. They won't budge even with no services available. Visa and mastercard are waiving a lot of their annual fees, I suggest Amex catch on. I for one will be moving my business elsewhere.

I used to travel a bunch, but with COVID this is my 1st foreign travel in a year. What could have been a click of a button to change my seat, I had to call, wait for them to call me back for an hour, and when they did I had to wait another 15 min listening to horrendous music. I hung up. So my seat didn't record so I had to call but it's not a full flight. I'll be okay.