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Fyi to everyone, if you don't like what's given there's no harm in asking what else is around. Often they have all sorts of random inventory lying around. Dropped off my car today, turns out they offered the Polestars to staff for 30k. An enticing proposal...

You have to have the charged to around 90% I believe, let me double check my paperwork

So landed to absolute chaos at Melbourne airport today across all the car rental places (teach me to land at peak business time) Was allocated a long range polestar but got to the car and found it was not a dual motor. Had a sniff around and actually found a facelifted dual motor hiding out...

MORE data points you say? :P

Or rather, i expect everyone will be having a crack to see if they can syphon some points out of our friends by threatnening to cancel (Got me 150k points last time when they devalued SQ)

After the deval.... I expect y'all will be fast tracking your real cancellations?

I've found that it's worth defintely as a PC or 5 star to just ask what they have available for $0 extra according to what you have booked. Just on the last few times I've been there Booked - J2 'Rav 4 or equivalent Got - Audi SQ5 Booked - Polestar 2 (D2? I can't remember) Got - Well, he...

Yeah 100%. Seems that the data is still a bit all over the shop, but for the charge card it appears retention is donezo. You might have had a unique experience due to being a business card holder - I'm not sure if there's any Amex Charge business card holders in here, but would love to see...

Quite categorically Amex said that they're just applying this whole "nope" for retention bonuses across the board now. This is amex-amex and not co-branded amex tho

Zing! Solid outcome. Wait pardon my naivety what is a QBR (Qantas ... Businesss rewards? Are these QFF adjacent?)

Mine was an anomaly in that my earn rate was the same as my charge card. Don't ask me how or why tbh. So I never really had a reason to use the charge unless I needed to - for things like using the the restaurant credit. All in the past now. How is the regulatory environment you think hitting...

RE: Green card - yep spot on, reduced earn rate, same as the gold - oh I didn't choose either one, they didn't really suit me (I was angling for a like, here's 200k to take the gold and we'll waive the feed) RE: Insurance - given you have to buy the ticket with the amex and my current location...

I can't confirm this but the 'onshore' 'offshore' thing is yeah, dead I think. Previously before they shifted a bunch of stuff off, aka, concierge time, fair. But I've always gotten my bonuses speaking to whomever from the offshore part of their customer service arm. TBH they were more pleasant...

If you can make it work it works, if you expect Amex to quote value you as a customer... Yeah not much love anymore

Ah yes, this I forgot to mention. Thanks Daver6!!

Right so here are my data points after a very pleasant conversation with Amex (offshore, but not sure this matters anymore tbh) On the platinum charge card: They are 100% no longer allowed to give out retention points - charge or credit or otherwise - bits has got it right in that, although...

Yeah you have to take into consideration earn rates, not to mention also the arbitrage (for me anyway) between AUD and SGD :) I mean I’ve just made it unreasonably complicated for myself, but actually I look at the major perks now - and well, i can’t believe concierge is gone haha. That was my...

Yeah hang on - let me share with you a recent article about the SG platinum card. The thing is, in some instances, it itself has “gotten worse” from a value prop perspective (global issue I suppose) but some of the aspects of it remind me of the older charge card proposition (aka trying really...

There you go - here I was thinking that because we had a landing page it was “easy” haha. Thanks for the reminder - last time I did mine was 8 years ago soooo

So the sign-bonus here in SG is a bit pitiful - 90k points with 8k spend in 3m or 45k points flat out. This is in comparison to the current 150k / 5k offer in australia - this is offset by the fact that my my primary transfer partner is Krisflyer (3:1 in aus vs 2.25:1 here) I did ask if there...