Amex “refreshing” Velocity Platinum Card

[MattA]

How does the 50 + 50 SCs work? Does spending on supps count towards those totals too? I'm also wondering if there's any types of spend that doesn't count towards the $25k/$50k totals, eg gov, rates etc.

Assuming it's the same as the current benefit (100SC after $50k spend each year) then yes, supplementals do count -- just hit this on Mrs MattA's card and the 100SCs came through immediately on hitting the $50k spend; it must have been across all cards as the primary card alone wouldn't have met the threshold. We didn't have a huge amount of gov/rates spend but pretty sure these were included in the spend threshold.

 

[Happy Dude]

Assuming it's the same as the current benefit (100SC after $50k spend each year) then yes, supplementals do count -- just hit this on Mrs MattA's card and the 100SCs came through immediately on hitting the $50k spend; it must have been across all cards as the primary card alone wouldn't have met the threshold. We didn't have a huge amount of gov/rates spend but pretty sure these were included in the spend threshold.

Cool. Thanks man.

 

[andyrb]

Spoke to someone on the chat and they shared the below changes were coming on October 23rd

It's Oct 23 and no sign of any update on the Amex website. Spoke to someone on chat and they said they've no idea when the card will be relaunched.

 

[Gummy Venus De Milo]

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Amex page and surprised nothings up there. It’s still technically the 23rd so let’s see out the rest of the day

 

[sage3421]

Apparently the announcement has been delayed until the 30th now.

 

[ols]

Well, it's the 30th coming up to 2-00pm AEST and nothing happened