Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site grkermi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!grkermi!andrew From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Amex card fees Message-ID: <471@grkermi.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 08:16:07 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermi.471 Posted: Thu Jun 27 08:16:07 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 00:21:50 EDT References: <5946@duke.UUCP> <465@grkermi.UUCP> <1485@utah-gr.UUCP> Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 16 Summary: In article <1485@utah-gr.UUCP> thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) writes: > >>PS to all pathologically insecure status seekers: AMEX Gold is going up from >>$50 to $65. > >Actually, all you status-seekers just got a big kick in the butt from >AMEX, with their introduction of the "Platinum" card. You're all just >second-class citizens now (unless you cough up ~$250/yr for the Platinum >card). Good reason to drop the Gold card for the plain old Green one. You forgot to point out that the Platinum card isn't available to just *any* status seeker with $250 to blow on a piece of plastic - you have to have charged at least $10K/year for each of the past N years *and* be invited to apply for the privilege of wasting that kind of money! AWR