{"id":8361,"date":"2020-09-04T22:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T21:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=8361"},"modified":"2020-09-04T22:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T21:25:18","slug":"has-amex-platinum-increased-their-retention-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/2020\/09\/04\/has-amex-platinum-increased-their-retention-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Amex Platinum increased their retention offer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you attempt to cancel a credit card, especially one with a high annual fee, they will sometimes offer you a retention offer to keep the card. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/amex-platinum-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/amex-platinum-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1434\" width=\"200\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/amex-platinum-2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/amex-platinum-2-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>American Express is known to have <em>marks<\/em> on your card account. If the agent tries to start the cancellation process, they will see a retention offer right away, if available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few months back, it&#8217;s widely reported that Amex Platinum cardholders were offered an offer of 15,000 or 20,000 points when called to cancel. I myself was offered 15,000 points as well, which I happily accepted \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it appears that Amex has decided that the incentive was not strong enough. Two readers called to cancel recently, and received <strong>30,000<\/strong> \/ <strong>40,000<\/strong> points respectively. This is a 100% increase compared to the last batch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you hold the UK Amex Platinum card, feel free to call and make the inquiry, and there may be a nice surprise awaiting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you attempt to cancel a credit card, especially one with a high annual fee, they will sometimes offer you a retention offer to keep the card. American Express is known to have marks on your card account. If the agent tries to start the cancellation process, they will see a retention offer right away, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/2020\/09\/04\/has-amex-platinum-increased-their-retention-offer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,39],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8364,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions\/8364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}