Recap: Expediting American Express Card, 2016 Predictions & More

 

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AB (@guest_326629)
December 13, 2016 12:24

TPG? Seriously. Guess I won’t be reading much from Julian outside of twitter any longer. TPG is like reading a credit card application form.

sirtheta
sirtheta (@guest_326573)
December 13, 2016 09:18

Amex wouldn’t even let me add myself as an AU w/o the card number…

sirtheta
sirtheta (@guest_326574)
December 13, 2016 09:19

myself or my SO*

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sirtheta  (@sirtheta)
December 13, 2016 10:48

second follow-up! also, I’m not sure that Travel with Grant is 100% on the nose here (specifically about this being with respect to business cards). I’ve seen many people (incl. me) have no luck getting personal cards expedited.

I’ve successfully had one (1) AmEx CC expedited after approval (HHonors Surpass), which a very kind customer care professional offered to do for me over chat when I was checking on my HHonors application (second CC app on same day, so automatically set to pending for 5 days then evaluated by AmEx).

However, my luck with charge cards has been abysmal! I tried to expedite a PRG after it had been approved and went ’round and ’round with AmEx over the course of hours without getting it successfully expedited. I was variously told that they couldn’t expedite it for fraud reasons (which is not true) and that they couldn’t expedite the card because it had been automatically approved (maybe true, it locks out their new account dep’t from modifying it once it’s been approved apparently).

Other DPs on r/churning indicate that people have not been able to successfully get other charge cards expedited.