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Updates To The Business Platinum Card® by American Express

October 14, 2021 American express, Business Credit Cards, Business Platinum, Travel

American Express announced some changes to The Business Platinum Card® from American Express that are favorable to most everyone, but businesses that can fully utilize the benefits will get the biggest bang for their buck.

Let’s take a look at the updates and how they impact the value of the Business Platinum Card.

Updated Earnings Rate

The first big change on the Business Platinum Card is the updated earnings rates.

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An Overview of American Express’ Fine Hotels and Resorts (FHR)

September 9, 2021 American express, Amex Business Platinum, Amex Offers, Amex Platinum, Business Platinum, Membership Rewards, Platinum Card, Travel

Written by Anna Zaks @ MileValue

If you have The Platinum Card® from American Express (Rates & Fees) or The Business Platinum Card® from American Express (Rates & Fees), you’ve probably poked around the benefits page and came across the Fine Hotels + Resorts program.

The FHR program provides elite-like benefits at select properties for hotels booked through the program. In order to get all the benefits, you do need to book through the FHR program and not directly with the property.

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An Overview of American Express’ Fine Hotels and Resorts (FHR)

September 9, 2021 American express, Amex Business Platinum, Amex Offers, Amex Platinum, Business Platinum, Membership Rewards, Platinum Card, Travel

Written by Anna Zaks @ MileValue

If you have The Platinum Card® from American Express (Rates & Fees) or The Business Platinum® Card from American Express (Rates & Fees), you’ve probably poked around the benefits page and came across the Fine Hotels + Resorts program.

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Middle Age Miles News & Notes 5/4/2020 – MCGC deal; Rakuten 15%/15x (and 10%/10x for Dell); Amex Biz Plat credit; UPromise

May 4, 2020 Business Platinum, ebates, Travel

Written by Craig at Middle Age Miles @ Middle Age Miles

Happy Star Wars Day from Middle Age Miles – May the Fourth be with you! Following up on Friday’s big announcements from Amex and Chase, especially with respect to earning bonus points for grocery store spend, we’re already seeing another…

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No-Lifetime-Language Amex Biz Platinum Offer [Targeted] – What Do We Do with This?

February 20, 2020 Business Platinum, Travel

Written by Craig at Middle Age Miles @ Middle Age Miles

The Offer Yesterday, Philly received a targeted email from Amex with the subject line, “Give your business more power with another Business Platinum Card.” The email expressly recognizes that she already has a Business Platinum card and invites her to…

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What’s In Our Wallet 2020? Part 2: Why We Acquired and Hold Each Card

February 7, 2020 Business Platinum, Credit Cards, rewards, Ritz-Carlton Visa, Travel

Written by Craig at Middle Age Miles @ Middle Age Miles

This article is Part 2 of our “What’s In Our Wallet 2020?” series. Here’s a link to Part 1, and once published, we’ll add links to Part 3 and the Epilogue. * Part 1 – What’s In Our Wallet 2020?…

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The Rentals.com RentPay No-Fee Amex Deal Worked for Us! – And It’s Still Alive for 1 Payment

September 20, 2019 Business Platinum, Travel

Written by Craig at Middle Age Miles @ Middle Age Miles

Introduction In early August 2019, Doctor of Credit published an article on an interesting deal from Rentals.com. In short, the deal was to use Rentals.com’s RentPay service to set up 2 rent payments using an Amex card, and Rentals.com would…

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MS DP Series – Follow-Up Part 1 – Reviewing Episodes 1-4

September 10, 2019 Amex Offers, Business Platinum, ebates, Travel

Written by Craig at Middle Age Miles @ Middle Age Miles

Introduction Our recent Manufactured Spend Data Points (MS DP) series proved to be very popular. As regular readers will recall, we started off as total rookies on the subject of MS with Visa Gift Cards (VGCs) and Mastercard Gift Cards…

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Amex Pay With Points: The hassle-free way to get $1,300+ worth of airfare with the Amex Business Platinum card

September 7, 2019March 12, 2020 American express, Business Platinum, Credit Cards, Travel

Written by Million Mile Secrets @ Million Mile Secrets

The Business Platinum® Card from American Express is an excellent card to consider — it offers up to 75,000 points as its current welcome bonus after meeting tiered minimum spending requirements (terms apply): 50,000 Amex Membership Rewards points after spending $10,000 on purchases in the first three months of account opening 25,000 Amex Membership Rewards points after spending an additional $10,000 …

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MS DPs – Episode 5 – 2 $250 Vanilla MCGCs from Sam’s Club

August 5, 2019 Business Platinum, Travel

Written by Craig at Middle Age Miles @ Middle Age Miles

In Episode 5 of our Manufactured Spend Data Points (MS DPs) series, we’ll look at two $250 variable-load Vanilla Mastercard Gift Cards (MCGCs) that we purchased from Sam’s Club on July 24. The driver for a Sam’s Club deal, aside…

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MS DPs – Episode 2 – $200 MCGC from Staples

July 31, 2019 Amex Offers, Business Platinum, Travel

Written by Craig at Middle Age Miles @ Middle Age Miles

In Episode 2 of our Manufactured Spend Data Points (MS DPs) series, we’ll look at a $200 Mastercard Gift Card (MCGC) that we purchased from Staples last week (mid-July 2019), during a promotion where this card could be purchased with…

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Our Cheap AA Flights Did Not Trigger the Amex Airline Fee Credit – Experiment Failure!

June 25, 2019 Business Platinum, Travel

Written by Craig at Middle Age Miles @ Middle Age Miles

Background In light of American Airlines gift cards (AA GCs) no longer triggering the Amex airline fee credits (see our article here: Are AA Gift Cards Really Triggering the Amex Airline Fee Credit Again? As of Now, We Don’t Think…

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Are AA Gift Cards Really Triggering the Amex Airline Fee Credit Again? As of Now, We Don’t Think So [UPDATED 6/25/19: Dead; No Credits for AA GCs]

June 18, 2019June 25, 2019 Business Platinum, Travel

Written by Craig at Middle Age Miles @ Middle Age Miles

[UPDATE as of 6/25/2019, 2:30 pm Central time – Numerous data points found in Comments to the Doctor of Credit article we referenced in this article as well as in this FlyerTalk thread indicate that, after 6/14/2019, AA GCs consistently…

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Do Cheap AA Flights Really Trigger Amex Airline Fee Credits?

June 11, 2019 Business Platinum, Travel

Written by Craig at Middle Age Miles @ Middle Age Miles

Introduction & Short Answer So, do cheap American Airlines (AA) flights really trigger Amex airline fee credits, like those on the Amex Platinum, personal Gold and Hilton Aspire cards? Maybe. We have some positive data points on cheap AA flight…

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$100s in Credits, Fancy Status Perks, and More With These 26 Amex Business Platinum Benefits

May 4, 2019 American express, Business Platinum, Credit Cards, Travel

Written by Jason Stauffer @ Million Mile Secrets

INSIDER SECRET: The Business Platinum® Card from American Express card is great if you value elite status perks because it comes with automatic status for two hotel chains and three rental car programs. The Business Platinum® Card from American Express has a welcome bonus of up to 75,000 Amex Membership Rewards points after meeting tiered minimum spending …

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$400 In Easy-to-Use Credits Make the AMEX Business Platinum Annual Fee Worth It For Many

May 3, 2019 American express, Business Platinum, Credit Cards, Travel

Written by Jason Stauffer @ Million Mile Secrets

INSIDER SECRET: When you take advantage of the Pay With Points feature on The Business Platinum® Card from American Express you’ll get a 35% points rebate on eligible flights (up to 500,000 points back per year) and you’ll still earn frequent flyer miles on your free flight. The Business Platinum® Card from American Express is offering up to …

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Locking in the Business Platinum at $450 for 2019 (+ beginning of 2020)

December 24, 2018 American express, Business Platinum, Platinum, Travel

Written by Sarah Page Maxwell @ MileValue

The Business Platinum from American Express OPEN‘s benefits package will undergo some large changes come February of 2019, at the expense of an increased annual fee that will jump from $450 a year to $595 a year. For the extra $145, cardholders will get: A year of complimentary Platinum Global Access at WeWork, a large co-working space […]

Reminder: Don’t pay for coworking space — Save with the Amex Business Platinum, and write off the annual fee

December 20, 2018April 10, 2020 American express, Business Platinum, Credit Cards, Travel

Written by Harlan Vaughn @ Million Mile Secrets

If you rent a desk in a WeWork coworking space, here’s a reminder that cardholders of The Business Platinum Card® from American Express who registered last year for Platinum Global Access will receive free WeWork access until the end of 2020. Just book a desk through the app and show up, whether you’re in your home city …

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Don’t Fear the Minimum Spending Requirement – 6 Powerful Ways to Unlock the AMEX Business Platinum Welcome Bonus

December 15, 2018 American express, Business Platinum, Credit Cards, Travel

Written by Joseph Hostetler @ Million Mile Secrets

The Business Platinum® Card from American Express is changing. And many of us are of the opinion that it’s for the worse. The ugliest card change is the rising annual fee. If you open the card on or after February 2019, you’ll pay an increased annual fee of $595. We also aren’t sure what will become …

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Lock-In 75,000 Points & Lower Annual Fee With the AMEX Business Platinum Card – You Have 1 Month!

December 6, 2018 American express, Business Platinum, Credit Cards, Travel

Written by Harlan Vaughn @ Million Mile Secrets

If you’ve never had The Business Platinum® Card from American Express, this is your clarion call. In February 2019, the annual fee is shooting up to $595 (!!!). You can still apply to earn up to 75,000 AMEX Membership Rewards points after meeting tiered minimum spending requirements and pay a $450 annual fee. But you need …

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