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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3400 on: April 19, 2018, 12:12:10 AM »
applied for everyday and spg, both where pending for afew seconds, then everyday was declined (carrying high bal this month). I called they say spg has to stay pending for 5 days because only 1 app can be answered at a time.
i huca'd and got same response any ideas?
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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3401 on: April 19, 2018, 12:14:10 AM »
Side note: Amex' pet peeve is high balances.
then they should give more then a few days notice before they kill a card, so i can get my affairs in order.

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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3402 on: April 19, 2018, 12:31:43 AM »
then they should give more then a few days notice before they kill a card, so i can get my affairs in order.


Offer is still live, maybe there is hope...

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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3403 on: April 19, 2018, 12:34:06 AM »
Offer is still live, maybe there is hope...
Check again at 12 MST
ETA: still available as of now, we'll see what happens
« Last Edit: April 19, 2018, 01:30:00 AM by mmgfarb »
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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3404 on: April 19, 2018, 01:01:47 AM »
My spg biz was ~$4500 over CL. I transfered 6k credit over to it, and applied and was instantly approved for 3 cards. Go figure.
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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3405 on: April 19, 2018, 05:25:28 AM »
then they should give more then a few days notice before they kill a card, so i can get my affairs in order.

Merger was announced ages ago. Cant really expect much more

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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3406 on: April 19, 2018, 08:47:15 AM »
its over amex website shows welcome offer as $100 statement credit after 1k spend

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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3407 on: April 19, 2018, 08:48:38 AM »
its over amex website shows welcome offer as $100 statement credit after 1k spend
I'm still not convinced that the biz card is actually over, there is no chance that an SPG SUB won't be back.
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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3408 on: April 19, 2018, 08:50:39 AM »
I'm still not convinced that the biz card is actually over, there is no chance that an SPG SUB won't be back.
What makes you so confident of that?
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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3409 on: April 19, 2018, 08:51:51 AM »
What makes you so confident of that?
They can't be killing the card that bad.
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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3410 on: April 19, 2018, 08:55:49 AM »
They can't be killing the card that bad.

well they could be counting on their luxury card to be inciting enough for people ...seems like there shifting most of the focus there

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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3411 on: April 19, 2018, 08:59:55 AM »
well they could be counting on their luxury card to be inciting enough for people ...seems like there shifting most of the focus there
But remember Chase has a personal card too, and a luxury one too (Ritz), so their edge over Chase is the Biz card only.
And making the card 2ppd, doesn't seem to be focusing it all on there.
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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3412 on: April 19, 2018, 09:35:22 AM »
But remember Chase has a personal card too, and a luxury one too (Ritz), so their edge over Chase is the Biz card only.
And making the card 2ppd, doesn't seem to be focusing it all on there.
i hear ya maybe they think the 2ppd alone is enough to keep people coming or you could be right and when new card comes out they'll pick up bonus  but to to a higher statement credit not points. Don't forget they just ran a higher SUB that very well could have been them giving everyone one last chance.

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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3413 on: April 19, 2018, 09:38:18 AM »


i hear ya maybe they think the 2ppd alone is enough to keep people coming or you could be right and when new card comes out they'll pick up bonus  but to to a higher statement credit not points. Don't forget they just ran a higher SUB that very well could have been them giving everyone one last chance.

We have no way of knowing, but I wouldn't be surprised I'd they bring back a points SUB, or over a lower point amount, with some sort of SC.
And the increased bonuses always came around, so it isn't indicative about "a last chance"
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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3414 on: April 19, 2018, 09:46:00 AM »
They can't be killing the card that bad.
They can.
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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3415 on: April 19, 2018, 10:10:40 AM »
@Dan You mentioned on DDMS that you can have more than 1 of the same SPG card. I got a personal through last night and then tried again same night, and it was flagged as duplicate. Tried again this morning and same thing. Any tips?

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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3416 on: April 19, 2018, 10:33:17 AM »
@Dan You mentioned on DDMS that you can have more than 1 of the same SPG card. I got a personal through last night and then tried again same night, and it was flagged as duplicate. Tried again this morning and same thing. Any tips?
if you apply again within 90 days of first app it gets flagged

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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3417 on: April 19, 2018, 10:40:18 AM »
Dan mentioned in DD post yesterday that if  you’re already an Amex customer there’s no hard credit pull, is that something new? (Not been following for a while) Does that mean there’s no point in apporama with amex anymore?

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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3418 on: April 19, 2018, 10:44:24 AM »

We have no way of knowing, but I wouldn't be surprised I'd they bring back a points SUB, or over a lower point amount, with some sort of SC.
And the increased bonuses always came around, so it isn't indicative about "a last chance"
Doesn't hurt to wait and see if you haven't gotten it yet, but I wouldn't say that it's certainly going to return

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Re: Starwood AMEX Master Thread
« Reply #3419 on: April 19, 2018, 11:43:03 AM »
Dan mentioned in DD post yesterday that if  you’re already an Amex customer there’s no hard credit pull, is that something new? (Not been following for a while) Does that mean there’s no point in apporama with amex anymore?
It may not be a hard pull, by logging into my amex account, I got a message on my app that I'm pre-approved but i think it would still show up as a new account which counts towards 5/24... Correct me if I'm wrong
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