jandersinc

You need an accountant and a tax attorney!

If you rely on Internet advice you're going to get you and your business in trouble.

friedablass

Husband applied today and got instant approval - very happy .

I am going to send an SM to them as well about applying for myself/business again since my account is well over 12 months old and if I get the same response as bluto I am inclined to apply again. We do have real business expenses that we normally put on our SPG card so, there is no issue meeting the spend on 2 cards for us. Will post back when response is received.

AJollyLife

Just applied, application status is Pending.
Does anyone know what the # is for the reconsideration line?

CherylD

Tried to apply for DH twice and their system is down. It lets me get all the way through and then says they are having issues to try later. Anyone else have this problem?

friedablass

FYI, for those who have a Gold Card that they applied for more than 12 months ago and would like to participate in this current promo, I got my answer today from my Dad. He has a Gold Card for his business for a couple of years already. In March he received an offer to apply for a Gold Card and earn 10k bonus points after $1500 of spend. I don't know why he jumped on it (I hate to say this on my dad, but it was a stupid move - IMO - because now he his excluded from this current offer which is WAY better and he would have no problem meeting the spend), but he did and he applied using the exact same info as on his first card - same business name, Federal tax ID, personal name, and SS#. He got approved instantly, spent $1500 within the first month or two and the 10k bonus points have already posted to his account and both cards are linked to the same MR account.

I will not say this is a definite, but I'm pretty confident that for those people who already have a Gold Card and applied more than 12 months ago, you can keep that card open and apply again through this offer and still be eligible for the 75k points. This is also based on the responses other FT members have received from Amex which are along the same line. I for one am going to give it a shot.

nwflyboy

I had been planning to take a few months off from applications (have done just 2 this year) but have been looking for some Amex points, so this was very tempting. Just applied online and got instant approval. Now, gotta start using that card for everything for the next 4 months...a dive trip to Hawaii in September should help.

oshelef

Anyone combining this application with a personal one at the same time? Or is there little reason to do so? (e.g. for some offers it seems that if you don't do business and personal apps simultaneously it won't give you the second one.)

CynthiaSteffe

I did my SPG and Mercedes Benz Platinum apps at the same time

GoGreen

I waited til today to apply - and when I follow the link it says:

"Thank you for your interest in the Business Gold Rewards Card® From American Express OPEN. We apologize that the offer you are looking for is not available at this time. Below is the current offer."

The "current offer" doesn't say what the bonus is, however, the language at the bottom says something about applying by June 24, 2012. I called to ask if it's still available and she was more than happy to give me the offer if I applied over the phone, but she wouldn't send me a link.

Anybody have a better link?

If not ... I guess I'll apply for the Chase Ink Business instead. I couldn't do both because of the high spends. If I apply for Ink can I also apply for two personal Chase cards?

Thanks!

mia

Try these links:

http://cc.ebay.com/americanexpress-LTO

http://www.amazon.com/Business-Gold-.../dp/B007Y7FT3A

GoGreen

Awesome - thanks MIA. Both links seemed to work although neither would accept his existing account numbers/security codes for his two co-branded AMEX cards, so he had to fill out the complete app. Also could not get instant approval, so sitting on pins and needles...

mia

Do you mean cards issued by American Express for Delta, Hilton, JetBlue, Mercedes, Starwood? It cannot work for Amex-network cards issued by other banks because his account is with the bank, not American Express.

CynthiaSteffe

You shouldn't be sitting on pins and needles. You should call the reconsideration line now and explain why you want to and think you should be approved. I did that for both my SPG and MB Platinum, and in the latter instance it turned that that although my application was still being considered at the time, the CSR was able to manually approve it. The SPG was already approved by the time I called.

gotofly

I just applied at the last minute and got instant approval, I had applied for a card 12 months ago so lloks like i did not have to cancel the old card.
Now have tospend 10k in 4 months

coolguy100

interesting finding. since when ebay and amazon have begun to sell credit card application links?