American Express Membership Rewards - Amex in Germany Questions

Right now I am holding a lowly BLUE card that I took as it was free for the first year.

Does it have this "Price Protection" guarantee like in the U.S.? I called the number for it (in the U.S.) and they said they could not say for sure - anyone know?

Secondly, Since the MR points don't seem to have much value, and I have heard in other places that people are having complaints, is it even worth keeping the card?

I used to put up to 10K DEM per month on it, but I have almost stopped using it since I am getting a better benefit from having the LH Gold card.

I see people speaking (bragging?) about Platinum, and all these other cards - is there any value in any of them???

[This message has been edited by msn (edited 12-19-2001).]

Any offers of an amex-card depends also on legal restrictions of the country where it´s issued:
For example in Germany there´s no price protection program due to the former "Rabattgesetz" which fell at the beginning of 2001, but since Amex´s marketshare in Germany is only about 8% there are low chances, that a price protection might be introduced here during the next years and as I think, also not in most other european countries.

Your LH-Goldcard is a very good deal!
Stay with it, because it gives you a lot of benefits (like lounge-access, car-rental-insurance, etc....) that a german Amex-Platinum might offer, but for a much higher price.
The membership rewards programme isn´t that good, because the exchangerates for points to miles or other perks have changed ewxtremly bad in Germany during the last years.
The LH-miles-and-more might be a much better deal for you, especially, if you travel often with LH.

The Amex-Blue-Deals in Germany aren´t worth talking about, as you can see on the web-site: Only L-Tur-offers (with rates not much cheaper than their normal offers) and a descent modern-stuff-gift-shop.

Danke, Axel. Those who are not LH Sen must pay around 190 DEM for the gold card - Citibank offers an AA miles card in Germany as well, for around 75 Euro.

Axel: there is no lounge access with the LH Visa Miles&More gold card. Only if the holder has the LH Senator status (the card may then be used like the standard SEN card).
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It's difficult to compare cards and benefits.
You may have a look at the Focus comparison chart (even if it's not up to date) for some german cards :
http://finanzen.focus.de/D/DA/DAC/DAC01/DAC01B/dac01b.htm

Lounge-access with LH-Gold-Visa is possible for several lounges (maybe not the Senator-Lounges) all over the world for a certain entering-fee (also valid for the regular m-m-visa-blue, with a little higher entering-fees). See terms and conditons!

merry christmas

axel

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You're right, Axel.
I forgot the AirPlus logo on the reverse side of the card !
There are some benefits attached to AirPlus, like lounge access with fee, and the AirPlus Hotel Program.
Mea culpa.

Ahrz