American Express Membership Rewards - Retention bonus - does this still happen?

I'll need to pay my renewal fee in my next statement. I have a Gold card. Last year I called to see if I'd be offered a retention bonus or get the fee waived and actually got part of the fee waived.

I wanted to see if others have had any luck getting any type of retention bonus or their fee waived in recent months? I'd rather be prepared with data when I call than call blindly and not know the right questions to ask.

I did a search and found old threads discussing this, but nothing recent.

There are few threads that have recently discussed your topic.

Here are 2 that I easily found just by searching retention as a keyword.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/american-express-membership-rewards/890320-amex-platinum-renewal.html

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/american-express-membership-rewards/859720-amex-does-ever-comp-annual-fees.html

Thanks. That helped. 'retention bonus' yielded older threads.