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Nov 11, 2008 | 10:44 am

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Originally Posted by captainflyer

Hi Guys,

Has anyone bought Amex Gift Cards with your starwood Amex then went to the Amex travel office to used the gift cards to purchase Amex traveler checks to pay off your bill? Would this work?

Thanks for the help!

I would think that Amex wouldnt allow for this to be done. But then again I thought they would have pulled the plug on the whole TC thing long ago

The main problem as I understand it is, the Amex Gift Cards are in max $100 a card and carrys a $2.50 fee per card, or $25 per $1000. With fees that high I cant see how its a workable deal for Us. Also it would depend on how Amex codes it (a purchase or not).

As of now it looks as if Amex is simply gonna be a Done deal, over and done with. Time to find another means out there

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