Well I was told by Centurion that it would help my application if I showed a slightly higher spend on my Platinum account. No problem there, have tried to put my spend up and they have just 'thrown their toys out of their pram' because my statement so far this month is double any other statement I have had, so they have put a block on all my cards including my supplementary card son my account.

The annoying point is though, once I have paid this months bill in full, I will be able to spend 150% of what that bill was as my new limit (Even though theres meant to be no preset spending limit). So say this you spend £10k in one month and pay, you have £15k for the next month onwards. Spend £15k, you can then have £22.5k.

When I suggested that this isn't good enough as there are another 22 days left in this months billing period for me and I intended to spend at least a few more thousand pound on my card, they could offer no suggestion. At the end of the day they are the ones that lose out as I can put them on a nother credit card, it seems that the Platinum satsus counts for nothing as far as AmEx is concerned.

Oh well another bizarre twist in the demented world of American Express. If it wasn't for the Virgin Lounge Access I would have scrapped the **** card ages ago.

Thank,
Richard