<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by axel1:
You can get your annual fee waived for blue, green and gold cards, they now even are compromising and cut your annaul fee for platinum and centruion, if you call and negotiate.</font>
I had the fee waived on my UK gold card several times and I wasn't spending massive amounts of money either.
In the UK they now do a Platinum card with no annual fee and 2% cashback. That is what attracted me back to Amex.