Originally Posted by
CART_Flagman
If its a matter of just having the card with your name on it, I would do this: Find someone that actually has the card, give them the fee to have you added as a card holder on their acct. Then, when the card is issued, have it cancelled and split the returned card fee with the account holder.
Result: You get your name on an actual Centurion card, and for only a portion of what it would have actually cost you to have earned it, let alone use it.
Actually, that's a pretty good play... anyone have a card want to send me a PM?
No, really, I'm interested.
I suspected this would come up eventually. If I was looking for an ego boost, driving around in a Ferrari would make the Cent card superfluous, no?
The perpetual airline, hotel, and car status is what I'm after so that I can upgrade my business travel. The way my company works they pay for everything - I have no way to pay for upgrades and expense the differential, I can only get upgrades if they're "free" due to status.
There are other ways to duplicate the status (in fact I'm generally doing this now) but it's a net lower cost/lower hassle to pay the annual Centurion fee for it instead of jumping through the other hoops.