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Old Dec 3, 2013 | 5:31 pm
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Originally Posted by Cana2013
Not every Amex agent gives the same response for welcome bonus inquries. Some do manually credit the bonus miles right away. You'd better to make a call instead of secure messaging. You can let the agent know that you are waiting for the points for booking a reward flight, and he/she may just get the supervisor to approve the miles for you during the call.
Nope. I got the same canned response: 8-10 weeks for my points to post.

Something is not adding up here. I am beginning to wonder if they're cracking down on churners and manually dealing with referral and minimum spend bonuses because of that? I don't buy that it's a system 'glitch'...
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