Originally Posted by
f0xx
I had the same panic the other day when I loaded up Serve with my Blue Cash. Statement ends today and the payment posted this morning. Thank God.
Originally Posted by
cdancer20
LOL. Same thing happened to me. I wasn't paying attention to the fact that my statement closed less than a week after I got my card...Plus I was trying to rush to get in my $5k on new Serve acct. I had $3k pending and "guessed" that $1k would post by statement date. When I first paid, I had a $1000 balance but sure enough, $1k posted on the statement day. Balance = $0.
The best thing to do is not make any more charges on the card 3 days before the statement closes. Unless you have a lot of spare funds in BB or some other method that is not through the Amex online BP, I wouldn't try to risk it if your goal is to achieve $0 balance on your CC by statement close.