Originally Posted by AlohaDaveKennedy

Would that be shopping through portals for AMEX GCs (a popular pastime)? that is not good for Citi cards. Neither is bank account funding. For a Citi card, Amazon Payments (free) and Vanilla Gift cards (not free) are the better routes.

As for AMEX Financial Reviews, if you have AMEX cards be careful about suddenly running up your credit lines across Citi, Chase and nonAMEX banks. Like you, AMEX can subscribe to alerts that cause them to take notice of changes in your credit behavior.