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Old Dec 10, 2015, 11:42 am
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kaaria
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Originally Posted by eethan
Fully intended to cancel my Business Gold, having spent $13.5k on it in the past year. Lady was anxious to describe all benefits. - I listened but cut her off rather curtly. She kept going so I offered to keep the card w/ the annual fee waived. She offered 15k and I accepted.

When Amex assesses your value as a customer, how far back do they look? For example, my YTD spending was only 3k, so am surprised they considered $10k I spent end of last year.
Could be that their annual spending calculation is based on 12 months since fees are charged rather than calendar months.
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