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Dec 18, 2015 | 12:01 pm

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Originally Posted by atrich

It's that time of the year and I find myself close to the $50k Amex spend threshold. I was planning on making some charitable donations this year, but if I donate a bit more than I might otherwise, I could cross that $50k mark and get 10k MQM.

But only if charitable donations are not excluded from the spend requirements, which are thus:

Now, they talk about chariable donations as not benefiting from in-flight purchase savings:

But do not otherwise explicitly mention charitable contributions. Anyone have experience here?

T&C quotes pulled from: https://www.americanexpress.com/us/c...0#cardbenefits

First off ignore the T&C. Most of us buy a TON of gift cards, AMEX or otherwise each year, and all have counted year after year. I have found just about anything counts with the exception of the annual fee that AMEX bills if that helps.

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