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
Have been making charitable donations for years through AMEX and it has always counted towards spend. This includes auction items from charities. AMEX isn't analyzing what the charge is for; it could be a lot of things.
My one warning would be is to make sure that the contribution is actually "charged" by the charity during 2015 or it won't count towards this year. They usually want to get their money right away, but if there is a problem, you could have a problem.