Originally Posted by
ankomonkey
My wife got this today too. Looks targetted to me. She has two weeks left of her free first year and we planned to cancel once the bonus points for spending £15k post. If I do bite then we will still cancel after we've got the hotel statuses and the bonus points.
When you cancel the Gold card, they're likely to offer you a points incentive to stay -- which, depending on what it is, might be a more cost effective option.