Originally Posted by
acrophobia
Unfortunately this credit applies to your first ride of the month, regardless of whether you use your Platinum card to pay for that ride or not. Easily 90% of my 50 or so Uber rides a month are for business purposes, and paid for with my regular AmEx Corporate Card, so the $15 a month Uber credit I'm paying for via my personal AmEx Platinum annual fee accrues to my employer instead of to me.
You can turn on and off credits.