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Jun 30, 2017 | 1:45 am

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Originally Posted by mikesyr18

What I hate the most about this benefit (and I do want to be a potential Plat cardholder as I already have an AMEX charge card) is that they drip feed you the benefit month to month rather than just giving you a lump sum.

There is definitely a reason that Amex set this up as a drip feed benefit, and I have no hesitation in assuming that the reason for the drip feed arrangement has to do with how to make this Amex Platinum-marketed benefit less costly (and more profitable) for Amex (and Uber too).

If the arrangement between Amex and Uber for this Amex Platinum-marketed benefit were explicitly structured in a questionable way so as to be hostile to the financial interests of Amex customers and that arrangement's details were to go public, this could get real interesting from a PR perspective.

I wouldn't be surprised if heavy UberPool users aren't hit or hit as hard by a kind of price discrimination.

Last edited by GUWonder; Jun 30, 2017 at 1:54 am

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