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Old Oct 4, 2018 | 8:11 pm
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Originally Posted by Biggie Fries
I would:
  1. It's not unheard of to get retention offer after first year. I did.
  2. Your spend is good -- probably 4x or 5x what mine was that year.
  3. If you don't try, you are guaranteed not to get a retention offer.
Originally Posted by phant0m
With the new Gold, talk to them about wanting to downgrade cause of more points. I did that with about $60k spend last year and they gave me 50k points.
Thank you both for the advice! Excellent point for #3 Biggie, I guess I weirdly got it in my head that if I asked too early (after one year) that somehow it’d be noted and I wouldn’t be able to get one at all in the future.

And that’s a great talking point phantom! Hadn’t thought of that, but it makes sense. In fact, I was thinking of applying for it separately anyway, haha.
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