Originally Posted by
mapleg
Come on now. This is surely a bad joke.
Are people actually saying OP should have called in over such a small potential charge as $685 x2??
I have never called Amex about a potential charge. Never...ever...nor Visa.
I would immediately terminate a credit card relationship were they ever to reverse a charge as small as that (assuming of course one has the room on their card).
Once again the machine learning algorithms don't care about the amounts but the pattern. They are fallible.
As I said (and as the OP understood), if it is a charge card (no pre-auth type of stuff here) just put the amount you will be passing through the card using the check spending power link on the website and you should have no issue. Or have them flag it for travel as stated above. Nothing unusual about it being rejected.