Originally Posted by
lsquare
My AMEX Gold is up for renewal, but I'm going to cancel. I have yet to have cancelled any cards that are under a year old. Furthermore, I actually put spending on my cards; both credit and charge. Across all of my credit and charge cards, I probably put in close to $25k for 2019. Not sure if it's a lot or not, but AMEX can't say I don't put any spending on my cards and just going after the welcome bonuses. I want the Aspire not so much for the welcome bonus, which would be nice, but I want it for the extra points and status for my Hilton stays.
You're getting two things confused. Amex hates even more when you cancel in less than year, and can do worse things to you than just deny bonuses in that case.
Meanwhile, they have denied bonuses to people who opened too many Amex cards too quickly.
Yes, certainly doing spend on all of them helps, but we don't know if it's a guarantee.
So while I wish you luck, I've never heard of anyone getting 6 Amex credit cards in one year (not counting transfers of HH cards from Citi to Amex a couple years ago) before, so I think this may be uncharted territory.
The official limit is 5 last we heard, so I don't even know how you were able to get to 6, and if you cancel just one, you get to 5, so I don't know if cancelling just one would make it possible to apply for another credit card, it's conceivable that you may have to cancel 2 credit cards to be able to apply for 1, if they're now going hold you to the limit of 5.