Originally Posted by bgriff

I do have a no-fee Blue card that has been sock-drawered for ages (like, over a decade), which is still open and appears on my Amex.com account. And I have gotten a few bonuses from Amex since the pop-up era began. So having an inactive card is not necessarily a problem. But, it probably helps that I have several other active cards that I put a lot of spend on (high 5 figures each year), and I'm not sure if there's some sort of distinction between a "deep" inactive card and a more recent inactive card. I don't think there was a sign-up bonus on that card when I first got it, but even if there were, Amex would likely have fully written it off by now anyway.