Originally Posted by
krazykanuck
Amex AU cards have different numbers, so no issues there (unlike Chase and Citi).
Get a real Gold card. $250 AF, but between the $10/mo Uber credit and $10/mo dining credit it's not difficult to make the math work if your spend on restaurants is high enough and your travel/dining patterns allow you to organically use up the monthly credits.
Sure .. so I assume the monthly Uber credits don't carry over month to month right? Haven't been taking many Ubers lately but we do use Uber eats on occasion. Not certain it will pay off every month but you never know. If I eventually had both a Platinum and a Gold card I assume the Uber cash from both would stack?
Originally Posted by
WasKnown
AFAIK the AU card will have a different number. If you’re just going to add the card to Apple Pay, why not just add your card instead? I don’t think there is a tangible difference.
I also don’t believe Amex adds additional spending offers as lucrative as this onto the Plats. However, after you’re done with the 15x Resy for the Vanilla Plat, you could grab the 10x dining 100K offer on the Schwab Plat (which is considered a second product).
I don't think you can add one card to multiple Apple Pay accounts (i.e my wife and I cannot add the same CC to both of our Apple Pay's on our phones). Hence the need for multiple card numbers.
In any case, there isn't much risk with this Resy deal, I can add it, rack up the points, and then decide whether to add a Gold, or not, in 6 months. I have a 4th night free booking at the Breakers for the end of the year but I noticed that they also have a 4th night free deal with FHR so assuming the prices still line up I can book this again with the Amex and cancel the Citi booking and at least utilize the $200 hotel credit and most of the airline credit when we fly in December. Only remaining question is whether I should just cancel (or more likely downgrade since I have a few hundred k thank you points now) the prestige or hold on to it in case I have the chance of doing another 4th night free booking, though the value of those has declined a lot. I guess I can see what my prorated annual fee refund would be and then decide.
Thanks again for the help!