Originally Posted by
badAmex
Fair question. Simple answer: wealthy family members and close friends who wanted the benefits of the card (it used to have better benefits, the US Airways status used to get me upgraded 90% of the time). Once you have it, it's easy to feel trapped and feel like you don't want to waste the initiation fee (sunk-cost fallacy).
So you were theoretically depriving Amex of potentially 7 more annual fees every year? And they decided they didn't like that?