newbie88

I'm sure the aircraft maintenance gets on the radar pretty quick

HawkeyeFlyer

Has Mark Zuckenberg changed his wardrobe

blakepilot

I didn't think that was big fish enough for it, but alas...

Yes I accepted it. Card arrives tomorrow.

stimpy

Welcome to the club!

I'm happy also because I get to say I was probably right when I posted in the 2019 or 2020 thread that with the new changes, internal restructuring, and higher annual fee Amex would be looking to significantly increase the number of Centurion members. In the US at least.

Dogmatick

Maybe that long talked about new card above Platinum is in fact the Centurion being made much more widely available lol

Jay66

This might be a little bit off topic, but have any of the international Centurion Holders had any luck using the US Concierge for Restaurant/Hotel bookings in the US? With the time change and limited reach of the International centurion teams I've found it to be a bit difficult to get good service from them in securing last minute reservations or hotel bookings. Especially when you try to get one at 6PM US time for the same night.

seacarl

I dumped my Centurion Card when Amex doubled the annual fee to $5000, removed the $200 airline fee credit, and the vaunted customer service wouldn't reimburse my Nexus charge (which includes Global Entry and Pre Check) as part of the Global Entry benefit. There are no Equinox Clubs and I don't want a Saks credit. And I haven't found the Amex Concierge service valuable. Hertz discontinued driveback service. I already have airline and hotel elite status.

I don't see value in the $5000 fee.

May they have good luck in signing up new members

SteveT

Thanks for the DP. Another DP question, what was your average annual spend prior to 2019?

blakepilot

All over the place. Anywhere from $100k to $500k. Used to do a lot of int'l premium cabin travel ex-NYC. That seems like decades ago

mia

Is the invitation for a personal or Business Centurion? Did you discuss using their concierge service to fulfill requests for your clients before accepting the invitation?

newbie88

Thought he said it was a personal card invite but it does sound like its a business version

mia

Yes, I now see that mentioned just above the image.

blakepilot

Personal. I just opened a biz plat about 2 months ago, so not much history there.

stinky

Hello everyone.....it's been a long time since I posted.....I hope you are all well.

After 15+ years of 'wanting' the Centurion card and doing stupid things to ensure that I had the very best chance at being 'chosen' (tracking spend down to the dollar every year, adjusting spend mix, spending more than I should, calling to have my interest 'notated' at least 20+ times - you get the gist...), I gave up bothering in 2019 - it wasn't worth the hassle and headache and the platinum card was doing a pretty good job.

Lo and behold....I received an invite a couple of months ago (same as the above picture from blakepilot ) for the personal card and was subsequently 'approved'. I hadn't called Amex in 18+ months.

I am hesitant to share data since every time someone posted numbers, I would go insane (over many years lurking on this board) trying to calculate probability of being approved based on running everyones spend here and honestly I don't want inflict similar torture on others....but.....in the interest of sharing and enriching the forum with data (n=1 & YMMV), here goes!

Member since: 2006
Location: SoCal
Creditworthiness - 800+ FICO
Annual spend over the past 5-6 years - Min ~$215k - Max ~$600k. Ave: ~$300k
5 yr Spend Growth - spend has typically increased (including 2020) y/y by around 10%-15% (the $600k was a blip in the middle).
Spend mix (100% personal ----> 5% personal travel & leisure, 15% high end purchases, 5% high end restaurants, 75% - general daily expenses (Amazon, McD, ubereats, groceries, high end car service & maintenance, property taxes - basically pretty much everything)
Amex Services used - Have called travel once, rarely use FHR online - maybe <5 times & Concierge 1-2 times (have used more in the past couple of months than in 15 or so years)

If you look at recent approvals (djiceman, blakepilot and now me), there may be a trend as it relates to annual spend (consistency & annual increase) at around $250k-$350k a year and at least 5+ years of membership duration. I believe I read DJ_Iceman called to notate interest, I certainly did.... blakepilot - did you call them ever? Of course, there may not be and it's just outliers in data - I'm sure if you put $1M+ on the card every month, it will be a different story!

In any case, good luck to those who are hell bent on trying to get one - my lesson learned...sometimes things come to those that don't give a @@@@ anymore!

mia & stimpy - glad to see that you're still around and haven't forgotten the days of mucci des coins exotiques!! And stimpy you're spot on - they're definitely focusing on increasing their membership #s (will be interesting to see if they do anything to drive retention rates of current holders). They also must be low on their US quotas - that's the only reason why I got approved LOL!

Best,
Stinky

alm0st

Congrats on finally getting one! Interesting info on the split. Seems only 25% is in the primary category around luxury/travel and the rest a combination of daily spend. I presume taxes would be a big chunk? Too bad here in Europe we're not able to pay our tax via cc