A membership actually worth having.
Jun 2, 2006, 6:15 am
#2
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Orlando, FL, USA
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Any particular reason you put this in an American Express forum?
Jun 2, 2006, 10:00 am
#3
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Join Date: May 2005
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To show what a waste the 400 to 2500 dollars the plat and cent cards are. Clubcorp is 25 to 50 dollars a month plus you home clubs annual dues. You get the same benefits of your home club with no extra charge. Amex should contact these people and include this as a benefit.
Jun 2, 2006, 10:04 am
#4
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Denver, Colorado
Programs: Amex plat, Hyatt, Hertz, Concierge Association-Colorado
Posts: 37
This is golf course junk and has nothing to do with flying, and little to do with travel.
Jun 2, 2006, 10:21 am
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Its not just golf courses, its tennis courts, fitness and social membership. Not all of us want to see overweight losers at airport lounges all the time. 
Jun 2, 2006, 10:27 am
#6
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Denver, Colorado
Programs: Amex plat, Hyatt, Hertz, Concierge Association-Colorado
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my 300 lbs is not over weight, I'm hurricane-proof.
Jun 2, 2006, 2:10 pm
#7
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: manhattan beach, ca , usa
Programs: UA 1P; SPG Plat;
Posts: 981
Originally Posted by sithlord
To show what a waste the 400 to 2500 dollars the plat and cent cards are. Clubcorp is 25 to 50 dollars a month plus you home clubs annual dues. You get the same benefits of your home club with no extra charge. Amex should contact these people and include this as a benefit.
Jun 2, 2006, 3:09 pm
#8
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: DCA
Programs: AMC MovieWatcher, Giant BonusCard, Petco PALS Card, Silver Diner Blue Plate Club
Posts: 22,298
There are certainly plenty of threads discussing the merits and criticisms of American Express offerings.
But the topic is American Express. And the merits of a club/golf membership program seem off-topic for this forum, so I will close the thread here.
For what it's worth, it would be perfectly reasonable -- in answering a question from a member, "is the $395 Platinum fee worth it?" -- to say "well, I've found some similar benefits to be better delivered and less expensive at another company like X." (That would be an opinion of which reasonable members could differ.) But a thread to discuss or promote another such program doesn't really being in the American Express Membership Rewards forum.
Regards,
Gary
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But the topic is American Express. And the merits of a club/golf membership program seem off-topic for this forum, so I will close the thread here.
For what it's worth, it would be perfectly reasonable -- in answering a question from a member, "is the $395 Platinum fee worth it?" -- to say "well, I've found some similar benefits to be better delivered and less expensive at another company like X." (That would be an opinion of which reasonable members could differ.) But a thread to discuss or promote another such program doesn't really being in the American Express Membership Rewards forum.
Regards,
Gary
aka gleff
Senior Moderator