Moorea

Ah, I've already received the Surpass bonus in the past by upgrading (and have since downgraded). So that ship has already sailed. May never see an offer without that once per lifetime clause again, so may as well try.

UPDATE: It worked. Got the 100K points.

ryandelmundo

Any idea how to get the upgrade offer to trigger? I have two no-fee Amex cards, one that I had, and another I got via the conversion from Citi. I've been holding on to both waiting and waiting and waiting for the upgrade offer. Any idea why I don't get offered?

Datapoints:
Holding 2 amex no fee
Both over a year old (but one is from the Citi changeover which was January)
Low credit limits: I dropped the CL to like $1500 on each card. Maybe I need a higher CL to trigger the upgrade?
Have 3rd AMEX Hilton card in the Aspire
Don't use the no-AF cards they're just sitting around.

Any ideas how to get the upgrade?

beltway

Is Amex no longer doing Surpass upgrade offers? I have two no-fee HH cards (one of which began life as a Surpass & has been through a full downgrade/re-upgrade/downgrade cycle) & haven’t seen an upgrade offer on either in quite some time. Ditto for the no-fee HH card belonging to my DW, who has never held the Surpass. (For the record, I know better than to upgrade her before doing a conventional sign-up.)

geclub1

Around Nov/Dec timeframe, Amex has a widespread upgrade offers for Aspire, with an amazing reduced AF offers ($0/$95/$450): $0 annual fee for first 12 months, $95 AF pro rata for the remaining 2nd cardmember year, and then the usual $450 AF. No bonus points however.
Noobs, after upgrade, then got spoofed when Amex's usual upgrade paperwork did not spell these details exactly. They started calling Amex and arguing with CSR about this deal. As a result, it appeared Amex removed all Surpass/Aspire ONLINE upgrades for about 2 weeks, meaning you cannot even upgrade online without talking to an agent.
On some of my accounts, I do see upgrade capability is back. But no bonus or special offers that I am aware of.

For more details on above drama, see the comments of this : https://www.doctorofcredit.com/ameri...af-first-year/

beltway

Thanks. To be clearer, I meant upgrade offers with bonus points. I see the standard upgrade option, but there’s no sweetener.

jamflyer

Called Amex on a separate issue and at the end was offered to upgrade the no fee card to the Surpass - $3k spend in 3 months and get 150k points. I took the offer.

flew-d-coop

My no-fee HH has been in the sock drawer for a while but recently took a trip abroad and when we returned I got this paltry upgrade offer that I will not be accepting:

Earn 50,000 Hilton Honors Bonus Points

with the Hilton Honors American Express Surpass® Card after you upgrade and spend $3,000 in purchases on the Card within your first 6 months of Card Membership

darthbimmer

Are you holding out for a better offer? It seems the better offers that were plentiful a few years ago have dried up. If others are seeing better upgrade offers on the regular, please let me know. I'd love to be wrong about this.

CarlosRodrigue

I'm seeing exactly that offer. And i think I'm going to pull the trigger.
My only question is - is it possible to then upgrade to Aspire from the upgrade to Surpass (provided I get the offer, of course)? Has anybody done this before?

Luger

Do you already have a Surpass and it's an upgrade to a second one? I got a first Surpass since the regular SUB is better than the Upgrade offer. But I'd upgrade my no fee card to a second Surpass and put $15k on it if I got the 50k upgrade offer.

It would mean 95k points (6.33/$) plus an FNC on the second Surpass.

CarlosRodrigue

No, I just have the "no fee" basic card. And I just tried the offer and I got this:

We apologize that the offer you are looking for may no longer be available.

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