The telephone is 19th century technology, largely obsolete for business transactions. In my experience it is much better to write to American Express using the secure messaging facility on the website. Then you can print and save their confirmation. Email creates accountability.

Just got the card in the mail and was pleasantly surprised as the card show member since 01. Now, I haven't had an AMEX since, oh, about 01 and had my first one back in 90. Not sure of the significance of the Member since date (yeah, yeah do a search, but sine I am an ORIGINAL MEMBER - I am sure I can getway with these little transgressions) - but in any event I am pleased (not sure why).^

someone please explain how to apply for this card? I have the Opt-out thing so i don't get credit offers.

jamflyer, the member since date is what AmEx usually reports as the open date to the various credit reporting agencies for your new card.

So even though it is a new account with no payment history, AmEx reports it as if it is a 9 year old account. Doing so is an indirect benefit for your credit report since it improves the average age of your accounts (vs. reporting it as an account opened in 2010).

Anyone can apply using the information mentioned in post #4 of this thread:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/13680495-post4.html

However, to obtain the 50,000 point bonus rather than the standard offers you need to have been invited. You can try the Find out which Special Card offers you may be pre-selected for tool located here:

https://www201.americanexpress.com/s...special-offers

Thanks Mia.

I took advantage of this offer twice (at the same time - one personal, one business) and ended up with 100k member rewards and no annual fees for the first year. I used the member rewards to pay for airline tickets via "pay with points". The two tickets were open jaw IAD-CPH & ZRH-IAD cost appx. $1200 and the first $1000 was covered by my membership rewards. Basically, I spent $200 on those two tickets to Europe and then canceled the cards before I had to pay the annual fee. It's a great offer!! Jump on it!!

there are a lot better uses for 100K membership rewards points IMO, but you did get the use out of it as was most relevant to you.

You spent it on 2 one-ways - 50k each? Judging from the cost, in COACH? If you had to, you had to, but as said above, there is much more value to those 100k reward points.

I just signed up for this card. The offer says that the fee was waived, yet I have another Amex card (delta).

This is what the offer states.

"Also pay no annual fee the first year, a savings of $175.^3"

"^3 The annual fee for the Premier Rewards Gold Card from American Express will be waived for the first year. Then the annual fee with...(talks about future years)"

Does your offer states something else about charging for the first year if you have another card?

Mrs Tikimonster got this offer. she's a secondary cardholder on my amex plat. I noticed we actually got a similar offer to this back in March that we somehow didn't get around to filling out in time. This time she did and sent it in. I may actually kill my Plat card once she gets this which seems to have no incrementall value over this card

Key points of offer:
50k points with$500 spend by 06/30
additional 15k point if you spend 30k within a calendar year
waive annual fee of $175. Year 2 this fee will cover 5 cards with a $35 fee for a 6th card
url is americanexpress.com/applyprg (however as noted you need to provide zip code/rsvp code

Incidentally, having read about previous amex offers on FT, we have kept the signup offer paperwork so that if we don't see the MR points in her account we can produce the actual offer.

Good idea. I will do the same. That would be super lame if I didn't get the 50,000 MR points and they claimed not to know what I'm talking about.

The printing part is key. The correspondence about my (former) DL AmEx disappeared from the secure email area, and I had to find the printout promising EQMs on my card at a certain threshold. After sending it to AmEx, they STILL denied me! I had to contact Kevin Pinto at Delta to get it fixed. Left a very bad taste in my mouth for AmEx...

Where do you see this on the site? All mine shows is a list of literally every card Amex offers?

I got this 50K offer mail myself a couple days ago, but I already have a premier rewards gold. Can I apply nonetheless and hope to be approved, or can I give it to someone else with different name to apply?

I put the RSVP code on the website and it didn't pre-populate the screen with the name on the letter. This means that other people can use the code as well?