[YMMV] 60,000 Point Upgrade Offer To American Express Platinum

Contents

1 The Offer
2 The Fine Print
3 Our Verdict

The Offer

Direct link to offer (might not work)

There is currently an upgrade offer from the Premier Rewards Gold card to the American Express Personal Platinum card. You’ll receive 60,000 points after $5,000 in spend within the first three months.

The Fine Print

Annual fee is $550, this is usually prorated depending on how far along in your year you are. For example if it’s been two months since your last annual fee you’ll get a refund of 10 months on the PRG and then pay for 10 months of the Platinum card

Our Verdict

You’ll want to read these two posts before considering this:

This is a pretty great offer as there is no pull hard and you should be able to get this bonus even if you’ve held the card before (just make sure to check the fine print as some of these upgrade offers contain the no bonus language). In addition there are datapoints of people upgrading to a card they’ve never had before, getting the upgrade bonus and then still being eligible for another bonus down the track.

If you have any questions surrounding upgrade offers, I strongly recommend you read this post first. You can read our guide to the new American Express Platinum benefits here. There are also currently the following upgrade offers on other cards:

Hat tip to reader @ajfetzner

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MontyFC (@guest_382815)

April 4, 2017 04:33

#382815

I have a ~10 year old Amex Clear card and I see this 60K upgrade offer on the same. I see the offer among the list of eligible Amex Offers. I am very interested in this but have couple of questions:

1. I have never had Amex Platinum before. What’s the best strategy to double dip – get the public 60K offer and also the upgrade offer?
2. I couldn’t find any information (either on upgrade offer or the public offer) that states that MRs are not given out when the applicant hasn’t had the card in the past. What and where exactly should I look for these exclusion terms?

MontyFC (@guest_382817)

April 4, 2017 04:37

#382817

MontyFC

Found the answer to #2, but still interested to know the answer to #1.

paul5795 (@guest_382279)

April 3, 2017 10:54

#382279

75k link works for me but $20k spend is just too much.

P (@guest_381928)

April 2, 2017 18:20

#381928

I don’t think this works anymore. I used to have it show up a lot and make it show up easily, but now that i’ve actually decided to upgrade the offer doesn’t show up anymore.

Brian (@guest_380955)

March 31, 2017 16:02

#380955

I’ve been looking everywhere, but can’t find a good answer:

Is it ok to MS for part, or most, of the min spend needed for an Amex signup bonus these days? I know there were issues with MS for leaked Plats, but haven’t read much other than that. I have this offer on my PRG and plan to take it, but I will need to MS to hit the spend. Would hate to spend $550 on the AF, and only have the credits to take advantage of, without receiving the 60k MR…

gabe (@guest_380536)

March 30, 2017 23:43

#380536

I downgrade my gold card to green and got the offer but without the point bonus. did anyone else get a similar offer?

KD (@guest_380495)

March 30, 2017 22:31

#380495

https://www262.americanexpress.com/apply-card/business-card/business-platinum-charge-card/131/45314-9-1

Direct link to BGR to Plat 75k upgrade.

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William Charles(@will)

March 30, 2017 23:20

#380517

Thanks, will post shortly. That shows up for me but not this personal offer.

Bryan Mayer (@guest_380893)

March 31, 2017 14:33

#380893

William Charles

I have the same thing pop up. Was think of doing it, but $20k for 75k is ALOT of spend. Do you think it’s worth it?

March 31, 2017 20:14

#381096

Bryan Mayer

Depends on how much spend you can really do, works out to be an extra 3.75x points per dollar spend so it’s a pretty good deal from an ongoing spend basis but if it means you’ll be leaving other sign up bonuses on the table it isn’t great.

ihg newbie (@guest_380478)

March 30, 2017 21:38

#380478

DP on amex upgrade.
got an offer to upgrade green amex which i held since jan. of 2014 to platinum. i paid its AF 3 times so far.
i also have PRG which is a bit shy of 2 year anniversary. the upgrade offer did not appeared for this card.

Bret (@guest_380468)

March 30, 2017 21:05

#380468

I received this 60k upgrade offer for my PRG. It flashed at the top of the screen when I logged into Amex from my laptop. On my 23rd month with the card right now.

P (@guest_381990)

April 2, 2017 19:17

#381990

Bret

Does it still show up for you if you log in? Can’t get mine to pop up anymore and phone support says it never existed.

Bret (@guest_381992)

April 2, 2017 19:29

#381992

Yes – just tried again and the upgrade banner was at the top of the screen after logging in.

P (@guest_382009)

April 2, 2017 19:44

#382009

Lucky! I can’t get mine to show up anymore. I can’t get the pop up window to show up anymore. I like how all the reps i talked to on the phone say that no offer like that exists, 60k was only for new applicants lol.