[Update: added $1,500 statement credit for business Centurion cardholders.]
Amex is also sending out credits to their Centurion cardholders:
- Centurion personal/consumer cardholders get up to $2,000 in statement credits after you use your Centurion Card to make eligible travel purchases through Centurion Membership Services or AmexTravel.com. This seems to be for those whose cards renew between 4/1/20-12/31/20.
- Centurion business cardholders get a $1,500 statement credit. This seems to be for those whose cards renew between 5/1/20-12/31/20.
A reader let us know about the personal/consumer Centurion offer, here’s what Amex sent out:
In appreciation of your Membership, beginning in August of this year through 2021, you can earn up to $2,000 in statement credits after you use your Centurion Card to make eligible travel purchases through Centurion Membership Services or AmexTravel.com. Details to come.
And Dansdeals reports on the business Centurion offer of $1,500 statement credit. (You might have to keep the card for 45 days after renewal, as is the case with the other Amex ‘appreciation’ credits.)
Centurion cardholders will also get the other Amex Platinum personal card enhancements of $20 in wireless credits monthly and $20 in streaming credits monthly. And Centurion business cardholders will get the other Amex Platinum Business Card enhancements of $20 wireless credits monthly and $20 shipping credits monthly.
Won’t affect many readers, but always interesting to know what’s there on the other side.
Why on EARTH would any such cardholder want a travel credit?!? Those are for us common folk. I could understand some sort of exclusive sports/entertainment event access. But a travel credit? Doesn’t seem to match/fit the target audience. Nice to know what all those clawbacks are funding. The rich get richer… smh
Clearly not for you – don’t worry about it. Centurion AF is like several thousand dollars, and you think the clawbacks are what’s funding these? Lmao, tHeRicHgEtRicHEr.. smh fr
One would think the average IQ of the reader following DOCs blog would skew higher than room temp lol. Sincerely believe some ppl are trolling or losing their shit. US k-12 education needs more funding lol
I guess there are folks who just want to say they have “the black card.” The fee is not outside most people’s ability to pay. It’s $5K/year, not $50K. It just makes no sense if you’re not a certain type of person. Nobody who SHOULD have this card would be excited by a travel credit. “The rich get richer” is lol though. Folks who are wealthy enough to have a legitimate need for this card couldn’t care less about these credits & those that do care about them aren’t really at that level of wealth. (This then begs the question of why they read DoC, since they aren’t really into smart financial decisions.) They’re obviously not using clawbacks to fund this.
You think $5k/year is “not outside most people’s ability to pay”?
I know there’s a long time to use these travel credits, but this still seems like a dumb thing to offer as compensation right now.
Respectfully disagree, as I can see Amex trying to encourage post-coronavirus travel by making some part of it “no or reduced out-of-pocket expense required when you renew your card and then book through us.”
It’s a bit similar to what we’ve seen from airlines and hotels in extending status/perks and free nights- give people an incentive to travel once it’s safe/legal to do so.
I’ve had a Centurion Business card since 2003? Never had a retention offer when calling about the annual fee.
What are the standard benefits?
Just a heads up that it’s slightly different for Business Centurion – we get $20/month for cell phone and $20/month on shipping purchases (eligible merchants listed as Fedex, UPS, USPS). No streaming credit like the personal centurion. Also, I don’t see any indication we (business cardholders) get the $2000 travel credit – nothing comes up when I log onto the Centurion site, even though I see the updates about the new monthly credits
I was wondering about business Centurion. I had been thinking they’d offer a large statement credit, similar to the way Platinum business offered a $200 statement credit. I guess not 🙁
Maybe they’re still trying to work something out but I’m going to guess no. Business Centurion always gets shafted over Personal, even on the small things like Uber credits :rolleyes
Raises the question. Do centurion members ever seek/get retention offers?
Perhaps the one (1) DoC reader with a Centurion card can answer. lol
I’m authorized on a Centurion card and the answer is yes. Offered 100k for no spend.
Are you saying you were offered retention for the primary when you called in as an AU? Or are you saying that your primary called in and was offered the retention? And is this personal or business?
Yes, I’m assistant to a primary who was considering cancelling with the AF increase. We called just after the increase was announced, so could be why.
Long time Business Centurion cardholder here and have never been offered any retention. Have asked every few years but answer is always the same. Might try again when the higher AF posts next year but I have a feeling the answer will still be no (especially if we believe they’re trying to cull the member base with the higher AF)
haha black card holder as DOC reader. love it
Don’t Centurion card holders also want to save $5 at Postmates?
We received a surprising number of e-mails from readers with this card 🙂
what’s the annual fee on this monster?
Around $2.5k ish afaik.
I think it recently doubled (!) to $5k.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/american-express-membership-rewards/1993554-centurion-card-usa-refresh-some-benefits-removed-added-5k-annual-fee.html