Amex Platinum Coupon Book: Is it worth the annual fee? | Ep145 | 4-9-22
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Can a coupon book really be worth $695? This week we run the numbers and see if it all adds up to make the Platinum card worthwhile.
00:43 Giant Mailbag double header. First up: Booking Air France intra-European flights via Virgin Atlantic and getting Caesars Diamond back again
4:27 Giant Mailbag: Confession time: Caesars Diamond once again
11:45 What craazy thing . . . did Capital One do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/baseball-fans-capital-one-has-great-seats-for-5000-miles-each/
19:10 Mattress running....er, Airport Lounge Running the Numbers: ANA elite status match to Star Alliance Gold
29:21: Main Event: The Amex Platinum coupon book: Is it worth the annual fee?
https://frequentmiler.com/platinum-card-arrived-heres-next/
https://frequentmiler.com/dont-want-to-pay-that-695-annual-fee-heres-the-strategy-before-you-cancel/
Wide appeal coupons: 32:04 $240 Digital Entertainment Credit
37:24 $200 Fine Hotels & Resorts credit
40:06 $200 Airline fee credits
https://frequentmiler.com/amex-airline-fee-reimbursements-still-works/
42:00 $200 in Uber credits
44:22 $179 CLEAR credit
48:28 $100 Saks credit
51:21 Walmart+ credit
55:56 Other perks (Airport lounge access, elite status, emergency evacuation coverage, etc).
1:09:42 Post Roast: Are IHG credit card free night certificates "kind of like" paying for points?
https://frequentmiler.com/my-ihg-free-night-strategy-on-gregs-mind/
1:13:13 Question of the Week: Is it safe to pay my taxes with a new Chase card?
https://frequentmiler.com/pay-taxes-via-credit-card/
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.7 | Today's main event, the MX Platinum coupon book. |
| 0:31.0 | Is it worth the $695 annual fee? |
| 0:36.8 | Greg, I paid $12 for my last entertainment buck. What are we talking about here? Is it worth $6.95? Oh, my gosh. How could any credit card be worth that much money? I don't know. You know, maybe it is. There's some recent changes that make it a little more appealing. So, yeah, we'll get into that. First, of course, we have the |
| 0:55.7 | giant mailbag. And today's giant mail is a special. We've got a special giant mail bag today |
| 1:00.9 | because we have giant mail from both me, Greg, and you, Nick. Which is a great way of saying |
| 1:09.6 | nobody emailed mailbag. I'm freaking out. |
| 1:11.7 | No, I'm just kidding. |
| 1:12.6 | People emailed, but we had other things to talk about this week. |
| 1:16.1 | We do. |
| 1:17.1 | We do. |
| 1:18.0 | So, okay. |
| 1:18.5 | So I'm going to, I'm going to go first. |
| 1:21.2 | My mail is about, I just wanted to follow up on something. |
| 1:26.8 | A little over a week ago, I wrote a post about how this cool sweet spot, which is flights |
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