Predicting the Refreshed Platinum Card | Coffee Break Ep47 | 3-4-25
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Word on the street is the Amex Platinum card is going to be "refreshed" which may mean new benefits, new cost, new rebates, and more. In this episode, we'll make some predictions about what we might see.
(01:06) - Predicting the Refreshed Platinum Card annual fee
(02:55) - Earning rate change?
(04:04) - Coupon changes?
(06:49) - Will the airline incidental fees credit change?
(11:57) - Perk changes?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:11.9 | Welcome to coffee break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:16.8 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less for your money back. |
| 0:21.8 | Word on the street is that the Amex Platinum card is going to be refreshed. |
| 0:25.4 | That means new benefits, new price tag maybe, new coupons perhaps. |
| 0:32.4 | It just means that, you know, everything about the card is kind of on the table as to what, how it'll work. |
| 0:39.0 | How many points will you earn? What kind of rebates will you get? And so Nick and I today are |
| 0:44.3 | going to predict what we think this new platinum card is going to look like. And anybody who's |
| 0:49.2 | followed Freakomiler for the last several years knows our track record with predictions and is |
| 0:53.6 | probably waiting with |
| 0:54.5 | baited breath to find out what we're going to. That's right. And in case you haven't been following |
| 0:58.5 | us, you know that we're actually really bad at this. So nevertheless, we keep, you know, |
| 1:03.9 | we keep kicking at that football and eventually we're going to get it right. |
| 1:07.6 | One of these days, Charlie Brown. I promise whatever we say today is going to be right. |
| 1:11.7 | You'll see. You'll see. Don't make promises. There's no promises, no promises, folks. All right. All right. So let's talk about things that we think are probably likely to change. So let's start with the annual fee. Current annual fee is $695. What do you think? Greg going to go up, stay the same, go down. |
| 1:29.2 | What's your prediction? |
| 1:30.1 | Yeah, this one's the hardest for me to fee current annual fee is $695 what do you think Greg gonna go up stay the same go down what's |
| 1:29.4 | your prediction yeah this one's the hardest for me to predict because um it's our the fee is already so |
| 1:34.9 | high and they you know over the last i don't know six years or so they've raised it many times |
| 1:40.5 | and so will they do it again um i'm going to say probably that I think that I would not |
| 1:48.4 | be that surprised to see it go up by 200 bucks to 895. Wow. 895? 895 feels nutty-five. That |
| 1:57.3 | feels like just a crazy price. I don't know. I think that they probably will increase it. |
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