Rumored Amex Gold Card Changes: Good or Bad? | Coffee Break Ep19 | 7-23-24
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The Amex Gold Card is about to change. In this episode we'll review the current details for this card, the changes we predict to see, and whether those changes are good or bad.
(01:05) - Current card details
Learn more about the Amex Gold Card here
(02:13) - What's (allegedly) changing?
(04:50) - What might be good about these changes?
(07:51) - Is it still worth recommending?
(15:20) - Which card do we recommend instead for good rewards on grocery and dining?
Read more about the Capital One Savor One card here and the Citi Strata Premier here
(18:09) - But don't necessarily go out and cancel the card after you hear this...
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
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| 0:08.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:16.4 | This is not your typical frequent mile on the air episode. This is a standalone segment we're calling Coffee Break. |
| 0:24.6 | Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:30.2 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. Enjoy. |
| 0:37.7 | Today's coffee break, rumored Amex Gold Card changes. Enjoy. Today's coffee break, rumored Amix Gold Card changes. Good or bad? |
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| 0:57.1 | All right. |
| 0:57.5 | So the MX Gold Card is about to change. |
| 0:59.7 | So we need to go over what's what the current details are and what might be changing, |
| 1:05.5 | what we think might be changing. |
| 1:06.8 | So Greg, can you run down? |
| 1:08.8 | What are the current details of the MX Gold Card as we record this on, you know, in late July of 2024? |
| 1:15.2 | Yeah. So currently the Amex Gold Card has an annual fee of $250 and earns four membership rewards points per dollar at U.S. supermarkets on up to $25,000 spend and earns |
| 1:30.1 | four points per dollar also but at restaurants worldwide not limited to the US also |
| 1:36.0 | earns 3x on flights purchased directly with airlines or through MX travel so it |
| 1:41.6 | is pretty good category bonuses and then it has some credits where you could |
| 1:45.9 | get some of that $250 you spent back. So you get $10 per month in Uber or Uber eats credits. |
| 1:55.0 | And $10 per month, what they call a dining credit. And the list of the current list of merchants where if you spend with |
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